MEMORY PLAYS TRICKS— AND SO DOES EVERYTHING ELSE An immersive maze where perception falters and certainty slips through your fingers Unreliable narrators everywhere—but not the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMSUPERSTAR STILL RISES Nocturne Theatre's high-concept staging proves that even a familiar rock opera can still feel fresh, fierce, and electrifying First, a Biblical passage…"Jesus Christ …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMIf you were lucky enough to be in the audience at the historic Palm Springs Plaza Theatre on Friday evening, you witnessed something rarer—and more electric—than a standard pla…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMA LATINO MUSICAL ODYSSEY INSPIRED BY IMMIGRATION AND THE WIZARD OF OZ A heartfelt journey centered on resilience, with fantasy touches along the way The Cygnet Theatre is presenting the loca…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMALL FOR ONE—AND A WHOLE LOT OF MEANWHILES A rollicking, cleverly staged adventure that balances spectacle with comic flair Xavier Lagunas, Jack Sharkey and Boomer Lusink Swash your bu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMFOLKLORE, GHOSTS, AND THE WEIGHT OF THE DEAD Matthew C. Yee's wildly ambitious world premiere dazzles, even as its larger shape remains elusive Death, and coming to terms with it, have been …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMGETTING OLDER NEVER SOUNDED SO GOOD A richly satisfying Maltby and Shire revue finds warmth, wit, and wisdom in growing older Lynne Wintersteller, Sally Wilfert, Allyson Kaye Daniel While it…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMThis oral history of the Irish-American journey soars when it sings A history lesson masquerading as a jukebox musical, The Irish … and How They Got That Way is the creation of Pulitzer wi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMA CHORUS OF EXILE IN AN ARCHITECTURE OF ISOLATION Theatre Y's North American premiere immerses its audience in complicity and unease Makai Walker Before we get into the merits of Elfriede Je…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMPALM SPRINGS DISPATCH FROM HEADAH HOPPERÂ Your faithful correspondent in the desert My dear reader, If you are planning a visit to Palm Springs and think your evenings will be limited to …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMPOETRY AS ACTIVISM, MEMORY, AND INVITATION A moving, participatory tribute to June Jordan that insists poetry still matters June Jordan was a seminal feminist poet and essayist who—be…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMCHEKHOV, REIMAGINED IN BEAUTIFUL CHAOS Dmitry Krymov turns a classic into a surreal theatrical hallucination There are many ways to stage Anton Chekhov. You can do it the traditional way wit…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMTWO MONOLOGUES IN SEARCH OF A DIALOGUE Justin Tanner has spent decades making chaos look easy. Those early Cast Theatre productions like Pot Mom and Zombie Attack trafficked in a particular …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMLORD HAVE MERCY! Roustabouts Theatre's irreverent comedy lets Samantha Ginn unleash a hilariously blunt deity Samantha Ginn Playwright David Javerbaum pulls no punches in this hysterical, ir…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMFOR SOME, MAYBE — FOR OTHERS, A CHORE An exhausting exercise in enforced fun and emotional emptiness (Seated) Felix (Jimin Moon), Noah (Matthew Scott Montgomery, (on floor) Kobe (Calv…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMAN INTERGENERATIONAL, SENSATIONAL THEATRE GROUP Creative Stage Collective's annual revue proves that age is irrelevant when imagination leads To get to their Sunday rehearsals, the many memb…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMA POSTWAR MORAL RECKONING INSIDE A FAMILY HOME Arthur Miller's classic still asks uncomfortable questions about responsibility and denial Jimmy Smits Berkeley Repertory Theatre is revivin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMCRITICISM VS CONFESSION When analysis starts to look like refusal Editor’s note: Jesse Green was reassigned from his role as chief theatre critic at The New York Times in 2025 and now serv…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMLOVE, LOSS, AND LYRICS An earnest musical adaptation that leans into memory, even when it leans too hard The touring production of The Notebook arrives at the Civic Theatre with a built-in a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMSAY HIS NAME—AND HOLD ON A neon-charged national tour delivers irreverent spectacle, sharp performances, and just enough heart to make the afterlife feel alive Any doubts that the Net…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMCAN ANYONE SAVE THIS MUSICAL? A committed cast and strong vocals can't overcome a rushed, softened adaptation that drains the story's power In their mission statement, Chromolume Theatre is …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMREADY FOR HER CLOSE-UP IN PALM SPRINGS Palm Canyon Theatre's Sunset Blvd. finds a commanding Norma Desmond and a powerful ensemble Se Layne Although Andrew Lloyd Webber turned Billy Wilder's…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMJOYCE'S ODYSSEY ON STAGE Elevator Repair Service turns the impossible into a joyous theatrical sprint Beloved, despised, or abandoned halfway through by most readers, Joyce's Ulysses is one …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMOn February 28 and March 1, 2026, Morgan Fairchild will be featured in a staged reading of Marilyn, Mom & Me, Luke Yankee's new play about his mother, Eileen Heckart, and her intense fri…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:31AMA CLASSIC MUSICAL REBORN AS A RHYTHM-DRIVEN NIGHTCLUB EXPERIENCE A propulsive, jazz-infused staging that reclaims Pal Joey's cultural roots At Arena Stage, Chez Joey is less a revival of Pal…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:31AMAm I Roxie? Am I a Play? Am I at the Wrong Theater? Geffen's Latest Solo Act Feels More Fringe Than Mainstage Within five minutes of "this fiercely funny one-woman tour-de-force†(so s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMCOMING HOME When Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway in 1964, it collected nine Tony Awards and captured the universality about families weathering change. But backstage, Zero Mostel a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMLOVE LANGUAGES A cabaret performance in Vienna's smallest opera house In Vienna, there's the Staatsoper (very large, very elegant, very impressive, opened in 1869) and the Volksoper (not qui…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMOH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL EVENIN'! RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN RIDE AGAIN AT CARNEGIE HALL With a full cast, full dialogue, and a glorious orchestra, this Oklahoma! concert leans into the classic's…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMCALLOUS CALLAS CASTS A CAPTIVATING CHARACTER Maria Callas (1923-1977) was unquestionably one of the finest opera singers of the twentieth century. The mix of her great talent with her being …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMTHIS WAY TO THE AMERICAN DREAM– MIND THE TRAP DOORS Kafka's story still needs an ending, but Open Fist delivers a wildly inventive Amerika If you think America is in an existential cr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMEVERYONE WILL LIKE IT HOT It wouldn't be a valid review to simply write, "I loved it!†a hundred times and ship it off to my editor. However, if you're looking for a bottom line or a s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMBYRD SONG IN SHADOW: CONCERT IN CANDLELIGHT, THEATRE OF DEFIANCE Hark! Attend, ye lovers of sacred sound and clandestine devotion, for the international tour of Secret Byrd—an evanesc…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMCIVILITY ON THE BRINK OF CHAOS Jack Heller's polished production reveals Pinter's menace, even if it could use a bit more disorder First, a joke: "How many Harold Pinters does it take to cha…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMHISTORY IN DIALOGUE WITH ITSELF Dominique Morisseau's time-splitting drama refuses easy parallels On paper, Dominique Morisseau's Confederates might read as high concept: two Black women in …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMKind Stranger … A Memory Play, conceived and performed by Rick Simone-Friedland is successful as a historical rendering of Playwright Tennessee Williams' life. It is also successful as a r…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMSTILL SCRAPPY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS It has been more than ten years since Hamilton's Off-Broadway premiere. Alexander Hamilton may have declared himself—like his country—"young…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMWAITING FOR COWDOT Normally, a surfeit of hyphens in any production assures trouble ahead, but Aaron Francis, the writer-director-designer-producer of this subversive, potent indictment of t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMCOMEDY UNDER PRESSURE A writers' room in early television on deadline, and a production that hits every punchline Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor fictionalizes the writers' room behi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMMURDER, MAYHEM, AND A MANUSCRIPT TO DIE FOR Sometimes uncontrollable forces work in your favor. How fortunate then for MadKap productions that on the opening night of their production of Ira…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMPOP-UP, FLOP-DOWN: WHEN DINNER UPSTAGES THE THEATER The foundational idea of Suite 524's Pop Up Dinner Theater at Barlume Downstairs is solid — four courses from Barlume's excellen…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMWHO NEEDS A HEALTHY CORTEX WHEN YOU'VE GOT THIRTY-TWO SHOWSTOPPERS? The urge to create has served as a muse for countless forms of art: literature, opera, film, and theatre are littered with…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMSTUNNING AND UNSETTLING, MR. WOLF IS AT THE DOOR Steppenwolf Theatre's Chicago premiere of Mr. Wolf is a searing examination of parental sacrifice, loss, and the elusive nature of home. Unde…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMA GAME OF HEARTS PLAYED FACE DOWN There is no question that Ann Noble is one of the most talented actresses gracing the stages of Los Angeles. There are moments in her bitter-sweet, two-pers…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMA SELF-INFLICTED WOUND POSING AS THEATER. SAFE WORD: CURTAIN An erotic psychological thriller script without the erotic, psychology, thrill, or script Dear Gay Theater-makers, I am writing t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMA NEIGHBORLY NICE LADY— WITH BUZZ ALDRIN IN HER HEAD Susan Clausen shines in Ian August's funny, surreal one-woman ride Reading the press blurb about Donna Orbits the Moon left me scr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMTHE LONGER CHRISTMAS DINNER In Wilder's meditation on time, the actors have to do the heavy lifting ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ "Only time, only the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMSHAKESPEARE, INTERRUPTED About five minutes into & Juliet, Juliet belts "…Baby One More Time†with such raw confusion you half-believe Britney's lyrics might hold the secrets of …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMHELL'S ON FIRE Hell's Kitchen, a jukebox musical featuring the music of R&B superstar Alicia Keys (with several new songs) and a book by Kristoffer Diaz, took Broadway by storm in 2024, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMALL IN ONE AND ONE IN ALL With Except Myself at the Broadwater Black Box, playwright Drew Petriello has achieved a clever, slick, and absolutely entertaining deconstruction of the solo sh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMFENCED IN AND LASHING OUT A powerful touring revival of August Wilson’s enduring drama The Old Globe Theatre is presenting August Wilson’s 1987 drama Fences, part of his cycle of plays a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMA SHTETL REBUILT IN THE ROUND Douglas Sills leads Signature's spare, deeply felt Fiddler on the Roof that puts Anatevka's communal heartbeat at the center The beauty of tradition, Tevye the …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMTHE DREAM REBORN: RAGTIME AWAKENS THE AMERICAN SOUL A momentous musical about American history, a momentous production in Lincoln Center Theater history, Ragtime, which opened last night, is…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMA REIMAGINING OF A HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC Frothy fun with an affirmingly progressive perspective The art deco sets (Scott Pask, scenic design), broad-shouldered plaids (Gregg Barnes, costumes), a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMNINETY YEARS IN NINETY MINUTES Playwright Noah Haidel compresses 90 years of story into his 90-minute one-act comedy-drama Birthday Candles at North Coast Rep. However, that's sufficient tim…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMAIN'T NOTHING DROWSY ABOUT THIS CHAPERONE Theo Ubique's joyous revival of the Tony-winning musical turned this critic into a tap-dancing, high-kicking fool. Darian Goulding as Aldolpho In a …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMTITANIC SINKS AGAIN Mallie McCown's madcap reimagining of Titanic, James Cameron's $220 million epic, is ambitious beyond words, which is the source for most of the problems that plague this…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMBREAKING THE LIES THAT BIND Broadway's biggest feelings land in the desert ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Dear Evan Hansen, the six-time Tony Award�
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMTHE QUIET COST OF BELONGING Suh's Thanksgiving duet is lovely and lived-in, but leaves one wishing for deeper stakes The Heart Sellers at South Coast Rep offers a focused, uninterrupted glim…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMREVENUE AND RESPECTABILITY George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) knew about cancel culture long before the term came into vogue. The first New York production (1905) of Mrs. Warren's Profes…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMPIPPIN GOES HOLLYWOOD Pippin, with music and lyrics supplied by Stephen Schwartz, and book penned by Roger O. Hirson (who was best known for writing the script to the war flick The B…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMA BEAUTIFUL TAPESTRY OF SONGS AND STORY Reagle Music Theatre kicks off the summer with a vibrant, lovingly crafted staging of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, directed with finesse and fl…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMOSCAR WILDE, REWIRED FOR NOW David Zippel brings star power and modern snap to Palm Springs Tony-winner for Liza's at the Palace, David Zippel—one of Broadway and Hollywood's sharpest…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMTRUTH, BEAUTY, FREEDOM, LOVE — MOULIN ROUGE! LIGHTS UP THE DESERT A pop-fueled fever dream lands at McCallum Theatre Moulin Rouge! The Musical took the stage of McCallum Theatre in al…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMTHE COST OF LOOKING BACK With a soaring first act, I’m willing to pay the price for a second that can’t quite keep up Arthur Miller’s The Price has always been a talky, introspective p…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMI LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE A high-energy 80s mixtape that actually leaves you wanting more For The Record has built a reputation on remixing cinematic nostalgia into immersive, high-octane theatri…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMGLAMOUR BEFORE THE FALL A pansexual Richard II struts through power, pleasure, and ruin in the 1980s In its current staging at the Astor Place Theatre, Red Bull Theater serves up a Richard I…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMWHY CAN'T A SUPERHERO CATCH A BREAK? (OR A BROADWAY RUN) Foster Cat Productions is taking a gleeful leap off the tall building that is It's a Bird… It's a Plane… It's Superman!, the 1966…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMWIN OR LOSE, IT'S ABOUT LOVE Wow! Whoever wrote Love's Labour's Lost was a comic genius. The wordplay, the multi-lingual puns, and the send-ups of characters stumbling over their own foolish…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21AMA packed ballpark has its own sound check. You hear the sharp pop of warmup throws, then the softer murmur that settles in once the first hitter digs in. Even on a late night broadcast, the …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMJUST HOW I LIKE MY THEATER — HOT, SWEET, AND SAUCY Now playing at New Conservatory Theatre Center, The Hot Wing King is a spicy tale of love, friendship, and a cooking contest gone gl…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMDAMN YANKEES SWINGS BACK IN STYLE: ARENA'S REVIVAL IS MORE THAN A MUSICAL — IT'S A MILESTONE When Damn Yankees first opened on Broadway in 1955, it was the ultimate baseball fantasy: …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMSLEUTHING FOR LAUGHS? YOU'LL FIND THEM HERE It's elementary! A clever script, thanks to the prolific and popular playwright Kate Hamill, and superb physical and verbal comedy, thanks to a gr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMA MUSICAL SALTIER THAN SALT LAKE ITSELF Let's start the actual religious text called The Book of Mormon, published in 1830. Without going into all its details about other planets, Jesus visi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMTOAD-ALLY DELIGHTFUL Ribbiting from start to finish, this Year goes by in a flash. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad series h…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMSPARE PARTS, FULLY LOADED QUESTIONS Glass's brainy biotech thriller delivers ideas, surprises, and genuine theatrical punch Jonny-James Kajoba, Rob McClure, Matt Walker and Michael Genet I s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMSWEENEY TODD SLICES DEEP — EVEN WITH A FEW MISSTEPS Jason Alexander's ambitious concept does not blunt the impact of a blisteringly performed revival McCoy Rigby Entertainment has bee…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMCELEBRATING THE INDESPENSIBILITY OF CHICAGO'S CREATIVES Glowing cultural vibrancy and great world cities are so often intertwined they are effectively one. Scan the globe and nearly every ci…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMON THE RIGHT TRACK The 7 Fingers (Les 7 Doigts), a Montréal-based circus arts company, brings 90 spellbinding minutes of exhibitions of strength, flexibility, coordination, balance, courage…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMLEGACY MEETS MORTALITY IN THE MOUNTAINTOP This superb production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, a surprise-filled two-hander depicting King's last night before his assassination, is not j…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMThere is a profound beauty in watching something fragile survive. In Dezart Performs' breathtaking West Coast Premiere of Jason Odell Williams' Destroying David, that fragility is everywhere…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMA TEXAS-SIZED CHRISTMAS MELTDOWN This is pure, sugar-spun, deep-fried, glitter-smothered Texas Trashmas — and honey, sometimes that's exactly what the doctor ordered. If your idea of …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMA CIRCUS OF CULTURE, A CABARET OF CONSCIENCE: STEP RIGHT UP TO THE UNITED STATES OF ZINZANNI The gorgeous Art Deco Spielgeltent still sits on the fourteenth floor of the Cambria Hotel in the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMMULTILINGUAL PRE-WEDDING JITTERS The sixth play in Mfoniso Udofia's nine-play Ufot Family Cycle brings us the adorable couple Ekong Ufot (Kadahj Bennett) and Lumanti Shrestha (Mahima Saigal)…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMBULLISH ON WOMEN'S EDUCATION With sharp, witty, and informative dialogue, Bryna Turner's Bull in a China Shop offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and accomplishments of Mary Wooley (L…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMA REVOLUTION LOST IN THE (BEAUTIFUL) NOISE Revolution(s) is the first Owen Theatre production of Goodman's centennial celebration. With a book by Zayd Ayers Dohrn and music and lyrics by mul…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMACHILLES' HEEL IN ARCADIA There is a misunderstanding of critics among some circles, a sense that they are all cast in the mold of Ellsworth Toohey, the sniveling, Machiavellian art critic f…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMQUINTUPLE THREAT NYMPHIA WIND HAS MORE THAN BANANA APPEAL I'm a bad gay. I've only seen one or two episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race out of—how many seasons now? Seventeen! But after see…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMA COMIC REVIVAL OF FALSTAFFIAN PROPORTION ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Chicago Opera Theater (COT) has given Antonio Salieri's unjustly neglected Fal…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMA Town, a Tragedy, and the Triumph of Kindness The musical Come From Away — with book, music and lyrics by married couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein — tells the rema…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMFROM FRIDA TO FUNK, MATTERS OF THE HEART THRILLS When words fall short of capturing the fullness and depth of life's experience, there is dance—or more broadly, art itself. That truth…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMAll happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.   — Leo Tolstoy The most remarkable thing about Joel Drake Johnson's Four Places is how it prepar…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMSome students associate theater and cinema studies with a creative world that requires no academic studies, but it's a huge misconception. Mastering any profession and getting a diploma is i…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMYOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S IN STORE; SHOP 'TIL REALITY DROPS Area15 is an immersive retail and entertainment district located just minutes from the Las Vegas Strip. Its crown jewel is Omega Mar…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMFEAST ON THIS: BLOOD, REVENGE, AND A SHOCKINGLY GOOD TIME A ferocious, darkly funny take that makes Shakespeare's grisliest play thrillingly alive (Back) Anthony Michael Martinez, Zack Lopez…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMDesert Ensemble Theater's world premiere of Rich Rubin's Dispersion of Light opened this past Friday at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, and it's a fascinating dive into the 1930s art world…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMTHEATRE THROUGH GOGGLES A 47-minute VR encounter turns a gallery into the closest "front row†imaginable. How would you like to attend a play starring Ian McKellen—and be seated…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:20AMA FAR CRY FROM MISERABLE (UNLESS YOU'RE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS) There's a lot to gripe about in the world in 2025, but you know what? Spend a little time in 1815 France and you're going t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMUnlike his previous shows at The Hollywood Fringe — Spank the Monkey and Shagadelic: The Origins of Slang Words for Doing It — Michael Blaha has shed his stage persona of Pr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMA PRESSURE COOKER OF A PRODUCTION A thriller that examines the effects of social media Josephine Moshiri Elwood (Jane) and Dennis Trainor Jr. (Loyd) pull out all the stops in Job, an 80-minu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMSTAR STRUCK Awe-inspiring lighting design (Eduardo M. Ramirez) and beautiful sound effects and music (Kai Bohlman with Violet Wang) elevate Lauren Gunderson's fictionalized biography of astr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMONE MAN, TWO HOURS TOO LONG Ask yourself how much you liked The Play That Goes Wrong series. That's a pretty good indicator as to your enjoyment of Richard Bean's 2011 play, One Man, Two Guv…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMONE ACTOR, A KINGDOM OF SOULS Eddie Izzard's virtuosic solo turn reframes Shakespeare with clarity and control Eddie Izzard's Hamlet is far from a traditional staging of William Shakespeare'…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMChicago Shakespeare Theater's North American premiere of Paranormal Activity is guaranteed to deliver the horror movie-style scares you're looking for this Halloween season, but if you're lo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMNOBODY PUTS THIS BABY IN A CORNER A set doesn't get any sparser than the one for Gangsta Baby, in the sense that there isn't one. You step in off the street into a basement with two dozen ch…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMSOBER TRUTHS AND SLIPPERY MEMORIES IN A COMIC, CHAOTIC QUEST FOR CLARITY Alcoholism and Alzheimer's. What a combo. Sounds serious, right? They both are, of course. But in the hands of playwr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMCANDACE JOHNSON IS AN ADHDIVA! ATTENTION MUST BE PAID (EVEN IF IT WANDERS) Now playing at The Marsh Berkeley is Scat-ter Brain: The Music of ADHD, written and performed by Candace Johnson. T…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMDIGITAL DREAMS, SUPERCHARGED What happens when you combine a century-old boiler room, an army of graphics processing units (GPUs), and some of the most imaginative digital artists? You get S…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMLOVE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES Two women, from quite different backgrounds, meet in Boston in 1968, a time and a place where ancient grudges and present-day conflicts seem sure to keep them apart…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMPLAIDS, CAROLS & COMIC CHAOS A tuneful Yule celebration filled with charm, harmony, and holiday silliness If you're craving holiday nostalgia served with tight four-part harmonies and a …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMFOWL PLAY: WHEN THE TRUTH TAKES AIM IN THE WILD DUCK Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, now at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Klein Theatre (in a co-production with Theatre for a New Audience), is…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMA SMALL SHOP WITH A BIG HEART A delightful, tender surprise arrives at the Ahmanson—and quietly wins you over Sometimes the most unassuming shows sneak up and steal your heart. Kim's …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMA KNOCKOUT OF CONSCIENCE NOW BECOMES A STREAM OF CONSCIENCE Stage and Cinema called the visceral and relevant Broadway hit Punch "a knockout of conscience.†Now, Manhattan Theatre Club…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMYOU WILL ABSOLUTELY WHAT YOU WILL While we are still grappling with questions of gender, identity, and societal roles like troglodytes, we need to remember that Shakespeare was exploring the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMWHEN SHAKESPEARE NEEDS A LITTLE HELP Physical comedy drives the laughs—sometimes to excess—in Phillip Breen's energetic production The Merry Wives of Windsor is not one of Shak…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMA DELICATE CHAMBER PIECE THAT WILL BREAK YOUR HEART One of the advantages of a small performance space is that, in the right hands, one can set the mood even before the play has begun. In th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMWEATHER FORECAST: FUNNY AND SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF ARMAGEDDON In recent years, I have watched a wave of productions by Millennial and Gen Z artists who are, quite understandably, petrified b…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMPATRON SAINT OF THE SECOND-RATE A rigorously intelligent and theatrically thrilling revival that restores Shaffer's parable to full force Schopenhauer once drew a distinction between talent,…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMA BEAUTIFUL DOLL CV Rep's production is one bet you can't lose It's amazing. Were this masterpiece from Broadway's golden age an actual guy or doll, he or she would be scoring Social Securit…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMWEST SIDE SNORING Astoundingly unsatisfying, LA Opera's many-headed Hydra production of West Side Story, directed with no sense of urgency by Francesca Zambello, opened tonight to a crowd la…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMSMALL LIVES, BIG TRUTHS What's a nice girl to do? Upstairs at The Matrix, Rogue Machine Theatre is putting on another winner of a show, Nice Girl by Melissa Ross. It's a small dram…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMA MUSICAL COMEDY TO REMIND YOU WHY YOU FELL IN LOVE WITH THE ARTFORM IN THE FIRST PLACE "In 1982 a man called Larry put himself in a lawn chair, got some 42 balloons, and went to sixteen tho…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15AMNOSTALGIA LOADED — AND EYE SAFETY ENSURED The 1983 film A Christmas Story may not have been universally crowned a "classic†when it premiered, its near-universal popularity and …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:14AMTOO MANY HANDS ON DECK An inventive but overstuffed adaptation floods the narrative The world premiere of DNAWorks‘ adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer,” directed by Dan…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:14AMRise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 29, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours:
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