Sunday, June 13, 2021
THE MUSIC CENTER WELCOMES BACK PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Los Angeles's Music Center has a hit on its hands with its DANCE AT DUSKÂ outdoor performance series. First, we had amazing tap dan…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 12, 2021
SILLY PROCOPIO LEFT ME IN OSTRITCHES Well, last Sunday night, courtesy of Pacific Opera Project's presentation of Don Procopio, I had my first foray to a live production since the pandemic p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:33PM[SHARE]Friday, June 11, 2021
Awesome Broadway fave Lillias White releases her first Solo Studio Album: Get Yourself Some Happy! Here she is, boys! The great Lillias White is releasing her first solo studio album, Get Yo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 10, 2021
L.A. Theatre Works has commissioned a new audio theater adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie "whodunit" The Murder on the Links. The all-star cast includes Alfred Molina …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:09AM[SHARE]SUPERCALILINEUP Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley's Cal Performances has announced its 2021"22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley's Cal Performances has announced its 2021"22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before the pandemic shut…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 6, 2021
REIGNITING THE RHYTHM STOMP, which I originally saw at New York's 299-seat Orpheum Theatre in 1994, has performers using their bodies and both industrial and household objects as percussive …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 1, 2021
A.C.T. OFFERS ONLINE SCREENING OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY, THE MUSICAL Filmed during its original 2011 run, this 10th Anniversary event will stream during San Francisco…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:53PM[SHARE]I just watched Manhattan Theatre Club's special new adaptation of The Niceties updated for the virtual stage by playwright Eleanor Burgess. In The Niceties an ambitious young …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:53PM[SHARE]Friday, May 28, 2021
KRON-OLOGY Who knew a trip to Auschwitz could be so much fun? Almost as fun as taking a roller coaster ride at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. These two locations have been tet…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 27, 2021
THE ILLUSION OF AGENCY Beamed to us from the Chekhov Operating System (chekhovOS), a virtual panoply that contains the great Russian playwright's works and forlorn characters " who spout abo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 26, 2021
HIGH FIVE Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years is contextually brilliant: it is a two-character musical that starts at the end of a five year relationship for the woman, but at the be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:41PM[SHARE]I WANT TO SEE MORE DEAD PEOPLE Who doesn't love a good ghost story? Jared Mezzocchi (Russian Troll Farm, my favorite theater stream of the COVID era) brings an Amityville Horror-esque, tr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:41PM[SHARE]COME JOIN THE CIRCUS AS A METAPHOR FOR LIFE It's here! The world premiere of a new opera by Philip Glass which will take place on Malmö Opera's main stage with live music to a live audience…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:41PM[SHARE]AS AMERICAN AS LEMON CHICKEN PIE Girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl! Wazzup? So, listen, I saw the craziest thing the other night. No, not THAT thing. That's old news. No, it's this kinda performance art me…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:48AM[SHARE]Streaming for free through June 30, 2021, is Artists Repertory Theatre's five-part, four-hour audio drama Magellanica on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Sticher, and where you find podcasts. Mag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:48AM[SHARE]Monday, May 24, 2021
I've known about Brian Copland's work for years, but didn't get a chance to see the Bay Area performer until the virtual presentation of his solo show The Jewelry Box, easily one of the most…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:59PM[SHARE]CENTER THEATRE GROUP'S 54th SEASON AT THE AHMANSON THEATRE TO BEGIN NOVEMBER 30, 2021 Ahmanson Theatre Will Have Been Dark For 20 Months While it's a shame that Diane Paulus's new revision o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 23, 2021
CELEBRATING SONDHEIM While we were all prepared to celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday in 2020, and all of his accomplishments up until then, along comes COVID, which not only shut do…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:18PM[SHARE]Broadway's podcast, The Fabulous Invalid, has released a fabulous episode, a thoroughly entertaining tribute celebrating Broadway and dance legend, Ann Reinking in We Got Annie: Ann Reink…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 20, 2021
SERVE. SET. MATCH. WINNER. Finally! A virtual theater production that actually feels like I'm in a theater. Not only that, but Writers' production of Anna Ziegler's The Last Match is intuiti…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:04PM[SHARE]GOODS AND READY Family. Waste. Refugees. Class. Climate Change. All these and more fly off today's headlines, but like a genie in a magic lamp, playwright Lauren Ferebee has fit them all " a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 19, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO'S HISTORIC CLUB FUGAZI TO REOPEN FALL 2021 THE 7 FINGERS, THE WORLD-RENOWNED CIRCUS AND ARTS COLLECTIVE, TO CREATE AN ONLY-IN-SAN-FRANCISCO INTIMATE AND IMMERSIVE THEATRICAL EX…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:55PM[SHARE]Chicago's amazing Court Theatre is presenting its next play digitally " the world can now see why this is such a remarkable company. Owen McCafferty's Titanic (Scenes from the British …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:55PM[SHARE]A 20th Anniversary reunion event for Northlight Theatre's world premiere of The Last Five Years " featuring performances and conversation with playwright Jason Robert Brown,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 18, 2021
TWO TO LOOK OUT FOR IN THE FALL Performance dates have been announced for Manhattan Theatre Club's two previously announced productions that will reopen MTC's Broadway and off-Broadway stage…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:31AM[SHARE]IT'S A TINY WORLD, AFTER ALL How I love this company! But being an L.A.-based theater fan, it's admittedly a tough drive. One of the very few bright sides to COVID is that great outfits can …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:31AM[SHARE]Monday, May 17, 2021
WHAT THE HULDUFÓLK? Playwright Steve Yockey is at it again. His latest play contains the same ingredients as his previous ones: The supernatural; a mystical eerie hotel; shapeshifters; a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 16, 2021
A STORY WELL TOLD BY CHANCE THEATER The Story of My Life is a warm, intimate and sweet two-character musical about Alvin Kelby and his childhood friend, Thomas Weaver. A flop in its New York…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 15, 2021
WELCOME ALL SINNERS! Following Miami New Drama's acclaimed, sold-out run along Miami's famed Lincoln Road, Seven Deadly Sins comes to New York City's Meatpacking District for a strictl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:37PM[SHARE]Friday, May 14, 2021
ZOOM AND DOOM AND GLOOM IN A ROOM Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is not an easy play to write about, let alone produce, act, or even watch. It's challenging, opaque, and ambiguous. On…
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