Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers. — Aristotle W…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:31PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
BEE MINUS Now playing at Wisteria Theater in North Hollywood is one of the few wonderful musicals from this century so far, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, by William Finn (music…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:13PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
A PROMISING AND AMBITIOUS THE CAMP Los Angeles has had a flurry of new operas within the past few years. Among the most promising and ambitious I’ve seen is The Camp, by Lionelle Hamanaka …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:47AMTuesday, March 4, 2025
A SKETCHY, SPREAD OUT SEND-UP SAGS WITH SLUGGISH SATIRE I like to go into shows completely blind. Sometimes that backfires, but usually not before the show even starts. On Thursday, I walked…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:06AMFriday, February 21, 2025
IT’S TOUGH TO ADORE ADORATION; BUT WAS IT MEANT TO BE? I always look forward to new operas presented by Los Angeles Opera and Beth Morrison Projects. They are back with another one: Adorat…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:59PMThursday, February 20, 2025
THE WHINE OF THE ANIMALS Long Beach Opera continued its season-long devotion to the work of Pauline Oliveros with El Relicario De Los Animales (The Shrine of the Animals), from 1979, with tw…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:12PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
EAST WEST PLAYERS PULLS OUT ALL THE SHOGUNS FOR A MUSICAL THAT CALLS FOR INTIMACY On Sunday, East West Players opened their new production of Pacific Overtures by Stephen Sondheim (music and…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:50PMThursday, October 10, 2024
BLOOD AND RANCH DRESSING In December of 2020, the world was still in the grip of COVID-19’s unpredictable terror. Moderna and Pfizer had just released their vaccines, but supply was scarce…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:54AMThursday, August 8, 2024
YOU COULD HEAR THESE PEOPLE SING, ALL RIGHT First performed in Shanghai in 2013, the Hollywood Bowl hosted a new installment of The Music of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, and More: Boublil a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:21PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
THE LAST FIVE YEARS AT SIERRA MADRE CAN BE SEEN IN DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS Last weekend, Sierra Madre Playhouse opened what seems like a bewildering number of performance configurations of th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMSaturday, March 2, 2024
ATTEND THIS TALE: IT’S MURDER When A Noise Within, one of LA’s best companies, which specializes in classical theater, announced its current season, what most excited me by far was their…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, February 4, 2024
TINY LITTLE TOWN OPENS WITH A BANG, BUT GETS CORRUPTED BY INCOHESIVE STYLES Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Tiny Little Town, a new musical comedy now playing at the Broadwater Main Stage, start…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:03AMTuesday, September 12, 2023
TECHNICAL ISSUES ASIDE, THIS NEW MUSICAL IS FULL OF HEART The Right is Ours!, a world premiere new musical which opened yesterday at the Sierra Madre Playhouse, tells the story of the friend…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:23AM 
