Monday, October 6, 2025
READY FOR A SWIFT MOVE? Veronica Electrifies the Pacific Jazz Orchestra Gala The Pacific Jazz Orchestra opens its 2025"26 season with a night that promises both elegance and swing: an intima…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]A NEWFOUND(LAND) WAY OF LOOKING AT MUSICAL THEATER It's always a joy " and a rarity " to see a musical I've witnessed before reemerge as something fresher than the first time I saw it. Such …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2025
REVELLING IN RAVEL AND A RAPTUROUS CARMEN The Chicago Symphony Orchestra opened its late-September program tonight with a shimmering palette of sound while offering many chances for the play…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
WEST SIDE SNORING Astoundingly unsatisfying, LA Opera's many-headed Hydra production of West Side Story, directed with no sense of urgency by Francesca Zambello, opened tonight to a crowd la…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2025
Ragtime is the epic musical by Terrence McNally (book), with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow). It weaves together stories of a Jewish…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME A friend warned me that The Heidi Chronicles might feel dated"after all, Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play ends in 1987.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
ONE UP PLAYS TO WIN" WITH A CHEAT CODE FOR CHARM One Up: The Musical, which premiered at this year's Hollywood Fringe and returns for encore performances, is a charming, if uneven, 80s-inspi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2025
WHY CAN'T A SUPERHERO CATCH A BREAK? (OR A BROADWAY RUN) Foster Cat Productions is taking a gleeful leap off the tall building that is It's a Bird… It's a Plane… It's Superman!, the 1966…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
THE SHOW MUST GO ON, MOORE OR LESS She's a singer, certainly a star, and a survivor. Melba Moore has had a decades-long career that includes musical theatre, film, TV, and recordings coverin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
MÉNAGE À MEH, OR BOB & CAROL & DEAD & AIRLESS Last Saturday, I caught the world premiere of Ménage à Quatre, a play that seems to promise a farce but instead delivers…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
THE KIND OF SEPTEMBER YOU'LL WANT TO REMEMBER With the original opening Off-Broadway in 1960 and running an astounding 42 years, The Fantasticks is a veritable classic amongst the reperto…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
BYRD SONG IN SHADOW: CONCERT IN CANDLELIGHT, THEATRE OF DEFIANCE Hark! Attend, ye lovers of sacred sound and clandestine devotion, for the international tour of Secret Byrd"an evanescent gli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
SEAGULL INTERRUPTED An extraordinarily well-written play"and a perfect choice for the Hollywood Fringe"Steven Dietz's 75-minute one-act, The Nina Variations, takes the final scene of Chekhov…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Have you ever wanted to run away from your own life? In Becky's New Car, now playing at Theatre 40, playwright Steven Dietz takes that midlife fantasy and drives it straight into a quirky, c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 24, 2025
Kevin Mambo's journey to the stage reads like a global prelude to a richly textured career. Born in Zimbabwe, raised in Canada, and educated in Los Angeles at USC, Mambo's trajectory launche…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2025
Charles Strouse, 96, the celebrated and multi-award-winning American film, television, and Broadway musical composer, responsible for such legendary songs as "Put on a Happy Face," "Tomorrow…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Palm Springs Young Playwrights Festival Announces 2025 Winners "Never be afraid to sit a while and think." The words of playwright Lorraine Hansberry remind us of the quiet power of reflecti…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
Coming to Hollywood Fringe: A Fatherhood Story You Didn't Know You Needed Fatherhood isn't always what you expect " and Best. Dad. NEVER. proves that's exactly where the magic happens. Haig …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2025
BEYOND THE SEA AND STRAIGHT INTO YOUR HEART Well, ring-a-ding-ding, folks " Broadway's got itself a bona fide, velvet-voiced heartthrob lighting up Circle in the Square, and his name's Jonat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2025
More than 140 nominations in over two dozen categories of outstanding actors, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, and productions and 5 awards for visiting productions were anno…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 19, 2025
While visiting New York, I was lucky enough to catch two Scott Siegel events. Similar in structure but with completely different feels were Broadway by the Season at Merkin Hall and 54 Sings…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2025
I CAN'T CAVE ENOUGH In 1917, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins discovered Crystal Cave. Located in the same area as Mammoth Cave"the longest cave system known in the world"the site operat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2025
SHARP AS EVER, BUT DOES IT CUT DEEP ENOUGH? OR, IF YOU WANT BIGGER SHARKS, YOU NEED MORE BLOOD IN THE WATER Glengarry Glen Ross is a testosterone-saturated 24 hours of five salesmen, some me…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 29, 2025
A RIPPING GOOD YARN WITH A JOLLY GOOD CAST OPERATION MINCEMEAT LANDS ON BROADWAY When I first encountered Operation Mincemeat at Riverside Studios in London back in 2022, it was a scrappy, s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]A WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN BERNSTEIN AND VON KARAJAN… AND THE AUDIENCE LOSES Peter Danish's Last Call at New World Stages imagines a high-stakes intellectual showdown between two musical titan…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:49AM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2025
THE PICTURE OF ASTOUNDING THEATRE I've been fortunate to witness some extraordinary one-person plays on Broadway. To name a few: Zoe Caldwell in Lillian, Ben Kingsley in Edmund Kean, Robert …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:59AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2025
LOOM WITH A VIEW Ghost Road Theatre's The Unraveling pulls you into its strange, hypnotic orbit and doesn't let go. This is a truly original work with some breathtaking theatrical coups. Ann…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 22, 2025
HERE'S A BROADWAY SUCCESS THAT ALSO BRIMS WITH PURPOSE Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' doesn't just expose the cracks in a so-called perfect life"he shines a floodlight on them. Except for a few seq…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:54AM[SHARE]WE HAD A BALL Manhattan Theatre Club's We Had a World is an unconventional modern-day three-hander memory play that covers roughly 30 years. Our diarist, memoirist, and damn funny playwright…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2025
FROM HAVANA TO BROADWAY: A SOCIAL CLUB WORTH JOINING Buena Vista Social Club is a sun-drenched, rhythm-soaked explosion of life, proving that sometimes a show just needs space to breathe"and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 14, 2025
WIT, WONDER AND WILD CHIMPS Embarking on a theatrical safari at the Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST), I stumbled upon a wildly witty gem tonight that rivals the most exhilarating of jungle adve…
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