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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:57PM[SHARE]I CAN ALWAYS USE MORE MEN Well, here's a national tour that isn't resting on its laurels. Somewhat tighter with impeccably glorious performances, a golden angel high above at the center of a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2020
CARYL ME HOME When the author is famed English playwright Caryl Churchill, theater about death and life's surmounting surrealism isn't depressing at all; it's exhilarating. The author of Clo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:58PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2020
AT DAY'S END Thanks to Lanie Robertson's bedrock-basic script, Wren T. Brown's dedicated staging, Karole Foreman's extraordinarily vulnerable performance, and Stephan Terry's elegant piano p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:59PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2020
THERE'S ARSENIC AND LACE; BUT IT DOESN'T FEEL OLD Serial murder, euthanasia, slasher psychopaths, bodies buried in a crawl space, face-lifts for people trying to change their images, the cya…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 1, 2020
AFTER THE FLOOD Until the Flood lasts only 70 minutes. But its concentrated running time delivers a devastating drama. A ton of truth-telling now on tour at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, this 20…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2020
YELLOW JOURNALISM, BLUE PLANET " UNCERTAIN FUTURES Propaganda has always existed. It's when people promote and publicize their agenda utilizing biased or misleading information, a perfect to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:14PM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2020
A SHIP THAT REMAINS DOCKED Sting's musical The Last Ship has been in a shakedown cruise since it opened in Chicago six years ago. Based on last night's star-studded opening night at the Ahma…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2020
PLENTY OF WATTAGE, EVEN WITH AN OBSCURE STORY Cirque du Soleil is back with its latest touring show, which opened last night, January 21, at Dodger Stadium. At its best, Volta provides all t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2020
WHAT WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME MEANS TO ME Given the barrage of nasty nightly news, I don't doubt that Americans are champing at the bit for a large slice of patriotism as they watch…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:47AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2020
TOUCHING BUT TRAPPED IN A TIME WARP Stop Kiss was a big 1998 hit at New York's Joseph Papp Public Theater. In 2000 it arrived in Chicago in a tepid local premiere by the Naked Eye Theatre Co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2019
AN AMAZING INCIDENT Meet Christopher, a wannabe bloodhound who has significant social, behavioral and communication challenges; we assume the unnamed disorder is on the autism spectrum, but …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 28, 2019
NOT A SEVEN-COURSE DINNER, BUT FILLING JUST THE SAME While on a Midwest lecture tour, arrogant and overbearing critic and radio commentator Sheridan Whiteside slips on an icy doorstep, injur…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2019
LOST IN AUSTEN All of Jane Austen's novels are built on the same premise. A woman meets and marries an eligible man after a series of usually comic difficulties. But Austen extracts a remark…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2019
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SATIRE Has it really been 40 years since Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9 was first presented? The biting satire is so topical " containing cross-dressing, gay relationships…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:43PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2019
DOESÂ GROUNDHOG DAYÂ BEAR REPEATING? At the center of San Francisco Playhouse's first regional premiere of Broadway's Groundhog Day the Musical is the brilliant, perfectly cast Ryan Drum…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2019
NOT AS KEYED UP AS IT SHOULD BE The Geffen Playhouse has really been on a roll under the newest Artistic Director Matt Shakman. There are many more interesting scripts, and many more chances…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:41PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2019
CYNICS UNITE These days when directors revive a classic, they have to decide whether their approach will be either to modernize the play or mount it as a period piece, true to the spirit of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:45PM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2019
MIND YOUR MANOR Now camping through November 24 is Ravenswood Manor, a much-needed send-up of all things soap, perhaps even the one you dropped in the shower. You never know with funnyman Ju…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2019
THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI JUST GOT MIGHTIER Do whatever you can. Take a raft, pretend you're a duke, toss pig blood around your lean-to so everyone thinks you're dead, but get to Rubicon Theatr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:52PM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2019
A PENNY DREADFUL SAVED ISN'T ALWAYS EARNED Back in the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing in merry ole England. The working class was becoming more educated and printing was …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 3, 2019
IN TROUSERS William Finn's musical masterpiece Falsettos is a melding of two one-acts: March of the Falsettos " debatably one of the best scores of the 1980s " which opened Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2019
50 YEARS SINCE ITS BIRTH AND JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR FINALLY RISES AGAIN Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is given the rock concert treatment for its 50th Anniversary…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:04PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2019
ONCE AGAIN, PLEASE Ironically, the real-life love affair between collaborators Glen Hasard, an Irish singer-songwriter, and Markéta Irglová, a Czech songwriter, fizzled after John Carney…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 19, 2019
IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER In 1994, 5-Star Theatricals (formerly Cabrillo Music Theatre) produced its first show: Meredith Willson's The Music Man, which opened on Broadway in 1957 and bec…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:05PM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
ON ANASTASIA, AMNESIA, AND ANESTHESIA First came the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who was murdered in 1918 just after the Bolshevi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:25PM[SHARE]CINDERFELLA The best play on any L.A. stage right now, Daniel Pearle's 2013 A Kid Like Jake couldn't be more relevant. The parents of a four-year-old boy are applying for a private primary s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2019
SHEPARDING OUT THE TRUTH Sam Shepard's domestic disruption True West hasn't left the theatrical landscape since it first premiered with Peter Coyote at San Francisco's Magic Theater in 1980.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2019
ON THE BORDERLINE What do a Latino cop, a black vet in the Bronx, a Saudi Arabian without a country, a gay pagan goat rancher, and a homeless HIV-positive man have in common? Dan Hoyle. SF's…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:24PM[SHARE]WHAT LIES BURIED Actor Hamish Linklater's funny, sharp and tender play The Vandal begins on a cold winter night as a down-on-her-luck middle-aged woman waits for a bus on a deserted street. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:15AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2019
THE CORE IS THERE, BUT THE POSE IS OFF Not only is yoga a gentle exercise and a Hindu spiritual discipline, it's also an $83 billion international industry. Meet Joan (Susi Damilano), a new …
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