Monday, July 1, 2024
MOMMIE McDEAREST Irish playwright Martin McDonagh quickly makes it abundantly clear that dysfunctional mother/daughter relationships are not just the stuff of Hollywood. In the tiny town of …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Liam Pearce, Savy Jackson, Douglas Lyons and more join RENT in Concert with the San Diego Symphony The San Diego Symphony has announced casting for the upcoming production of RENT in Concer…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:31PMWednesday, June 5, 2024
THIS AMERICAN FELT LIKE AN IDIOT UNTIL READING A SYNOPSIS When MTV hit the airwaves, a young generation stopped dead in their tracks and watched hours and hours of endless videos. Frequently…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMFriday, May 10, 2024
STIRRING UP A RECIPE FOR FAMILY REVELATIONS It may seem like a lifetime ago, but can you remember way back to April of 2021? Washing canned goods with gloves on? Masking to accept a pack…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:40AMMonday, May 6, 2024
WAS BLONDE, BUT NOW I SEE! It’s easy to say that everyone wants to be taken seriously, but for Elle (Johnisa Breault) that notion has never really crossed her mind. She’s happy, perky, p…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:01AMMonday, April 29, 2024
A SWEET OFF-THE-GRID MUSICAL With the unexpectedly huge American response to Netflix’s Virgin River, there seems to be a great longing to see what life might be like in a tiny, forested co…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:30PMMonday, April 22, 2024
FASCIST LOGIC CAUSES US TO HARD LOOK IN THE MIRROR When we think of all the Nazi monsters, Adolf Hitler’s name reigns supreme. But it’s only a short step down the ladder to be revolted b…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:59AMSunday, April 14, 2024
BEDAZZLED WAR AND PEACE SIZZLES ON STAGE Let’s face it: If you haven’t read Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel War and Peace by now (with its 1400-plus pages), you probably aren’t ever going t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:01AMTuesday, April 9, 2024
THE LOVE CHILD OF LAURA INGALLS AND ANNE OF GREEN GABLES In this novel-turned-musical, it’s 1899 and the world, even in rural Texas, is changing. Just not nearly fast enough for Calpurnia …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:14PMFriday, April 5, 2024
I DREAM OF GENIE Ready to spend a little time in the ancient Arabian town of Agrabah? It’s the classic story with Aladdin (Adi Roy), Jasmine (Senzel Ahmady), and of course the genie (Marcu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMFriday, March 22, 2024
YOU’LL BE DANCING IN THE SHEETS ALL OVER AGAIN Sitting in a movie theater, in 1984, we teens were spellbound by the original film version of Footloose — and not because it was an amazing…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:14PMSaturday, March 16, 2024
OUR PUPPET, WHO ART IN HELL, HALLOWED BE THY BLAME When a newly widowed mom tries to lead three teens in a wholesome, Lutheran, extra-curricular church class, tasked with creating a Christia…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:56PMFriday, March 1, 2024
A FASCINATING JOURNEY INTO THE AUTISTIC MIND Mark Haddon’s novel is a first-person tale shared by the autistic main character: 15-year-old Christopher Boone, who lives in a small lower-cla…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:43PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
BAKING UP SOMETHING GOOD AT WILDSONG Come on, Wildsong. You’re only two seasons old, in a tiny theater, have mostly young company players, and are on a ridiculously small budget. There’s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSaturday, February 17, 2024
SEEING FIDDLER AGAIN AND AGAIN IS A GREAT TRADITION It’s no surprise that this 1964 triumph — with an irresistible book by Joseph Stein and unimprovable songs by Jerry Bock and Sheldon H…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:04PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
SANDWICHING GOOD STORYTELLING BETWEEN TWO SLICES OF COMEDY Remember Linda Lavin’s old TV sit-com Alice? And her co-waitresses: the sassy Flo (“Kiss my grits!”) and the ditzy Vera at th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:30PMSaturday, February 3, 2024
LEARNING ENGLISH IN IRAN IS TOUGH, BUT THIS PLAY WILL BE YOUR BAG, DAD Years ago, I ran a teambuilding class using improv games for an I.T. group. Despite the diversity of heritage and app…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:12PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
BILLIE’S LIFE WASN’T NO HOLIDAY The title actually says a lot. When a star as bright as Billie Holiday, the sultry jazz singer whose career lasted from 1929 to 1958, is performing at a b…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:51AMSunday, January 28, 2024
DUBLIN YOUR PLEASURE WITH GOOD DRAMA AND COMEDY With a somewhat-forgettable title and a rather vague plot summary on the website, one walks into Outside Mullingar not quite sure what they ar…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, January 21, 2024
KNOWING WHICH IS WITCH The word “crucible” has two very different meanings. One is a pot in which substances are heated to high temperatures. Another is a situation in which people are s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:25PMFriday, January 19, 2024
MY KIND OF SHOW, CHICAGO IS Coming to the San Diego Civic Theatre is the National Tour of the 1996 revival of Chicago, now the longest-running revival in Broadway history, and the second lo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:53PMFriday, December 22, 2023
There’s no doubt why Lynn Nottage’s drama Intimate Apparel won five national awards for best play, including the Drama Critics’ Circle Award and American Theatre Critics Association’…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:36PMSaturday, October 7, 2023
ALTOGETHER OOKEY GOOD FUN When American cartoonist Charles Addams started drawing a family of moderately harmless ghoulish folks for The New Yorker in 1938, how could he have expected them t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:50PMSunday, September 17, 2023
WHO LEFT FROWNING? NUN OF US! When you’re picking shows for your season, you’re off to a good start when you pick the second-longest-running show in Off-Broadway history. One that’s be…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMFriday, September 8, 2023
GIVE THREE CHEERS AND ONE CHEER MORE FOR SILLY GOOD FUN In the US, the term “Savoyard” generally means a person intensely interested in, and perhaps highly knowledgeable about, the works…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:02PMSaturday, September 2, 2023
MAKE THIS FUN SHOW ONE TO CHEKHOV YOUR LIST Any time you take one sibling out of a group of three, the remaining two are bound to talk about the missing one. Take that situation further, wit…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:25PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
DON’T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH OR CRY You know that close friend or relative you have who they can talk about the most trivial stuff in their world and you’ll still ask leading questions fo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:36PMThursday, July 20, 2023
DIAGNOSIS: DANCER Human nature loves to ponder the impossible to answer: What does food taste like to other people? What does a colorblind person imagine color looks like? What is it like to…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:21PMWednesday, July 19, 2023
DON’T BE SKIPPIN’ PIPPIN Here’s a can’t-miss opportunity: Beginning tomorrow, July 19, North Coast Rep is presenting the perky but dark 1972 musical, Pippin. With a book by Roger O. …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMTuesday, July 11, 2023
BREWING UP SOME GOOD CHUCKLES IN THEIR KITCHEN Cooking shows are typically feel-good shows. The calm of Martha Stewart. The sweetness of Rachel Rae. The edge of Emeril Lagasse. Of course, it…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:34AMTuesday, July 4, 2023
THESE PASSENGERS WON’T STAY IN THEIR SEATS! Die-hard fans of So You Think You Can Dance get to know their choreographers. For me, there was Sonya Tayeh (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) … and …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:53PM 
