Sunday, October 22, 2017
LIGHTING UP THE SOUTHERN SKY Carmen Cusack is luminous. She uses her whole self—physically, emotionally, vocally—to open herself to the audience, holding every last one of us in her lovi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:21AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
THE SOLITARY LONELINESS OF LOSS There is something cheeky and even a bit dangerous about a writer reaching far outside his or her community, culture, or country. When an outsider succeeds, t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:09PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
DRY WIT AND RIGHTEOUS OUTRAGE The best sequence in this one-man show starring Joe Morton as civil rights activist, comedian, and writer Dick Gregory, is playwright Gretchen Law’s dramatiza…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:52AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
THE UNBEARABLE CURSE OF BEING I remember reading Rebecca Mead’s New Yorker review of Gypsy when Tyne Daly first starred as Mama Rose. She described the experience of not being sure beforeh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:08PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
GOD THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER OF ALL GODS I will remember Phylicia Rashad’s performance in Head of Passes until the day I die. She is an emotional hurricane, often still, even funny—whil…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AMMonday, September 25, 2017
MISERY LOVES COMPANY In referring to August Strindberg’s 1900 play The Dance of Death as a foreshadowing of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, director Ron Sossi is on firm…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:56PMSunday, September 17, 2017
A STAR IS BORN Paul Rudnick’s bright new comedy takes place on Oscar night. Michael (Brian Hutchison) is a journeyman actor with a career and life-changing Best Supporting Actor nomination…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:41PM‘SELF DEPORTATION’ OR SIX STAGES OF AMERICAN GRIEF Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In life, death, and in playwright Tom Jacobson’s world view, these familiar fi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AMFriday, September 15, 2017
DON’T ARGUE WITH ME, I HAVE CANCER As the play begins, two women are asleep in hospital beds in a shared room with a curtain drawn between them. A tightly wound young woman, Karla (Halley …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:49PMSunday, September 10, 2017
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT One of the brilliant things about Oliver Cotton’s Daytona, is how his dialogue both reveals and conceals at the same time. “Billy, are you in trouble?” Joe (Georg…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:32PMWednesday, August 23, 2017
SHE WHO CAN’T BE TAMED Clinton Leupp may not aspire to self-help guru status, but his upcoming appearance as Miss Coco Peru in The Taming of the Tension is driven by a definite sense o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:15AMSaturday, August 12, 2017
THE HARDEST WORKING GALS IN SHOW BUSINESS One thing is clear: If Bets Malone and Misty Cotton ever choose to sell themselves as an actual country music recording duo, they will be a smash. T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:14AMMonday, July 31, 2017
THE ORIGINAL SISTER ACT This new bio-musical of the legendary gospel/rock crossover star Sister Rosetta Tharpe is at its best when focusing on its three powerhouse female stars. Tracy Nicole…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:14PMSunday, July 30, 2017
SUPER TROUPERS BURN BRIGHTLY UNDER THE STARS I’ve always thought Benny Andersson and Björn Kristian Ulvaeus of ABBA, along with Mamma Mia! book writer Catherine Johnson, were incredibly s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:59PMFriday, July 21, 2017
THE MIRACLE OF LOVE: WINANS STYLE BeBe Winans was on-hand to enjoy a triumphant opening night for his coming-of-age stage musical Born For This, that takes him and his sister CeCe from young…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:51AM 
