Friday, October 19, 2018
THE DEVIL’S AT THE DOOR “He knows not Who lives most easily on land, how I Have spent my winter on the ice-cold sea Wretched and anxious, in the paths of exile Lacking dear friends, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:32PMThursday, October 11, 2018
YOU’VE GOT SOME FEET TO MEET Call us saps or suckers but we can’t, it seems, get enough of “The Understudy Who Becomes A Star.” Not when the sweet and satisfying story is stuffed…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:19PMWednesday, October 3, 2018
A READY ROGUE MACHINE OPENS OPPENHEIMER J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant, enigmatic and complex man. Ambitious and charismatic, Oppenheimer found himself uniquely placed to spearhead th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:44PMMonday, October 1, 2018
GENDER-SWITCHED REENACTMENT OF THE KAVANAUGH/FORD TESTIMONIES ONE NIGHT ONLY, TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 If you think the Senate hearings last week were high drama, imagine seeing them live in the th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:01PMWednesday, September 5, 2018
PLAY ON Opening Night of the 2018 PLAY LA Festival of New Plays takes place Friday, September 7, at CASA 0101. Doors open at 7:00 pm at the Casa 0101 Gallery space for Hotel Mariachi, phot…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:25PMWednesday, August 29, 2018
SWEATING IT OUT Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer winner for drama — couldn’t have come at a better time. Since its arrival, the play has been hailed as a benchmark for our times…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:14PMFriday, June 29, 2018
TARANTINO IN THE STICKY SWAMPS OF SADNESS Tom Jacobson’s Tar is from his The Ballad of Bimini Baths, a triad of works playing concurrently in Los Angeles. For half a century (1902-1951), t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:57AMWednesday, June 27, 2018
AN ACT IN THE DARK For her debut at 54 Below in NYC – a nearly solo cabaret which was recorded for release on Broadway Records – the triple-threat Arielle Jacobs opened by letting us kno…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:33AMSaturday, June 23, 2018
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” Author Lois Lowry On June 28 & 29, Ford Theatres, in associat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:47PMThursday, June 7, 2018
GAME OF THRONES — FROM THE SMALL SCREEN TO THE BIG CURTAIN Since HBO’s Game of Thrones hit our screens back in 2011, the show has gone on to become one of the most popular and b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:29PMFriday, May 18, 2018
GIMME THAT DO-RE-MI, BOYS The 1960 musical Do Re Mi is about a would-be big shot named Hubie Cram, a wheeler dealer who just can’t make the big time. As his wife Kay says, they have 40…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:18PMSaturday, May 5, 2018
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT THIS SUMMER WITH TWO BIG SHOWS The West End, one of the great epicentres of the Theatrical world, is undergoing something of a renaissance these days. It has always popula…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:55PMThursday, March 15, 2018
57 CHEVY: THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT ANTIDOTE, OR HOW BROWN WAS MY VALLEY? There’s palpable excitement surrounding the upcoming West Los Angeles engagement of Cris Franco’s autobiographical come…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:11PMMonday, February 19, 2018
SHORES ‘NUFF Texas-born playwright Del Shores, best known for his romp Sordid Lives (the hilarious play and movie that also introduced us to Leslie Jordan) is coming to the Celebrati…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:32PMFriday, January 12, 2018
A BROADWAY AMUSEMENT PARK THAT FLIES LIKE A CARPET “Open sesame” indeed. It’s “Abracadabra” times ten as the arrival of Aladdin in Hollywood feels as triumphant as Prince Ali�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54PMWednesday, December 20, 2017
YOU CAN’T TOP PIGS WITH PIGS After The Three Little Pigs‘ runaway success in 1933, Walt Disney attempted a few more shorts starring the little porkers, but they weren’t as…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:09PMTuesday, September 5, 2017
ACCOMPLISHED ACCOMPLICE Rupert Holmes’s Accomplice is the wittiest and most accomplished fooler play since Ira Levin’s Deathtrap. Each time you think you know what is unfolding…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:20PMFriday, August 4, 2017
DETECTING LOVE A 15-year-old math whiz, Christopher is an only child with Asperger’s Syndrome. The anomaly is enough to push adolescence way beyond awkward. His autism manifests in manic m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:31PMSunday, July 23, 2017
STAR POWER MEETS GIRL POWER The new Broadway musical War Paint centers on historical personages and rags-to-riches rivals Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, cosmetic moguls who are not…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:34PMMonday, June 26, 2017
FALSETTOS ON THE BIG SCREEN FROM BROADWAY: EVEN UP CLOSE, THERE’S NOT A FALSE NOTE The musical masterpiece Falsettos follows Marvin, who struggles to create a tightknit family out of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:19AMThursday, June 1, 2017
FAITH IN FANTASY One of the best and certainly funniest shows of this century has returned. Beginning its latest national tour at the Hollywood Pantages last night, The Book of Mormon remai…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:57PMMonday, May 22, 2017
DOES GROUNDHOG DAY BEAR REPEATING? The Masterworks Broadway and Broadway Records CD of the musical adaptation of Groundhog Day may be a bit tough for some to hear over and over and over and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:58PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
OLD MAN, OLD MOON, OLD GLOBE Having seen PigPen Theatre Co.’s The Old Man and the Old Moon in Chicago, I can guarantee that gem of a theater experience will gently pluck at your heartstr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:16PMFriday, April 28, 2017
A SUBURBAN WEST SIDE STORY Sadly, hate conquers all in West Side Story, but the love we see and feel can hold its own. Though over a half-century old, the Bernstein/Laurents/Sondheim/Robbins…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:01PMMonday, April 10, 2017
FINAL WEEKEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD If you think the end of the world is scary, how about the end of a run of a terrific new play and you missed it? The Ovation-recommended Apocalypse Pla…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:27PMFriday, March 24, 2017
COME RIDE THE CAROUSEL The photos are in for Musical Theatre West’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical masterpiece Carousel, which opens tonight and plays through April 9, 2…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:31PMFriday, March 3, 2017
COME ON, BABY I wanted so badly to say “Glory, Hallelujah!” after seeing Musical Theatre Guild’s staged concert version of the 1968 Tony-winning musical. While it’s e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:38AMSaturday, February 25, 2017
A PERFECT TENN The Pasadena Playhouse is currently presenting God Looked Away, an ode to Tennessee Williams at the end of his career. As an adjunct to this world premiere development produc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:09PMSunday, February 5, 2017
GET READY FOR “TOMORROW” The sun will come out on February 13, 2017, when Andrea McArdle lands at the Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood with her newest cabaret show ’70&#…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:35AMWednesday, February 1, 2017
LANG LANDS IN LA LA LAND Jessica Lang has no doubt made a name for herself in the dance world as an independent choreographer, but dance patrons in Los Angeles may find this in-demand dance…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:16PMFriday, January 27, 2017
WHEN IS FAKING IT OK? If someone should recommend Sierra Madre Playhouse’s production of Bee-Luther-Hatchee to you, they’re not off the mark. My advise would be that you walk, do…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:15PM 
