Tuesday, March 9, 2021
HARLEM IN CORONADO Coronado Playhouse (CPH), a San Diego Tradition for 75 years, presents Djanet Sears’ Harlem Duet, streaming on-demand from March 19-April 18, 2021. In what could be a pr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:08AMWednesday, July 29, 2020
CATCH THE VIRTUAL WORLD PREMIERE OF MARGIN OF ERROR As with many companies, San Diego’s The Roustabouts have had to restructure due to COVID-19. Now, they are presenting productions and re…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:49PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
SHE LOVES ME…AND WITH GOOD REASON! Ah, love. As hard to find as ever, but so satisfying when it is. But what did the ancients (20th-century people) do to find love before Tinder, eHarmony,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:38PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
WHERE WILL THIS RED BIKE TAKE YOU? Red Bike immediately presents a huge challenge to a director. Caridad Svich’s script contains no stage directions (and little punctuation, even) and read…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AMMonday, January 20, 2020
SIMPLE PLEASURES IN THIS FEAST The Shakers have a song in their hymnal that reads: ’Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free ’Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:52PMFriday, December 13, 2019
A HOLIDAY CLASSIC PUT TO SONG: ONE THAT WON’T SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT While it may seem a bit premature to call the 1983 movie A Christmas Story a “classic,” the near- universal popularity …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:10AMFriday, December 6, 2019
ELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR PAYS OFF It’s hard to go wrong with this script, as writer a David Sedaris’s biting wit, which has made him an NPR favorite for years, delights the cynic in us all.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:34PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
TWO WAY STREET INTERSECTS AT TOUCHING PERSONAL DRAMA The Last Five Years shares the joys, trials, and failures of two people, Jamie (Michael Louis Cusimano) and Cathy (Racquel Williams), in …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AMTuesday, September 17, 2019
SHOULD EVERYONE KISS MY AZTEC? IT DEPENDS… For fans of John Leguizamo, the notion of a full-length musical written by him is a thrilling draw. Whether a fan from his numerous edgy one-man …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:54PMMonday, August 19, 2019
TRIBUTE TO THE HITS FROM GOLD STAR Gold Star Recording Studio might not be a household name, but the musicians they recorded for certainly are: Tina Turner, Sonny and Cher, and the Beach Boy…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:37PMSaturday, June 15, 2019
HOUSE IS IN ORDER, BUT IS THAT ENOUGH? There is so much that is right about Ike Holter’s clever script of Put Your House in Order. Because of that, it is unfortunate that, in the end, it i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:44AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
THERE’S HUMOR TO BE PROUD OF HERE, SO DON’T BE PREJUDICED For those who have read or seen Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, there are many nouns that come to mind such as “classic,�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:16AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
YOGA, GIRL! Which of the following defines yoga to you? A series of gentle exercises meant to relax and invigorate the body; A Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline using breath control and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:06AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
WELL DONE HAVING FUN ON THE RUN AS A NUN Don’t you just hate it when your boyfriend turns out to be a mobster and murders someone right in front of you, forcing you to flee and hide — al…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:54PMSunday, April 21, 2019
THE VOICE BEHIND THE VOICES Ventre Loqui: To speak from the belly. This is the etymology of the word ventriloquism, an art as old as … well, it depends who you ask. For some, there is no o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:56PMFriday, March 29, 2019
CHAPSCHTICK It’s 1944. The war is raging across the English Channel and the Germans could invade at any moment. Britain needs levity to get through these tough days. Miles (Charles Evans, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:23PMMonday, March 25, 2019
THANK GOD IT’S FREAKY FRIDAY On the weekend of her mother’s everything-must-be-perfect second wedding, teenager Ellie (Rivers Harris) is in a funk: little brother Fletcher (John Perry Wi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:17PMMonday, March 4, 2019
TENSION, HUMOR, AND INTRIGUE IN BEGUILING WWII DRAMEDY There would be much better places to live in 1943 than on the German-occupied British island of Guernsey, especially if you are shelter…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:15AMSunday, February 17, 2019
LETTERS FROM THE LOVELORN LEAP OFF THE PAGE Dear Sugar, I have a problem. My editor assigned me to review a play that does not follow conventional theater techniques, has only one known char…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:47PMSaturday, February 16, 2019
A SWEET EMBRACEABLE SHOW In 1930, a musical called Girl Crazy, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin, opened on Broadway to moderate success, running 272 performances. The rarely-revived s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:35PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
WHO DOES HE THINK SHE IS? Him…Her…Them…Zir…Hir? In the transgender and non-binary community, the struggle with pronouns almost rivals the struggle with civil rights. Hir, now in a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:24PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
LET THE SPIRIT MOVE YOU TO NORTH COAST REP Is it bigamy if you’re still seeing your first wife while married to your second? Does your answer change if the first wife has been dead for…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:15PMMonday, August 13, 2018
EVEN WHEN YOU’RE HAIR CAN’T HOLD UP, THIS MUSICAL CAN To say you like Hairspray really doesn’t cut it. Do you mean the 1988 John Waters film starring Devine and newcomer Ricki Lake…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AMTuesday, July 31, 2018
A FUNNY THING’S HAPPENING AT NORTH COAST REP Only in Ancient Rome! Pseudolus, the wise-cracking slave (Omri Schein), can earn his freedom if he can somehow get the pretty, bubble-heade…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AMTuesday, July 10, 2018
THE HOLY GRAIL OF SILLY MUSICALS The tales of King Arthur and his knights of the round table stand as icons of literature, leaving them ripe for outrageous parody in Monty Python’s 197…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:10AMMonday, June 25, 2018
PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW AFTER A PLAY THIS GOOD “What’s in a name?” Juliet famously asks. A lot, if the name is Ruff Yeager. Yeager, a co-founder of Roustabouts, has be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:36PMTuesday, June 5, 2018
FROM ORANGE JUICE TO A PIE IN THE FACE “What these people really want, hidden behind obscure legal phrases, is the legal right to propose to our children that theirs is an acceptable alter…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:22AMMonday, May 14, 2018
SOME ENCHANTED EVENING, INDEED Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1949 Broadway hit South Pacific is so full of familiar, classic numbers that it almost feels like a Broadway review in itself �…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:56PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
ONE COULD GO ON AND ON FOR OFF Half the fun of theater is in the performance; the other half is in the rehearsal. Rehearsal is the time for experimenting, bonding, and watching everything co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:40PMSunday, April 15, 2018
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED: A JOYFUL MESSAGE There is an ancient Chinese proverb: “The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.” In the musical Sou…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:44PMTuesday, March 27, 2018
WOULD SHAKESPEARE BY ANY OTHER PLAYWRIGHT SMELL AS SWEET? If the title King Charles III sounds rather Shakespearean, yet you cannot recall a “Charles” among all his Henrys and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:43AM 
