Thursday, September 10, 2015
BORDERING ON TRAGEDY There is a lot to like about playwright Luis Alfaro's Mojada, a modern retelling of Medea which sets the main character as an undocumented immigrant and seamstress in th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:05PM[SHARE]DOUBLE DUTY DOMINGO The biggest names in opera, cinema, and classical music converge for the opening of LA Opera's impressive 30th anniversary season. The double bill which opens Saturday is…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 30, 2015
AMERICAN CLASSICS WITH AUDRA MCDONALD & AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE The last time I saw the captivating singer and actress Audra McDonald in concert, she sang the Bernstein/Comden/Green t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2015
COMEDY TONIGHT More like side-splitting by side-splitting by Sondheim, Impro Theatre–the masters of long-form improvisations in the style of famous authors and genres–are gearing…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:32PM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
GREAT, BUT NOT ALWAYS CLASSIC According to TimeOut London, the term "cabaret" represents an overlapping group of constantly mutating forms of performance that can’t be pinned down"an a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:38PM[SHARE]TIS THE SEASONS Not unlike Timothy Leary and LSD, I have been turning people on to ACB for similar reasons. In an increasingly complicated world, one needs a stimulant to reinforce a sense o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
THERE’S NOTHING GOING ON UP HERE It’s an idea whose time has already come this summer, and with far superior results. In fact, the character of Lindsay, a t-shirt designer who ha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:56AM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2015
YOU CAN GO HOLMES AGAIN It turns out that you can teach an old dog new tricks, proven by The Old Globe's contemporary stage-spoof treatment of the 1901 Sherlock Holmes classic novel The Houn…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:46PM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2015
AÂ FINE CLINE Patsy Cline couldn't be more fondly or accurately recalled than by Cori Cable Kidder in Robert Marra's production of Always…Patsy Cline, the oft-produced 1990 paean to the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 1, 2015
THE HOLY GRAIL OF SILLINESS It's been 40 years since the release of the landmark comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and 33 years since the British sketch comedy troupe recorde…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:47PM[SHARE]DACHAU DELIVERANCE TO THE MAX More than six million Jews were slaughtered by Nazis. When Martin Sherman wrote Bent in 1979, the yellow star that emblazoned the clothing of Jews was well-know…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2015
GIRLFRIEND, PLEASE! While it's being sold as a rock musical, Todd Almond's gay two-hander is really a play; the songs from Matthew Sweet's 1991 breakout album Girlfriend are indiscrimi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:43AM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2015
A FULL-ON KISS Everything is so dang perfect about the construction of Kiss Me, Kate that it's doubly amazing when a revival comes along to match that perfection. With some of the most boffo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2015
THE MUSIC MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC MAN When Moonlight Stage Productions announced their production of The Music Man, which opens this week at the Moonlight Amphitheatre in Vista, I actually got …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50AM[SHARE]SALUTING SONDHEIM IN SOLANA BEACH Stephen Sondheim is so beyond merely good and light years away from conventional that some may view his musicals as pure art and overlook the slathers of so…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2015
YOUR PURSUIT IS OVER In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson borrowed a phrase from 17th century English philosopher John Locke, who spoke of "life, liberty and property…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2015
THE DROUGHT ENDS THIS WEEKEND You may know the term "Jukebox Musical" from the ridiculous amount of new Broadway musicals which take previously published songs"most often popular hits that a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:31PM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2015
THE WORST OF THE BEST Let me say that I have no idea what I just saw. Clearly, some very clever folk have come up with the very clever idea to spoof a Fringe Festival, which Fringe Festivals…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2015
TWELFTH NIGHT LANDS AT THE OLD GLOBE A comedy’s brewing up in the rehearsal rooms of The Old Globe. Soon, winds will whip, distressed voices will call out and a ship’s timbers wi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2015
THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MAX AND ELSA Greetings my lovelies! Garrulous Greta here with some glorious news. You may remember not long ago I received a letter from a fan…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:15PM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
MASTERFRINGE THEATRE When Barnaby Hughes reviewed a previous Magnum Opus production of Surf Dogs Unite for Stage and Cinema, he wrote that the show “will leave you doubled over with…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2015
THE PHANTOM MENACE Last night's opening of The Phantom of the Opera, a refurbished revival of previous national tours, proves one thing: Since Andrew Lloyd Webber's baby was born almost 30 y…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2015
MARRIED TO SONDHEIM When I first saw Marry Me A Little in the mid-1980s, it was a revelation. But not because of the story. This revue uses trunk songs of Stephen Sondheim, songs which–…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 13, 2015
WHAT A DOG The term "Dog Days" refers to the hottest period of the year, the sultry part of summer when Sirius, the Dog Star, rises in unison with the sun. It's a time marked by sluggishness…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:17AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2015
SCULPTED TO PERFECTION Boris Eifman's kinetic Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg is quickly becoming known for full-length ballets, quite often with a plot and literary source. What you will se…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:28PM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2015
PREGNANT PAUSE A loving, liberal, and somewhat quirky childless couple, Craig and Katie, discovers that the only option to have their own baby is to implant her egg and his sperm in another …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2015
LIFE AS WE KNOW IT It was one of those magical evenings in the theater that shall live with me forever. When Kulunka Teatro's André & Dorine appeared at the Los Angeles Theatre Center f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:48PM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2015
IN HARLEM'S WAY We never meet the titular Our Lady of 121st Street, a no-nonsense New York nun who had a profound effect on the characters in Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2003 play. Nor do we meet…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:48PM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
COMMERCIAL WITHOUT COMMERCIALS Imagine if the '70s sitcom Good Times did not hit TV until 2007. Now imagine a 3-episode arc about the coming out of a black man who brings his white boyfriend…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:44PM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
GO FACE THE MUSIC+DANCE Assuredly, Artistic Director Lincoln Jones' American Contemporary Ballet (ACB) has become the go-to organization for thrilling dance in Los Angeles. Along with his mu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2015
CAROUSEL COMES TO LYRIC OPERA Lyric Opera of Chicago's stunning new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel opens tonight and runs through May 3, 2015 at the Civic Opera House in Ch…
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