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 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2019
YOU'RE THE TOP, GIRLS For the most part, Joyce, a working class Englishwoman in Ipswich is not a sympathetic or likeable person: She is annoyed by her teenage daughter Angie (who admittedly …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2019
A PRODUCTION WITH SOLID LIFE Phil and Alice are in love, the kind of messy, well-known, commonplace love that many couples are familiar with. They meet cute in a post office when a package f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:36PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2019
CHANGE 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 of d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2019
MORON THAT NOW One-man stage phenom John Leguizamo, who has popularized the stories of his Columbian/Puerto Rican/Bronx Ghetto peeps and their culture in semi-autobiographical shows Mambo Mo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2019
A PITCH FOR THIS RICH WITCH Written by Jen Silverman and directed by Marti Lyons, Witch is inspired by William Rowley's Jacobian 1621 play Witch of Edmonton. The classic story follows Eli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2019
SHREK IS A SHRUG OF A MUSICAL; BUT THIS PRODUCTION IS SURE AND SHARP Shrek The Musical is a mystifying experience. The whole thing is rather inane, versus the sophisticated silliness of Funn…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2019
GIVE US A SECOND ACT WE DESERVE; ALL WE END UP WITH IS SCRAPS The angry young man syndrome is nothing new " think Protestant reformer Martin Luther! " but it sure found a home in the theater…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2019
A RESONATING STORY It rarely happens. "The Broadway Chill" I call it. That moment when an already amazing show is given the perfect and unexpected staging which heightens emotion, inducing m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 27, 2019
THRIVING WOODS Somewhere between "Once Upon a Time" and "Happily Ever After" there is a very adult world of tests, losses, disappointments, and grief. Despite this, we assert our agency; or …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2019
LESSER LOESSER Well, here's a jukebox musical just bursting at the seams with promise. And North Coast Rep's production of Another Roll of the Dice is definitely kinda cute, a far cry from t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 20, 2019
IT USED TO BE A MISS; NOW, THE HEAT IS ON IN SAIGON Infinitely stronger than the original Broadway outing, this national tour of Miss Saigon overcomes a still strangely muddled plot, some aw…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:59AM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2019
DESPEREAUX TIMES CALL FOR DESPEREAUX MEASURES More precious than profound, this new family musical is pure children's theater with multilayered storytelling and plenty of songs that aid in e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2019
THE PLAY ABOUT THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG GOES WRONG The title of this play is brutally honest " and you can't say you weren't warned. In the style of Monty Python and Michael Frayn's farce No…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2019
NO SHIT, SHERLOCK As with Good Boys playing across town, Mysterious Circumstances doesn't quite give us an ending the material deserves, but hoo-boy what a ride this is. Directed by Matt Sha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2019
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DAMES When Dames at Sea opened in 1966 at the Caffe Cino, a small coffee house and performance space in New York City's Greenwich Village that was at the heart of the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2019
FOUL AND FAIR Shakespeare's Macbeth, or The Tragedy of Macbeth, is typically dated to the years immediately following the coronation of James I as King of England in 1603. James, who w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2019
A PUNCH IN THE GUT Raw as realism requires, good plays about boxing are more than just Rocky slugfests. Like Clifford Odets' seminal Golden Boy, they transform an atavistic popular dis…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2019
YOU'RE GETTING TO BE A RABBIT WITH ME Whatever happened to all the imaginary friends we had as kids? Did they all end up in some limbo where they started making friends with each other, or, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:02PM[SHARE]HAS TOLSTOY EVER BEEN SO HOT? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Anna in the Tropics, Nilo Cruz created the role of striking, velvet-voiced, Cuban Lothario Juan Julian, a lector who is h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:29AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2019
A PERFECT FIT 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, Cathy, but a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:15PM[SHARE]BILLY BOY OH BOY Meet Billy, an ex-con sharpshooter who is living his American Dream in 1979. This optimistic showman, romantic, and visionary has encouraged a fraternity of castaways " a Na…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2019
SHE'S BA-A-A-CK AND SHE'S FA-A-A-ABULOUS Charles Busch's play Die, Mommie, Die! is equal parts Greek comic-tragedy and Hollywood kitsch " a melodramatic campy cult classic in the vein of 196…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:53PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2019
BEST WHEN IT'S GRIM GRIMM Born in Austin and now living in New York City, artist Natalie Frank created 75 works based on the stories of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Using gouache and chalk paste…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
NOT ONE FALSE NOTE The musical masterpiece Falsettos follows Marvin, an appealing, brainy, anxious, obsessive, wealthy Jewish gay man who struggles to create a tight-knit family out of hi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2019
SOME, NOT ALL, IS ILLUMINATED Sadly, not everything is illuminated in British playwright Simon Block's fascinating but problematic adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel abo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:50PM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2019
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE THEATER Well, there certainly is nothing wrong with good advice. And there's plenty of that in the structurally unconventional Tiny Beautiful Things, Nia Vardalos's stag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2019
GRACE NOTES Now on the Kleberg Stage in Austin, TX, Anna Deavere Smith's powerful, engrossing and resonant solo play " Notes from the Field " has been updated for four actors by ZACH's Produ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2019
A VAULTING MATILDA Imagine Annie with psychokinetic powers, Nancy Drew as a mind-reader, or Cinderella acting as her own fairy godmother. Self-empowerment fuels this upbeat, knock-down, pell…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
photos by Little Fang Up Here La Jolla Playhouse 2910 La Jolla Village Dr in La Jolla ends on September 6, 2015 for tickets, call (858) 550-1010 or visit La Jolla Playhouse
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
BRAIN CRAMPS One of the brainiest plays since, well, British playwright Nick Payne's other brainy play, Constellations, Incognito (2014) contains Payne's usual assortment of short scenes and…
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