YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART Here’s the thing: This solo show written and performed by John Lithgow, the endlessly talented star of more movies, TV shows, and plays than there are stars in the hea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:29AMNOT JUST HORSING AROUND After watching Paul Calderon’s quite gripping tale of thugs and scammers trying to grift a deal whatever way they can, you’ll start to wonder, “Um, wouldn’t i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:41PMWHAT WON’T YOU DO FOR A CHELSEA SUBLET? Ambiguity and nuance are qualities in a play to be greatly desired and lauded – and yet, if you do not go “ick” at least four times while…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:46PMDAMAGED GOODS Playwright Phillip Kan Gotanda’s elegiac drama is a powerful piece that encompasses many themes in a surprisingly tight and concise package; it’s about aging, it’s about …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:40PMA FINE PRODUCTION OF A MINOR ORGAN Midway through playwright Julia Lederer’s feather-light, yet rather droning romantic comedy, a character literally reaches into her own chest and pulls …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:14PMUNBOUND FOR GLORY It takes talent to juggle political activism, sexual tension, and a highly suspenseful thriller plot, but playwright D.G. Watson has done it. His compelling drama hits an a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:18PMANYTHING BUT DISGRACEFUL Sometimes plays that win the Pulitzer Prize do so less for their content and more for the ideas they embody and the zeitgeist of their time. It’s just an added bon…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:04AMA FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S What makes this boisterous jukebox musical about the life of late music and stage legend Peter Allen (whose songs make up the show’s core) so winning, is the co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:53AMBOOTS GOT MY KINKS OUT Another bus-and-truck tour of Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper’s Tony Award-festooned musical has “sashayed and shanted” its way back into Los Angeles at the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:35PMNO ONE ELSE IS THAT GIRL Marlo Thomas may not have the iconic stature of one of those luminous performers like, say, Meryl Streep or Cher or Judy Garland, but akin to these illustrious lad…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:56PMHARD TO CARE First of all, I think it’s important to state that I adore The Flea, the fiercely creative performance and theater collective down in Soho. More often than not, they do amazin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:57PMTMI I’m a librarian during the day, and one thing I remember from back in Library School (because you have to go to Library School to become a librarian, you know) is that there are many d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:41AMHOME AND HEART When you go to Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, one of the great pleasures is seeing performers Orson Bean and his wife Alley Mills hanging out in the lobby either manning …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:09PMBETTER ON THE MARIMBA Such is the life of a theater critic. On Friday, you might find yourself in a dusty living room in a seedier area of mid-town, seeing a salon-scale show in some half-…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:32PMFINDING JUST A BIT In his solo show, playwright Nicholas Guest describes his life and travels around the world. He’s accompanied by Hillary Smith on the cello and by Tony Carafone on the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:44PMALL IS REALLY WELL In playwright Stephen Karam’s touching and funny drama, characters are frequently spotted quoting the great Lebanese poet-philosopher Khalil Gabran. “All is well,”…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:32PMUNTO US A CHILD IS MADE This fascinating drama by playwright Zayd Dohrn is set in the bizarre subculture of women who buy dolls that eerily resemble actual babies. Can this possibly be enou…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:49PMMUTANT — AS IN FREAK OF NATURE After watching the roaring, sputtering, and cursing along with regretful descriptions of drug use and parental abuse back in the “bad old days,” I ha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:24PMJANE AND HER PUPPETS The works of Jane Austen are delightful – and so are puppets. So, when you hear that this adaptation of Austen’s classic satire of gothic literature, Northanger Ab…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58PMSTAY FOR DINNER, WON’T YOU? She’s an ancient crone who lives in a tiny cottage deep in the forest, feared by those near and far. She brews strange elixirs and ointments, and is rum…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:52PMBITCHY, BITCHY If you like your camp served by the bucket, then this outlandish tour de farce is steaming with it. Imagine if you will one of those appalling movies from the 1990s in which a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AMCOLD DEAD HANDS America’s bittersweet love-and-hate affair with guns is the target of playwright Victor Kaufold’s thought-provoking but lopsided satirical revue, which premiered in 2000 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:05PMDARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME Ah Hollywood. How it glitters. How it glistens. How true it is that when you scrape off the layers of tinsel, you find, well, more tinsel. This musical (Adria…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:08PMTHEATER AS A TEMPLE The Flea Theater commissioned 48 different playwrights to contribute short dramatic pieces to this tremendous production, which basically recounts all the narratives in t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:02PMRAISING THE CLOWN BAR Did the TV series It give you nightmares for decades? Does the art of John Wayne Gacy make you tremble? Does dear old Bozo make you break out in hives? If you suf…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:25AMSTORMY ROMANCE It is sometimes the case that the plays that seem the simplest – three characters, a few dusty flats, a tiny, shoe-box set in a miniscule theater somewhere on the 12th floor…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:21PMWHEN THE SAINTS COME DANCING IN Here’s a charming revue that sets to song and dance the words of the great poet Gertrude Stein, mistress of new language and one of the tremendous free spir…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23PMPRO AND (EX-)CON In telling his true-life tale about being convicted of attempted murder and released following a hefty prison term, Joe Assadourian is proof that you can be a crook and stil…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:33PMPERHAPS THE POPE WAS BORED TO DEATH The Ahmanson stage is awash with white-haired old men in long sweeping gowns. No, it’s not the old folks’ home production of Priscilla Queen of the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:25PMAFRICAN MYTH ON THE BAYOU An atmosphere of mythic mystery suffuses Tarrell Alvin McCraney’s compelling drama about family, sacrifice, and deceit. Awash with undercurrents of melancholy a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00PMTECHNICOLOR TURNCOAT It’s like one of the Great Plagues of Egypt: Every so often, some producer decides to dust off another production of this old Andrew Lloyd Webber chestnut, and cast …
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