Thursday, March 12, 2026
A BEAUTIFUL DOLL CV Rep's production is one bet you can't lose It's amazing. Were this masterpiece from Broadway's golden age an actual guy or doll, he or she would be scoring Social Securit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2026
The wait is finally over for fans of the dark, fantastical comedy as "Death Becomes Her" on Broadway officially makes its immortal entrance. The musical adaptation of the 1992 cult classic, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2026
CIVILITY CRUMBLES, BUT THE COMEDY NEVER BUILDS South Coast Rep's revival exposes how thin satire needs sharper direction to truly sting Melinda Page Hamilton and Kim Martin-Cotten The first …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2026
STILL HERE, STILL ESSENTIAL The tour of Bill T. Jones's landmark dance comes to Royce Hall with undiminished force The first time I saw Still/Here, it was at BAM. It was 1994, the year of St…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2026
In an era when content moves fluidly across mediums, the relationship between stage, screen, and page has never been more dynamic. Theatre productions become films, films inspire novels, and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2026
THREE ERAS, ONE MISSED OPPORTUNITY Brownstone collapses under unfocused, baffling staging Catherine Butterfield's Brownstone (2008) is built around a solid, even enticing idea: we have three…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 24, 2026
REAF'S IF THIS IS LOVE " A ONE-NIGHT CABARET VALENTINE Big voices, big heart, and Jason Brock right in his element Since 1995, REAF (Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation) has been bringing amazing…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2026
CHAMBER MUSIC IN AN IDEAL SETTING Glorious acoustics, a resonant space, and musicians who know how to listen to one another. There are few places in Los Angeles better suited to chamber musi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 2, 2026
SIX QUEENS BEAT A FULL HOUSE A Clever, Electrifying Concert That Sometimes Overwhelms Its Own Story History serves us well in stories for musicals. From 1776 to Evita to Hamilton, all the pl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 31, 2025
WHEN CLOWNING, THERAPY, AND TRAUMA COLLIDE Rachel Troy's fierce, genre-breaking solo triumph is fully realized, ferociously smart, and genuinely exhilarating. I receive thousands of invitati…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 27, 2025
REVENGE AS ENTERTAINMENT With Will Swenson and Lesli Margherita, La Mirada goes all in for this major revival Some shows you make time for. Others you plan around. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Ba…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2025
A DELICIOUSLY VERY WRONG WAY TO CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS Santa's dead, the carols are cursed, and Zombie Joe wants your soul for Christmas If you survived Urban Death: Tour of Terror in Octobe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2025
HERBERT ROSS'S BOHÈME RETURNS Beauty polished, questions still lingering Puccini's tale may be endlessly familiar, yet the recent Los Angeles staging shows how even the most well-trodden …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 27, 2025
A PRINCIPLED PRODUCTION Simon Stephens' deceptively simple romance finally reveals its cosmic heart in close quarters at Skylight Theatre Director Cameron Watson delivers a remarkably authen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:56PM[SHARE]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…
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