Wednesday, April 14, 2021
FROM STAR TREK TO NUTCRACKER, ORSON WELLES TO NOËL COWARD, ROBERT FLETCHER LEFT HIS WHIMSICAL MARK Robert Fletcher, the prolific costume designer for both stage and screen, died peacefully …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 08:46PMSunday, April 4, 2021
On April 10 and 11, 2021, REDCAT, CalArts’ center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles is presenting DRAGÓN (THE RETURN OF THE DRAGON), the newest work from internationally renow…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 10:18PMSaturday, April 3, 2021
YOU’LL FALL IN LOVE WITH AMOUR “I wanted to write an opera-bouffe, an intimate evening with light, lyrical singing and delicate charm,” wrote composer Michel Legrand. “Marcel Aymé…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 10:31PMThe Actors Fund, Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers and Christine Baranski are teaming up on an auction event without precedent: “Stage & Screen.” Featuring a diverse array of me…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 08:47PMTHE SPIRIT OF THIS PIECE RESIDES IN PERFORMER VERO MAYNEZ What I left with from Feel the Spirit, which opened last night virtual-but-live from Shotgun Players, is the central performance of …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:22PMArthur Kopit, the legendary dramatist, died yesterday morning at the age of 83. He is survived by his wife, Leslie Garis; his children Alex, Ben, Kat; his grandchildren Arthur, Beatrix, and…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:22PMFriday, April 2, 2021
NORTH COAST REP SUCCEEDS, BUT THE PLAY IS STILL TRYING The eagerness of youth; the decay of old age; cynicism in a world of injustice; literature; mortality; idealism; FDR; and timeless quot…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 04:11PMSHE’S TAPPING OUR TROUBLES AWAY Tap superstar Ayodele Casel returns to The Joyce in NYC for a world premiere digital engagement that explores the joys of everyday life and the art of tap d…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 04:11PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
HIS CAREER IS NO ACCIDENT John Cullum: An Accidental Star is an 80-minute intimate evening of stories and songs spanning Cullum’s illustrious career is told and sung by the 91-year-old tw…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 05:50PMMonday, March 29, 2021
AS WITH A HIEROGLYPH, THIS PLAY IS DIFFICULT TO READ Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s [hieroglyph], now streaming from San Francisco Playhouse and and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, belongs to a ge…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 05:15AMSunday, March 28, 2021
I FOUND THE PERFECT COCK. NOW SEE IF YOU CAN TAKE IT. D.C.’s Studio Theatre production of Cock is a most successful outing in the world of pandemic theater — that which is filmed as a th…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 08:02PMFriday, March 26, 2021
A HOMER RUN The 90-minute one-act play An Iliad is a stunning marvel. This retelling of the famous epic The Iliad, attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, is not a straight reading of T…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 05:18PMWednesday, March 24, 2021
DON’T MYTH THIS Myths and Hymns is a kaleidoscopic song cycle that explores the nature of faith and longing in a secular world. With it, MasterVoices is exploring the nature of choral pe…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:17AMA ROSE BY ANY OTHER LANGUAGE… Since COVID-19’s halting live theater, there have been two different entertainments emerging. One is plays, concerts and music performed either through ZOOM…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 02:42AMMonday, March 15, 2021
A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THEATRE STARRING PETER COYOTE PREMIERES VIRTUALLY MARCH 25 – APRIL 11, 2021 Quantum Leap Productions will present Riders of the Purple Sage: The Making of a Wester…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 09:21PMThursday, March 11, 2021
Hey, folks, last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Audra McDonald discussed a year without Broadway, raved about the star-studded cast of The Good Fight and shared her experience meeting…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 05:39PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
THEATER BY MAIL..? HEAVEN SENT! A collective of 13 theater companies and individual artists from 8 cities across the globe have joined forces for Post Theatrical, a festival of works that us…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 09:16PMFriday, March 5, 2021
AN INSIDE TWO-PART LOOK AT THE LIFE AND WORK OF BROADWAY LEGEND JERRY HERMAN Broadway’s podcast, The Fabulous Invalid, has today released an epic two-part episode, Jerry Herman: Poet of t…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:53PMArt, music and science intersect in UnRavelled, a new drama by award-winning, Los Angeles-based playwright Jake Broder (Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara) and directed by Nike Doukas…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:53PMTHE FORD CONTINUES FREE ONLINE SERIES FROM THE FORD IN L.A. WITH INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE Thursday, March 11, 2021, 6:30pm PT Set in the aftermath of a natural disaster, Invertigo Dance Theat…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 07:53PMThursday, March 4, 2021
Reuniting The Stars of the Original Cast: Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford Streaming on demand from Thursday March 11 through Sunday March 21, Manhattan Theatre Club …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 03:32PMMonday, March 1, 2021
FREE ONLINE ANNIVERSARY EVENT ON MARCH 8 INCLUDES SONDHEIM Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on December 18, 1990, and closed on …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 08:53PMSunday, February 28, 2021
The world premiere of The Joffrey Ballet’s Boléro, filmed at the Gerald Arpino Black Box Theatre, has been playing since last Friday. Now it has been extended, and I highly recommend a v…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 05:44PMThursday, February 25, 2021
CAESAR THE MOMENT Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare’s best known and most oft-quoted plays, chronicling the political and moral crisis of Brutus and his fellow conspirators as they plot …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 03:56PMSunday, February 21, 2021
SANTINO AND SETH Get ready, kids. This Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 8 (LIVE!) and Monday at 3 (EST), the gregarious, gadfly Seth Rudetsky will have as his guest Santino Fontana. Seth — acc…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 08:38AMFriday, January 29, 2021
NOT SO LITTLE ANYMORE On February 2, 2021, A Little New Music continues its “Spotlight Series” with the music of multi-talented composer/lyricist Rob Rokicki of The Lightning Thief: The …
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 09:39PMSunday, January 17, 2021
NEED A REASON TO WATCH GREAT ONLINE CONCERTS? HERE’S Y. Beginning Monday February 1, 2021, NYC’s 92Y is presenting quite the cavalcade of concerts. From Emanuel Ax to Richard Goode and D…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:39AMCONNECTING ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD Here comes Films.Dance, an extremely ambitious and most promising global project from one of the hottest leaders in dance. This stunningly shot series exi…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:39AMRAILING AGAINST DEPRESSION Being a lover of railroads, especially railroad travel, I still remember this absorbing documentary from PBS’s American Experience. Back in 1998, I learned of th…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 06:39AMSaturday, January 16, 2021
NEW SEASON TAKES CENTER COURT Chicago’s great Court Theatre has sadly had to postpone its production of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, but Owen McCafferty’s Titanic (Scenes from t…
Linked From Stage and Cinema at 09:04PMSunday, January 10, 2021
PERSONALIZING DIASPORA Perhaps one of the reasons more people aren’t wearing masks in the U.S. to protect themselves and others during the COVID pandemic is that, even with 369,000 deaths …
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