Monday, March 25, 2024
ONE 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 02:50AMSaturday, March 23, 2024
READY 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 09:22PMThursday, March 21, 2024
AN 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 07:21PMTuesday, March 19, 2024
TAKING 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 02:20AMSunday, March 17, 2024
THE 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 04:49PMThursday, February 22, 2024
FOR 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 07:45PMMonday, February 19, 2024
GULPING 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 09:52PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
WARRIOR 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 06:30PMSunday, February 11, 2024
THIS 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 08:39PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
A 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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMMonday, February 5, 2024
ALIVE AND KICKING: MADDOW AND ZIMET AT PAC/NYC New York City, 1947: Julian Beck and Judith Molina found The Living Theatre, the oldest experimental group in the United States, giving life, w…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMSaturday, February 3, 2024
IRELAND’S GENTRY IS DISINTEGRATING IN FRIEL’S ARISTOCRATS, BUT SO IS THE DRAMA The mid-19th century, with its changing class dynamics, marked the decline of the power of aristocracy in E…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:45AMMonday, January 29, 2024
LET’S RAISE OUR GLASSES AND CHEER DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES There is an old Irish proverb that goes “A man takes a drink, the drink takes a drink, the drink takes the man.” Based on a JP …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMWednesday, January 24, 2024
THIS SHOW ISN’T A CRIME, BUT IT SOMETIMES FEELS LIKE PUNISHMENT Following his return from a decade in exile in Siberia as a dissenter against the Romanov order, Fyodor Dostoevsky intended …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMFriday, January 19, 2024
It’s hard to compose for modern musicals and not fall for pop-tunes or Sondheim’s classic songs to be safe; Theatre is made of trials and errors, you keep reworking ingredients until you…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:20PMThursday, January 18, 2024
WICKED GOOD THEATER Patrick Page was exposed to Shakespeare as a toddler in the mid-sixties; since then he seems to have been deeply feeling, researching, analyzing and performing every word…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMTuesday, January 16, 2024
MONSTER MOURNING, HOME OF FRIENDSHIP Weena Pauly and Katie Workum aim to highlight the essence of their friendship in a minimalistic form of postmodern dance-theatre. Like children followi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:55PMSaturday, January 13, 2024
“ARE WE SAFE?” In a world that foolishly brought back authoritarian regimes and fascist rhetoric, as if they didn’t do enough damage to humanity in the past, it is always wise to keep …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:51PMFriday, January 12, 2024
Written, directed and choreographed by Luke Murphy from Ireland, Volcano — at St. Anne’s Warehouse as part of Under the Radar Festival — is a dance/theatre production you will not forg…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:23PMMonday, December 18, 2023
THE CONSEQUENCES OF GREED: MANAHATTA IN MANHATTAN Before getting into the play, it is important to know that Manahatta is written by playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, who…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:04PMFriday, December 8, 2023
TERRIFIC TURTURRO, MARVELOUS MARVEL, CUNNING KRAVITS AND RIOTOUS ROTH: DON’T MISS SABBATH’S THEATER The New Group‘s production of Sabbath’s Theater is a perfect adaptation of Philip …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:59PM 
