Sunday, January 17, 2021
RAILING AGAINST DEPRESSION Being a lover of railroads, especially railroad travel, I still remember this absorbing documentary from PBS's American Experience. Back in 1998, I learned of the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 16, 2021
NEW SEASON TAKES CENTER COURT Chicago's great Court Theatre has sadly had to postpone its production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running, but Owen McCafferty's Titanic (Scenes from the Bri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2021
PERSONALIZING DIASPORA Perhaps one of the reasons more people aren't wearing masks in the U.S. to protect themselves and others during the COVID pandemic is that, even with 369,000 deaths to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:04AM[SHARE]WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND LAYS AHEAD If you think Carl Sagan's Cosmos is mind-blowing, or the way Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. could put history into context is dumbfounding, or Thomas Friedman's Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:04AM[SHARE]Monday, December 28, 2020
THIS TIME, IT'S A PLAGUE THAT CAUSED THE RAT Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical. Notice in the title that there is no mention of Disney. You know, the folks behind the terrific Pixar 2007 film …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2020
A WORLD APART FROM TYPICAL VIRTUAL FARE Like a breath of fresh air, Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World far exceeded my expectations of both virtual theater and Brown's uneven s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2020
I HOPE THE FUTURE IS MORE EXCITING THAN THIS The Geffen Playhouse is forging ahead as Geffen Stayhouse, offering another magic show disguised as theater. Following the phenomenal success of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2020
HOLY CLOSET! Whereas many theater companies are becoming experimenters with video during the COVID-19 shutdown, Theater in Quarantine has been actually transforming theater into a small s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2020
A JEWEL OF A PLAY Forgive me dear reader for the terse review, but I discovered something yesterday that turned out to be the holiday present you never expected but later realized it was som…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2020
STORAGE RUN = VIRTUAL FUN Pee-Wee's Playhouse meets Choose Your Own Adventure meets classic holiday fare in this new, interactive holiday experience from Rogue Artists Ensemble, one of the c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2020
THIS STREETCAR ROLLS AND HUMS WITH AUTHENTICITY Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams' still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it makes …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:56PM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2020
THE BIG SLEEP No crime is as duplicitous as The Geffen's latest zoom-as-theater project Citizen Detective. This is the point that I say "spoiler alert" but a) nothing I do can spoil this int…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2020
A FEAST FOR THE IMAGINATION I have seen three shows from the Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema, and the theatricality is truly awesome. You wouldn't expect this from a simpl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:04PM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2020
CALLING ALL HUMAN TRASHCANS!! (THAT'S YOU, BY THE WAY) Chicago's amazing avant-garde company Trap Door Theatre is presenting a series of eight episodes adapted from Matei ViÅŸniec's Decomp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2020
THIS YEAR MORE THAN EVER, THE PROJECT(S) MUST BE SEEN It's a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), the late, great American Theate…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 31, 2020
THE SPIN IS A SPECTACULAR SPARKLING SPUNKY EXPLOIT Satisfying, enriching, entertaining and proof that Chicago contains some of this country's greatest actors and theater, The Spin is writer/…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:08PM[SHARE]TRENCHANT TROLLS TRIUMPH BY TRANSMOGRIFYING TRUTH Somewhere in the bowels of Saint Petersburg, Russia, there is an agency made up of both Americans and Russians that trolls the internet, cre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2020
WHO'S ON FIRST, LADIES? The program states: "Rather than presenting a purely biographical story, this project uses the "honorary" office of First Lady as a lens to examine the roles that wom…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2020
TWO DO-NOT-MISS READINGS FROM ATLANTIC THEATER Atlantic Theater Company in New York is presenting a free virtual reading series of plays that had their World Premieres at Atlantic Theater…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:59PM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2020
STILL. WAITING FOR THEATER No one has articulated the black American experience in such a way that I, as a white man, "get it," as has James Baldwin. His cool, unflappable, authoritative del…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2020
WIESENTHAL ENTHRALLS Writer/performer Tom Dugan's solo show Wiesenthal capitalizes on the strengths of the famous Nazi hunter " his resilience, tenacity and humor. Dugan has crafted a show i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25PM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2020
A CROSSWORD, CODE-BREAKING COLLABORATION WITH KWONG One of my happiest achievements was getting my husband hooked on solving Crossword Puzzles. Here's your opportunity to find out why puzzli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2020
CHICAGO SHAKES UP ITS SEASON Chicago Shakes' 35th Anniversary Season offers an amazing array of options, both in‑person performances and virtual streaming. Look for plays written a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 20, 2020
BEST LEADS THE BEST Los Angeles-based Echo Theater Company, dedicated to creating new work for the theater, has named Ahmed Best (best known as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars The Phanto…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2020
IRISH REP ANNOUNCES NEW FALL SEASON When it comes to online theater, which basically began with the COVID-19 shutdown, no other company in the States has offered more compelling evidence for…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 12, 2020
When I first saw Herbert Siguenza's solo show A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, I knew this tour-de-force triumph would live among the greatest one-person shows I could ever see, including Ja…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2020
ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS MAKES U.S. DIGITAL PREMIERE LIVE One of the saddest cancellations due to COVID-19 was The Wallis Annenberg Center's U.S. premiere of writer/director Emma Rice's productio…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2020
PETULA CLARK, PAMELA MYERS, BETH MALONE AND MORE SING THEIR HEARTS OUT AT KRITZERLAND'S TENTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Petula Clark. For the 109th Kritzerland show, roll out the ribbons and toss the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:14AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 5, 2020
NICK CORDERO MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO STREAM ON BROADWAY ON DEMAND One of the last performances I saw before the COVID-19 shutdown was Rock of Ages here in Los Angeles. I had always had issues wi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2020
ORIGINAL CAST OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL REUNITES FOR ONLINE READING ON 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF TILL'S MURDERÂ The original director and cast of the Fountain Theatre's 2010 brilliant, movin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2020
LOVE, NOËL: THE SONGS AND LETTERS OF NOËL COWARD A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN Written and Devised by Barry Day Directed by Charlotte Moore Filmed at The Players Starring Steve…
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