Sunday, July 10, 2016
IT’S YOUR DREAM NIGHT, GIRLS After nearly two years of renovations, I caught an early glimpse of the historic John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, one of Los Angeles’s top entertainm…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2016
ABT’S FIREBIRD SWOOPS INTO THE CHANDLER Making a rare visit to Southern California, American Ballet Theatre returns after a three-year absence to Los Angeles’s Mus…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 3, 2016
AÂ MANE EVENT Writer/performer Benjamin Scheuer's one-man autobiographical song cycle, The Lion, has certainly caught fire since it premiered under a different name at the 2013 Edinburgh F…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
GOING UNDERGROUND A Critics’ Pick by both The New York Times and Backstage, the passionate docudrama Home/Sick explores how idealism turns to radicalism, as a handful of leaders from t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2016
SCREWBALL MUSICAL HEAVEN When it opened on Broadway in 1978, On the Twentieth Century achieved the impossible. Cy Coleman's clever score"a beautiful pastiche of turn-of-the-century operetta …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2016
THE CITY COMES ALIVE The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is about to begin a new era under the leadership of its new Artistic Director Paul Crewes. Right out of the gate is a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2016
MAKE SOMEONE SOMEWHAT HAPPY At the risk of repeating myself — oh, wait — I am repeating myself, but it bears repeating. I wrote about the great Coco Peru when she appeared in Mis…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:26PM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION 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 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
FINDING THE HEARTBEAT OF FIDDLER "To Life" indeed. There's a ton of it, not to mention heartbreak and wisdom, in the 1964 Stein/Harnick/Bock musical triumph, Fiddler on the Roof, now receivi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2016
KISS OFF A backstage comedy with more personalities than Sybil, Sarah Ruhl’s preposterous — and in some ways pretentious — 2011 play was apparently given a boffo treatme…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
INDEED I DUBIN He wrote the lyrics to the songs that kept the world singing through some of the darkest times in human history: The Great Depression and WWII. But as with most songwriters wh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
FRIENDSHIP AS A LIFE VEST For the lucky few who know confidence and fit in with no real problems, high school is a pleasant stepping stone from adolescence to adulthood. For many, the yea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:14AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
FAR MORE EDENIC THAN I EXPECTED You would think that if Stephen Schwartz (composer/lyricist of Pippin and Wicked) wrote a musical with John Caird (adapter of Les Misérables and Can…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2016
NUNBEARABLE Deloris, a  pushy, smart-alecky, malopropism-spouting black woman, is disguised as a nun as she awaits a court date to squeal against her gangster boyfriend. Her background…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
NOT YOUR AVERAGE VIOLINIST; NOT YOUR AVERAGE TANGO Coming up on April 15 and 16, 2016, in Irvine and La Jolla, acclaimed violinist Augustin Hadelich will be joined by dazzling pianist Joyce …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:08PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
KEEPING THE DREAM(GIRLS) ALIVE Dreamgirls opened on Broadway in 1981, won six Tony awards, and ran for nearly four years. Since then, the Michael Bennett musical has been revived, present…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
ALMOST 70 YEARS AFTER IT WAS WRITTEN, PREVIOUSLY UNHEARDÂ VERNON DUKE MUSIC IS ORCHESTRATED AND RECORDED For over half a century, record companies have given the studio treatment to long-s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
THERE WILL BE BUZZ ABOUT THIS PLAY, BUT IT’S ALL STING AND NO HONEY As honey bees gather pollen and nectar for their survival, they pollinate crops such as cranberries, melons and broc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
SOMEWHAT FORCED, WE STILL GET THE GLORY OF WEST SIDE STORY Strangely enough, West Side Story feels more dated than Romeo and Juliet, its 500-year-old inspiration. Compared to Sha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
WRAP YOUR BRAIN AROUND A NEW A NEW BRAIN When A New Brain opened at Lincoln Center in 1998, I couldn't understand why the reviews were so higgledy-piggledy. True, I hadn't actually seen the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:13PM[SHARE]ONE NERDY, ANAL AND SINGULAR SENSATION The first two weeks of June, 2001, was a very good time to attend Broadway shows. On one day alone, I saw The Producers at 2:00, The Rocky Horror Show …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
EVEN GOD CAN’T SAVEÂ THIS FROM ITSELF Dear God (if I may quote Alice Walker): What’s going on with the theater these days? Oh, that’s right, you already know. In fact, yo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:49AM[SHARE]MAGIC CAN STRIKE TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE In 2013, a new production of The Magic Flute from Berlin's Komische Oper became a sell-out sensation, courtesy of the Los Angeles Opera. Now, it retu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
AÂ HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT In 1993, H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover appointed Jean-Christophe Maillot as the head of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Backed by his experi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:34AM[SHARE]AÂ FUNNY AND NOT-SO FUNNY THING An irresistible mix of Roman "new comedy," commedia dell'arte, and vaudeville, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum rivals The Producers as the fu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:02AM[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2016
COLORFUL COLORATURA IN A CLUNKY CANDIDE There isn't much I could say about the musical Candide that hasn't been written about before. Leonard Bernstein created one of our greatest Broadway s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2016
CENSORSHIP COMES TO LOS ANGELES The Wooster Group has let Stage and Cinema know that Samuel French, Inc., which manages the United States rights for Harold Pinter's work, has banned…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 23, 2016
THE TROCKS ROCK! As part of their worldwide tour, one of the most original troupes on the globe is coming to Carpenter Center in Long Beach this weekend. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:51PM[SHARE]Friday, January 22, 2016
A MUSICAL THAT REACHES FOR NEW HEIGHTS Built during the Depression between 1930 and 1931, the Empire State Building became the world’s tallest office building"surpassing the Chrysler B…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 16, 2016
YOUR PAL IS COMING TO TOWN Sassy and brassy Pal Joey is a wondrous rouser that spins the tale of a roué gone rotten in Depression-era Chicago. As part of its Reiner Staged Reading …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:13PM[SHARE]Friday, January 15, 2016
THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT IS When the meek and paranoid everyman Winston Smith scribbles “Down with Big Brother” in his journal, he soon blossoms into a determined and impassi…
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