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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:51AM[SHARE]YOU'LL BE HOOKED The title says it all. Based on the play Peter Pan by JM Barrie, Peter Pan Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields is about a stage production of the chi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:06PM[SHARE]THERE'S PLENTY OF GREAT PRANCIN' BUT IT'S A HEAD-SCRATCHIN' DANCIN' There's whole lotta dancing in the updated, Broadway revival of Bob Fosse's DANCIN', currently running at The Music Box. E…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]PROCTOR BY PROXY In playwright Talene Monahon's new play The Good John Proctor, John Proctor doesn't actually appear. He is integral to the plot and is certainly referenced but there is no p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]PERFORMERS AND PRODUCTION IMPROVE THE OPAQUE PLOT OF PERICLES Pericles by William Shakespeare is a play that is probably ripe for an HBO adaptation. It deals with incest, death, redemption, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:24PM[SHARE]ON AND OFF THE RIGHT TRACK Ever been on public transportation and wondered about the people seated around you? Not just whether or not they are nut-jobs or pose any physical threat but who t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:30PM[SHARE]IT'S A JUNGLE IN HERE When Dorothy emerged from her ill-fated farmhouse just after landing in Oz, she held tightly to her tiny dog and spoke the immortal words, "Toto, I don't think we're in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:43AM[SHARE]THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES BEGINS WITH THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES In black odyssey written by Marcus Gardley and currently running at Classic Stage Company, Mr. Gardley steps again…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]THE ART OF MAKING ART The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten is much more than, well, a collaboration. This riveting performance produced by Manhattan Theatre Club and currently playing at th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:40PM[SHARE]A PIANO PLAYED WELL NEEDS FINE TUNING There's much to learn in August Wilson's brilliant play The Piano Lesson. There's no little old lady running scales but there doesn't need to be. Becaus…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:21AM[SHARE]GIMME MO, MO, MO What would happen if every African American in the United States left the country en masse? And not only would we leave physically but as we left, all of our contributions, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:36AM[SHARE]DOES TIME HEAL ALL WOUNDS? It is not news to write that violence permeates all corners of modern society. Psychological, emotional, sexual and physical violence are rampant. And while violen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:36PM[SHARE]GETT IN THE MIDDLE A Gett, as described in the program for The Gett, a new play written by Liba Vaynberg and currently running at Rattlestick Theater is described in part as, "A dated and wi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:28PM[SHARE]MADELINE SAYET LIFTS US UP WHERE SHE BELONGS Near the start of her solo show Where We Belong, currently playing at The Public Theater, playwright-performer-academic Madeline Sayet evocativel…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:16AM[SHARE]CAUGHT BY THE TALE The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare is kind of a weird play. It's a comedy because a pair of young lovers are united in the end but many awful things happen before th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:44PM[SHARE]EVERYTHING'S OK Douglas McGrath presents as a nice, well-put together, middle-aged man. Onstage, McGrath wears a nice button-down collar shirt, stylish blazer with a matching kerchief in the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]THE COST OF MISSING THIS RAVISHING SHOW Every week in the opening sequence of the eighties television series Fame, dance instructor Lydia Grant would state without irony, "…fame costs and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:16AM[SHARE]CROSS-EXAMINING THE AFFIRMATIVE & NEGATIVE IN THIS DEBATE In 1965, at the Cambridge Union, Cambridge University, England, eminent social critic and author James Baldwin publicly debated …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:29PM[SHARE]OH, OUR MAN, I LOVE IT SO Does absolute power corrupt absolutely? Does America export democracy or expand empire? Can an idealistic young man maintain his ideals in the harsh reality of work…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]A NEAR DISASTER HANDLED BY A MASTER Jones and Schmidt, the creative team behind one of Broadway's longest running hits, The Fantasticks, also wrote another, lesser-know musical called Philem…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:09PM[SHARE]AS EVERYBODY WILL LIKE IT To the mind of an ordinary Elizabethan, a forest in France might conjur thoughts of fairies, whimsy, beauty and adventure. While there is a Forest of Arden in Engla…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:14AM[SHARE]EARTHA HAS MOMENTS, BUT COULD USE A REPAIR KITT From almost any angle, singer/actress Eartha Kitt was a fascinating person. Born in 1927 into poverty and abuse in the American Deep South, sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:15PM[SHARE]A BLOODY BUSINESS WHICH INFORMS "When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning or in rain? When the hurley-burley's done, when the battle's lost and won…" These opening lines from S…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:11PM[SHARE]Scott Siegal's latest installment in his ongoing homage to commercial Broadway, appropriately titled Broadway By The Year, is an entertaining and enjoyable production that starts down memory…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:47AM[SHARE]EXCEPTIONAL EXCEPTION High school is a time of many rules, sometimes excessively so. How to dress, who to hang with, what's in, what's out, where to go, what to listen to " do you identify w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:46AM[SHARE]QUE SERÃ, SERà Those of us of a certain age may remember the now classic opening credits of the popular, seventies, television sitcom The Odd Couple. Right before the catchy the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:54AM[SHARE]WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS FAT HAM The Father/Son relationship can often be difficult. It can be hard even when the father and son like, let alone love, each other. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]DOES GOD MAKE A CASE? I liked Samuel D. Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God. I didn't love it, just liked it. Admittedly, I'm in the minority opinion on this one, as many people unabash…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:28PM[SHARE]LIKE A ROLLING STONE I imagine that some time back, the Theater Gods were sitting around talking. They had the idea to collaborate on a stupendous theatrical event. They thought to combine t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:41AM[SHARE]AS ¡AMERICANO! AS APPLE PIE The Merriam-Webster dictionary (remember dictionaries?) lists two definitions for the word dreamer. The first is simply "one that dreams." The second definitio…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:21PM[SHARE]FINALLY IN THE LOOP A Strange Loop, the new Broadway musical that currently towers above the rest, is a Brilliant show. With book, music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, this Brilliant show…
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