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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2022
SINS I FELL FOR YOU Mae West, the sage and sybarite from Brooklyn, used to say, "Let joy be unrefined," a point of view that also suits Austin McCormick, artistic director and choreographer …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2022
WHERE THE RHYTHM SWOOPS AND SWIRLS, THIS IS THE JAZZ CORNER OF THE WORLD It amazes me how many of my NY friends haven't been to Birdland Jazz Club on 44th near Times Square (I'm an L.A. boy …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2022
THE MINUTES WILL LEAVE YOU SLACK-JAWED AND SPEECHLESS Superbly civic, the vast council chamber created by set designer David Zinn reeks of rectitude. Filling the stage at Studio 54 is a coff…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2022
PUT YOURSELF IN HARMONY'S WAY I can't remember the last time I have been so entranced with a new musical. And while Harmony may be having its New York premiere in the Off-Broadway house that…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2022
DOWN IN HARLEM Following the quirky, audacious Slave Play (see review) " the first show of Center Theatre Group's season at The Taper " the company has done a complete 180 with their product…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2022
AILEY IS ALWAYS AÂ REVELATION(S) Bringing with them three complete programs of dazzling dance, this 2022 edition showcases Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's (AAADT) vital verve, remindi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:16AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2022
After the acclaimed, record-setting run at Arizona's Phoenix Theater Company, ¡Americano!, a new American musical, is now playing a 12-week limited engagement through June 19, 2022 at New…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2022
A PLAY THAT'S A RIOT WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO RIOT While loading items into my trunk after shopping at a Fortune 500 store recently, I realized that an item had gone unchecked by the cashier. M…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:56AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2022
THE MINUTES FINALLY GETS ITS TIME Steppenwolf's production of The Minutes by Tracy Letts, directed by Anna D. Shapiro, will resume performances at Studio 54 on Broadway two years af…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:14PM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2022
WITH TWO WINNERS OUT OF THREE WORKS, ABT'S PROGRAM STILL SOARS AT SEGERSTROM Bursting with happiness, joy and beauty, The American Ballet Theater opened its program last night at Segerstrom …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2022
THANKS TO SONDHEIM'S SONGS, THIS MUSICAL WILL NEVER DIE The cast is quite terrific with some extraordinary standouts in East West Players' revival of Assassins, but it is Snehal Desai's awes…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2022
MORE LIKE POWER PLAY THAN SLAVE PLAY Boy, if you want audacious theater " even one with higgledy-piggledy results " than I've got one for you: Slave Play, which opened last week at the Mark …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2022
A ROOM OF THEIR OWN Actors Co-op is reviving Scott McPherson's extraordinary play Marvin's Room. While it has always been one of my favorite plays, it's a daunting choice for any company. Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 13, 2022
BRINGING BACK BYRNE Talking Heads superstar David Byrne re-opened his acclaimed rock spectacle American Utopia last September 17 at Broadway's St. James Theatre after the pandemic shutdow…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 2, 2022
WHAT WILL YOU TALK ABOUT? Red high-heeled shoes? Professional drag queens? Repetitive pop music? Overcoming homophobia? Yeah, the new-ish musical Everybody's Talking About Jaime sounds a lot…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:05AM[SHARE]Friday, January 21, 2022
NEW PLAY BY BERNARDO CUBRÃA COMES TO THE ROAD The Road Theatre Company returns to live performances with three plays performing in repertory, beginning and re-opening with the world premi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 20, 2022
The Bay Area Premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery " the winner of the 2020 Obie Award for Playwriting, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Pulitzer Finalist "…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 15, 2022
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD GOES ON HIATUS Aaron Sorkin's To Kill a Mockingbird, the best play I've seen on Broadway in years " and the most successful American play in Broadway history "…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:58AM[SHARE]Friday, January 14, 2022
BROADWAY HOTSPOT THE GREEN ROOM 42 CELEBRATES 5 YEARS WITH JUDY KUHN AND ALEXANDRA SILBER ON VALENTINE'S DAY The outstanding venue Green Room 42, which I had the pleasure of getting to know …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:28PM[SHARE]Relevant. Absorbing. Intense. Thought-provoking. Riveting. Ambitious. This is powerful theatre that plumbs the depths. It does not allow you to breathe. It's rewards are rich and will stay w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:45PM[SHARE]Monday, January 10, 2022
J.M. BARRIE'S MARY ROSE BECOMES WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL Black Button Eyes Productions concludes its 2021-22 season with Mary Rose, a world premiere musical adapted from the same-titled play b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:20PM[SHARE]Friday, December 24, 2021
HELLO, BIRDIE! THE FILM BYE BYE BIRDIE PLAYS AT THE MONTALBAN IN L.A. ON JANUARY 13; ANN-MARGRET AND BOBBY RYDELL TO APPEAR IN PERSON Cinelounge Theatres and Cleopatra Records will present a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 20, 2021
SLOW TO DIE, OR FAST TO LIVE? The setting is the story in The Children, Fountain Theatre's L.A. premiere. Set designer Andrew Hammer depicts a hand-me-down yet tidy seaside cottage …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18AM[SHARE]Friday, November 19, 2021
A BEAT OFF You may have never heard of the musical Head Over Heels, but this screwy mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney's sixteenth-century poem Arcadia and the songs of the iconic 1980s' female ro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:34PM[SHARE]Friday, November 5, 2021
THANKFULLY, WE'RE STILL SEARCHING Is there life after Lily Tomlin? The Shed, the cool new space for theater and art in Hudson Yards, is about to prove that question with a resounding "yes". …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 28, 2021
CHANGEÂ IS NOW We hear that that the only thing constant is change, yet we struggle against change, we fight against change, and some are even willing to succumb to the unyielding stress o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 27, 2021
THE THEATER IS RICHER DUE TO POOR CLARE Every once in a while, a bright shiny play comes along that absolutely restores my faith in theater as a place to be entertained, enthralled, and enli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 17, 2021
AMERICA'S BEST NOTES Beginning its first season since the COVID shutdown, Musical Theater West has, true to its name, celebrated musical theatre with A Grand Night for Singing, a heartfelt, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:13PM[SHARE]Friday, October 15, 2021
MAGIC IN THE MUSIC Sometimes jukebox bio-musicals get so caught up in the fame and fortune of the journey that they miss the creative passion that is the true force driving most artists forw…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 12, 2021
STILL THE FAIREST I'm rather certain one cannot visit enough productions of My Fair Lady. The 1956 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, tells the tale of Professor Hen…
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