Tuesday, May 2, 2023
HOP INTO SPRING Friendship is among the hardest subjects to parse, but this musical based on Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" stories, considers friendship warts and all. Frog and Toad worry a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2023
After the roaring success of Pasadena Playhouse's wonderful production of Sunday in the Park with George, now comes A Little Night Music, which officially opens May 1, 2023. This is…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2023
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES No plague can kill a great show. It's back. In a rare clash of film noir, performance art, an awesome murder mystery party, and Shakespeare, Punchdrunk's Sleep…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2023
THE BEST OSCAR GOES TO SEAN HAYES "It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view." The incomparable Oscar Levant is the subject of the hi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2023
WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL? THIS REVIVAL OF WOMAN OF THE YEAR I'm jealous of New York Musical lovers. If they want to catch a rarely produced musical from the "golden age" of Broadway (the dates of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]HOW DO YOU CATCH A TIGER BY THE TAIL? STAGING. The eye-popping special effects of Life of Pi are reason enough to see this show, which opened this week at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Yes,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:06AM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2023
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS FAT HAM Ah, the Father/Son relationship. Tough when bad and often difficult even when pop and junior love each other. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted with delightful…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2023
It's fascinating to watch a new generation of Asian playwrights " Mike Lew, Qui Nguyen, Lauren Yee, Dipika Guha, Christopher Chen " writing about the quest for identity as it pertains to tra…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 8, 2023
IT'S ONLY A FLOP There's a glaring contradiction in It's Only a Play: Written by the usually crafty Terrence McNally, a 20-time Broadway playwright, this two-act love letter to Broadway t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:52AM[SHARE]I CAN'T GET THAT TASTE OUT OF MY MOUTH Get ready for a show that is all vagina and no vulva. This bloody awful musical by Big Little Theater Company is of the women, by the women and for the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 4, 2023
WHERE'S THE GRIEF? A LOT OF GOOD SHIT, BUT WE NEED MORE SHOW Grief. It almost seems to come on a daily basis. You hear people grieve over politics, a lost job, a breakup, the weather " griev…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2023
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN There is a world premiere now playing at Actors Co-op in Hollywood that is both ambitious and successful. The Human Comedy, set in the fictional California town of Ithac…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:33PM[SHARE]LET ME IN, OR GET ME OUT? In writer/director Brynn Thayer's Let Me In, now running at the newly and spiffily remodeled Theatre 68 Arts Complex in North Hollywood, actor Jorge Garcia of L…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 22, 2023
COME FOR THE SCORE, LEAVE FOR THE BOOK Prior to Geffen Playhouse's world premiere musical The Lonely Few, a pair of orange ear-plugs in ironically loud cellophane is offered to patrons, indi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2023
NEW TRACK FEATURES VOCALS BY KPOPÂ ICON LUNA & COMPANY LISTEN HERE WATCH THE VIDEO PREORDER & PRESAVE THE ALBUM HERE Well, we all know it happens. For whatever reasons, a show flop…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2023
LETTER FROM ONE INDUSTRY INSIDER TO ANOTHER Hullo Mick. Lady Antoinette here. Boy, I gotta thank you for inviting me to Jordon Waters and Stephanie Marrow's label influencer/release party th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:09PM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2023
IT WOULD BE ABSURD TO MISS THIS THEATER In Endgame, the end of the world is upon us. But so, too, is the end of Ciarán O'Reilly's superlative production at Irish Rep, which has been ex…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:08PM[SHARE]BACKSTAGE COMEDIC CAPERS Chicago "storefront" theaters have produced some of the most amazing productions that I have ever scene. Usually started by a ragtag group of friends or a brave indi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2023
OFF TO NEVERLAND! It is common knowledge in the theater world that the most difficult show to create is a musical. The second is a parody. But both together?And yet, success has arrived in L…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:18AM[SHARE]Friday, March 3, 2023
HERE'S ANOTHER PLAY THAT SHOULD BE LOST In Cardenio, now playing at City Garage, a character states in Latin, "De gustibus non disputandum est," which means "There's no accounting for taste.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
SONDHEIMIA: IT'S A STATE OF MIND In this curated concert, musical theater actor Larry Owens explores time, love, and ambition through the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, with music dir…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:05PM[SHARE]ARRRE YOU RRREADY FOR THIS CELEBRRRATION?! Anyone who hasn't watched RRR yet, do yourself a favor and see this masterpiece. Sure it's available streaming, but the best way to watch this auda…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2023
MUSICAL THEATRE GUILD GOES DARK (WELL, GREY) WITH THE STUNNING MUSICAL, GREY GARDENS One Night Only: Monday, February 27 at 7:30pm The 2006 Broadway musical version of the cult 1975 Maysles …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2023
GET YOURSELF SOME HAPPY So, which Lillias White is your favorite? Is it the bluesy, searching, achy soul singer? The sassy sweetheart of standards? The darling diva of Broadway showtunes? Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2023
SWINGTIME SHAKESPEARE Everyone will make much ado about Guillermo Cienfuego's delightful take on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing which opened last weekend at A Noise Within. This comedy…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2023
BROADWAY SUMMER CAMP IS COMING June 19"23 | Students ages 11"13June 26"30 | Students ages 14"19 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â As a part…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2023
REAL LIFE TRANSCRIPT MAKES FOR RIVETING THEATER Collaboraction Theatre's Emmy-winning teleplay, Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till, is back at The DuSable Museum as a live, intera…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2023
THIS CONCERT WILL BE ONE FOR THE BOOKS The jazz world has been abuzz about 23-year-old Bronx New Yorker Samara Joy since she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 201…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2023
As the Broadway sensation continues to extend its run (tickets available through July 2, 2023), actors Arty Froushan, David Krumholtz, Caissie Levy, and Tedra Millan will be leaving…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:10PM[SHARE]A CABARET TO LOVE SEVEN TIMES MORE THAN ANY OTHER Getty Villa Museum presents Seven Loves, a Valentine's cabaret that brings together well-known, amazing performers singing songs from Broadw…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PM[SHARE]Friday, February 3, 2023
WHERE THERE IS MELISSA ERRICO, THERE IS LOVE In the Valentine's no-brainer department, you can't do better than celebrate your love (whether it's you or someone else), by attending A Noir Ro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:02PM[SHARE] 
