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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
A GOOD BÊTE Even though it's written in mostly rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, David Hirson's 1991 play, La Bête, is by far the least avant-garde presentation at Trap Door I h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2015
UNLEASHING THE BEAST River North Dance Chicago (RNDC) is blasting into The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University as part of the "Made in Chicago" Series on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 7…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
"FEELIN' GOOD SWEET," INDEED! Giordano Dance Chicago (GDC), America's original jazz dance company, returns to the Harris Theater for Music and Dance for its spring engagement, March 27-29, 2…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2015
LAST CHANCEÂ TO GET THIS WORK Get ready for this 1920s-era feel-good musical, complete with extravagant dance numbers, glittering costumes and an unlikely love story between a wealthy play…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:47AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
MUSICAL THEATRE WEST KNOWS HOW TO SUCCEED Reams can and have been written about the glories of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:52PM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2015
REAWAKENING A TIMELESS BEAUTY Costa Mesa's Segerstrom Center for the Arts once again proves itself as one of the country's most exciting dance centers by presenting Alexei Ratmansky's all-ne…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2015
LOVE THAT GOES BUMP IN THE NIGHT Conor McPherson's plays are so rooted in the characters that plot is really revelation. With unforced warmth, he captures loneliness in the act of self-effac…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
A FAMOUS LITERARY FEUD MAKES GREAT DRAMA In a 1980 television interview with Dick Cavett, novelist and literary critic Mary McCarthy made an especially biting comment about her longtime adve…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:51PM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2015
THEATRICAL TRICKERY TRUMPS A TRAGIC TALE Cheeky, goofy and sassy, Tristan & Yseult at South Coast Rep affectionately mocks and contemporizes a classic love tragedy and literary legend wh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2015
EXCITING QUARTET COMES TO SEGERSTROM I've been on a chamber music kick for about four years now. From intimate salons in living rooms to concert halls, I'm discovering composers I've never h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 25, 2015
EAGERLY I WISHED THE MARROW For all its surface eccentricity, Nevermore, The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, written, composed, and directed by Jonathan Christenson, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2015
IN GOOD COMPANY "It's a revue, but not a revue," Stephen Sondheim said about Company when he was interviewed at Segerstrom in 2013. This surprised me because the groundbreaking 1970 musical …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 11, 2015
¡FIGARO! ¡FIGARO! ¡FIGARO! An updating of The Marriage of Figaro took New York by storm in 2013. Taking the debate over immigration reform, a multi-cultural English/Spanglish adapta…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:19PM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
AN EXTRA CHANCE TO CHECK-IN With ticket sales hotter than the Great Chicago Fire, the even greater Robey Theatre Company has just announced an extension of their wildly popular, sold-out The…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2014
YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE, NOËL Noël Coward would have loved that his name appears twice in Love, Noël: The Letters and Songs of Noël Coward, which, having completely sold out its ru…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2014
A HOT CHRISTMAS Under boughs of holly and multi-media of silver and gold, stars and snowflakes will glitter as Upright Cabaret combines the Best of Broadway with the Carols of Christmas for …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:43AM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2014
COEURAGE, I COULD EAT YOU UP It is rare when a theater company lives up to its mission statement. Normally, the vision is so hifalutin as to be obscure. Luckily, Los Angeles has Coeurage The…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:35PM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2014
FLARE DONE WITH FLAIR Unlike Sherwood's Idiot’s Delight (1936), Terence Rattigan's Flare Path (1941) is not an anti-war play. Both take place in a hotel and have a rich variety of char…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2014
EVERYBODY LOVES SHE LOVES ME I'll be the first to admit that it may be impossible to create a bad production of the 1963 jewel-box musical She Loves Me. This perfect show, based on the 1937 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
THIS WOODS DELIVERS THE GOODS Somewhere between "Once Upon a Time" and "Happily Ever After" there is a very adult world of tests, losses, disappointments, and grief. Despite this, we assert …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:24PM[SHARE]CROSS OVER INTO IMPRO'S TWILIGHT ZONE After last year's crop of run-of-the-mill Christmas plays, I swore off any theater that even alludes to the holidays. Now, I must eat my words. Opening …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2014
A REALLY GOOD LIFETIME MOVIE ON STAGE Chicago Theater comes to L.A. lock, stock and barrel with the Goodman production of Rebecca Gilman's Luna Gale. Â A winning cast"led by the remarkable…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2014
IT'S ONLY INVISIBLE IF YOU KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN The first time I heard Christopher Cerrone's opera Invisible Cities, based on Italo Calvino's 1972 fictional novel, was during The Industry's i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:22AM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2014
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT Beginning November 26, 42nd Street Moon will revist one of its earliest hits, the mirthful 1943 farce Something for the Boys. This rarely performed boisterous mus…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
PROMISING PROMISES, I PROMISE The premise of Promises, Promises is one you are probably familiar with even if you have never seen the 1968 musical, which opens in a splashy revival at San Fr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2014
KANDER & EBB'S DANCE MARATHON MUSICAL FINALLY ARRIVES IN LOS ANGELES I can understand why you hear about a "Staged Reading" and want to bolt in the opposite direction. Don't let that tit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
SILVER DOESN'T EVEN GET A BRONZE It took fifteen actors, two writers, two directors, and three designers to create a Working Theater's one-hour interactive theatrical experience, a Silver Li…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:31PM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
HAUNTEDÂ BY POWER Aurora Theatre once again proves its might by presenting the West Coast Premiere of a great play. Opening this week and running through Dec. 7, 2014, Breakfast with Mugab…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:29PM[SHARE]AÂ CASE WHERE CURIOSITY WON’T KILL THE CAT Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the global phenomenon Cirque du Soleil arrives at San Francisco's AT&T Park for the U.S. Pr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
COMPLETELY SMART The exciting and insightful writer Itamar Moses may be one of our brightest playwrights, yet he has astoundingly been given short shrift by the L.A. theater community. Wi…
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