Monday, November 24, 2025
DON'T JEW HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO? {From the Archives " Back in 2010, when Facebook was still fun and Broadway still flirted with stereotypes like they were going out of style (which they…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2025
CUTE MEETS CUTE, AGAIN Rendered with a rom-com frame around a night of emotional archaeology, Douglas Lyons's Table 17, briskly staged by Zhailon Levingston, wants to be irresistible, and fo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:47PM[SHARE]A RIPPING GOOD YARN WITH A JOLLY GOOD CAST OPERATION MINCEMEAT EXTENDS ON BROADWAY When I first encountered Operation Mincemeat at Riverside Studios in London back in 2022, it was a scrappy,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2025
UNPLUGGED, UNFILTERED, AND UNMISSABLE A detonation of wit, soul, and Broadway voltage in this once-in-a-lifetime, one-night-only musical high-wire act The Wallis in Beverly Hills lays claim …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 15, 2025
WHERE LONELINESS ECHOES AND CONSTELLATIONS ARE CALLING She gets up at dawn and is asleep by eight. She lives alone and doesn't like people. Nobody at the hospital (where she's worked for for…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:34PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
GO ON AND BITE INTO THIS DONUT" YOU'VE EARNED IT It must have been quite a shock to Tracy Letts fans when Superior Donuts premiered at Steppenwolf in 2008. Chicago Theatre's favorite adopted…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2025
THIS WAY TO THE AMERICAN DREAM" MIND THE TRAP DOORS Kafka's story still needs an ending, but Open Fist delivers a wildly inventive Amerika If you think America is in an existential crisis ri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2025
425 YEARS LATER, THE O.G. ROMCOM STILL CASTS A SPELL Writers Theatre in Glencoe, a charming North Shore Chicago suburb, has developed a reputation for impeccably produced theater of extremel…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
A GREAT PREMISE GETS LOBOTOMIZED Laguna Playhouse offers a dazzling wall of doors and not much behind them Paul Slade Smith's new play Beside Myself arrives with a knockout premise: Gemma, a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:57AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2025
THE QUIET COST OF BELONGING Suh's Thanksgiving duet is lovely and lived-in, but leaves one wishing for deeper stakes The Heart Sellers at South Coast Rep offers a focused, uninterrupted glim…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2025
SWEET, CHARMING, AND BRIMMING WITH LIFE, HELLO, DOLLY! IS MUSICAL COMEDY HEAVEN It's always extraordinary to hear a live orchestra in a musical these days " a rare and exhilarating luxury th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:17PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
THE BRIDGE FROM THE GREAT WHITE WAY TO TINSELTOWN AND BACK AGAIN The New York Pops' concert From Stage to Screen at Carnegie Hall promised a night of crossover magic last Friday"songs that l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:53AM[SHARE]WHEN INTROSPECTION FLATLINES: DAVID ROUSSEVE'S BECOMING DADDY AF IS MORE LIKE WTF After more than twenty years away from full-length solo work, choreographer and storyteller David Roussève …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
A KNOCKOUT OF CONSCIENCE NOW BECOMES A STREAM OF CONSCIENCE Stage and Cinema called the visceral and relevant Broadway hit Punch "a knockout of conscience." Now, Manhattan Theatre Club is gi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
A GHOST STORY THAT EXPLAINS ITSELF TO DEATH It's 2012 in Sherman Oaks, CA, when Thai-American life-insurance salesman Max (David Huynh) begins sleepwalking and violently lashes out at his pr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
A KILLER REVIVAL Drury Lane's Dial M for Murder may be set in 1950s London, but under Adam Immerwahr's taut direction, the suspense feels freshly sharpened. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's adap…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2025
READY FOR A SWIFT MOVE? Veronica Electrifies the Pacific Jazz Orchestra Gala The Pacific Jazz Orchestra opens its 2025"26 season with a night that promises both elegance and swing: an intima…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]A NEWFOUND(LAND) WAY OF LOOKING AT MUSICAL THEATER It's always a joy " and a rarity " to see a musical I've witnessed before reemerge as something fresher than the first time I saw it. Such …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
REVELLING IN RAVEL AND A RAPTUROUS CARMEN The Chicago Symphony Orchestra opened its late-September program tonight with a shimmering palette of sound while offering many chances for the play…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
WEST SIDE SNORING Astoundingly unsatisfying, LA Opera's many-headed Hydra production of West Side Story, directed with no sense of urgency by Francesca Zambello, opened tonight to a crowd la…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
Ragtime is the epic musical by Terrence McNally (book), with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow). It weaves together stories of a Jewish…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME A friend warned me that The Heidi Chronicles might feel dated"after all, Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play ends in 1987.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
ONE UP PLAYS TO WIN" WITH A CHEAT CODE FOR CHARM One Up: The Musical, which premiered at this year's Hollywood Fringe and returns for encore performances, is a charming, if uneven, 80s-inspi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2025
WHY CAN'T A SUPERHERO CATCH A BREAK? (OR A BROADWAY RUN) Foster Cat Productions is taking a gleeful leap off the tall building that is It's a Bird… It's a Plane… It's Superman!, the 1966…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
THE SHOW MUST GO ON, MOORE OR LESS She's a singer, certainly a star, and a survivor. Melba Moore has had a decades-long career that includes musical theatre, film, TV, and recordings coverin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
MÉNAGE À MEH, OR BOB & CAROL & DEAD & AIRLESS Last Saturday, I caught the world premiere of Ménage à Quatre, a play that seems to promise a farce but instead delivers…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
THE KIND OF SEPTEMBER YOU'LL WANT TO REMEMBER With the original opening Off-Broadway in 1960 and running an astounding 42 years, The Fantasticks is a veritable classic amongst the reperto…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
BYRD SONG IN SHADOW: CONCERT IN CANDLELIGHT, THEATRE OF DEFIANCE Hark! Attend, ye lovers of sacred sound and clandestine devotion, for the international tour of Secret Byrd"an evanescent gli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
SEAGULL INTERRUPTED An extraordinarily well-written play"and a perfect choice for the Hollywood Fringe"Steven Dietz's 75-minute one-act, The Nina Variations, takes the final scene of Chekhov…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Have you ever wanted to run away from your own life? In Becky's New Car, now playing at Theatre 40, playwright Steven Dietz takes that midlife fantasy and drives it straight into a quirky, c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 24, 2025
Kevin Mambo's journey to the stage reads like a global prelude to a richly textured career. Born in Zimbabwe, raised in Canada, and educated in Los Angeles at USC, Mambo's trajectory launche…
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