Friday, February 7, 2025
STILL A WICKED GOOD TIME The stage musical Wicked is is now Broadway's fourth longest-running show"surpassing Cats; productions continue to sprout up globally in many languages; and last yea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:30PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2025
A deal with the devil; eternal youth, for the ultimate price. The Picture of Dorian Gray is coming to Broadway's Music Box Theatre for a strictly limited engagement 14-week engagement fo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 26, 2025
A LUSH, ROMANTIC JOURNEY THROUGH LOVE AND TRANSFORMATION Since Adam Karsten's arrival as Artistic Director at CV Rep, the quality and consistency of the theater's productions have improved e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2025
NYC PREMIERE OF RENÉ MARQUÉS' LOS SOLES TRUNCOS René Marqués' seminal work, Los Soles Truncos, stands as a cornerstone of Puerto Rican classical theater. Written in 1958, the play …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54PM[SHARE]YOUR MEMORY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME With its gripping ensembles, intense partner work and evocative movement, Los Angeles Ballet's Memoryhouse tells personal and collective stories of l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 18, 2025
RATS AND POLITICS TOGETHER? WHO EVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING! In the wildly entertaining and mind-bending Symphony of Rats, which I had the pleasure of experiencing at REDCAT in Los Angeles la…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:05PM[SHARE]ARTHUR MILLER'S CLASSIC DONE TO DEATH AT THE COLONY THEATRE What cachet Arthur Miller's 1949 classic Death of a Salesman has in terms of power and artistry, nuance, subtlety and insight, is …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 11, 2025
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) will be presenting the North American premiere of the new musical 42 Balloons. From the multi-award-winning producers Kevin McCollum (Oh, Mary!, Re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:13PM[SHARE]STEP INTO HOLLYWOOD'S MUSICAL LEGACY Beverly Hills is about to become the epicenter of cinematic symphony. On Saturday, January 18, 2025, the Scott Dunn Orchestra makes its grand debut at Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2025
A LETTER TO SANTA Dear Santa: Well, what a year 2024 was. With the way things are going, I decided to count my blessings. So I'm writing to thank you for that pair of tickets to see Santasia…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2025
"You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility." " Eleanor Roosevelt Laguna Playhouse has announced that Mary Roosevelt, a direct descendant of Eleanor Roosevelt, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:38AM[SHARE]The holidays have faded into memory, and the bitter chill of winter days have settled in. But fear not " when the frost bites, the theatre offers warmth, and somewhere out there, a play is r…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 14, 2024
YOU'LL GET A KICK OUT OF THIS Oh, no, no, no. A musical in concert of this magnitude hardly ever happens in L.A., and Anything Goes in Concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium is shaping up …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 30, 2024
Last year at this time, I saw the family-friendly and totally entertaining Dog Man: The Musical at the Kirk Douglas Theatre presented by TheaterWorksUSA in which comic book hero Dog Man, wit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 28, 2024
A FUSION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MATHEMATICAL GENIUS AND FAIRY TALES CaltechLive's Opening Doors is a themed series of dance, music, and theater events on campus that showcase artists wh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2024
WHAT'S YOUR STORY? In the "It's Not the Story, It's in How You Tell It" Department, an incredible number of shows I saw in the last month have incredible tales to tell, but falter in their c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2024
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES No plague can kill a great show. It came back after COVID. In a rare clash of film noir, performance art, an awesome murder mystery party, and Shakespeare, Pun…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2024
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE'S RADIANT PERICLES All the indicators promised that it'd be special: after a 30-year lull, England's Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2024
THE WALLIS HOSTS EXTRAORDINARY THEATER Handspring Puppet Company (War Horse) joins Cape Town's Baxter Theatre to bring Life & Times of Michael K to the Bram Goldsmith Theater at Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:15PM[SHARE]Friday, November 1, 2024
NOW, THERE'S OH SO MUCH MORE TO DESIRE Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams' still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it makes perfect s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2024
A RUFUS CONVERT During Rufus Wainwright's homey, intimate concert last night at the packed 500-seat theater at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, he chuckled that he didn't really want to do A Ruf…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 30, 2024
L'Chaim. "To Life" indeed. There's a ton of it, not to mention humor, sorrow and wisdom in the 1964 Stein/Harnick/Bock musical triumph, Fiddler on the Roof, which opens soon at La Mirada The…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2024
A SCREENING TO PUCKER UP FOR Following an acclaimed summertime run at London's Barbican Theatre, the cinema release of the smash-hit production KISS ME, KATEÂ brings the magic of this musi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2024
I'M DREAMING OF A PSYCHEDLIC CHRISTMAS Well, Halloween is here soon, but you know what's really scary " aside from Christmas items for sale at Costco before Valentine's Day? By Thanksgiving,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:05PM[SHARE]GLORIA, HALLELUJAH! Unless you can see Gloria at The Chance Theater tonight or tomorrow, this may be a review of record, as it ran only two weeks after opening night, but I tell you this is …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2024
In Symphony of Rats, a President of the United States has strange encounters of the phantasmagorical kind. Surrounded by his presidential aides, he plunges into…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Directed by Richard Israel, (Civility of Albert Cashier, Floyd Collins, 110 in the Shade), King of Pangea, the spellbinding new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Martin Storrow, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 13, 2024
IDIOT IS AS IDIOT DOES Unlike the jukebox musicals Mamma Mia and Escape to Margaritaville, which invented stories around the songs of ABBA and Jimmy Buffett, American Idiot " …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 12, 2024
ONE OF THE ALL-TIME FEEL-GOOD MUSICALS COMES TO THE CARPENTER CENTER Ain't Misbehavin'Â is a sizzling celebration of Fats Waller's music " songs that he made famous in a career that ranged…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 5, 2024
Inside a one-room apartment on the outskirts of Seoul, Oliver (Darren Criss) lives a happily quiet life listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 28, 2024
LIVING IT UP IN HER LIVING ROOM In the shimmering galaxy of cabaret, few stars sparkle with the vivacity and brilliance of Jessica Vosk, who, at 40, is the real deal. You're talking about a …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:17PM[SHARE] 
