Tuesday, April 12, 2022
WHEN THE WELL IS DRY, YOU KNOW THE WORTH OF WATER In Sidney Sheldon’s hit 1973 novel, The Other Side of Midnight, every other chapter is about either Catherine or Noelle, the two stories o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:03PMMonday, March 14, 2022
GREAT KAHNCEPT! Jayden (Jerome Beck) doesn’t have it easy. He and his mother Crystal (Brittney M. Caldwell) have recently transplanted themselves in a new town and school district. The mov…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:23PMSaturday, February 12, 2022
LIFE MAY SUCK, BUT THE PLAY SURE DOESN’T For those familiar with Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, it might seem an odd choice to modernize. But Aaron Posner’s tight script, combined with C…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:02PMFriday, February 4, 2022
A SHAKESPEAREAN WESTERN MUSICAL? DON’T WORRY, IT MEASURES UP Love Shakespeare? Great. Hate Shakespeare? No problem. North Coast Rep’s Desperate Measures may be based on the Bard’s Meas…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, January 31, 2022
THE PHYSICS OF ATTRACTION If this totally non-physicist reviewer understands what he is reading — the Uncertainty Principle launched by renowned physicist Werner Heisenberg, roughly state…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:23PMSunday, December 12, 2021
CRAZY FOR LOVIN’ ALWAYS PATSY CLINE Is it a musical? A play with music? A tribute act? A duo cabaret act? Always…Patsy Cline is a little of each, coming together sweetly to be something …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:09AMMonday, October 18, 2021
DOUBLE TROUBLE IN MINEOLA Paula Vogel, likely best known for her Pulitzer prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, isn’t afraid to tackle tough themes. In The Mineola Twins, she does so by dr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59PMThursday, October 14, 2021
ROUTE 66 WAS ONE MOTHER OF A ROAD In John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, we follow along Route 66 the sad travels of Tom Joad and his family, who flee the desperation of Oklah…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:46AMMonday, August 23, 2021
CORONADO PLAYHOUSE’S 2022 SEASON Coronado Playhouse, the oldest arts organization in Coronado, has announced for its 76th Season six fully-staged productions — three of which are San Di…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54PMMonday, August 9, 2021
A SEASON OF HOPE, REDEMPTION, HUMOR AND HEART STARTS IN SEPT. WITH THREE MUSICALS AND THREE PLAYS Cygnet Theatre has announced a joyful and overdue return to in-person performances starting …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:13PMTuesday, 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 05:24PM 
