Tuesday, 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 02:18AMThursday, April 25, 2024
A ROYAL KING From the moment Irish actor extraordinaire Pat Kinevane appears out of the darkness as if in a dream, his lithe body moving as seductively as a snake into a sexy Argentine Tango…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:39PMSaturday, April 13, 2024
I FEEL YA, OPHELIA Acclaimed playwright, director, and actor Stefan Marks has outdone himself taking on three roles in his World Premiere play Ophelia, now at the Odyssey Theatre through May…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:36PMMonday, April 8, 2024
WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION Taking place within the confines of a witness room in Manhattan Criminal Court, four obdurate NYPD officers who have “done all this before and know what to sa…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:17PMSunday, March 31, 2024
A VIEW TO GREAT THEATER Theatre Palisades has a hit on their boards with a true-to-life production of Arthur Miller’s landmark drama from 1955, A View from the Bridge, sharply directed by …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:23AMFriday, March 29, 2024
FOR THEATERGOERS DESIRING A COAT OF LOVE, THIS SHOW IS BESPOKEN FOR Sometimes friends or even co-workers can become more like family than your relatives. Such is the case in Wolf Mankowitz�…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:34PMSaturday, March 2, 2024
A FASCINATING DIVERSE UPDATE TO CHEKHOV’S THREE SISTERS In 1900, Anton Chekhov wrote the play Three Sisters, centering around siblings both very similar and remarkably different who grew u…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:55AMSaturday, February 10, 2024
YOU MIGHT WANNA MISS THIS TRAIN Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 psychological film noir thriller Strangers on a Train, which he directed and produced to mixed reviews, was based on the 1950 novel…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:14AMWednesday, February 7, 2024
ANN HEARN TOBOLOWSKY RAISES THE TEMPERATURE ON LOS ANGELES THEATER I have been following the work of extraordinary director Ann Hearn Tobolowsky at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills for quite some…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:06PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
THE JOINT IS, INDEED, JUMPIN’ The musical revue Ain’t Misbehavin’ is a sizzling celebration of Fats Waller’s music — songs that he made famous in a career that ranged from uptown c…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMWednesday, January 24, 2024
Playwright, fiction writer, director, and immersive experience creator for weird, fantastical artistic ventures Chelsea Sutton has always had a very unique sense of humor. Hearing of her in…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:00AM 
