Wednesday, 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 06:37AMMonday, May 27, 2024
YOU’RE THE TOPSY TURVY During the forced shutdown of theaters due to the COVID pandemic, The Actors’ Gang in Culver City kept its employees on salary and health insurance, adapted their …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:51AMFriday, May 24, 2024
UNSAVORY IS SAVORY INDEED Those of us who grew up on the Westside of Los Angeles certainly remember hanging out on the Venice and Santa Monica beaches when we were kids. Times then were as i…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:51AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
A DICTATOR DICTATES MUSIC IN STALIN’S MASTER CLASS In a time when politics collide with state and federal budgets for the arts, Stalin’s Master Class — a wildly comic, music-filled ri…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:27AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
TIME TO CHECK-IN TO HOT L HOLLYWOOD Written by Roger Mathey based on his own personal experience working in a three-star hotel in Los Angeles for over a decade, The Night Auditor takes place…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:14AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
WOMEN AND SPACE: THE JOURNEY SO FAR The World Premiere of Singularities or the Computers of Venus, written and directed by Laura Stribling, runs through Sunday, June 2 at The Road Theatre in…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:37PMTuesday, May 7, 2024
IT’S MAN AGAINST AI IN MAINTENANCE With the current threat of AI-generated digital characters taking over roles portrayed by human actors, it’s timely for Peter Ritt to comically explor…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:50AMSunday, May 5, 2024
HOPE IS A WAKING DREAM — Aristotle Close-up magic by master illusionist, storyteller and seeming mind-reader Helder Guimarães is mesmerizing and dazzling in The Hope Theory, an 80-minute…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMThursday, May 2, 2024
THE DECONSTRUCTED PLAY’S THE THING William Shakespeare’s Hamlet recounts the story of the ghost of Denmark’s murdered king who wants his son, Prince Hamlet, to kill his uncle Claudius,…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMFriday, April 26, 2024
A MONSTER MASH Like most boomers, I was raised watching black-and-white horror movies. Both frightening and amusing, those giant ants, grasshoppers and spiders attacking some innocent town w…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:18AM 
