Monday, 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 10:27PMMonday, November 25, 2024
DEATH BECOMES HER BECOMES BROADWAY I had opposite opinions this week between the opening of the film version of Wicked and the new Broadway musical comedy Death Becomes Her. Wicked outsoared…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:41PMMonday, November 11, 2024
HELLO, SATCHMO! THANK GOODNESS LOUIS IS BACK IN TOWN; WE NEED HIM MORE THAN EVER There’s a new jukebox musical in town. But don’t run in the other direction. A Wonderful World, which ope…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:20PMWednesday, June 19, 2024
DESIGNING THE FUTURE Tony-nominated set designer for this season’s Lempicka, Riccardo Hernández also designed Suffs. Other Broadway productions have included The Thanksgiving Play, Jagge…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:46AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
Alexi Melvin has found a new home in the New York theater scene, striving to champion innovative storytelling and artists within marginalized communities. In less than one year’s time, she…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, June 17, 2024
THE NOT-SO-GOOD, THE BAD AND THE REALLY REALLY UGLY What better way to get a fresh perspective of our American West than by attending a 300-year history reenactment in 100 minutes? Written a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:58PMWednesday, June 12, 2024
HOLY QUEER HORROR! IT’S JOEY MERLO Joey Merlo may be best known (so far) for his On Set with Theda Bara, a “haunting and refreshingly funny fever dream” (Vulture), a one-man play starr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:00AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
THE McKITTRICK HOTEL, HOME OF SLEEP NO MORE, EXTENDS LATE NIGHT SULTRY SPECTACLE HYPNOTIQUE ALL-NEW NOCTURNAL EXPERIENCE EXTENDED Performances have been extended again on Friday and Saturd…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:29PMThursday, June 6, 2024
AVANT-GARDNER NewYorkRep is currently presenting the world premiere of The Opposite of Love by Ashley Griffin, which runs through June 15, 2024 at the Royal Family Performing Arts Space at C…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:39PMThursday, May 30, 2024
PLATT’S WHERE IT’S AT AT THE PALACE As if opening the newly refurbished Palace Theater (after a 4 year hiatus) isn’t exciting enough, why not add Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Be…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:50AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
A CHAMPION RETURNS In my first interview with Ethan Joseph a year ago, I wondered how a 12-year old boy would be able to top performing at the Met in Terence Blanchard’s Champion. On one o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, April 22, 2024
THE FLAMES OF INJUSTICE Documentary theatre, a.k.a. docudrama, uses existing nonfiction sources to create works of performance that reenact historical events. My earliest recollection of doc…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMThursday, April 11, 2024
THE OUTSIDERS IS PURE THEATRICAL GOLD Neither a rehash of S.E. Hinton’s classic 1967 novel nor of the iconic 1983 film by Frances Ford Coppola, the stunning new musical The Outsiders, whic…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:50PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
“In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.” ― William Penn Itamar Moses (The Band’s Visit) is a playwright we should all be listening to. His new pla…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, February 25, 2024
THE HUNT IS ON, BRUTAL AND UNMISSABLE The Jungle. Volcano. Life & Times of Michael K. In the last year alone, the venerable St. Ann’s Warehouse has hosted stunning theater from around …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:45PMMonday, February 19, 2024
FUNNY FIVE SENDS-UP SIX To the worldwide fanbase of the Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s Six, fear not — the new Off-Broadway parody Five pays loving homage to the girl-power musical sensatio…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:00PMWednesday, February 7, 2024
KING LEAR, KING LEAR Gregory Mullavey stars in the Frog + Peach Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s King Lear through Feb. 18, 2024. Mr. Mullavey performs the iconic tragic cha…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, January 28, 2024
A MATTRESS THAT REVIVES AND RENEWS When Encores! announced Once Upon a Mattress as part of their season’s concert series reviving American musicals, my first thought: Does this nutty chest…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMThursday, January 18, 2024
IS LOVE REALLY ALL YOU NEED? “Love” appears three times in the title of this three-act play, and there are three separate time periods and settings, all of which are directed with solid,…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:06PMSunday, January 7, 2024
A HOLE OF SLIME Joben Productions presents The Whole of Time by Romina Paula, an Argentinean playwright and multidisciplinary artist. The play was translated by Jean Graham-Jones, a scholar …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:15PMWednesday, September 27, 2023
TITAN OF LAUGHS Drew Droege has stepped into the role of Ruth, Rose’s mother, after Titaníque’s first year of performances at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre. He’s performed two s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:31PMWednesday, September 13, 2023
INFINITE PLAYWRITING Co-produced by Atlantic Theater Company and National Theatre, the one-hour and 45-minute production (no intermission) is Annie Baker’s best play to date. At least from…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:16AMThursday, September 7, 2023
A WALLER OF STRENGTH The Creeps is a one-woman show created by and starring Catherine Waller, a native of Auckland, New Zealand, At Playhouse 46 at St. Luke’s, an intimate black box arena …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:58PMAN INTRUSIVE NEW MUSICAL Presented by Howard Alter and Tom Giachetti of Gotta Believe Theater Group, Relapse: A New Musical by J. Giachetti (Book and Lyrics) and Louis Josephson (Music and A…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:29PMA COTTAGE BUILT FOR LAURA BELL BUNDY Currently running on Broadway for a limited run is the very funny bedroom farce, The Cottage by Sandy Rustin, directed by Jason Alexander, and with the s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMSunday, August 20, 2023
EL MAGO POP CUTS THROUGH THE CHEESE WITH AN ASTOUNDING BROADWAY DEBUT At 37, the celebrity illusionist Antonio Diaz, AKA “El Mago Pop,” may or may not be the youngest illusionist to appe…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:35PMFriday, August 11, 2023
JASMINE GRACEFULLY BLOOMS Making her Broadway debut in Here Lies Love, triple-threat Jasmine Forsberg plays Maria Luisa and “Imelda’s Inner Voice.” Prior to this run, she played Jane S…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:23PMThursday, August 3, 2023
VROMAN AT HOME IN NEW CABARET SHOW Lisa Vroman, celebrated as one of the greatest crossover sopranos of this generation, makes her Coachella Valley Repertory debut Thursday, August 10, 2023 …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:51PMTuesday, July 4, 2023
AN ACTOR WHO WILL CHARM THE JOEY PANTS OFF YOU Joe Pantoliano, affectionately nicknamed Joey Pants, has a recognizable face and voice from decades of TV and film — too many to mention, but…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:45PMSaturday, June 24, 2023
ON THE EVE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Melvin Richard “Dakin” Matthews has had a major theatrical presence on the west coast, the east coast, and at many regional theaters inbetween. He’s also …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:48PMTuesday, May 9, 2023
AN ANGEL IN NEW YORK, AND NEW YORK, NEW YORK Angel Sigala was born and raised near Mexico City. His parents moved the family to the U.S. when he was ten years old, and he quickly dove into l…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:11AM 
