Friday, November 14, 2025
GLAMOUR BEFORE THE FALL A pansexual Richard II struts through power, pleasure, and ruin in the 1980s In its current staging at the Astor Place Theatre, Red Bull Theater serves up a Richard I…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:12PM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2025
THIS BAT COMES OUT SWINGING Back in the nineties when tabloids ruled the world, there was one especially erroneous publication: Weekly World News. Presenting stories so outrageously false ye…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2025
JOHN LEGUIZAMO'S THE OTHER AMERICANS IS RIFE WITH POTENTIAL THAT'S NOT ALWAYS REALIZED " MUCH LIKE THE AMERICAN DREAM ITSELF There are many kinds of Americans. Some were born here. Some emig…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2025
SMART SELLS IT Jean Smart is a phenomenal stage actress of great depth and specificity. Not exactly news but since she's possibly best known as the warm-hearted and slightly naïve "Charle…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
COLORISM, CRUISE SHIPS, AND COSMIC RECKONING Black myth meets modern identity in Aishah Rahman's last work. The glossary page of Britain's National Gallery website describes the concept chia…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2025
GRACE, GRIOTS AND GOODIE BAGS The Baobab tree is an imposing, if unconventional, tree that grows in Africa along the Zambesi River. Also known as The Tree of Life, it seems to rise from the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2025
SINCE THE FRIDGE IS EMPTY, HOW ABOUT A GIANT BOWL OF GRIT? There's no place like home. Mom calls the cops, convinced Dad is going to kill her"he's drunker than usual and literally breaks dow…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2025
YOU MAY NEVER LOOK AT YOUR LAPTOP THE SAME WAY AGAIN Is Artificial Intelligence, more commonly known as AI, our friend? Does this ubiquitous development make our lives easier, cleaner, more …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2025
Learning another language is like becoming another person. " Haruki Murakami In 2008 Iran, four very different people struggle to learn a new language"a language that promises new opportunit…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2024
EVERYTHING KREYÓL IS NEW AGAIN Seemingly caught between differing identities and life paths, Simone is at a crossroads. Half African American and half Haitian, this early thirties, nativ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2024
GET TO THIS MUSICAL ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE TO DRAG YOURSELF It's campy. It's trashy. It's WAAAAY over-the-top. It's ridiculous. It's stunning. It's funny. It's moving. It's touching. It's co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2024
WHOSE TOWN IS IT ANYWAY? Long before there was a Sheriff Taylor and a Mayberry (google it) there was a Stage Manager and a Grover's Corners. Thornton Wilder's classic paean to small-town lif…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:42PM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2024
THERE'S GOLD IN THESE HILLS It's always difficult for the children when a mother passes away, even if those children are adults. And if that mother is a strong-willed widow who struggled and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2024
THE BONES ARE INDEED GOOD, IF NOT A BIT SKELETAL The website houseful states, "good bones" refers to the core foundational elements of the home, "…a steady structure that can withstand tim…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2024
NOT APPLICABLE Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) are two of the brightest political stars ever to walk the halls of the Capito…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2024
IT DOESN'T JUST FLOAT, IT SOARS New York City Center's Encores! describes itself, Â "This series of concert stagings revisits the archives of American musical theater. Centered around The …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2024
A SLINGSHOT IN THE DARK Poor King David. What a life. If the blonde-haired King of Israel isn't being duped by the local townspeople to fight Goliath, he's embarrassing himself at a cocktail…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2024
COME HOME In the lovely Broadway revival of writer Samm-Art Williams' Tony-nominated play Home, an African-American man named Cephus Miles contemplates life or, more to the point, his life. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:52PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 1, 2024
LA COMEDIA DE THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Full disclosure, I don't speak Spanish. Oh, I've picked up a few phrases over the years and still remember a bit of what Mr. Sanchez taught us in high scho…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2024
SOMETHING WONDERFUL IS COOKING IN HELL'S KITCHEN What else can be said about Alicia Keys'Â new Broadway musical Hell's Kitchen, that its recent thirteen Tony Award nominations, including o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:26AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2024
HOW GOOD YOU GOT IT There's an old saying that goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But is "fixing" always a bad thing? What if that fix is not about correcting what's wrong but more abo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2024
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. ― Voltaire The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines parable as,  "…a usually short, fictitious story that…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2024
PERICLES AT CLASSIC STAGE: A CLASSIC STAGING OF PERICLES Pericles by William Shakespeare is not a drama. Or comedy. It's a Romance. A lovely romance that touches upon incest, forced prostitu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2024
AN EDENIC PRODUCTION AT LINCOLN CENTER Full disclosure, I'd never heard of Stephen Schwartz's 1991 musical Children of Eden before seeing this one-night only, concert performance at Lincoln …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 18, 2024
A STICKY SCRIPT Bees, those often annoying little creatures who have a knack for showing up at just the right time to ruin any number of outdoor activities, serve an important function. Name…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2023
A VICTORY LAUGH Purlie Victorious, written by the late Ossie Davis, is a brilliant, funny, moving play that premiered on Broadway in 1961, with Mr. Davis in the title role. The initial produ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2023
WHILE IT'S BACK TO THE MOVIE MUSICAL, FUTURE IS A PRESENT Ever go on the original Star Tours ride at Disneyland? You're seated in some kind of space ship/tour bus that is piloted by a loveab…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2023
TO BE FOR FREE IS A BEAUTY There may be something rotten in the state of Denmark, but there's something enthralling on the stage at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. In The Public Theat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:56AM[SHARE]Friday, June 23, 2023
LIFE IN THE FAST LANE In the vernacular of showbiz, the appellation "triple threat" refers to a performer who equally excels at acting, singing and dancing. That Broadway veteran James T. La…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2023
NEW YORK, NEW YORK SOARS ABOVE ITS OWN MATERIAL So apparently it's still up to you New York " with a healthy assist from Susan Stroman and Lin-Manuel Miranda " to bring Martin Scorsese's und…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2023
WHITE GIRL IN DANGER IS IN DANGER Broadway wunderkind Michael R. Jackson is back on the boards at Second Stage's Vineyard Theatre, writing the book, music and lyrics for his…
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