Saturday, September 13, 2025
In Yukio Mishima's KINKAKUJI, currently playing at Japan Society, the impeccably cast Major Curda is mesmerizing as Mizoguchi, a Zen monk-in-training who, in 1950, ends up burning down the K…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2025
GHOSTS WILL POSSESS YOU The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. "Peter Straub, The Throat Outstanding performances from a first-rate cast and Jack O'Brien's expert di…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
Metamorphoses is the third show by Dmitry Krymov and Krymov Lab NYC that I have seen (the first was Three Love Stories Near the Railroad; the second Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" In Our Own Words)…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 1, 2025
HAIL MARY "Based on the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, Mary… is the testimony of Mary Stuart as she awaits martyrdom, accused of involvement in the most notorious plots of the time. On th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2025
ADD THIS TO YOUR BECKETT LIST Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave, comprised of three short works by the playwright"Not I, Play, and Krapp's Last Tape"soundly directed without inter…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:07PM[SHARE]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 interm…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 mathematician…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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. Person…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:17PM[SHARE]The 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 our coats…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 of co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 blockbus…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 The Si…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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: Stage and Cinema at 03:15PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:59PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 ineffe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:52PM[SHARE]Monday, 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, 20…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:59PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Kea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 c…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 delusions …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 11:39PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 wedding …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 —…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:06PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Woolf is…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Ang…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 09:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 officia…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 straightf…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:52PM[SHARE] 
