Wednesday, June 28, 2017
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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
A VERY GOOD GRIEF This funny but disturbing update of Charles M. Schultz’s Peanuts comic strip first arrived at the Blank Theatre, after which Worst First Kiss Productions wisely ut…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 17, 2017
GRILLED TO PERFECTION North Coast Rep's rendition of James Valcq and Fred Alley's simple musical The Spitfire Grill demonstrates two things: the redemptive power of acceptance, forgiveness a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
THE WAR WITHIN THE WAR As sturdily written and swiftly moving as it was in 1982, Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play remains an enduring testament to the home front battles that African-Americ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2017
FREE WILLY Imagine if cast recordings from the fifties and sixties recorded out-of-town tryouts, then changed material, then recorded the Broadway production, then changed material, then …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
IT’S LIKE REAL LIFE, BUT BETTER About a decade ago, I was having a miserable time dating. The age of electronica was firmly in place, and chat rooms, lengthy bios, and requested cock s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:42PM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
OOH-LA-LA Where am I? Is this a dream? Just when you thought cabaret in Los Angeles was on life support comes this bar of gold at the Hollywood Fringe. Do not miss this extravaganza of re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:08PM[SHARE]THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT A WARHOL If you thought Pop Artist Andy Warhol only referenced and defined mass culture and consumerism through replicated images of Campbell's soup cans and Marilyn …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 7, 2017
FLAGGED DOWN Who hasn’t walked away from some bad dates thinking, “Jesus, that was like being in a play.” Well, now Capital W — a theater company that offers uncon…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 1, 2017
 MICHAEL FEINSTEIN! LIZA MINNELLI! STORM LARGE! JOEL GREY! BROADWAY! No one can argue that Michael Feinstein"charismatic, appealing, boyish, excited, and eager to please"has singlehandedl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:46PM[SHARE]ANÂ IMAGINARY IMAGINARY Back in March, Roundabout Theatre announced their plans for 2017. After collaborating with Fiasco Theater on their acclaimed paired-down production of Into the Wood…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 28, 2017
SHINE ON, ETERNAL LIGHT In just twenty years of existence, Morten Lauridsen's gorgeous choral masterwork Lux Aeterna has become one of the most performed works worldwide. Under direction …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39PM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2017
SNOB HIT Well, that was boring. Of all the people on the planet who should understand the difference between theater and an underwhelming fringe entry (low cost and well-meaning with no s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:58PM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2017
AÂ LIMPÂ STIFF Before composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens were, well, the Flaherty and Ahrens who created Once on This Island, Ragtime, Suessical, et al., they were a youn…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2017
JERSEY CASH COW Jersey Boys, the terrific 2004 jukebox musical inspired by the story of pop sensation Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, is one of the greatest triumphs in Broadway histor…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 13, 2017
CD GETS NEITHERÂ BRONX CHEER NOR FUGGEDABOUDIT It began as a 1989 solo play written by and starring Chazz Palminteri. Robert DeNiro saw this coming-of-age saga and became the powerhouse be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:21PM[SHARE]Friday, May 12, 2017
A GREAT STATE FAIR Corny? Completely! Simple and sentimental? Sure! Did I love it? You betcha! Rarely performed since its Broadway outing in 1996, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s frolicking …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2017
PHILLIPE JORDAN, LORD OF THE RING Little more than 200 years since the birth of Wagner, and the world still can't get enough of the German composer. Love him or hate him, he is one of the mo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2017
COME SALUTE THE END OF AN ERA It’s a bit surreal, but the the theater community’s longest-running AIDS-related benefit is having its final fundraiser on Saturday May 13, 2017. Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:47AM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2017
PRIMO AND PRIMO A strange thing happened on the way to the duo piano recital of the once-married pianists Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich at Disney hall last Saturday. A few minutes b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 11, 2017
THEATER ON TAPE Once the mainstay of fringe festivals and performance art houses, one-person plays showcasing the likes of James Whitmore and Lily Tomlin became financially viable in the lat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, April 10, 2017
IT’S TIME FOR S’MORE GROUNDLINGS Who doesn’t love sitting around a campfire scaring the crap outta some brat? Who doesn’t love canoe trips down a rocky brook? Who …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2017
THOSE SUMPTUOUS STRINGS OF SIBELIUS Fresh-faced and vital, Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a program centered on Finland's greatest composer, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 1, 2017
THIS COMEDY IS TRAGIC Painfully unfunny to the point of torture, Falcon Theatre’s production of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) puts a nail in the coffin of vaudevil…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50PM[SHARE]Friday, March 31, 2017
THE DANCING ENTRANCES, BUT THE BOOK DOESN’T STAND A CHANCE Back in the era that spawned musicals with tunes by Gershwin, Kern, Porter, and Rodgers, the Broadway Musical Comedy book …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 26, 2017
WHIPPED INTO SUBMISSION Explaining the creation of his 1924 two-act ballet, Richard Strauss stated, “I cannot bear the tragedy of the present time. I want to create joy.” Thus wa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2017
TETZLAFF PLAYS DVOŘÃK There was atmosphere galore in Christian Tetzlaff’s intense interpretation of the Dvořák Violin Concerto last night at Disney Hall, but something was…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2017
INTO THE SOUL OF INTO THE WOODS When I first saw Fiasco Theatre’s production of Into the Woods, it was without reservation that I told friends it was worth the drive from Los Angele…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2017
HIT AND MYTH In Sophocles’ Antigone, the titular character has returned to Thebes to warn her brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, about a prophecy that predicts they will kill each o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
IF PIZZA BE THE FOOD OF LOVE… Well, that was frustrating. Now at the Wallis in Beverly Hills is England’s Filter Theatre, which deconstructs Twelfth Night to the bare walls (l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:18AM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2017
A NIGHT THAT WILL BE A DREAM Franz Schubert, the quintessential Romantic composer of the 19th century, was loved by Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, poet and director Samuel BeckettÂ…
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