Thursday, May 29, 2025
A FORGOTTEN CHAMPION RECLAIMED Rehearsal for Truth International Theater Festival, an annual showcase of contemporary European theater, is unfolding under the banner of Perseverance at Bohem…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:25PMSunday, May 25, 2025
A WELL-INTENTIONED LOOK AT MENTAL ILLNESS Dream Big World Theatre, Inc. opened Gail Kriegel’s Cracked Open tonight at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row, tackling the complex and often stigmatiz…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:22PMMonday, May 19, 2025
A SURREAL, SKATER-RAP FEVER DREAM I’m not going to lie—I am not the intended audience for Bowl EP. But make no mistake: this is a well-mounted, undeniably audacious performance that reso…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:40AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
GOES FROM A Y2K POP TO GEN ZZZZZZZZ There was a buzz of anticipation in the air as the house lights blacked out at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater—an audible fandom of excitement. Had …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:21AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
JOHN PROCTOR GETS CANCELLED In an honors English classroom at a county high school in northeast Georgia, seven juniors are cracking open Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Mr. Smith (Gabriel Eb…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:24AMThursday, May 8, 2025
FLESHING IT OUT OF THE PARK The Monday Night Musicals series at the intimate Magnet Theater is serving up a theatrical amusement for those who like their bluegrass pickin’ with a side of p…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:26PMMATH APPEAL The Monday Night Musicals series at the intimate Magnet Theater offers a vibrant platform for new work that blends comedic storytelling with musical innovation. Stripped down to …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:25PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
A JAZZY JUMBALAYA OF JOY The current revival of The Pirates of Penzance at the Todd Haimes Theatre isn’t just a revival — it’s a reincarnation. Yes, rechristened, reimagined, and thoro…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:29AMFROM SWEATSHOP FLOORS TO BROADWAY DOORS: REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES SEAMS TOGETHER A RUNWAY HIT The empowering new musical Real Women Have Curves, which opened Sunday night at the James Earl Jon…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:29AMMonday, May 5, 2025
First produced by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969, Lonne Elder III’s Ceremonies in Dark Old Men became an immediate critical success and a defining work of its era. For decades, it stoo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:01PMMonday, April 28, 2025
SEEING THE UNSEEN: JULIA BELL BARRY’S HAUNTING NEW PLAY Part memoir, part The Sixth Sense, Julia Barry Bell’s new play, which opened tonight at Theatre Row, asks a haunting question: how…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:52PMSunday, April 27, 2025
DEATH BECOMES HIM In 2016, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star introduced a sound I’d never heard on Broadway—a blend of Americana and bluegrass so distinct it felt like a new…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:05PMHUMANS, BEST BE ON YOUR AVANT-GARDE The Employees, originally produced at Studio Teatrgaleria in Warsaw, is a visionary performance and installation work by Polish-born artist, writer and di…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:44AMFriday, April 25, 2025
A MEANINGFUL MUSICAL WHERE IDENTITY, ART, AND SILENCE COLLIDE IN 1996 PENNSYLVANIA The title might suggest a classical drama—perhaps something Shakespearean or starchy—but Keen Company�…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:49AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
NOTHING HAPPENS. EVERYTHING HURTS. If you’re a fan of Annie Baker—whose plays of quiet revelatory naturalism include The Flick, Circle Mirror Transformation, John, and my personal favori…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:57AMThursday, April 17, 2025
KNEEL AT THE CHURCH OF CHURCHILL A drum roll begins each act and ends with a cymbal crash. Paired with the red front curtain and chaser lights outlining the proscenium arch, one might brace …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:25AMSunday, April 13, 2025
THE NAKED TRUTH In Amour, Acide et Noix, Canadian choreographer Daniel Léveillé presents a stark and unflinching meditation on the human form—one that reduces dance to its most essential…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:53AMSaturday, March 29, 2025
WHITEOUT NYU Skirball adheres closely to James Baldwin’s dictum: “Artists are here to disturb the peace.” With the U.S. premiere of Masterclass, Skirball’s mission has been resoundin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:46PMThursday, March 27, 2025
IT’LL KNOCK THE PANTS OFF O’ YOUSE Who Is Jimmy Pants? is the second production in the York’s Spring 2025 “New2NY” series, presented at the Theater at St. Jean’s on East 76th Str…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:24PMSunday, March 23, 2025
UPSIDE DOWN A STRAIGHT UP MUSICAL SATIRE I admire AMT Theater for two key reasons: its dedication to developing new works—particularly musicals, which I’ve witnessed in the past—and it…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:26PMMonday, March 17, 2025
EMBRACIN’ JASON For many, Jason Tam first made a lasting impression with his unforgettable audition for Paul in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, as seen in the documentary Every Litt…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:11PMLOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL In what may be the slowest lights-up in New York theater, the first cue of Grangeville takes several minutes to complete—perhaps a 400 count. But lighting designer Sta…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:25PMMonday, March 10, 2025
Danny Brown’s two-hander opens with an orgasm and closes with a cathartic cleansing. Between these bold bookends lies 90 minutes of small talk—covering everything from sex and relationsh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:26AMFriday, March 7, 2025
KEVIN CSOLAK HAS HIS HOPES HIGH, NOT TO MENTION THE TIME, PLACE AND RHYTHM Kevin Csolak (pronounced SO-lack) is currently playing Tulsa in the Broadway production of Gypsy with Audra McDona…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:50AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
FOR ALL IT’S GIRTH Sumo is a Japanese sport in which two bulky Japanese wrestlers clutch and grab at each other within a circular ring. The goal is to either eject the opponent from the ri…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:24PMSunday, March 2, 2025
A SHOUTING SHAME On the Evolutionary Function of Shame—which Second Stage Theater opened on February 26 at The Pershing Square Signature Center—ambitiously tackles complex themes of iden…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21PMSunday, February 23, 2025
IT’S SAFE TO DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS AT HOUSE St. Ann’s Warehouse, in association with New York’s Irish Arts Center, presents Safe House, a one-person song cycle originally produced …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:36PMFriday, February 21, 2025
A DESIGN AS IMPRESSIVE AS A REDWOOD ITSELF The new Broadway musical Redwood, which opened on February 13, is a master class in tech theater. Set designer Jason Ardizzone-West makes this clea…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:59PMMADELINE SEIDMAN IS REMARKABLE IN GARSIDE’S CAREER Since 1995, the invaluable Mint Theatre Company has been unearthing lost, neglected plays from yesteryear. With artistic director Jonatha…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:17AMSaturday, January 18, 2025
MIND FOR GOLD Vinny DePonto, the Brooklyn-based mentalist, is undeniably a master showman—and a strikingly handsome one at that (I’ll draw a comparison to Jake Gyllenhaal). Like all magi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:46PMMonday, December 30, 2024
WAKING US UP TO WOKENESS Playwright Jonathan Spector makes an impressive Broadway debut with Eureka Day, a strikingly relevant and well-crafted production that convincingly captures the comp…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:27PM 
