Wednesday, April 1, 2026
THREE STYLES, ONE ELECTRIFYING COMPANY A vibrant program that moves effortlessly from sensual modernism to jazzy precision to kinetic abstraction Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns to The …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMThursday, March 26, 2026
CHEKHOV BEFORE THE MASTERPIECES A lean, lucid revival reveals Ivanov as an early, electric study of burnout, longing, and emotional paralysis Zachary Desmond, Paul Niebank, Casey Worthington…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:00PMThursday, March 12, 2026
EDWARDIAN ANXIETIES, COMEDIC COMFORT A rediscovered British comedy reminds us that decency—not money or status— may be the most radical virtue of all When the news of war grows…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTuesday, March 10, 2026
OPERA, DRAG, AND THE POLITICS IN BETWEEN Adrienne Truscott and Le Gateau Chocolat gleefully explore identity, allyship, and the “grey areas†where ideology and performance collid…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:30PMFriday, February 27, 2026
AFTER BIRTH Meat Suit is a carnival of motherhood that mistakes provocation for revelation Meat Suit, or the Shitshow of Motherhood, a Second Stage Theater production which opened last night…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:59AMFriday, May 23, 2025
CHEKHOV WITH TEETH For those who’ve never bought the notion that Chekhov’s The Seagull is simply about broken hearts, director Alexander Molochnikov’s take on the play o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:14PMTuesday, May 20, 2025
GODDESS ISN’T JUST A SHOW, IT’S A CALLING. ANSWER IT. Goddess, which opened at The Public Theater tonight, doesn’t just arrive onstage like any musical—but like a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:42PMTHIS ROLLING STONE JUST OPENED, AND ALREADY IT’S GATHERING MOSS If Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified were a device, it would be the BlackBerry of rock retrospectives. It is an earnest…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:44AMSunday, May 4, 2025
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.†~ Oscar Wilde The Louvre, Uffizi, and Hermitage may dazzle you with their emphasis on fine arts, the Bri…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:46AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Walking into the New York Irish Center in Long Island City for the first time to see a show feels a bit like stumbling into a well-kept secret; it’s an intimate ga…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:29AMFriday, April 18, 2025
CHERRIES WITH A FEW PITS Anton Chekhov’s final play, The Cherry Orchard, is a masterwork of dramatic irony. It was written in 1903 as a dark comedy but it was always more akin to a tr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:00PMSunday, April 13, 2025
FIERCE CRAIC A really enjoyable, light-hearted, raucous comedy just opened at The Irish Repertory Theatre: the world premiere of Irishtown by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, directed by Nicola Murphy…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:53PMThursday, April 10, 2025
The Martha Graham Dance Company is back at The Joyce for its 99th season with a new dance concert titled Dances of the Mind, featuring 11 works across three programs through April 13, 2025. …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, April 7, 2025
Brecht once said, “In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.†This must have been the inspiration for A Mother, a truly amu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:40PMLIFE IS LIKE A CARTON OF EGGS; YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO GET UNTIL YOU CRACK ONE OPEN How do we cope with the loss of control in a crisis? Imagine two couples (one from Manh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMThursday, February 13, 2025
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME SO, MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES It’s the perfect time for a Urinetown revival. Twenty-four years after its successful Broadway debut, City Center’s Encores!…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:38PMWednesday, January 29, 2025
THE BONES OF GREAT THEATER Wakka Wakka, the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning theater company, returns with Dead as a Dodo, a surreal and darkly humorous production at the Baruch Performing …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, January 12, 2025
RUNNING FOR ONE’S LIFE St. Ann’s Warehouse – one of the most eclectic and vibrant venues in New York – is now presenting another cutting-edge production, the Nort…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:35PMTuesday, January 7, 2025
A SPARKLING, SPIRITED PIRATES The Pirates of Penzance is a spirited lampoon of Victorian morality, skewering its pretensions and hypocrisies while also poking fun at the lackluster operas an…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:24PMWednesday, December 25, 2024
A MAGIQUE CARPET RIDE Do you need an escape from suffocating daily life? In Bushwick, across the street from Théâtre XIV, home to the best burlesque shows in the city, artistic directo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:06AMFriday, December 20, 2024
THERE’S A NEW GYPSY IN TOWN AND SHE’S STUNNING In the 1920s, Rose Thompson Hovick steamrolled her way through vaudeville and lived vicariously through her reluctant young daugh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:14PMSaturday, November 30, 2024
PUT YOUR LIFE AND TRUST INTO THE HANDS OF LIFE AND TRUST There is a daunting immersive theater experience in Manhattan’s Financial District that is also somehow prophetic. The locatio…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:37PMWednesday, November 27, 2024
A QUILT BLANKETED BY PREDICTABLE STITCHING Quilts always intrigued me; for millennia, women took scraps of fabric from discarded items and made quilts to be used for warmth or decorative pur…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, November 24, 2024
GET READY TO CRACK SOME NUTS WIDE OPEN Christmas can be very sexy if you step into the sumptuous world of Théâtre XIV in trendy Bushwick, and catch Company XIV’s neo-Baroque cla…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:07PMSaturday, November 23, 2024
PREPARE TO BE SWEPT AWAY What happens when we are faced with extreme necessity? The 1884 tragic wreck of the yacht Mignonette was a cause célèbre in late 19th-century Britain, but not …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:02AMWednesday, November 20, 2024
A GENERATIONAL GAP AND A PLAYWRITING GAP As a result of the #MeToo movement, there has been much brought to light about women working in America. But here’s a note to the younger gene…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:23PMSaturday, November 16, 2024
JUST AS PROMISED, IT’S BIG! IT’S GAY! IT’S JAMBOREEING! Yes, there is a way to escape the post-election blues for 90 minutes: The Big Gay Jamboree at the Orpheum Thea…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:42PMThursday, November 14, 2024
A NEOLITHIC AND LEAN LEAR Shakespeare’s works can be read in many ways and I have witnessed so many diverse stage interpretations that I never know what I am about to see when I ventu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:59PMTHE ZZZZzzz TEAM The Z Team, currently playing at Theatre Row, is a new work by father-and-son team Jeff and Jacob Foy. Directed by Jeff Whiting, it’s advertised to be uproarious: …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Modern dance was born as a protest, a reaction to the rigid structure of classical ballet. It was evident when I’ve reviewed Extreme Taylor at the Joyce in June, and it was s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSaturday, November 9, 2024
MISSA BRAVOS The Limón Dance Company celebrates its 78th season at the Joyce Theater with an epic program that reflects José Limón’s humanist aesthetic: Limón�
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:04AM 
