Thursday, May 30, 2024
WHAT CAN I SAY EXCEPT, "I LOVE LUCIE" It has been said that the greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling and Lucie Arnaz is masterful at it. In her career of forty-five plus year…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:12PM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2024
MESHELL, MY BELL "Free like a bird," the Swahili meaning of the eclectic singer-songwriter and rapper Meshell Ndegeocello's last name (pronounced N-dee-gay-o-cello), describes the essence…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 13, 2024
A Noise Within continues their 2023-2024 season with a fine production of King Hedley II by August Wilson. This ninth play in his ten-play cycle about the Black experience in twentieth-centu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2024
Then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven Hamlet soliloquy / Shakespeare Fat Ham by James Ijames " who received a Pulitzer for his play " is an unbridled, entertaining, and funny take …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2023
A PAGEANT OF PEACE AND PERSEVERANCE Since 2002, Latino Theater Company has been presenting La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, a holiday pageant re-enacting the story of the appearance of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2023
IT'S LIKE KOSHER EGGNOG What better way to start the holiday season than to spend a Sunday evening with the man with the music, cabaret legend Michael Feinstein, who has single-handedly revi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2023
WHY ARE THE TRAVELERSÂ NOT MOVING? The calendar listings for Luis Alfaro's The Travelers, currently playing at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, say "We are all travelers, Brother. Our journ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2023
THE TRUEST EYE It's been 12 years since A Noise Within's architectural repurposing of the 1958 Stuart Pharmaceutical Neo-Formalist building in Pasadena into a theater complex. For those w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:49AM[SHARE]Friday, September 1, 2023
THE BARBER OF HOLLYWOOD Last Friday, a beautiful night at The Ford amphitheater in the Cahuenga pass, Pacific Opera Project presented a one-night-only performance of Rossini's The Barber of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2023
The world premiere of This Is Not a True Story, written by Preston Choi and directed by Reena Dutt, is a new comedy that tackles, head-on, the fetishization and anti-Asian racism of Oriental…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2023
DELIGHTFUL PRODUCTION; SLIPPER-Y NEW SCRIPT Arriving for last Saturday's matinee performance and observing the front of house community support made for a welcoming atmosphere. It was deligh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2023
TRANSPARENT COULD ONE DAY TRANSITION FROM COCOON TO BUTTERFLY A Transparent Musical is based on the Amazon Prime TV series Transparent and written by the TV show's creators " Joe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:40AM[SHARE]BECAUSE IT'S THERE What if Dr. Martin Luther King was a down-to-earth, simple, vulnerable human being like the rest of us? What if human existence could be viewed from another dimension, one…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 8, 2023
NEXT TO NORM Here's a way to spend a Monday evening: Broadway, television, and film actor Norm Lewis is taking his night off from starring in the national tour of A Soldier's Play at the Ahm…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2023
THIS WAR WITHIN A WAR IS COMMANDING AND COMPELLING The North American tour of A Soldier's Play " Roundabout's 2020 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of a Play " opened last Wednesday at L.A.'s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:27AM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2023
Big Broadway, A Little Pop, A Lot of Passion. Music Direction: John Boswell Guests: Paul Freeman and Darrell Morris Jr Los Angeles audiences were treated to Aaron Lazar in both Dear Evan Han…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:20PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2023
ASSASSINS SINGS! BUT THE COMPEXITY OF THE SHOW'S THEMES GO MISSING ALONG WITH THE GUNS Assassins, with music and lyrics by the late Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, opened Off-Br…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2019
A FLOWERING PRODUCTION The Secret Garden, the hauntingly romantic musical by Marsha Norman (book and lyrics) and Lucy Simon (music) opened on Broadway 1991 and ran 709 performances. The show…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2019
OH MY STAR! Bright Star is a heartwarming musical written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell inspired by their 2013 bluegrass album Love Has Come for You. The show had a Broadway run in the s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2019
IT'S A JUNGLE IN HERE From 2015 to 2016, The Jungle was a makeshift camp in a landfill site in Calais, France, the port city where the Channel Tunnel to the UK begins. Inhabited by refugees …
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