SILK-SCREEN DEEP Even though icon Andy Warhol passed away twenty-five years ago, his legacy remains elastically strong in all its plastic nature; a man very “American” for being of the c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:39PMBETTER THAN THIN MINTS FROM A GIRL SCOUT The World Premiere of Patricia Scanlon’s Death of a Salesgirl is a must-see surreal tragicomedy presented by The Bootleg Theater. Its fresh and inn…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:32PMFLEET FEET, HOLLOW HEART When notes jostled in and out of the written score during the overture of Musical Theatre West’s 42nd Street, it portended a production that doesn’t have all the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:11PMJUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED Even though the legislation for a public health care option passed by Democratic majority in Congress, matters of wellness and proper treatment are anxieties tha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:42PMJOPLIN TRIBUTE NEEDS TO TRY, NOT A LITTLE BIT, BUT A LOT HARDER 42 years ago, Janis Joplin joined fellow rock visionaries Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones in the “27 Club…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:26PMGIVE UP THE GHOST AND GIVE US WHAT’S REAL The multi-hyphenate J.B. Priestley (Author-Novelist-Playwright-Critic-Essayist-Political Commentator) commented, “Comedy, we may say, is society…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:29PMSOMETHING BEAUTIFUL HAS ARRIVED Daniel Serrano’s Roma al final de la Vía (Rome at the End of the Line) is a highly recommended diamond-in-the-rough, and the 24th Street Theatre presents i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:52AMAMERICANA NOT DEAD YET! Composer Jerome Kern said, “Irving Berlin has no place in American music. Irving Berlin is American Music.” This understanding is precisely what Ray Roderick and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:04PMTHE PLAYWRIGHT MUST HAVE EATEN A PILLOW, BECAUSE THIS PLAY IS DOWN IN THE MOUTH Andy Bloch’s The Bellflower Sessions is a bleak, black comedy about Jack Calvin, a victim of “The Great Re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:43PMIT’S THE PERFECT YEAR FOR THIS POWERFUL STORY, BUT FOR THIS PRODUCTION..? It must be an election year, as artistic directors all around the nation are presenting Adrian Hall’s meaty …
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