Tuesday, October 11, 2022
FOURGET ABOUT IT While her career may be skyrocketing as a TV writer, Christina Ham has not mastered the art of playwriting. I felt terrible thinking that after seeing the opening of her wor…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2022
WICKED GOOD A fantastic surprise from Open Fist Theatre Company awaits you at Atwater Theatre. A great story, funny stunning dialogue, and terrific performances arrive in a play " an actual …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2022
THIS GUY REALLY DOES DESERVE AN EXCLAMATION POINT What can I say about musical comedy actor and funny man Jason Graae? Well, first, his last name is pronounced "Grah" but his latest one-man …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:09PM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2022
CRANES HAS A CLIPPED WING Last night at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles, CalArts presented a new play by Octavio Solis, and the story is magnificent. In East L.A., a teenager named Nico has b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
OUR FUNKY FOUNDING FATHERS A hip-hop Alexander Hamilton? A beat-box Father of His Country? A jumping James Madison and a jiveass Jefferson who disses bigtime in a poetry slam? The ten-dollar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2022
SPILL YOUR MAGIC BEANS NOW; THIS SPELL ONLY LASTS ONE NIGHT Get all dead-dolled up and get your spook on for Broadway's biggest Halloween event of the year: Jay Armstrong Johnson's annual so…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2022
A BRAINDEAD MUSICAL REANIMATED TO GLORIOUS LIFE In 2007, the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein opened on Broadway to largely dismissive reviews. Some say it opened too close on the heels…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:32PM[SHARE]THE FARM-TO-FABLE REVOLUTION IS HERE In what is Los Angeles's best season since well before the pandemic, comes along the best show of the season. Only in New York would one expect the calib…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2022
JAGGED LITTLE SHOW You're going to need more than a pill to relieve your aches after seeing this dreck. From what I'd heard, the Broadway success of Jagged Little Pill, a hyper-woke jukebox …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:35PM[SHARE]THE SKY'S THE LIMIT IN THIS LOVELY PRODUCTION Unless you are an astronomer or an astronomy buff, you likely have never heard of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She was an American woman who made dis…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:59PM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2022
A BLINDINGLY BRILLIANT PRODUCTION Since its premiere in c. 429 BC, Sophocles' Oedipus the King has been considered the Mount Olympus of Greek Tragedies, largely because it humanizes the them…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2022
SMALLS MAKES A HUGE STORY In January 2017, President Barack Obama issued an executive order establishing Reconstruction Era National Monument in Beaufort County, noting the significance of R…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:57PM[SHARE]OKLAHOMA! AS WOKELAHOMA NOT SO OK ON TOUR This ain't your mama's Oklahoma! While Daniel Fish's completely rethought and stripped-down production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 watershed m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:14PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2022
THE HEAVEN'S BREATH SMELLS WOOINGLY HERE It seems odd to say that I was enchanted and beguiled with Independent Shakespeare Co.'s (ISC's) production of Macbeth, which opened this past weeken…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2022
A SALUTE TO STORYTELLERS Stage and Cinema is grateful to GMCLA Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison for taking time out of rehearsing to chat a bit about A Salute to Sondheim,Â…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2022
PROM-COM Dust off the Mylar balloons and wrist corsages and head over to The Ahmanson Theatre, where The Prom just landed as part of its national tour. Forget smelly gymnasiums or dated t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2022
GO TO TOWN I am convinced that me colleague Marc Wheeler nailed the many reasons in his review of Hadestown why you must see this national tour. One of the most original musicals to come out…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2022
IDIOT IS AS IDIOT DOES Inspired by a 2004 rock album by the American pop-punk rock band Green Day, American Idiot has received its share of positive reviews since its premiere in Berkeley, C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2022
A PLAY OFF A rich, black, ball-busting pro-sports super-agent who has worked her way up from poverty to making partner at a major firm. The white male head of that agency who wants his prot�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:47PM[SHARE]Friday, July 1, 2022
YES, IT'S THAT GREAT One of my favorite musicals of the year is moving its Off-Broadway production to Broadway, which is right where it belongs. Beginning previews on October 12 and official…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2022
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING Transport Group has announced that Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Broadway Celebration will be the next installment in its Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series on M…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2022
The Fountain Theatre jumps into action with a "hyper-staged" reading of Roe, a powerful, poignant and often humorous play by Lisa Loomer that cuts through the headlines to reveal th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2022
INTERPLAY In the age of A Strange Loop, the hit Broadway musical about a "Big Black Queer" it seems the time is ripe for more musicals about the gay experience, but one with transgender char…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2022
BASKETBALL BROMANCE Center Theatre Group's winning new dramady King James " a co-production with Chicago's Steppenwolf Company " is a must see for more than just rabid sports fans. Nobody wr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:53AM[SHARE]STILL BANGING FOR THE BUCKS The incredibly basic concept behind Stomp, a phenom now in its third decade, remains: "Make a rhythm out of anything we can get our hands on that makes a sound…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00AM[SHARE]ALICE RIPLEYTOÂ REPRISE HERÂ TONY-WINNING ROLELIVE IN PERSON JULY 1-31, 2022 Tickets are now on sale for the new, live, 60-minute immersive adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:43AM[SHARE]A new play by Stephen Beresford Directed by Nicholas Hytner A co-production with The Bridge Theatre Chichester Festival Theatre, 13 " 25 June, 2022 Bridge Theatre: 1 July " 27 August, 2022 S…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2022
AWARD WINNERS THAT STAGE AND CINEMA AGREES WITH ACROSS THE BOARD Well, well, well. Bless the 2021-2022 Drama Desk Nominating Committee. Not only were their nominations truly for achievement …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
IT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUST Fake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming event This American Wife (review), are very very bright and insightful, au couran…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2022
GUESS WHAT PLAY WORKS Based on the screenplay of the same name, writer Todd Kreidler has updated for the stage Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer's smash-hit 1967 movie by William …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:45PM[SHARE]BELOVED THEATER At first, we think that Beloved is about the tragic state of the internet, that a high school boy at the prestigious St. Albans in Montreal, Canada, would never be in the mes…
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