Saturday, July 19, 2025
A TAIL OF LOVE ON A LEASH Playwright Benjamin Schwartz and director Natalie Nicole Dressel, in league with actors Callie Ott and Spencer Weitzel, have served up in Dog of Carnage one of the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:01PMNOBODY LOVES A FAT GIRL (UNTIL SHE HAS A MIC) Laural Meade has treated the concept of the solo-bio show like an origami master, folding it over and out until it becomes something other than …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00PMFriday, July 18, 2025
DÉJÀ LOUCHE Just to Be Close to You opens with an immaculately coiffed and mustachioed Cam Poter stepping before the packed audience at the Broadwater Studio as his alter ego, the re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:03AMSOUNDCHECK FOR SURVIVAL "Aha…sure…uh-huh…yes…ummm…you say…." And so begins NO, dancer/actuation artist Annalisa Limardi's intriguing, minimalistic dissertation on the social pres…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:23AMPAGING DR. DRAMA, STAT! VITALS NOT STABLE Nursing Is My Life was a heart-breaker for me. Charley Karlotta has spent decades as a registered nurse, raising her family, and dreaming of one day…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:20AMNICAEA TRY Oh, Constantine! at the Zephyr Theatre is an odd nut to crack. Or I should say review. One of the best-produced shows at the Fringe, this is the brainchild of playwright / directo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:20AMTuesday, July 15, 2025
A DUPLEX THAT'S GOING TO THE DOGS Those who flocked to the "Sunshine State" during the population boom of the 1920s and '30s, were mostly "easterners" who had only known tenement living, cut…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMWednesday, July 9, 2025
A NEW MUSICAL HAS ARRIVED TO PUMP UP PATRONS FOR DECADES TO COME Allen Moyle's 1990 film Pump Up the Volume starred Christian Slater as Mark, a graceless, socially awkward high school studen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMSaturday, July 5, 2025
PIPPIN GOES HOLLYWOOD Pippin, with music and lyrics supplied by Stephen Schwartz, and book penned by Roger O. Hirson (who was best known for writing the script to the war flick The B…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36PMFriday, July 4, 2025
A MONODRAMA OF SHADOWS AND SHATTERED SANITY As part of an international procession"a dread march of artistry across borders"Mr. Stephen Smith did, for a grievously brief engagement, alight a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AMSunday, June 22, 2025
FIRE AND BRIMSTONE FATIGUE One must admire Antony Zioni for his aspirations with Tales of the Ancient East, which, regrettably, makes the failure of this production all the more lamentable. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:19PMA GAME OF HEARTS PLAYED FACE DOWN There is no question that Ann Noble is one of the most talented actresses gracing the stages of Los Angeles. There are moments in her bitter-sweet, two-pers…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:01AMALL IN ONE AND ONE IN ALL With Except Myself at the Broadwater Black Box, playwright Drew Petriello has achieved a clever, slick, and absolutely entertaining deconstruction of the solo sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AMSaturday, June 21, 2025
THE GOOD ANDREW BYRON CREATES A LONG AND WINDING RUSSIAN Andrew Byron frames his one man show The Good Russian within the historical context of 2018, when Sergei Skripal, a Russian expatr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:52PMWednesday, June 18, 2025
NOT ENOUGH HEAT The Second Coming of Joan of Arc is the best-known work of American playwright, author, and lesbian feminist Carolyn Gage. Loosely based, scholars will tell you, "very loosel…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AMMonday, June 16, 2025
SEA WORTHY Wilds of Sea is an undersea adventure that will leave little ones wide-eyed and utterly captivated. But make no mistake"this all-ages puppet spectacle is as enchanting for the gro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AMSaturday, June 14, 2025
 I always look forward to the shows of Shelley Cooper at the Hollywood Fringe. They are musical biographies of women who made history not only with their presence but with their voices a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:26PMFriday, June 13, 2025
SQUEEZABLE THEATER Those dark days all seem so long ago. The face masks, drive-thru testing, fear of crowded indoor spaces, and some idiot assuring us, "It's going to disappear. One day " it…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:07PMUnlike his previous shows at The Hollywood Fringe " Spank the Monkey and Shagadelic: The Origins of Slang Words for Doing It " Michael Blaha has shed his stage persona of Professor Richar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:43PMWednesday, June 11, 2025
FEMINIST CLOWNS COLLIDE WITH CAPITOLISM Clownish perfection poses a unique problem for reviewers in that the blend of Da-Da slapstick and rib-tickling existentialism tends to defy easy descr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AMMonday, June 9, 2025
TITANIC SINKS AGAIN Mallie McCown's madcap reimagining of Titanic, James Cameron's $220 million epic, is ambitious beyond words, which is the source for most of the problems that plague this…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:28PMMonday, June 2, 2025
THEATRE ISN'T DEAD: HOLLYWOOD FRINGE 2025, JUNE 5-29 For those under the impression that creativity begins and ends in LA on the multi-screens of the AMC and IMAX theatres in every mall scat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:28AMFriday, May 30, 2025
Redux, adjective From the Latin, returning, from reducere to lead back To be brought back or returned, especially in a new way. When it comes to the re-imagining of Shakespeare's works…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AMWednesday, May 21, 2025
EXIT, PURSUED BY A PRODUCTION In taking on a production of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Play On Shakespeare at Skylight Theatre is to be commended. The last of the Bard's plays-"…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:15PMFriday, May 16, 2025
HARE FORCE ONE With White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour currently at the Fountain Theatre, what you encounter is an interesting and provocative theatrical game,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
THIS BIRD AIN'T SO STUPID There is a strange little niche tucked away in the theatre world which, for lack of a better term, could be called "Travesty Theatrics." It's when a classic drama i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:54AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
A STRIKINGLY RESPECTFUL TAKE WORTHY FOR A MUSEUM The Antaeus Theatre Company first began offering audiences superbly mounted productions over a quarter of a century ago, and for their contin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:55PMMonday, April 21, 2025
ONE MAN. 60 MINUTES OF DISASTER. EVERYTHING FAILS MAGNIFICENTLY! Ron Campbell is a clown all right. This is apparent from his first pratfall, which occurs about eleven seconds into his show,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:49AMSunday, April 13, 2025
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' SELDOM SEEN PLAY SHOWS WHY IT'S SO SELDOM SEEN It can be a curse to start one's literary or dramatic career with a masterpiece. Doing so serves to intensify the expectati…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:55PMSaturday, April 5, 2025
HIGH NOTES AND HARD KNOCKS: SHOWSTOPPER CHARTS THE SONGBOOK OF SURVIVAL Singer songwriter Gary Stockdale has a loyal but eclectic fan base. His long-term devotees date back to legendary TV p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:36AM 
