Sunday, December 25, 2022
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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:21AMSaturday, December 24, 2022
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: stageandcinema.com at 02:36AMMonday, November 28, 2022
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: stageandcinema.com at 12:36PMSaturday, November 26, 2022
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 …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:28PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
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: stageandcinema.com at 04:16AMSunday, October 23, 2022
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 befor…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:44PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
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 t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
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 an…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:16AMFriday, October 7, 2022
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: stageandcinema.com at 07:29PMMonday, September 19, 2022
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: stageandcinema.com at 02:45AMThursday, September 8, 2022
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 Phil…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:09PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
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: stageandcinema.com at 02:14AMSunday, August 21, 2022
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: stageandcinema.com at 01:15PMFriday, July 29, 2022
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 line…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:11PMThursday, June 23, 2022
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 memo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:47AMFriday, June 3, 2022
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 iden…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:46AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
QUE SERÁ, SERÁ 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 theme music…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:54AMSaturday, May 28, 2022
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, t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTuesday, May 24, 2022
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 u…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:28PMSunday, May 15, 2022
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: stageandcinema.com at 02:41AMThursday, May 5, 2022
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 definit…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:21PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:42PMMonday, May 2, 2022
WALTZING AROUND AUNT SUSAN Aunt Susan & Her Tennessee Waltz by Toby Armour is one play in two acts that feels more like two, one-act plays on the same bill. The acts have little in commo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:24PMSunday, May 1, 2022
FUNNY, HOW IT KINDA WORKS On the Internet exists a theater-centered, YouTube channel called “Staged Right”. And there’s an episode on Staged Right called Fanny & Barbra and the Leg…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:15AMFriday, April 22, 2022
NOT ENOUGH LAYERS IN THIS BIRTHDAY CAKE In playwright Noah Haidle’s new play Birthday Candles, currently running at the American Airlines Theatre, television star Debra Messing ages before…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:30AMThursday, April 21, 2022
NOT SO LITTLE ANYMORE Once upon a time there was an aviator. One day, the aviator’s plane crash landed in the Sahara Desert. The aviator survived but his plane was damaged. After landing, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AM 
