Thursday, May 20, 2021
WHAT A WONDER [Editor’s Note: Just after we published Marc Wheeler’s glowing review of A Noise Within’s production of Alice in Wonderland, the theater had to go dark due to COVID. Fort…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:53PMWednesday, May 20, 2020
CALIFORNIA STREAMIN’ Even after postponing the remaining productions of their 2019/2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Geffen Playhouse is forging ahead. While the UCLA-owned the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:47PMSunday, March 8, 2020
WHAT A WONDER Childhood whimsy is seen through the looking-glass of adult sophistication at A Noise Within. Based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:39PMMonday, March 2, 2020
OUR INKBLOT INTERPRETATIONS: SPLAT, SPLAT, SPLAT, SPLAT, SPLENDID Theater isn’t just what it brings to us, it’s also what we bring to it. At least, that’s the general idea behind Open …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:08PMMonday, February 24, 2020
LOST … AND FOUND Found: A New Musical is determined to find its way. After a run off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Company in 2014, this reworked West Coast premiere — now playing a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:58AMSaturday, February 22, 2020
MONSTER MASH In an effort to strip away the centuries, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has gone under the knife. Revitalizing the 200-year-old classic is the Beverly Hills-based performing art…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:38PMSunday, February 16, 2020
LIFE IMITATETH ART In Christopher Guest’s brilliant 1996 mockumentary Waiting For Guffman, the smalltown residents of Blaine, MO, come together to put on a show. But what if instead the re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:53PMSaturday, February 15, 2020
PAPA, CAN YOU HEAR ME? Every once in awhile a play comes along that reminds what – and how exciting – theater can be. In The Father (Le Père), French playwright Florian Zeller doesn’t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:09PMFriday, February 14, 2020
TAKE A CHANCE WITH FUN When a newly “out” lesbian learns her closeted father has taken his life mere months after revealing to him her sexuality, she has a lot to process. Being an artis…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AMTuesday, February 11, 2020
PASS THIS ROACH After a convoluted build-up, there’s a late scene in I Decided I’m Fine: A Roach Play that actually works. In it, Ellen (Veronica Tjioie), a trauma-stricken hoarder, expo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:40PMMonday, February 3, 2020
HYMN-DINGER Sweet lovin’ Jesus, Del Shores is back, and he’s brought a band of gospel singers with him. In This Side of Crazy, writer/director/producer Shores introduces us to a Southern…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:19PMWednesday, January 29, 2020
IF THE GLOVE FITS… On the heels of Leaving Neverland — the jaw-dropping 2019 documentary that explores the sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson — comes the world premiere o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:54PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
BYOC: BRING YOUR OWN CANTEEN In an effort to spark dialogue on Trump-era immigration, The Road Theatre Company has mounted a revised version of Carlos Lacámara’s Nowhere on the Border, a …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:07AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
SWOON LAKE Sir Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake has flown into town and it’s a rapturous reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet. While productions based on the popular Petipa-Ivanov 189…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:53AMSunday, December 8, 2019
CAN FROZEN MELT YOUR HEART? Direct from Broadway, Disney’s Frozen officially kicks off its national tour at the Hollywood Pantages after a tryout in Schenectady, NY, and it’s the hygge s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:40PMSunday, December 1, 2019
PUNK’D In many ways, Gregory S. Moss’s 1980s-themed punkplay feels like a dream. Props and seasons are generically labeled. Flights of fancy are realized like make-believe. Even the era …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:46PMSunday, November 10, 2019
OY VEY A barrage of human suffering — anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Muslim hostility, misogyny, LGBT closets, slavery, Japanese-American internment camps, miscarriages, PTSD, death, and a li…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00PMFriday, November 8, 2019
MIRACLE ON NORTH GOWER STREET If you’re in need of a miracle, look no further than the Los Angeles premiere of Lance Arthur Smith‘s new adaptation of Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Music…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:48AMSunday, October 27, 2019
TOSSING OUT THE BABY BUT KEEPING THE BATHWATER Reluctance takes center stage in Center Theater Group’s production of Mike Birbiglia’s theatrical child The New One. In his 2018 one-man sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:14AMSaturday, October 19, 2019
PIAZZA EXPLODES LIKE TUSCAN SUNLIGHT From London’s Royal Festival Hall to L.A.’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion comes a rapturous new production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Light in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:25AMFriday, September 27, 2019
A GREEN NEW DEAL As Little Shop of Horrors teaches us: sometimes you just need fresh blood. In that vein, the Pasadena Playhouse more than delivers. Their audacious revival of the quirky cul…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:05PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
SHOOTING STAR AIMS, SHOOTS … AND BORES Shooting Star, billed as “A Revealing New Musical” — and getting its World Premiere at the Hudson Theatres in Los Angeles under the direction o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:28PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
THE PLAY THAT GOT AWAY I don’t know the exact play Michael McKeever was writing prior to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in favor of federal marriage equality, but I suspect it worked much m…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:35PMSaturday, March 30, 2019
THE CANDY MAN CAN’T The stage musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Roald Dahl’s beloved children-of-all-ages’ story — has spun into town just, it seems, to mak…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:03PM 
