Thursday, August 11, 2022
PROM-COM Dust off the Mylar balloons and wrist corsages and head over to The Ahmanson Theatre, where TheﾃつProm just landed as part of its national tour. Forget smelly gymnasiums or dated t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2022
GO TO TOWN I am convinced that me colleague Marc Wheeler nailed the many reasons in his review of Hadestown why you must see this national tour. One of the most original musicals to come out…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2022
IDIOT IS AS IDIOT DOES Inspired by a 2004 rock album by the American pop-punk rock band Green Day, American Idiot has received its share of positive reviews since its premiere in Berkeley, C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2022
A PLAY OFF A rich, black, ball-busting pro-sports super-agent who has worked her way up from poverty to making partner at a major firm. The white male head of that agency who wants his protﾃ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:47PM[SHARE]Friday, July 1, 2022
YES, IT'S THAT GREAT One of my favorite musicals of the year is moving its Off-Broadway production to Broadway, which is right where it belongs. Beginning previews on October 12 and official…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2022
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING Transport Group has announced that Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Broadway Celebrationﾃつwill be the next installment in its Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series onﾃつM…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2022
The Fountain Theatreﾃつjumps into action with a "hyper-staged" reading ofﾃつRoe, a powerful, poignant and often humorous play byﾃつLisa Loomer that cuts through the headlines to reveal th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2022
INTERPLAY In the age of A Strange Loop, the hit Broadway musical about a "Big Black Queer" it seems the time is ripe for more musicals about the gay experience, but one with transgender char…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2022
BASKETBALL BROMANCE Center Theatre Group's winning new dramady King James " a co-production with Chicago's Steppenwolf Company " is a must see for more than just rabid sports fans. Nobody wr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:53AM[SHARE]STILL BANGING FOR THE BUCKS The incredibly basic concept behindﾃつStomp, a phenom now in its third decade, remains: "Make a rhythm out of anything we can get our hands on that makes a sound…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00AM[SHARE]ALICE RIPLEYTOﾃつREPRISE HERﾃつTONY-WINNING ROLELIVE IN PERSON JULY 1-31, 2022 Tickets are now on sale for the new, live, 60-minute immersive adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:43AM[SHARE]A new play by Stephen Beresford Directed by Nicholas Hytner A co-production with The Bridge Theatre Chichester Festival Theatre, 13 " 25 June, 2022 Bridge Theatre: 1 July " 27 August, 2022 S…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2022
AWARD WINNERS THAT STAGE AND CINEMA AGREES WITH ACROSS THE BOARD Well, well, well. Bless the 2021-2022 Drama Desk Nominating Committee. Not only were their nominations truly for achievement …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
IT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUST Fake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming eventﾃつThis American Wifeﾃつ(review), are veryﾃつveryﾃつbright and insightful, au couran…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2022
GUESS WHAT PLAY WORKS Based on the screenplay of the same name, writer Todd Kreidler has updated for the stage Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer's smash-hit 1967 movie by William …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:45PM[SHARE]BELOVED THEATER At first, we think that Beloved is about the tragic state of the internet, that a high school boy at the prestigious St. Albans in Montreal, Canada, would never be in the mes…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2022
DON'T GET HUNG OUT BY MISSING THIS MASTERPIECE Blimey, friends, you only have two more weeks to see my favorite play on Broadway. And not only my favorite, but the best. Martin McDonough's t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:19AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2022
GODDAMNED MEN Four Korean teen missionaries from Los Angeles " Kyung-Hwa (Ji-Young Yoo), Samantha (Shirley Chen), Jen (Emma Galbraith), and Mimi (Erin Rae Li) " have arrived in Bangkok with …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2022
A NEWFOUND(LAND) WAY OF LOOKING AT MUSICAL THEATER This intimate ensemble piece may only have one stand-alone song, and it may not even be the best-crafted musical or have the emotional impa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Friday, May 27, 2022
MUSICAL THEATRE GUILD KNOWS HOW TO SUCCEED Reams can and have been written about the glories ofﾃつHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2022
IT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUST Fake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming event This American Wife (review), are very very bright and insightful, au courant about the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2022
HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THEATER Some plays take time to come into their own but they're well worth a wait. Twenty-five years after its Off-Broadway debut, Paula Vogel's seminal wonder How I Le…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2022
N-WORD, PLEASE! In six words, Samuel Beckett devours the human experience: "Birth was the death of him." This line permeates not just A Piece of Monologue (1979), but all of the master's wor…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:57PM[SHARE]THIS TIGER IS KING Tiger Style! at South Coast Rep is refreshing for many reasons. First, it's really funny. Playwright Mike Lew crafts his script like a super-smart teenager, mixing insight…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2022
DID EVERYONE AT THE WALLIS NOT REALIZE THAT THE PLAY'S THE THING? One of the greatest travesties in L.A. theater history arrived at The Wallis last weekend, and I still have the emotional sc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:40AM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2022
I NEVER MET A METAMORPHOSES I DIDN'T LIKE, BUT THIS ONE IS GREAT Critics often speak of "universal themes"ﾃつ " these are topics to which people in any place and at any time can relate. One…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2022
THERE ARE NO WORDS It was one of those magical evenings in the theater that shall live with me forever. When Kulunka Teatro'sﾃつAndrﾃｩ & Dorine appeared at the Los Angeles Theatre Cente…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:08AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2022
Follow the Drama Desk Awards at Drama Desk and @DramaDeskAwards on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for updates 2022 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS: (click links for Stage and Cinema reviews) Outsta…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:48PM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2022
IF A SHOW IS CALLED DANCIN', SHOULDN'T IT BE ALL ABOUT THE DANCING? With seemingly hundreds of thousands of Bob Fosse footsteps in Dancin' " now receiving a pre-Broadway updated revival at S…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2022
PLENTY OF RAINBOW BUT LITTLE COLOR In feminist Ntozake Shange's 1976 "choreopoem" (a term coined by the late playwright), the experiences of Black women in America are transformed into poetr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2022
75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS This year's Tony nominees were announced this morning. I must say, it's difficult to argue with the majority of the noms. As usual, it seems that some of t…
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