Friday, October 13, 2017
SCHOOLED BY CALLAS; ENTERTAINED BY HENNESY If you've ever been to a master class, then Terrence McNally's Master Class will seem very familiar. If you haven't, then you're in for a real eye-…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:18PM[SHARE]EXIT TRAGEDY Fierce, funny, and relevant under Deena Selenow’s choreographic direction, Ike Holter’s entertaining but uneven melodrama takes place in a Chicago high school that&#…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:59PM[SHARE]SHUFFLE ALONG 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 child-like…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2017
FANTASTIC, FRIGHTENING, FIERCE, FRENCH: THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE’S STATE OF SIEGE AT UCLA Presented by CAP UCLA, Paris's Théâtre de la Ville returns to Royce Hall with a new pro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2017
STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES The Road Theatre Company, one of L.A.'s most dependable companies for original material, amazing casting, steadfast directors, and terrific production values, presen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 17, 2017
AN EXTRAORDINARY FIVE-COURSE MEAL Course One (Primer Plato): The Story. Two unnamed political prisoners, languishing in an Argentine maximum security prison, are allowed only one hour each S…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:01PM[SHARE]OH, SWEET AND LOVELY Ella Fitzgerald's history with Harlem’s Apollo Theater dates back to the fall of 1934, when she won the opportunity to compete in Amateur Night. The teenager went …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 16, 2017
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC; A VERY SHORT RUN; A MOST ACCOMPLISHED CAST Get ready for the wit, sophistication, and gentle eroticism of this most worldly and elegant of American musicals. The story …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2017
FLYING WITH BROKEN WINGS It’s amazing. Thousands of billions of electronic messages are delivered every month globally, but it doesn’t feel like a small world after all. For many…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2017
FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY FREE Based on the 1984 film Footloose, this eponymous musical opened on Broadway in 1998. Both adaptation and jukebox musical, in which songs sometimes land willy-nilly w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
ALONG CAME THIS SPIDER Defying torture and humiliation in a Latin American prison, two cellmates—seeming enemies—build a passionate friendship and a larger loyalty. Hollywood vis…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2017
AULIS WELL AT THE GETTY Check out the production of Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis by Chicago's Court Theatre, and you'll see why I rave about theater in the Windy City. Guided by the scholar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 30, 2017
HE WHO LAUGHS AT LAST LAUGHS BEST Barney Cashman is a neurotic, shlubby, well-intentioned if somewhat misguided seafood restaurateur who feels his life and marriage have become too predictab…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:47PM[SHARE]IN HARLEM'S WAY "One never knows, do one?" That's the favorite catchphrase of Fats Waller (1904-1943), an irrepressible master of music. The 285-pound, cherubic-cheeked jokester genius is th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:08PM[SHARE]WHERE DO YOU GET ORFF..? There are some entertainments that bear repeating: Los Angeles Master Chorale has visited Carl Orff's pagan-fest, Carmina Burana, under each of their music …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 27, 2017
LIFE IS AN ABSURD BUSINESS It’s an absurdist masterwork, yet it is rarely produced in the States. A disquieting parable which warns against the herd mentality, Eugène Ionesco's three-…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
IT WONDERS ME It’s uncanny that ever since Roger Bean wrote and directed this asinine jukebox musical in 1999, it's lightweight nostalgia factor and updated arrangements of 50s and 60s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:26AM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE OK, let’s get the confusion out of the way. If you’re not at all familiar with the Paramount films Holiday Inn and White Christmas, listening to the jus…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:28AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2017
THE GLOBE GOES BACK INTO THE WOODS Ken Ludwig is arguably the leading comic dramatist in the American theater, and with Robin Hood! he has fashioned an extraordinary new take on the le…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:47AM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2017
DON’T BE SKIPPIN’ PIPPIN Here’s a can’t-miss opportunity: San Diego Junior Theatre is presenting the perky but dark 1972 musical, Pippin. Don’t be fooled by the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
SEE IT BEFORE THIS PARADE PASSES YOU BY The emotionally pile-driving Parade by bookwriter Alfred Uhry and composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown reprises an ugly and evergreen tragedy. T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2017
A GOOD THING GOING; GOING, GOING… Sondheim on Sondheim, which had a short run on Broadway in 2010, offers both songs and personal musings from one of Broadway's greatest composer/lyric…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:47PM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2017
A FEW BLEMISHES CAN’T MAR THIS BEAUTIFUL DOLL It’s amazing. Were this masterpiece from Broadway’s golden age an actual guy or doll, he or she would be scoring Social Securi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
ANGELS IN AMERICA APPROACHES In two sprawling works written in the 1980’s, Tony Kushner brought alive the American national scene of the 1980's and early 1990's, mixing raw naturalism …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 18, 2017
OUT OF PLACE Well, that was pointless. Entertaining to a point, but pointless. I had a feeling about two minutes into At the Old Place that something was wrong dramatically. A woman shows up…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:03PM[SHARE]Friday, July 14, 2017
ENCHANTED FORGIVENESS Shakespeare Orange County (SOC) has used local community members alongside professional actors to reinvent Shakespeare as a way to offer thoughts about inclusiveness an…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18AM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2017
TAKE A GRAND TOUR WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR SEAT Pageant of the Masters, now in its 83rd year, is a singularly unique entertainment that has perfected the art of tableaux vivants ("living p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 9, 2017
MARY‘S POPPIN’ OUT ALL OVER Not just the quintessentially "practically perfect" nanny, Mary Poppins is a kind of cosmic cure. Given the state of our disunion, we probably need to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 6, 2017
TRIPLE-LAYERED CAKE Thirty-something Jen (Shannon Lucio) is torn. She wants her deceased mother’s best friend, Della (Debra Jo Rupp), a talented but struggling baker, to create her …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
MY DAUGHTER, THE CABARET SINGER This year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival has given me new hope for the art of cabaret: Black and White in Paris offered standards dripping in style; Psy…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]AIDA GETS THE AID IT NEEDS There are two beautiful reincarnations with Moonlight's production of Aida, a 2000 Disney outing that never would have seen the light of day were it not for the ce…
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