Tuesday, September 25, 2012
HAUNTING HOWLS Rose Afratian harbors a dark secret. This wiry old woman’s shoulders are hunched and her eyes are sunken from ninety-one years of hell on earth, living with a sin she dare n…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:00AMFriday, September 21, 2012
I was lounging at an oversized library desk, perusing the papers strewn about – fragments of Gatz (The Great Gatsby), The Select (The Sun Also Rises) and The Sound and the Fury (Apri…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 01:58AMThursday, September 20, 2012
FORBIDDEN BETTER THAN BROADWAY Musical theater fans, rejoice! Forbidden Broadway is back – Alive & Kicking! – with a raucous new romp through the current theatrical season. This off-…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:37PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
WHAT’CHA GONNA DO? In a poignant moment in Act II of the new musical Chaplin, cultural icon Charlie Chaplin realizes that life is not a movie. One has to take the tears with the laughter, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:39AMSaturday, September 15, 2012
ONLY IN NEW YORK The next time you pass through Times Square, be sure to wave at the tricked out tour bus with windows that soar to the ceiling, flashing LED lights, and a pounding sound sys…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:10PMTuesday, September 11, 2012
I moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 2008 to start a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. My dad and I packed up Lil Pesh Aveo in North Carolina and road tripped across the co…
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 11:43PMPLODDING ALONG THE TRAIN TRACKS What does it mean to persist in a world without hope? Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver tackles human mortality with grim poetic grace, but the New York premi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:55PMMonday, September 10, 2012
Sunday, September 9, 2012
CLAP YOUR HANDS IF YOU BELIEVE A theatrical revolution is taking place at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where a high-tech Broadway spectacle has been swapped for the homespun magic of a talen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:49PMFriday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
TRAPPED IN VIRTUAL LIFE Tune into Findlay//Sandsmark’s fractured bones / let’s get lost for an immersive meditation on the mediatization of contemporary culture. This Norwegian performan…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00PMMonday, August 6, 2012
The Real Drunk Housewives of the San Fernando Valley: Review for Stage and Cinema
SOURCE: Compositions on Theater at 01:35PMBRING ON THE BOTOX Fans of reality television, rejoice! The Real Drunk Housewives of the San Fernando Valley has just hit the stage – live and in person, sloshed and singing. While this ne…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:09PMFriday, July 13, 2012
COME FOR GEORGE HAMILTON, STAY FOR CHRISTOPHER SIEBER The national tour of La Cage aux Folles leaves its audience basking in the warm afterglow of a delightful musical comedy. As an enthused…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:40AMFriday, July 6, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
I WILL SURVIVE In the opening act of Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, a group of campers sits by the warm glow of a trashcan fire and tries to retell a favorite episode of The Simpsons. Matt…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:33PMThursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
FINDING CHEEZBURGER AT THE THEATER In a not-too-distant dystopian future in which lolcats are humans’ only form of communication, the epic LOLPERA – a lolcat pop opera – links our mem…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:02PMA WELCOME MATT In Matt Soson’s new dark comedy The Lights Are Off, a college dorm room becomes a hotbed of sex, violence, drug dealing, and explorations of identity. The play centers on ro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:44AMMonday, June 18, 2012
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