Thursday, 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 10:27PMMonday, 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 07:00PM 
