Tuesday, October 15, 2024
PUTIN ON THE FRITZ The most entertaining part of Manhattan Theater Club‘s Vladimir, which opened tonight at NY City Center, was the tirade the woman sitting behind me went into during inte…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:50PMWednesday, April 24, 2024
PATRIOTS THEATER REVIEW The excellent Michael Stuhlbarg is continuously entertaining in Peter Morgan’s bio-play Patriots, leading the cast as Boris Berezovsky, a Russian-Jewish mathematici…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, January 21, 2024
DEAD MEAT There is a notion floating around that critics get pleasure from bashing shows. I can’t speak for everyone, but it’s been my experience that most reviewers love the theater. Pe…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:17PMThe death of childhood is the beginning of poetry. — Andrei Tarkovsky “This is a children’s show,” informed the Krymov Lab NYC stage manager after showing us where we could hang up o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:50AMThursday, September 28, 2023
A VICTORIOUS ROMP In Ossie Davis’s 1961 play Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch–which opened last night at The Music Box Theatre–all the black residents…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:30PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
A SHARK HAS TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD, OR ELSE IT DIES — WHAT WE HAVE ON OUR HANDS HERE IS A LIVING SHARK Stories abound about the problem-plagued production of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 bloc…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:41PMSunday, June 25, 2023
A NOT-SO-DEMON BARBER ON INCOHESIVE STREET Annaleigh Ashford’s thoroughly delightful and sympathetic portrayal of Mrs. Lovett, the good-humored but sinister piemaker is, unfortunately, one…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:11AMThursday, May 4, 2023
A GOOD SIGN FOR BROADWAY First-rate performances and Anne Kaufman’s near-flawless direction work well to conceal the few shortcomings in Lorraine Hansberry’s thoughtful and compelling Th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59PMSaturday, March 18, 2023
NOW AND ZEN Coming out of the Baryshnikov Arts Center after watching its current offering The Hunting Gun, I overheard a woman ask her husband what he thought of the show. Good, but long, he…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:15PMMonday, November 21, 2022
THIS RAT MAY BE A LITTLE SQUEAKY, BUT IT’S WORTH GETTING CAUGHT IN ITS TRAP Elizabeth Gray is perfect as Olive Lloyd-Kennedy, the kind insightful dry-witted writer who predicts disaster if…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:59PMFriday, October 14, 2022
WHAT’S BEEN DONE TO DEATH What cache Arthur Miller’s 1949 classic Death of a Salesman has in terms of power and artistry, nuance, subtlety and insight, is buried by Miranda Cromwell’s …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:52PMMonday, October 10, 2022
SEE THE LIGHT Illustrious lighting designer Jennifer Tipton will share an exhibit of light in Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Jerome Robbins Theater for three performances only, November 17-19, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:59PMMonday, October 18, 2021
THE PUBLIC THEATER ANNOUNCES CASTING FOR WORLD PREMIERE PLAY CULLUD WATTAH Written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza Directed by Candis C. Jones Above is the cast for the world premiere of CULLUD …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:38PMThursday, July 1, 2021
PERFORMANCES BEGIN SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2021 LIMITED 7-WEEK ENGAGEMENT The amazing theater company BEDLAM is coming back to New York with PERSUASION, a new play by Sarah Rose Kearns a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:51PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
ORIGINAL CAST MEMBERS OF THE JACKSONIAN UNITE FOR WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING The New Group will present as part of its Reunion Reading Series Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian. featuring original…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:48PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
EVERYTHING IS HAPPY INDEED In Jesse Eisenberg’s very funny and poignant one-act Happy Talk the excellent Susan Sarandon plays Lorraine, an amateur actress whose rosy, self-serving delusion…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:23AMSaturday, April 20, 2019
SOC ON THIS Perhaps one of the reasons Socrates has become a god-like figure in the world of philosophy is that we know very little about the actual man who existed during the dawn of writin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:39PMMonday, February 11, 2019
DONE TO DEATH “I thought we might show more decorum by keeping our long miserable mistake to ourselves,” Alice tells Edgar after he expresses his intention to celebrate their silver wedd…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:20PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
CASTE ASIDE Todd Solondz, one of the most profound filmmakers working today (Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse), begins his first play Emma and Max — which he also directs — w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:06PMMonday, September 24, 2018
THIS ONE’S A BEEPER Richard Saudek’s one man show beep boop begins with a man struggling to break through an elastic translucent membrane. He succeeds and is born — spit out of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
EVERYTHING’S FINE, BUT WHAT IF WE ALSO HAD BEEN AFRAID? Starting out as a parody of Edward Albee’s Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Kate Scelsa’s Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Wo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:04PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
A REY OF SUNSHINE ENDS UP CLOUDY Director Chay Yew mounts a spectacular production of Luis Alfaro’s Oedipus El Rey, a reworking of Sophocles’ tragedy set in the Barrio of present-day Los…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:58PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
FULL MEASURE More often than not, stagings of Shakespeare plays turn into dull, tedious exercises. The reasons for this vary but the one problem that always seems present is the lack of an a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:34PMSaturday, July 15, 2017
UNDER INSPECTION Michael Urie pops and sparkles as Ivan Alexandreyevich Hlestakov, a foppish but penniless out-of-work clerk who gets mistaken for the Czar’s inspector by the corrupt offic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:04PMSunday, July 9, 2017
ROOM TO GROW In a way Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room is a perfect play. It’s like a well-ordered house, comfortable, professionally decorated, where everything works. The story is str…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:18PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
STET OFFENSIVE After watching Kim Davies’ inspired S&M play Smoke, about two young people connecting in the kitchen of a house in which a sex party is in progress, I became an instant…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:52PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
RADIANT THEATER In Philip Ridley’s brilliant black satire Radiant Vermin, a seemingly nice, average twenty-something couple with an infant, tells us of the horrible things they did to get …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:15AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
A BRILLIANT TRIFLE Watching members of the Stephen Joseph Theatre perform Alan Ayckbourn’s Confusions under the playwright’s helmsmanship, I found myself mentally comparing the troupe to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:33PMTuesday, May 10, 2016
MINDING THE BODY When the lights come up on Body: Anatomies of Being, the nine cast members walk out and stand at the foot of the stage facing the audience, all of them naked save one, who i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:41PMSunday, May 1, 2016
WILLIAMS ASCENDING Irene Glezos delivers a lovely, stirring performance as Lady in Austin Pendleton’s staging of Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece Orpheus Descending. A force of nature, La…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:52PMMonday, March 28, 2016
THE EFFECT OF GREAT THEATER In Lucy Prebble’s captivating two-act, The Effect, crisply directed by David Cromer, 20-somethings Connie (Susannah Flood) and Tristan (Carter Hudson) meet as t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:36PM 
