Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics. Benjamin: Exactly how do you m…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMWE’VE GOT TO GET OURSELVES BACK TO THE GARDEN When The Sheen Center announced Ed. Weinberger’s new play The Journals of Adam and Eve starring Hal Linden and Marilu Henner, I thought …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMMUCH NOTHING ABOUT ADO Presenters Kelsey Grammer and Faith American Brewing Company offer a production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at the Gene Frankel Theatre that is a daring…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMA SUMMER NIGHT THAT SMILES THREE HUNDRED TIMES Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s delightful musical A Little Night Music is is an adaptation of the Bergman’s 1955 film Smiles of a Summ…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:41PMEXTREME VALUE Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to the Joyce Theater with Extreme Taylor, bringing back some of the Maestro’s classic works. The program I saw included Private Domain (…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:01AMTWAS BRILLIG! YOU’LL GET A HEART-ON IN THIS SEXY HOLE “All in the golden afternoon. / Full leisurely we glide” is part of the opening poem of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:10AMA NEW SPECIES OF ACTRESS Maia Novi’s Invasive Species is a topsy-turvy meta play that reflects its plot: a moment in the life of a confused young woman infected with the acting bug. Or s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:25PMJOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY Julia Masli’s show Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha has finally arrived at the SoHo Playhouse after a successful run last year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and it i…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMOH, THE HUMANITY! Remember the 80s? Reaganomics here, Thatcherism abroad, apartheid, the tragedy of AIDS that ended up killing more than 700,000 people in the US alone, materialism, consumer…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:34PMGIGGLE JUICE If you love big-band jazz and swing music played by masters, or if you are a tourist and you wish to truly feel the beat of New York’s roots, you must go to Birdland Jazz Club…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMTwo five-star Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows are now at the Players Theatre and you don’t want to miss them. Modern Witches is a solo show written and performed by Katie Kopajtic – a …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMYOU’LL SAY UNCLE Anton Chekhov’s 1897 Uncle Vanya is a comic tragedy and one of the hardest plays to stage because the main actors have a significant change of identity throughout t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:24PMA MEAL THAT’S HARD TO DIGEST Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons is a light, surreal play with many points and no resolutions, intentionally unclear, written by Abe Koogler and directed …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:44PMREIGNITING TAMARA DE LEMPICKA [Editor’s Note: Even with tonal problems, I enjoyed Lempicka, but a crowded season won out, and the new musical officially closes on May 19, 2024. Therefore, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:04PMSOUND AND FURY INDEED “When the hurly-burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won,” says a Witch to introduce my favorite cursed play by the Bard, and I immediately crave medieval w…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMA PLAY FOR THE PEOPLE Written by Ibsen in 1882, An Enemy of the People is a powerful drama that reminds us, as a discouraging premonition, how people would go against truth and honesty in …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:28PMSTILL WATERS RUN DEEP Lia Romeo‘s Still at the DR2 Theatre, is a moving, intimate play starring two confident actors, Jayne Atkinson as Helen and Tim Daly as Mark, who inhabit their r…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:38PMA STEREOPHONIC SHOW WITH A MONOPHONIC SCRIPT Stereophonic was so evenly cherished by critics in its Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons that it transferred to Broadway, where it opened …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:59PMA FISH OUT OF WATER The use of drama as a didactic tool usually works when we are learning new things or seeing old things through a different lens. Kia Corthron‘s Fish at Theater Row sta…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:49PMPUSSY POWER How can we eradicate misogyny? Meet vagina dentata, a penis-eating vagina, the product of an ancient folk tale that exists in virtually every culture, and it has now landed at Pl…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:42PMDOG AND PONY SHOW Looking at the long line that stretched all the way to 7th Avenue to get inside the 1920s Imperial Theatre, I thought I was about to see a masterpiece. I was not familiar w…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:17PMONE FOR THE NOTEBOOKS While specialty branded tissue boxes are sold for $5 at the merch stands, the ushers at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre should insert more in the playbill of The Notebo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMREADY FOR A HOT BATH? Staged at The Flea Theater in Manhattan between the FBI building and an apocalyptic AT&T windowless high tower, Bathhouse.pptx — described as a “group project f…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:22PMAN ENGAGING FISHBURNE DOES A SLOW BURN Who doesn’t want to see Laurence Fishburne in a solo play he describes as “The stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself”…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:21PMTAKING STOCK OF THE MURDOCH AFTERSHOCK: HACK. LIE. INTIMIDATE. CORRUPT. BEGIN AGAIN. Welcome to Rupert Murdoch’s wicked, treacherous media empire where everybody is under surveillance and …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:20AMTHE IDES HAVE IT It’s 44 BCE, March 15, and Julius Caesar walks toward his death, changing the course of Western history. Exactly 2,067 years later, at the West End Theater in New York, a …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:49PMFOR THOSE WHO THINK “RESCUE ME” AT JUKEBOX MUSICALS, “I KNOW A PLACE” WHERE A NEW 60s MUSICAL WILL CHANGE THAT “When you’re alone, and life is making you lonely, you can always g…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:45PMGULPING FOR BREATH BETWEEN TWO-HUNDRED LAUGHS What a unique, congenial, brilliantly imaginative show! You will laugh for a very long time and, if you are a European descendant, you will feel…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:52PMWARRIOR THEATER It’s the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, and one of the best ways to celebrate it is seeing a classic Chinese epic. The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre is presenting …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:30PMTHIS TOO TOO SOLID HAMLET RESOLVES ITSELF INTO A HIT It must be the Season of different takes on the Bard in New York; Greg Mullavey is appearing in a shortened King Lear, and Patrick Page�…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:39PMA mysterious coming-of-age story that focuses on women’s sexuality, written and directed by two talented artists like Rachel Bonds and Danya Taymor, was unquestionably the reason I wante…
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