Friday, February 28, 2025
NOT YOUR AVERAGE TANGO Tango: a dance with European, Argentinian and Cuban influences, born in the impoverished backstreets of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, raised in smok…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:48PMSaturday, December 21, 2024
WHO COULD VOSK FOR ANYTHING MORE? I can think of no better way to celebrate the holidays than at Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops’ Merry and Bright, featuring Jessica Vosk (Wicked, Fi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMFriday, December 20, 2024
AUDRA MCDONALD GIVES US A POWERFUL MAMA ROSE BUT IS IT A SUITABLE INTERPRETATION? Gypsy is a great show. Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim wrote a justly iconic score, and Arthur Laurents’ b…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:54PMSunday, November 24, 2024
THE BEST HOLIDAY GIFT ISN’T UNDER THE TREE, IT’S ELF AT THE MARQUIS Elf, the charming story of Buddy, the orphan who crawled into Santa’s sack one Christmas Eve and was raised at the N…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMThursday, November 21, 2024
DEATH BECOMES HER IS NOT FOR PURITANS OR VICTORIAN GRANDMOTHERS. BUT HOW MANY OF THEM ARE AROUND TODAY? Death Becomes Her, the new musical based on the eponymous 1992 black comedy/fantasy an…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:49PMSaturday, November 2, 2024
There’s an eponymous and ominous presence onstage at New York City Center Stage I. You can’t see him. But his evil, autocratic and tyrannical nature permeates every scene in Erika Sheffe…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:22PMThursday, October 24, 2024
FORBIDDEN PLEASURES Even the most avid theatergoers may not realize how much about Broadway there is to have fun with until they see Forbidden Broadway, the decades-old Off-Broadway musical …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:56AMSaturday, September 14, 2024
FOR THE ROOMMATE, IT’S ULTIMATELY ABOUT THE CASTMATES Take a big dose of Grace and Frankie, add a bit of Arsenic and Old Lace, and top it off with the magnificent Mia Farrow and Patti LuPo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:53AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
JULIE BENKO IS, AND IS ABOUT TO HAVE, A BROADWAY BABY Vocalists have found many fruitful ways of reaching their audiences, from celebrating other singers to paying tribute to composers and l…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:56PMThursday, April 25, 2024
IT MAY BE ABOUT A MOVEMENT MORE THAN ITS PEOPLE, BUT A POWERHOUSE SCORE AND WINNING PERFORMANCES EMPOWER SUFFS There are several major conflicts in Suffs, the new Broadway musical directed b…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:00AMMonday, February 26, 2024
JELLY’S JAM IS JAMMIN’ THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW Jelly Roll Morton was born Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe in New Orleans. Both his parents traced their Creole ancestry four generations ba…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:33PMTuesday, February 20, 2024
YOUR GOLDEN TICKET TO HIGH ADVENTURE …AND HIGH TEA What could entice a typical New Yorker to get up fairly early on a Saturday or Sunday morning and make the trip to a narrow side street i…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:57PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
A KINGDOM DIVIDED Sam (Uly Schlesinger) is a bright, articulate and sincere young man. But he is also nervous, sensitive and bitter. In fact, he has recently attempted suicide. Actress Ruby …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:58PMMonday, January 15, 2024
AZNAVOUR IS YOUNG AGAIN Charles Aznavour hoped to be still singing before audiences on his 100th birthday. Unfortunately, he died in 2018 at the age of 94. But Jules Grison is celebrating Az…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:02AMSunday, October 1, 2023
UNIQUE, DELICIOUS, ENTERTAINING, MAGICAL No matter how many times illusionists deceive our eyes and mentalists read our minds, we are always amazed by their feats. This is certainly true of …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:00AMMonday, September 11, 2023
A FRANK PORTRAYAL Perhaps the most famous quote from Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” However, these words were …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:41PMWednesday, August 2, 2023
A DOCTORED PLAY NURSED BY JULIET STEVENSON Robert Icke’s adaptation of Viennese dramatist Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 play, Professor Bernhardi might have been an interesting, if somewhat c…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:20PMWednesday, July 12, 2023
I HAVE A HUNCH YOU’LL LOVE THIS Victor Hugo published The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or Notre Dame de Paris in French, in 1831. Since that time the novel about Quasimodo, the hunchback and t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMFriday, June 30, 2023
YES, ONE MORE TIME IS ONE MORE TIME ONE MORE TIME, BUT YOU’LL HAVE A GREAT TIME It well may be that there are no new plots left in the world of theater. But does that mean we have to keep …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:42PMMonday, June 19, 2023
HOORAY FOR HOORAY Most songs became standards because they were made famous by popular singers. So it’s easy to forget how many of them were introduced on the silver screen. Hooray for Hol…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:13AMFriday, June 9, 2023
YOU GOTTA LOVE IT Spring is in the air and so is love at 54 Below, where Scott Siegel is presenting Love Song Saturday Night, a monthly show where couples are encouraged to “swoon, raise a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, May 22, 2023
Creating a musical is not an easy task. Finding backers to produce it is even more difficult. When creative people have the fortitude and faith to take on such an endeavor, one wants to be a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:14PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
ARE WE EVER GOING TO SAY GOODBYE TO GOODBYE GIRL? The 1977 film The Goodbye Girl, written by Neil Simon and directed by Herbert Ross, was the first romantic comedy to earn over $100 million …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
A WARM SUMMER From the moment we first see Diana (Laura Linney) and Alice (Jessica Hecht), the two friends whose story is told in David Auburn’s new play, Summer, 1976, we know exactly who…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:19PMThursday, March 30, 2023
A PUB CRAWL FROM FOLKLORE INTO FANTASY When a show is called The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, you can bet that it’s going to be a bit surreal, somewhat disturbing and ultimately capt…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:45AMMonday, March 27, 2023
NOT BAD, CINDERELLA These days Prince Charmings are not in style. Nor are Fairy Godmothers. So it’s pretty hard to expect adults to take stories like Cinderella very seriously. Nevertheles…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:24AMMonday, February 27, 2023
WOMAN BECOMES A HIT Betty Smith is best known for her 1946 bestselling novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. But her first love was theater. When she was a child growing up in Brooklyn, she would…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:20PMThursday, February 16, 2023
WANDERING WRITING The Wanderers, the new play by Anna Ziegler (Boy, A Delicate Ship, The Last Match, Another Way Home) now making its New York premiere with The Roundabout Theatre Company, c…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:15PMFriday, July 9, 2021
THE ATHENAEUM THEATRE IS BACK THIS SUMMER WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF ENTERTAINMENT ON ITS HISTORIC STAGES Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago’s oldest continuously operating Off-Loop theatre is back, w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:38AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Anyone who's ever been in a school office will immediately recognize the verisimilitude of the set created for The Mad Ones
SOURCE: at 09:01PMMonday, December 4, 2017
If you're finding these dim days of December are a little dimmer than usual, give your heart cheer and your soul comfort with the pure goodness of a show that celebrates people who love, com…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:46AM 
