Wednesday, September 19, 2012
COLLECTED STORIES: A SNOOZE INDUCING ”WRITE” OF PASSAGE As a critic I hope for one of two things: either a production is fantastic or, to be blunt, it sucks. For me at least, a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:52PMMonday, September 10, 2012
A WHOLE NEW WORLD Musical revues are a tricky business. While highly enjoyable and entertaining, even high profile compilations like Side By Side By Sondheim and the Fats Waller song book Ai…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:35PMSaturday, September 8, 2012
A BROOKLYN LOVE STORY – FUHGEDDABOUDIT! Originally produced as Emergency Used Candles for NYC’s Emerging Artists Theatre One Woman Standing Festival and then followed by a run at the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:47PMFriday, August 31, 2012
MAGIC TRICKS OR TRAGIC MIX? Everyone once in a while a show comes along that defies classification. Elephant Room, making its West Coast Premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre is one such show…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:42PMFISHING FOR LAUGHS If you are now or were at some point a wannabe entertainment professional, chances are you’re no stranger to slinging hash in a greasy spoon to make ends meet. Pla…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:48PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
CORPORATE FOUR-PLAY As the audience files into the Falcon Theater for their performance of The Grӧnholm Method, the sleek, stark and sterile meeting room of Fortune 500 company Burnham + …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:38PMSunday, August 19, 2012
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, BUT THE AUDIENCE WASN’T SO LUCKY Douglas Carter Beane’s 2007 Tony-nominated play The Little Dog Laughed is a comedy. Apparently director Jon Cortez did no…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:39PMSaturday, August 18, 2012
THE PLAY’S THE THING IN BLAME IT ON BECKETT The Oxford Dictionary defines a dramaturge as “a literary editor on the staff of a theatre who liaises with authors and edits texts…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AMSaturday, August 4, 2012
THE BAT: A SWING AND A MISS Nowadays, more times than not, new plays are a wham-bam, down-and-dirty, in-and-out in 80 minutes “theater-lite” affair. Not that I’m complainin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23PMFriday, August 3, 2012
WHO NEEDS HORSES? FARM BOY GALLOPS ALL ON ITS OWN War Horse is the theatrical juggernaut that took London by storm, crossed the pond, swept the Tony Awards and hit the road, recently complet…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:28PMSunday, July 22, 2012
ALL YOUR HARD WORK NEEDS MORE HARD WORK It’s safe to say that no writer sets out to pen an unexceptional play, but despite all of his hard work, the end result falls short. Such is the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:39PMFriday, July 20, 2012
ALL FOR ONE Commonalities of the human experience take center stage in Mental Creatures: An Original Play With Music currently making its world premiere at the Lounge Theatre 2 in Hollywood.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:57PMMonday, July 16, 2012
AIMLESSLY ADRIFT ON GOLDEN POND After seeing the stage version of On Golden Pond, now playing at The Glendale Centre Theatre, it’s impossible not to think how much more rewarding it wo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:54PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
GRIN AND SMILE AND LAUGH-ALOT Full disclosure: I am a big fan of Monty Python and have seen five productions of Monty Python’s Spamalot. On Broadway, in Vegas, two touring companies …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:01PMFriday, June 29, 2012
FLUFF IS NOT ENOUGH Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies is precisely the type of title that peaks curiosity leading one to think that with such a clever and catchy name it has to be good. N…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:38PM 
