Monday, March 1, 2021
FREE ONLINE ANNIVERSARY EVENT ON MARCH 8 INCLUDES SONDHEIM Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on December 18, 1990, and closed on …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:53PMSunday, February 28, 2021
The world premiere of The Joffrey Ballet’s Boléro, filmed at the Gerald Arpino Black Box Theatre, has been playing since last Friday. Now it has been extended, and I highly recommend a v…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:44PMThursday, February 25, 2021
CAESAR THE MOMENT Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s best known and most oft-quoted plays, chronicling the political and moral crisis of Brutus and his fellow conspirators as they plot …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:56PMSunday, February 21, 2021
SANTINO AND SETH Get ready, kids. This Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 8 (LIVE!) and Monday at 3 (EST), the gregarious, gadfly Seth Rudetsky will have as his guest Santino Fontana. Seth — acc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:38AMFriday, January 29, 2021
NOT SO LITTLE ANYMORE On February 2, 2021, A Little New Music continues its “Spotlight Series” with the music of multi-talented composer/lyricist Rob Rokicki of The Lightning Thief: The …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:39PMSunday, January 17, 2021
NEED A REASON TO WATCH GREAT ONLINE CONCERTS? HERE’S Y. Beginning Monday February 1, 2021, NYC’s 92Y is presenting quite the cavalcade of concerts. From Emanuel Ax to Richard Goode and D…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39AMCONNECTING ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD Here comes Films.Dance, an extremely ambitious and most promising global project from one of the hottest leaders in dance. This stunningly shot series exi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39AMRAILING AGAINST DEPRESSION Being a lover of railroads, especially railroad travel, I still remember this absorbing documentary from PBS’s American Experience. Back in 1998, I learned of th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39AMSaturday, January 16, 2021
NEW SEASON TAKES CENTER COURT Chicago’s great Court Theatre has sadly had to postpone its production of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, but Owen McCafferty’s Titanic (Scenes from t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:04PMSunday, January 10, 2021
PERSONALIZING DIASPORA Perhaps one of the reasons more people aren’t wearing masks in the U.S. to protect themselves and others during the COVID pandemic is that, even with 369,000 deaths …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:04AMWHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND LAYS AHEAD If you think Carl Sagan’s Cosmos is mind-blowing, or the way Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. could put history into context is dumbfounding, or Thomas Friedman’…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:04AMMonday, December 28, 2020
THIS TIME, IT’S A PLAGUE THAT CAUSED THE RAT Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical. Notice in the title that there is no mention of Disney. You know, the folks behind the terrific Pixar 2007 fil…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:44PMWednesday, December 16, 2020
A WORLD APART FROM TYPICAL VIRTUAL FARE Like a breath of fresh air, Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World far exceeded my expectations of both virtual theater and Brown’s uneven s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:07PMTuesday, December 15, 2020
I HOPE THE FUTURE IS MORE EXCITING THAN THIS The Geffen Playhouse is forging ahead as Geffen Stayhouse, offering another magic show disguised as theater. Following the phenomenal success of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:42PMMonday, December 14, 2020
HOLY CLOSET! Whereas many theater companies are becoming experimenters with video during the COVID-19 shutdown, Theater in Quarantine has been actually transforming theater into a small spa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:31PMThursday, December 10, 2020
A JEWEL OF A PLAY Forgive me dear reader for the terse review, but I discovered something yesterday that turned out to be the holiday present you never expected but later realized it was som…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:44PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
STORAGE RUN = VIRTUAL FUN Pee-Wee’s Playhouse meets Choose Your Own Adventure meets classic holiday fare in this new, interactive holiday experience from Rogue Artists Ensemble, one of the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:05PMWednesday, December 2, 2020
THIS STREETCAR ROLLS AND HUMS WITH AUTHENTICITY Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams’ still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it make…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:56PMFriday, November 27, 2020
THE BIG SLEEP No crime is as duplicitous as The Geffen’s latest zoom-as-theater project Citizen Detective. This is the point that I say “spoiler alert” but a) nothing I do can spoil th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:31PMTuesday, November 24, 2020
A FEAST FOR THE IMAGINATION I have seen three shows from the Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema, and the theatricality is truly awesome. You wouldn’t expect this from a sim…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:04PMMonday, November 16, 2020
CALLING ALL HUMAN TRASHCANS!! (THAT’S YOU, BY THE WAY) Chicago’s amazing avant-garde company Trap Door Theatre is presenting a series of eight episodes adapted from Matei Vişniec’s De…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:44PMThursday, November 5, 2020
THIS YEAR MORE THAN EVER, THE PROJECT(S) MUST BE SEEN It’s a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), the late, great American Thea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:45PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
THE SPIN IS A SPECTACULAR SPARKLING SPUNKY EXPLOIT Satisfying, enriching, entertaining and proof that Chicago contains some of this country’s greatest actors and theater, The Spin is write…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:08PMTRENCHANT TROLLS TRIUMPH BY TRANSMOGRIFYING TRUTH Somewhere in the bowels of Saint Petersburg, Russia, there is an agency made up of both Americans and Russians that trolls the internet, cre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:54AMThursday, October 29, 2020
WHO’S ON FIRST, LADIES? The program states: “Rather than presenting a purely biographical story, this project uses the “honorary” office of First Lady as a lens to examine the roles …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34AMMonday, October 12, 2020
TWO DO-NOT-MISS READINGS FROM ATLANTIC THEATER Atlantic Theater Company in New York is presenting a free virtual reading series of plays that had their World Premieres at Atlantic Theater C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:59PMFriday, October 9, 2020
STILL. WAITING FOR THEATER No one has articulated the black American experience in such a way that I, as a white man, “get it,” as has James Baldwin. His cool, unflappable, authoritative…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:39PMTuesday, October 6, 2020
WIESENTHAL ENTHRALLS Writer/performer Tom Dugan’s solo show Wiesenthal capitalizes on the strengths of the famous Nazi hunter – his resilience, tenacity and humor. Dugan has crafted a sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25PMFriday, September 25, 2020
A CROSSWORD, CODE-BREAKING COLLABORATION WITH KWONG One of my happiest achievements was getting my husband hooked on solving Crossword Puzzles. Here’s your opportunity to find out why puzz…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:28AMWednesday, September 23, 2020
CHICAGO SHAKES UP ITS SEASON Chicago Shakes’ 35th Anniversary Season offers an amazing array of options, both in‑person performances and virtual streaming. Look for plays written and in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:36AMSunday, September 20, 2020
BEST LEADS THE BEST Los Angeles-based Echo Theater Company, dedicated to creating new work for the theater, has named Ahmed Best (best known as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars The Phantom Mena…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:08AM 
