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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
GRANTING YOUR WISH FOR A FUN OPERA Gioachino Rossini's Cinderella (La Cenerentola) was written in 1817 during the bel canto era when operas were written to showcase beautiful singing, and Je…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
REIMAGINING THE REIMAGINED ATÂ NCTC No one can deny why Romeo and Juliet has achieved cult status. Not only is Shakespeare's comic tragedy one of the most enduring stories ever told, but i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:46AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
SLIDING BORES A or B? The question of Ken Levine's title refers to the choice between two parallel universes set forth in his two-act two-hour two-hander. Played out simultaneously with flip…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2014
COOL AS A CUCUMBER BUT NOT AS REFRESHING In Boys in the Band, the character of Harold states: "Although I’ve never seen my soul, I understand from my mother’s Rabbi that it’…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2014
I'M NOT SAYING YOU SHOULD BE SKIPPIN' PIPPIN, BUT… Prepare yourself. After all the rave reviews and buzz from New York, Diane Paulus's Tony-winning revival hits the road filled with enough…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2014
NUDITY IS AS NUDITY DOES For the sake of argument ("arguendo"), let us consider G-strings as tools of oppression, and pasties as violations of our First Amendment rights. This was the perspe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2014
KOSKY'S QUEEN AND CASTLE On the surface, there isn't much that unites Henry Purcell's 1688 Dido and Aeneas and Béla Bartók’s 1918 Bluebeard's Castle, except perhaps that men are no…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
FOR BETTER OR WORSE Based on her own experience with a dying father and marital breakup with playwright Hamish Linklater (whose The Vandal is currently running in Chicago), Jessica Goldbe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
THERE'S A BRIGHT STAR SOMEWHERE ON THE HORIZON It takes a while to get on board with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's new musical at The Old Globe. In fact, emotional involvement by intermis…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
TRICKSTERS WHO ARE A TREAT From Vegas extravaganzas to intimate parlors, my favorite magicians are those with personality and humor. Even when tricks are well-rehearsed and mindboggling, sli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:30AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
SWAN IN A MILLION Featuring a live orchestra, The Australian Ballet's Swan Lake comes to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion this weekend, October 9-12, 2014. While this is one of the world's favo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
A TRANS-PORTIVE EXPERIENCE AWAITS YOU When I saw the trio of headliners who will be performing for one night only at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, I had to do a Little Rascals double-take. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:07PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2014
REAWAKENING In one of the bios for Deaf West's production of Spring Awakening, actress Ali Stroker thanks the company for stepping out of the box, and turning what some may think as a 'limit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2014
COME HOME TO THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL The Trip to Bountiful, Horton Foote's plaintive 1953 teleplay (adapted for Broadway and for the 1985 film with Geraldine Page), paints a picture of rural A…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:16PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
POP DOES OPERAÂ BIG, INTIMATELY Under Artistic Director Josh Shaw's hands-on guidance, Pacific Opera Project has become L.A.'s most exciting new opera company. In just three years since PO…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2014
HERE'S CHARLEY This Sunday, September 21, Musical Theatre West will begin the Reiner Staged Reading Series fifth anniversary season with a one-time only performance of Where’s Charley?…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2014
STRANGE BUT WATCHABLE BEHAVIOR Let's see if I got this right. A tongue-in-cheek bio-musical and pseudo-adventure tale about John Broadus Watson"wannabe preacher-turned-behavioral scientist-t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2014
MORE D'OH THAN WOO-HOO The intelligent minds behind The Simpsons already had over 51,000 spectators (over three nights) in the palms of their collective hands before they sat down to write T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2014
ALBEE SEEING YOU AT THE RENBERG On the surface, Edward Albee's The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? is about a middle-aged architect, Martin, who has a zoophilic love affair that threatens to destroy…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2014
INTO THE FOLD Recently divorced, and abandoned by her beloved three-legged dog, well-respected origami artist Ilana has fortified herself in her studio. Surrounded by paper, Chinese take-out…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:35PM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
A FLAT-FOOTED RACE In April 2014, lawyer and LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million by the league after private recordings of him making ra…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
THE PERFECT COCK Whether breeding chickens or designing your kitchen with rooster tchotchkes, it can be challenging to find the perfect cock. But if you look to the theater, your search for …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2014
NOT AS TRYING AS IT COULD HAVE BEEN A slight bio-drama is given heft by larger-than-life performances in this latest outing from International City Theatre in Long Beach. Trying is based on …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2014
ONE IN A MILLION Rabid theatergoers who often attend plays are akin to miners panning for gold: The drudgery and disappointment from months of discovering rocks is dissipated when a precious…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE OF LOS ANGELES BALLET Along with the film industry, one of Los Angeles' greatest entertainment assets is music. While theater, dance, opera, and other mediums continua…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
ALLEY HIGH There are many reasons why some previously produced Broadway musicals are rarely performed: The sheer size of the show makes it prohibitively expensive (The Most Happy Fella, 1956…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2014
SOUR CHERRIES It's been 110 years since The Cherry Orchard premiered. While Chekhov insisted that his play about the fall of Russian aristocracy"and the fallout from the abolition of serfdom…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
FLAMENCO FEVER AT THE FORD AMPHITHEATRE Last year, after the thrilling, fiery, and passionate flamenco dancer Manuel Gutiérrez displayed a crackling tap and pedal pyrotechnics the likes of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:17AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2014
EVEN WHEN A GENERATION CAN'T HOLD UP, ITS HAIR CAN When Diane Paulus' revival of Hair swooshed into the Pantages in 2012, it felt more like a cause for nostalgic partying than a recreation o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:58PM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2014
THE PAGEANT OF THE MASTERS IS ON THE CASE On March 18, 1990, two young men dressed as Boston police officers walked unchallenged into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Some 81 minutes lat…
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