Saturday, September 28, 2024
LIVING IT UP IN HER LIVING ROOM In the shimmering galaxy of cabaret, few stars sparkle with the vivacity and brilliance of Jessica Vosk, who, at 40, is the real deal. You're talking about a …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2024
IT'S OK TO GET SAUCED FOR STUNNING SAUCY STRIPPERS AND SPECTACULAR SAUCERS, OR MAY THE TORSO BE WITH YOU Forget about Broadway or the latest Marvel Comic movie. The fun, hip and cool burlesq…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:49PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2024
SEEING ONCE ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH Ironically, the real-life love affair between collaborators Glen Hansard, an Irish singer-songwriter, and Markéta Irglová, a Czech songwriter, fizzled afte…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 21, 2024
IT TICKS, IT BOOMS, IT EXPLODES! Theatre Palisades has struck gold with its astoundingly entertaining and moving production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick… BOOM! Expanding the cast from t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2024
YOU'LL WANT TO SEE THIS CLOVER AND CLOVER AGAIN There's a wonderful new show playing at the Cinegrill Theater at the gorgeous Hollywood Roosevelt that is not so easy to shoehorn into a simpl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2024
TRYING TO MAKE LIFE BETTER AT ANY COSTCO Head north to the small town of Lewiston, Idaho, and you'll discover how the town got its name. One of the town's main attractions is the Lewis and C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2024
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED Take a look at the highly decorated diorama just before you go upstairs to the Henry Murray Theatre for one of the most exciting world premieres you will ever se…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:04PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2024
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL I love how the press notes for A Noise Within's stupendous revival of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth noted a quote from original director Elia Kazan: "I overh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2024
A MUSICAL THAT'S TOO CIVIL TO RESONATE Union soldier Jeffrey N. Davis (no relation to President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis), is on the hunt for his best friend, Alb…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 8, 2024
THIS BAT COMES OUT SWINGING Bat Boy: The Musical is finally returning to Los Angeles for a run at Morgan"Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica September 28 through October 13, 2024. This outrageous…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:29PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2024
THE DOUBLE V GETS A DOUBLE D It's a shame that Carole Eglash"Kosoff's period drama The Double V is such a lackluster, overwritten, repetitive piece of didacticism. The story is one which …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre has unveiled its 2024-25 season, launching in October with its 34th season opener, the Midwest premiere of Sarah Ruhl's bewitching new dark comedy, Becky…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:26PM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2024
Rubicon Theatre, Ventura County's not-for-profit professional theatre company, has just announced the schedule for the company's 26th season. Rubicon's 2024-2025 six-show season, entitled "D…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:52AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2024
Dido of Idaho, now playing at Atwater Village, is yet more proof that Echo Theater Company really knows how to pick bold original scripts. And usually they have a heart of darkness somewhere…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2024
In his remembrance of Stephen Sondheim, Stage and Cinema's Jason Mannino wrote, "Sondheim delved fearlessly into the human psyche and condition, creating rich, complex worlds and characters …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:47AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2024
Geffen Playhouse and Steppenwolf Theatre Company announce the joint Chicago/LA cast of Noises Off Written by Michael Frayn Directed by Anna D. Shapiro A Co-Production with Steppe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2024
ALL SCRIPTS SHOULD BE THIS GROWN UP One of the most riveting and original pieces of theater I have ever seen, The Grown-Ups is now playing outdoors around a campfire near you. Funny, spooky,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2024
CHICKEN STORIES IS A FOWL BALL! There are more than 8 billion people on the earth. But did you know that there are more chickens on the planet than human beings? And you know that we're not …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:55PM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2024
A SOLID 10 FOR 13 San Diego Musical Theatre's Pre-Professional production of 13: The Musical, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Last Five Years), left me positively giddy …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2024
SIZING UP THE BROTHERS SIZE IS JUST PART OF ITS APPEAL When I first saw a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, I wrote, "It is thrilling to hear the poetic dialogue of a propitious new American pl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2024
THE WORST BEST MAN MAKES THE BEST MAN SHOW A GUARANTEED WINNER We're attending a wedding. Every viewer in the audience is an attendee. The vows have already been exchanged, and now it's time…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2024
One of my favorite places to see plays in NYC is also NYC's most prominent Latino theatre companies: Repertorio Español. Performed in Spanish with easy-to-read supertitles in English, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2024
"There's more to her than anyone could ever infer " You can kick my words to the curb. I think it's time that we heard from her." An ice-cold, high-octane adaptation of Euripides' play writt…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 6, 2024
The People vs. Lenny Bruce, presented by Cause Célèbre Productions and Henderson Productions, is the third segment of All The Court's A Stage, a series of plays that are based on seven of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:42PM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2024
A NICE EXPAT ON THE HEAD Now, here's a fascinating show. Two former lawyers (the best kind I say) and whip-smart writers, Dominique Roberts and Candace Leung, wrote and starred in Expatriate…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]THERE MAY BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH CYRUS, BUT NOT SO MUCH HIS SHOW Meet Cyrus Deboo. An adult actor who, against all the odds and ends of a traditional Persian upbringing, blossomed into an o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2024
WHO WERE THE WOMEN OF BALLET RUSSES? The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX is turning to its esteemed Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts to re-contextualize Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Wom…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2024
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES I'm rather certain that most folks in the U.S.A. have no idea that Chicago is one of the best theater towns in the world. The reason for this is storefront theaters, whic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:36PM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2024
A MUSICAL THAT REACHES FOR NEW HEIGHTS Built during the Depression between 1930 and 1931, the Empire State Building became the world's tallest office building"surpassing the Chrysler Buildin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2024
AN EVENT TO MAKE YOU HIGH No doubt spurred by William Randolph Hearst's yellow-journalism against pot (he invested in wood-pulp newsprint so he didn't want paper made from hemp), a church gr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:35PM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2024
SUPER FEMMINA SUPER To say that I was fascinated with Femmina Super is an understatement. The show is subtitled, "A Modern Opera," which normally has me running in the other direction, as ne…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:03PM[SHARE] 
