Wednesday, July 17, 2013
MISGUIDED MELODRAMA Billy Wilder’s 1950 film masterpiece Sunset Boulevard starred Gloria Swanson as the washed-up-actress-turned-cougar Norma Desmond, and William Holden as her prematurely…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:43PMFriday, June 14, 2013
FOGGY BUT FASCINATING Neva by Guillermo Calderón opens like a Beckett play, with a woman sitting alone in the darkness. Once she is illuminated, she begins to speak with the pace and urge…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AMSunday, June 9, 2013
MADCAP MIDSUMMER To say that Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is oft-produced would be an understatement. The 1595 text is very much in the public domain, free and available to …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:18AMMonday, May 6, 2013
A CAT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a tricky play even before it leaves the page. Nearly sixty years after its first performance, Williams’ brilliant poetic language and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:31PMMonday, April 15, 2013
A DARK, RIVETING AND WORTHY TRIP TO THE FOREST An undeservedly small house took in Friday’s performance of Caryl Churchill’s brilliant, unsettling Mad Forest. Commissioned in 1990 in r…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:18PMMonday, February 25, 2013
WOODY LIGHT One iconic comic writer; eight monologues cut from the screen time of seven of his most memorable female characters; a six-person, all male cast: Those are the ingredients of Roy…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:00AMSunday, February 17, 2013
FRINGE-O-SAUR Winner of the Best Musical title at the 2010 FringeNYC, with music by Marshall Pailet and book by Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Steve Wargo, Triassic Parq: The Musical is a parody …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
THE COLORS OF OUR LIVES red, black & GREEN: a blues is art at its best and most purposeful; a visceral, engaging narrative that combines theatre, dance, music, spoken word and visual art…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AMFriday, October 26, 2012
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Faith by Evelina Fernandez, directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela, is a sensitive portrayal of a Mexican-American family in the 1940’s. Good performances and a smart use o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:19PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
SEMINAR SEARCHES FOR MEANING The premise: four fiction writers have paid five thousand dollars each to participate in an exclusive seminar with a renowned teacher. Filled with witty wordplay…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01PMSaturday, September 22, 2012
“YOUNG. SEXY. NEW. AND FULL OF LIFE.” Gob Squad’s Kitchen, playing at REDCAT through Sunday, is an exquisite, provocative piece of experimental, experiential theatre. The perfo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:53AMTuesday, September 11, 2012
“WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T ASK WHAT THIS SHOW WAS ABOUT” Natalie Portman, The Musical! is a two-hour, no-intermission sketch-comedy musical written and directed by Brittany Garms, with mu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PM 
