Monday, June 18, 2018
ON CONFORMING AND CHRIST Ah, what better fodder for drama is there than the dysfunctional American family? You know the ingredients: accusations hurled back and forth by the walking wounded;…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2018
BREAKING DOWN FENCES An American requiem, an oratorio, and a choral masterpiece elegantly and movingly performed, Considering Matthew Shepard, which closes tonight at the Ford Amphitheatre, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2018
FLY TO THIS NEST Boy oh boy, if you like immersive theater, than check yourself into the madhouse over in Burbank. When the rebellious, charismatic and playful Randle McMurphy gets reassigne…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2018
SORRY TO BURST YOUR BABBLE In this unfortunate world premiere, the winsome cast begins with angry pessimistic post-millennial Benji (Will Choi), an Asian-American comic book artist whose bos…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2018
PIRATES STEALS YOUR HEART Music Theater Works just unleashed 140 minutes of undiluted ecstasy and hilarious nonsense, and the lucky location is Northwestern University's Cahn Auditorium in E…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
LULA’S BACK IN TOWN The Ford Theatres presents Lula Washington Dance Theatre (LWDT) on Friday, June 8 at 8:30pm, as part of its IGNITE @ the FORD! series. For this joyous evening of da…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2018
COME TO THIS CABARET Aside from the fact that it will sell out quickly, there are a number of reasons to rush out and get tickets for Celebration Theatre’s revival of Cabaret. First…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2018
WHILE HARDLY REVELATIONAL, A REVVED-UP REVIVAL BECOMES RELATABLE It’s a miracle. After seeing the original 2005 musical adaption, it seemed that nothing could fix this show. But the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2018
CELEBRATING BROADWAY ROYALTY When I tell you that the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the revue covering Harold Prince’s oeuvre mostly works, it’s an enormous compliment. For…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:12PM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2018
NO SHY VIOLET Based on The Ugliest Pilgrim, a short story by Doris Betts, Violet — with book and lyrics by Brian Crawley and music by Jeanine Tesori — takes place in 1964 and fol…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 20, 2018
FILLING THE VOID IN L.A. THEATER Neither my friend nor I were looking forward to this play — I mean, good grief, when I heard that it was about a couple of “fools” going on…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:02PM[SHARE]Friday, May 11, 2018
BLENDING BANANAS AND BORSCHT Mark Harelik's 1985 play The Immigrant is based on the story of his grandparents, Haskell and Leah Gorehlik, immigrants from Russia who settled in the tiny centr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2018
SPLITSVILLE Five years after its world premiere, L.A. is just now getting Amy Herzog’s disturbing domestic thriller. Both praised and not, the controversy with this one-act has been…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2018
AN UPDATED BABY IS STILL CAPTIVATING THEATER For all its melodrama, Jane Anderson's The Baby Dance has always been one of my favorite plays since I first saw it at Pasadena Playhouse in 1990…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:01PM[SHARE]A HONEYMOON IN GLENDALE More fun than walking away a few bucks ahead from a black jack table, this pell-mell, silly-sweet, old-fashioned musical comedy (ya know, gangsters, lovers, Elvis imp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:50PM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2018
EAGER FOR EGAN It was sheer luck that I've been able to see Broadway Baby Susan Egan in over 10 shows since the mid-1980s. From intimate stages (Babes at the Matrix; Hello, Again at the Blan…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 6, 2018
WEST SIDE GLORY It's a relief that Chita Rivera, one of the last great holdovers from the Golden Age of Broadway is still performing today, and you'll get only one-night — Thursday May…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2018
A BLUES REVUE A female-centric revue from 1980, Sheldon Epp’s Blues in the Night celebrates the melancholic but often very humorous songs of black American folk origin. The blues as we…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2018
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR RISES AGAIN, BUT ONLY PARTIALLY TO THE HEAVENS Not nearly as powerful and raw as it could have been, NBC's live telecast "event" of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
NO MUSICAL IS AN ISLAND Whenever it's revived, it's hard to imagine a more necessary musical than this 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner. 72 years after the Japanese surrender, it remains a healing…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:25PM[SHARE]O, BEAUTYFUL AMERYKA After a successful run in 2016, Ameryka has arrived for a short run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre as part of CTG’s Block Party. It’s a testament to writer/dire…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
It’s 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where people are disappearing right off the street. The so-called “Dirty War” waged by the military Junta against its own people is in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:20PM[SHARE]JUBILATION! It promises to be one of the most enchanting nights of theater in a long time. On Saturday April 28 at 8:00, some of London and Hollywood's greatest names will gather at The Wall…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:07AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2018
A ROYAL TREAT For almost 40 years, The Groundlings has proved itself to be one of the premiere comedy troupes in the nation, creating more stars than the Big Bang (and creating more Big Bang…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:55PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2018
WILIES AT THE WALLIS First staged in 1841, Giselle is one of the oldest surviving ballets still in the international repertory, especially because the lead role is a showcase for the w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 7, 2018
SAVING FAITH Even with a few blemishes, Bedlam's revival of George Bernard Shaw's 1923 masterpiece Saint Joan is an immersive and ultimately gratifying theatrical experience. The story…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2018
WELL WORTH A VISIT Perhaps composer/lyricist David Yazbek (The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) was inspired by one of our best new playwrights, Itamar Moses, and his adaptation of the t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:20PM[SHARE]REPRISE REPRISED It’s a strange sort of serendipity. Just when Musical Theatre Guild announced its final season after eight glorious years presenting rarely produced musicals, along co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
SUCH SWEET SORROW FOR THE WRONG REASONS It's as if choreographer Krzysztof Pastor, director of the Polish National Ballet, gave Prokofiev the opportunity to protest Stalin's tyranny that he …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:36PM[SHARE]DON’T MYTH OUT, OR DANCING THAT’S ORPH THE CHARTS LA Opera’s gorgeous production of Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice), featuring a welc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:59PM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2018
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST I'm actually happy I didn't see this musical live on stage. It makes for a wonderful original cast recording, but what seems like a giant heart on this CD, out…
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