Saturday, August 16, 2025
SHAKESPEARE, INTERRUPTED About five minutes into & Juliet, Juliet belts "…Baby One More Time" with such raw confusion you half-believe Britney's lyrics might hold the secrets of the un…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
COMING HOME When Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway in 1964, it collected nine Tony Awards and captured the universality about families weathering change. But backstage, Zero Mostel a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:27AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
CRYSTAL PALACE: AWAKENING PERFECTS THE IMPERSONAL It opens with darkness. Then light fractures across a sixty-foot glass stage that shouldn't exist but does, spinning and splitting into impo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2025
VISIONARY OF STILLNESS AND LIGHT The line was always the thing. Before speech, before movement, there was line. Line as structure, line as breath, line as the actual measurement of time. In …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:59PM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
A VOICE THAT SPANNED CONTINENTS AND CENTURIES The trouble with singers who insist on being versatile is that they make everyone else look lazy. Dame Cleo Laine, who died on July 24th at her …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
THEATRE TURNED ALL THE WAY UP There are moments in the theatre when everything converges: writing, performance, design, direction, and something indefinable that transforms craft into revela…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:05PM[SHARE]A CHRONICLER OF PRIVILEGED ANXIETY In the peculiar ecosystem of American theatre"where earnestness often trumps elegance and message supersedes craft"Richard Greenberg, who passed on July 4,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2025
BOURNE AGAIN: A MUSICAL RECLAMATION IN GLORIOUS MINOR KEY After a long absence from the West End, Oliver! has returned with the force of a Victorian street gang bursting through fog-shrouded…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:01AM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2025
WHAT THE FOREST KNOWS: TOTORO AND THE RADICAL ACT OF WONDER There's something profoundly radical about a piece of theatre that trusts its audience to believe in wonder. The Royal Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:30PM[SHARE]They Just Keep Moving The Line: Smash Cast Recording Crosses Into Broadway Gold The alchemy has finally occurred. After thirteen years, Smash has completed its metamorphosis from cult televi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:03PM[SHARE]A GIANT PEACH OF AN ANTISEMITE There's something eerily familiar about the way John Lithgow adjusts his cardigan in Mark Rosenblatt's haunting new play Giant, now playing in the West End's H…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2025
THE GYM TOOK OVER ARGENTINA AND NOBODY LOOKED BACK Jamie Lloyd's Evita comes at you like a SoulCycle class that got a state grant for performance art. It's sweaty, shiny, and occasionally sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:57PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2025
In Praise of a Misjudged Misfit: Mark Brokaw and the Undeserved Fate of Cry-Baby In the wake of director Mark Brokaw's untimely passing at 65 yesterday, I find myself returning not to one of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:36PM[SHARE]THE ODYSSEY, IN ASHES AND UPHOLSTERY The chair will not move. That is how we begin. In Anna Ziegler's The Janeiad, now in a quietly astonishing production at the Old Globe, which produced Zi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
STANDING OVATIONS, INNER DEMONS By the time Jeffrey Seller is having sex in a gym sauna"one of the more unfiltered anecdotes in Theater Kid"it's clear this isn't your typical Broadway memoir…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:44PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2025
BROADWAY STARS UNDER THE STARS If you've ever wanted to hear Michael Feinstein conduct an orchestra while a pulchritude of peacocks prance in the background, you're in for one of LA's most d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2025
Synthwave Romance: The Wedding Singer Grooves on Camp, Chemistry, and Crimped Hair If you still belt out "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" in your car or secretly miss the days when big hair …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:02PM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2025
St. Clair's Swan Song: Pacific Symphony's Volcanic Verdi's Requiem Last night, the walls of the Segerstrom Concert Hall didn't merely vibrate. They braced. Verdi's Requiem opened not with re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2025
STERILE STAGING, FEROCIOUS VOICES: LA OPERA'S RIGOLETTO BLEEDS DESPITE ITSELF Let's be clear from the jump: this isn't your Nonna's Rigoletto. No 16th-century Italian costumes, no jester's h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 31, 2025
ECHO: A CUBE WITH BIG DREAMS IN A SHOW STILL FINDING ITS SHAPE It opens with a cube. Glowing, two stories tall, and unmistakably the star of the show, this bold architectural gesture doesn't…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2025
Fractured Reflection: The Chinese Lady and the Cost of Being Seen She doesn't enter. She appears"still as a painting, but alive, watching. In Lloyd Suh's The Chinese Lady, now haunting the C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:33PM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2025
Wilde at Heart: The Quiet Theatrics of A Man of No Importance Some musicals don't announce themselves. They drift in quietly, settle beside you, and before you know it, you're sitting there,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
MEMORY LOOPS AND ECHOES IN GARDNER'S THE STAIRCASE Rain doesn't fall in The Staircase. It lingers, heavy and waiting. Like a secret no one asked to hear. Like a mother halfway between a lull…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 3, 2025
THE TRUTH IS RARELY PURE, AND NEVER SAFE, IN TASTY LITTLE RABBIT There is a tender brutality in the way Robert Mammana shatters a glass plate negative under his heel in Moving Arts' ac…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:26PM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2025
REASONABLE DOUBT? NOT ABOUT LEGALLY BLONDE'S PINK POWER Let's get one thing straight. Legally Blonde: The Musical is not highbrow theater. It is not Sweeney Todd with meat pies and too-close…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2025
When There's A Second Knock On The Door: Love and Lockup in Furlough's Paradise In Furlough's Paradise, a. k. payne has crafted something that moves like a whisper but hits like a reckoning.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2025
END-OF-WORLD TRAGICOMEDY CRACKS, BLEEDS AND THRIVES The end arrives not with a sob, but with a drag queen in a glittering black pantsuit, standing in a celestial spotlight, grinning like the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:32AM[SHARE]IN CORKTOWN '39, THE LIVING ARE JUST GHOSTS WITH BETTER TIMING Mark Mendelson's tightly composed set at The Matrix Theatre is a room cloaked in aging wealth at the Keating family's Philadelp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 12, 2025
A RIOTOUS CARRIAGE RIDE THROUGH TIME Somewhere between empire waistlines and leather harnesses, Regency Girls carves out a raucous, messy, and strangely moving place for itself onstage at Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2025
EXIR, PURSUED BY MOVEMENT THAT CUTS DEEP Jealousy doesn't sneak in. It bursts. You can see it take hold of Leontes the second doubt flickers behind his eyes. His body folds in. Hands clutch …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2025
THE FAIRY TALES BREAK" AND THAT'S THE POINT The stories are still here. Cinderella. Jack. Little Red. Rapunzel. A Baker and his Wife, tangled in a curse and each other. Into the Woods has al…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:39AM[SHARE] 
