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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:18PM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2020
LITTLE-KNOWN CHICAGO DISASTER BECOMES TOWERING MUSICAL; THE BRILLIANT LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE PRODUCTION STREAMS ONE NIGHT ONLY FOR FREE In 2012, Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company presente…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2020
LAWFUL ENTRY Tonight, the cast of LA Law will join hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley on Stars in the House LIVE at 8pm ET on the Stars in the House YouTube channel. Former staffe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:03PM[SHARE]WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES Tonight through August 8, the extraordinary 2020 company members of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals will begin their weeklong intensive with their very own edit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:47PM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2020
MARSH'S ONLINE SOLO FEST LOOKS FOR PERFORMERS From Ann Randolph's Loveland in 2010 to Dan Hoyle's Border People last year, The Marsh has presented some of the greatest solo shows I have ever…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2020
VOYAGE IN A 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 smal…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 26, 2020
A CERTAIN UNCERTAIN I found myself alternately laughing, weeping, and being in the doldrums watching this new interdisciplinary work from the company Source Material. Founding Artistic Direc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2020
A FRESH FRANKENSTEIN STARRING STACY KEACH L.A. Theatre Works, the world's leading producer of audio theater, has announced the release of its state-of-the-art audio recording of Mar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2020
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS "Stardust" was the name for what made Bette Davis shine. With playwright Jessica Sherr's solo recreation of more than big eyes and flouncing cigarettes, the magic is ba…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34AM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2020
CELEBRATE '60'S MUSICALS WITH BRIAN CHENEY The 1960's may have been one of the most turbulent decades in history, but it also gave a boost to the arts in their many forms. Music and theater …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2020
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS CHICAGO'S RAVEN THEATRE REVAMP ITS 2020-21 SEASON This fall's planned revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's drama Inherit the Wind direct…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2020
CRAPSHOOT! Or Why Al Voted for Trump: a love story will open the Reykjavik International Fringe Festival The ReykjavÃk Fringe Festival 2020 (RVK) is a festival unlike any other. While mos…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:00PM[SHARE]RUBICON GOES RETRO! Safe-Distance Drive-In Series Kicks Off Drive-In Hits The first event of Rubicon Goes Retro, the company's Safe-Distance Drive-In Theatre Concert Series is here! The swel…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2020
BLOODY GOOD! You know, Stage and Cinema has received hundreds of podcasts and other streaming paraphernalia since April when COVID-19 shut the arts down, but most are technically awkward, st…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2020
JUST AS MAGICAL REMOTELY Is stuff magical only because it can't be explained? Perhaps it's more than just the absence of logic, probability, or reason. There's a presence too: Magic evokes a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2020
ALL NEW PLAYS CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LORE OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present free "screened" readings of four new one-act plays inspired by life a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2020
ONE TO CATCH Between 1953 and 1965, ONE Magazine, the first openly gay & lesbian periodical in the United States, received thousands of letters monthly from its readers. a great many of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:20PM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2020
FREE STREAMS OF SIX PLAYS BY BLACK WRITERS L.A. Theatre Works, the world's leading producer of audio theater, has chosen six titles by Black playwrights from its extensive collection o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2020
A SAD DAY FOR THEATER Executive Director, L. Walter Stearns and partner Business Manager Eugene Dizon announced today the permanent closure of Mercury Theater Chicago after ten years and 25 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2020
HOW YOU GET TO FINISH THE HAT This has been a milestone year for America: but aside from an epidemic and protests " and all that is entailed therein " we have Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthda…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2020
ABSOLUTELY BRIGHT INDEED Available now at 92Y, here's is a can't-miss piece of pride " and handily one of the best solo shows I've seen in years: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. O…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2020
REASONS FOR LOVE Covering the arts nationwide means that Stage and Cinema has received hundreds and hundreds of virtual entertainments, from classical and jazz to theater and art, all with b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 16, 2020
DICK EXTENDS Chicago's Theater Wit announced a third and final extension today of Teenage Dick, its long-running critically acclaimed virtual production of Mike Lew's devastatingly funny new…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2020
HAND SOLO How many of us theater addicts have gone to a solo show only to find some woman squealing about her private parts (or man for that matter), and you think "Never Again." Then you ca…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:04PM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2020
STARVING FOR THEATER? FEAST ON THIS! It's not just for Chicagoans anymore. Time and again, we have trumped that Chicago theater is the most exciting in the country. Not just because of the a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2020
CELEBRATING A PASSION FOR SONDHEIM Welcome to a new, free virtual series to celebrate Stephen Sondheim as an American icon while celebrating his 90th birthday year. Sondheim @ 90 Roundtable,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2020
CAUGHT ON TAPE It was an unprecedented and timely decision. It was March 15, 2020, and the American Shakespeare Center " which operates the fantastic Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA " …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:17PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
UPCOMING STAR-FILLED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY LIVESTREAM EVENTS TO BENEFIT THE ACTORS FUND Broadway's Best Shows is about to launch the weekly one-night-only "Spotlight On Plays" series beginning this…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:50PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2020
PARTS OF A BODY Part Albee, part Ionesco, part mystery thriller, part Doubt, part Groundhog Day and " sadly " all red herrings, Lee Blessing's 2005 A Body of Water can't decide what it wants…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:35PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2020
HERE'S SOMETHING THAT WILL INTEREST YOU This is the second show this year in L.A. to take head-on the insanity of modern journalism (the insanity being that while newspapers deliver so-calle…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:12PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2020
IT'S THE HIGH SCHOOL SHOW THAT I WISH I WROTE IN HIGH SCHOOL The thing that looks like a high school vanity project at the Geffen Playhouse is actually a world premiere with a lot of bucks b…
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