Wednesday, November 30, 2022
ONE OF THE ALL-TIME FEEL-GOOD MUSICALS COMES TO RUBICON Ain't Misbehavin'Â is a sizzling celebration of Fats Waller's music " songs that he made famous in a career that ranged from uptown …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:59AM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2022
A TURKEY SANDWICH We are at a greasy spoon sandwich shop whose patrons are truckers making the long haul across Pennsylvania. The owner, Clyde, and her four sandwich makers are all ex-cons. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2022
MIND FOR ALL ITS WORTH No one can deny that Brooklyn-based mentalist Vinny DePonto is a master showman. As with all magicians, the true context of any one-man show is not the tricks (and the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:28PM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2022
A YEAR IN THE LIFE Jonathan Larson's Rent is in a musical theater empyrean; indeed, productions are as ubiquitous as the stars in the firmament. The show is about a year in the life of bohem…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2022
MAN'S FAVORITE CAST On Nathan Stuffel's terrific set of a loading dock behind a hotel, it is 1938 Los Angeles. These are tough times for everyone, but especially the Black employees who must…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51PM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2022
MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES People start revolutions because they want something that authorities are controlling. Jefferson wanted to declare independence. Norma Rae wanted to improve factori…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2022
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? Take a look at the new production photos of Roundabout's current Broadway revival of 1776, featuring Kristolyn Lloyd, who joined the company Octob…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2022
GOLF IS ON COURSE, BUT JUST A BIT UNDER PAR Pittsburgh in 1997 is the setting for the last of renowned playwright August Wilson's series of 10 dramas that highlight aspects of African-Americ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:11AM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2022
GET INTO TROUBLE Written by Alice Childress " the first Black woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City " Trouble in Mind recently played on Broadway, and it amazed m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2022
DOC NYC RETURNS WITH 13TH EDITION NOV 9-27, 2022 IN THEATRES AND ONLINE FULL PROGRAM & SCHEDULE LISTED BELOW and can also be found here DOC NYC, America's largest documentary festival ro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2022
Continuing the legendary playwright's singular legacy of mentorship and activism, the Terrence McNally Foundation has been launched. The nonprofit organization is committed to supporting bol…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2022
CRACKLIN', SWEET, BEAUTIFUL, AND CHERRY A Beautiful Noise, the new Broadway bio-musical about the extraordinary life story of singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, opened for previews at the Broad…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:05PM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2022
A THREE-HOUR HOME RUN Clearly and cleanly, tried and true director Cynthia Ferrer and choreographer Alexis Carra Girbés trust the heart out of Adler and Ross's 1955 Broadway classic, Damn Y…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2022
WHAT WILL YOU INHERIT? That Matthew Lopez's sprawling near-7-hour 2-part play, with 3 acts in each part, keeps us captivated is quite a feat. Beautifully written, funny, sad, and hopeful, Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2022
BOOM BOOM BOOM It's no wonder that Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in drama. The veneer is a hip-hop comic entertainment about the d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2022
FOURGET ABOUT IT While her career may be skyrocketing as a TV writer, Christina Ham has not mastered the art of playwriting. I felt terrible thinking that after seeing the opening of her wor…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2022
WICKED GOOD A fantastic surprise from Open Fist Theatre Company awaits you at Atwater Theatre. A great story, funny stunning dialogue, and terrific performances arrive in a play " an actual …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2022
THIS GUY REALLY DOES DESERVE AN EXCLAMATION POINT What can I say about musical comedy actor and funny man Jason Graae? Well, first, his last name is pronounced "Grah" but his latest one-man …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:09PM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2022
CRANES HAS A CLIPPED WING Last night at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles, CalArts presented a new play by Octavio Solis, and the story is magnificent. In East L.A., a teenager named Nico has b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
OUR FUNKY FOUNDING FATHERS A hip-hop Alexander Hamilton? A beat-box Father of His Country? A jumping James Madison and a jiveass Jefferson who disses bigtime in a poetry slam? The ten-dollar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2022
SPILL YOUR MAGIC BEANS NOW; THIS SPELL ONLY LASTS ONE NIGHT Get all dead-dolled up and get your spook on for Broadway's biggest Halloween event of the year: Jay Armstrong Johnson's annual so…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2022
A BRAINDEAD MUSICAL REANIMATED TO GLORIOUS LIFE In 2007, the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein opened on Broadway to largely dismissive reviews. Some say it opened too close on the heels…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:32PM[SHARE]THE FARM-TO-FABLE REVOLUTION IS HERE In what is Los Angeles's best season since well before the pandemic, comes along the best show of the season. Only in New York would one expect the calib…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2022
JAGGED LITTLE SHOW You're going to need more than a pill to relieve your aches after seeing this dreck. From what I'd heard, the Broadway success of Jagged Little Pill, a hyper-woke jukebox …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:35PM[SHARE]THE SKY'S THE LIMIT IN THIS LOVELY PRODUCTION Unless you are an astronomer or an astronomy buff, you likely have never heard of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She was an American woman who made dis…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:59PM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2022
A BLINDINGLY BRILLIANT PRODUCTION Since its premiere in c. 429 BC, Sophocles' Oedipus the King has been considered the Mount Olympus of Greek Tragedies, largely because it humanizes the them…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2022
SMALLS MAKES A HUGE STORY In January 2017, President Barack Obama issued an executive order establishing Reconstruction Era National Monument in Beaufort County, noting the significance of R…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:57PM[SHARE]OKLAHOMA! AS WOKELAHOMA NOT SO OK ON TOUR This ain't your mama's Oklahoma! While Daniel Fish's completely rethought and stripped-down production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 watershed m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:14PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2022
THE HEAVEN'S BREATH SMELLS WOOINGLY HERE It seems odd to say that I was enchanted and beguiled with Independent Shakespeare Co.'s (ISC's) production of Macbeth, which opened this past weeken…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2022
A SALUTE TO STORYTELLERS Stage and Cinema is grateful to GMCLA Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison for taking time out of rehearsing to chat a bit about A Salute to Sondheim,Â…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2022
PROM-COM Dust off the Mylar balloons and wrist corsages and head over to The Ahmanson Theatre, where The Prom just landed as part of its national tour. Forget smelly gymnasiums or dated t…
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