Sunday, March 9, 2025
COME TO MICHAEL MATTHEW’S CABARET With the amount of political turmoil and rising antisemitism in the world right now, it seems the perfect time to present an updated staging of the popula…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:38AMThursday, February 27, 2025
GREAT CONCERT, BUT LIGHT ON ROCK As part of its POPS series, always a fun and friendly way to enjoy an entertaining night out, Long Beach Symphony, now in its 90th season, welcomed guest con…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:19PMThursday, February 20, 2025
MEET MARKET Have you ever gone to a speed dating event where singles meet, spend a few minutes talking to one person, and then move on to the next person, each for a pre-arranged chat sessio…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:51PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
A TIME CAPSULE OF GENERATIONAL LOVE, PAIN, AND RESILIENCE Every family has a unique mix of personalities, each member knowing their place and how to maneuver others to get what they need. Bu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:19PMMonday, February 3, 2025
WHAT FUN GETTING LOST IN AUSTEN Fresh from its smash hit engagement at Theatre 40, Jane Austen in 89 Minutes has moved into the artistically appropriate Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills fo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:11PMSunday, February 2, 2025
KEEPING MEMORY ALIVE Memoryhouse, which premiered in 2023 as the first full-length ballet directed by Los Angeles Ballet’s new Artistic Director Melissa Barak, is an abstract work compose…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:28PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
IN A YEAR WHERE EVERYTHING HAS GONE WRONG, THIS WRONG MAKES EVERYTHING RIGHT The Tony Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong, also crowned Best New Comedy at the 2015 Olivier Awards, is a si…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:52PMSunday, January 19, 2025
HEAVENBOUND ROUSES THE SPIRIT AT WILSHIRE EBELL THEATRE In the face of so much destruction from the ongoing Los Angeles fires, a bright event brought a sense of spiritual peace during Heaven…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:40AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
ON THE RIGHT TRACK Prior to his new play Union Station, playing at the Broadwater Main Stage Jan 23-26, Ron Harner wrote and directed three other plays: The Ones Who Leave (2019), Spitting F…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:29AMWednesday, December 18, 2024
SMALLTOWN ROOTS, BIGTOWN PERFORMER Personable Kristin Chenoweth – the original Glinda in the Broadway musical Wicked – was a delight last night in L.A. This is Kristen as a regular gal f…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:34PMWednesday, December 11, 2024
Accompanied by the rockin’ 4-piece Troubadorchestra led by music director Ryan Whyman, the always-entertaining, hip and sassy Troubadour Theater Company (The Troubies) is generating tons o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:21PMFriday, November 22, 2024
DEAD ON ARRIVAL The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, adapted for the stage by Mark Shanahan from Agatha Christie’s 1926 novel, premiered at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas in 2023. It’s no s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:53AMMonday, November 11, 2024
PRIVATE EYES IS SO PRIVATE THAT YOU’LL CROSS YOUR EYES TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT Perhaps Shakespeare was right to say “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.�…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:39AMWednesday, November 6, 2024
MEMORIES OF CHERISHED TIMES As we age and our memories fade away, certain items from our lifetime can trigger both happy and unpleasant memories, making us feel in the moment without worryin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:40AMThursday, October 31, 2024
TIED TO THE RAILROAD TRACKS OF A SILLY MELODRAMA, OR CUTE CAN ONLY GO SO FAR Popular during the Victorian era in England, a melodrama is a sensationally overly dramatic piece with lots of co…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:19PMThursday, October 24, 2024
A BUMPY RIDE INTO THE AFTERLIFE Like many small, non-profit theatre groups, NEO Ensemble Theatre is nomadic by nature, moving from theater to theater to present modern, socially relevant pla…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:00AMTuesday, October 22, 2024
CIVIL UNREST When I walked into the very small and incredibly intimate Broadwater Studio Theatre, I immediately thought about Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, about a couple of loners looking …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:14PMThursday, October 17, 2024
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. — W. C. Fields I highly recommend the World Premiere of Robbin, From the Hood, which opened last Friday at Road Theatre. It is playwright …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:08AMTuesday, October 15, 2024
BACKSTAGE BROADWAY BACKSTABBING: ALL ABOUT THE WISDOM OF EVE Any fan of film noir most assuredly has seen the 1950 major motion picture All About Eve, which shares the story of a young Broad…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:09PMSaturday, October 12, 2024
VOCALIZING VAMPIRES & THE UNDULATING UNDEAD BITE ME! SUCK ME! ROCK ME! From Dracula to Dark Shadows, vampires have always been an entertainment staple during the Halloween season. This y…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMAs a female journalist myself, I was curious to learn about the life of Anne Royall, a former maid who married her employer, a landed gentleman in the early 1800s when such marriages were ra…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AMThursday, October 10, 2024
AN ELECTRIFYING TESLA Much has been written about Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, radio and so much more, ever since his name became one of the w…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMFriday, September 20, 2024
A MASTER OF MUSICAL THEATER; TWENTY-SEVEN SONGS; THREE GREAT PERFORMERS; ONE TERRIFIC REVUE 3 Faces of Steve: Sondheim in Concert at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble is a revue that spans the breadt…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:31AMThursday, September 12, 2024
AN AUTHENTIC 70S NEW YORK DISCO EXPERIENCE FROM DUSK TO DAWN On Saturday September 7, 2024, live entertainment and hospitality trailblazer Spiegelworld and Caesars Entertainment hosted a dus…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:17AMWednesday, September 11, 2024
ABSINTHE I FELL FOR YOU For a most salacious evening of “adult” delights, head on over to Absinthe at Caesar’s Palace which is surely the #1 Greatest Show in Las Vegas history (it has…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:08PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
Now playing at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre is the world premiere of Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular. Performed by an enthusiastic and energetic ensemble, and writt…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:31AMThursday, August 1, 2024
For 26 years, pianist/actor/playwright/producer Hershey Felder has conjured the spirits of George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Leonard Bernstein, Piotr Ilyic…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:20PMSunday, July 7, 2024
A TIME-TRAVELING UNBROKEN BLOSSOMS REVEALS BIGOTRY AND MISOGYNY Before seeing the world premiere of Unbroken Blossoms by Philip W. Chung at East West Players, I had never heard of the 1919 A…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:29PMSunday, June 23, 2024
GOOD LESSONS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES Sometimes life throws you for a loop when fun times take a turn in unexpected ways, changing your whole life in an instant. Such is the story at the cente…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:35PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
NICE ASP! Troubadour Theater Company is a free-wheeling, no holds barred, commedia dell’arte-flavored, slapstick-driven Los Angeles based ensemble of actors, musicians, and comedians that …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:40AMSaturday, June 8, 2024
FRANTIC ANTICS FUEL THE HUMOR Terrence McNally updated his 1986 Off-Broadway comedy It’s Only a Play for Broadway in 2014 featuring an all-star cast including F. Murray Abraham, Matthew B…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:37AM 
