Tuesday, September 12, 2023
OUR DEAR DEAD PLAYWRIGHTING In Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, which opened last Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, feral feminism from sociopathic fledglings starts out fantastic but goes off the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMThursday, September 7, 2023
THE GOSPEL AT GETTY Created by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, The Gospel at Colonus — a Greek tragedy turned Pentecostal revival — had its original 1983 production at the fBrooklyn Academy o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:14PMSunday, September 3, 2023
AN UNSTOPPABLE TRAJECTORY Ruskin Group Theatre‘s season-opener, a landmark drama from 1955, exploded into relevance last Friday night. A rarity worth a return, Arthur Miller’s drama of a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:51PMThursday, August 31, 2023
CABARET JUST GETS BETTER WITH AGE Cabaret was and remains one of the boldest and most innovative experiments in the history of musical theater, a ravishing work that has neither lost its pow…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:04PMSunday, August 20, 2023
GREAT (F.) SCOTT! If you love literature, have fond memories of being read to or of reading to others, and feel, as so many do, that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby — the story of…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:32PMThursday, August 17, 2023
A composite play by four playwrights, Mecca Is Burning — which closes Sunday at the Harlem School of the Arts — confronts social and racial themes through the use of protest poetry, dial…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:15PMTuesday, August 15, 2023
DON’T MIZ IT Unlike most of the characters in the blockbuster sung-through musical Les Misérables, the show itself will never die. Consistently presented either on Broadway, national tou…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:45AMThursday, August 3, 2023
A PIPELINE TO THE TROUBLED SOUL One of our era’s greatest dramatists, Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew, Ain’t Too Proud) sheds light on the complicated realities of urban African-Amer…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:37PMMonday, July 31, 2023
CRAB’S LAST TAPE Ah, Theatre of the Absurd. a place where characters can grapple with existentialism, that which is the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent d…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:35PMMonday, July 24, 2023
PERFECTLY MARVELOUS You better tell Momma and everybody else to come see Wildsong’s production of Cabaret, which opened last weekend in Ocean Beach. When you take into consideration that t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:25PMSunday, July 23, 2023
GOOD NEWS: PIPPIN‘S A PIP Some shows stay young by never growing up: With a book by Roger O. Hirson, this 1972 hit show originally directed by Bob Fosse is the perfect example of a musical…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:09PMTHEATER AS THERAPY The waiting room at a psychiatrist’s office is an emotional airlock between the chaos of the outside world and the sanctuary of the therapy office. It’s public yet pri…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, July 17, 2023
THE TEMPEST AS RADIO PLAY One can only wonder why productions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest have been sprouting up like magical vines in the jungle. Is it because the tale is about revenge …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:26PMSunday, July 16, 2023
ANTSY The subject of “haves” and “have-nots” in the theater is nothing new, having been explored from The Greeks to Molière. More recent hallmarks are the Industrial Age’s The Hai…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:44PMSunday, July 9, 2023
LAST SUMMER THIS SUMMER Written in 1976 by the late Jane Chambers, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove — which opened in 1980, NYC — is a milestone in lesbian theatre history. Chambers’ name …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:35PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
DANCING THROUGH WAR Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center, which has presented world premieres by Alexei Ratmansky for more than a decade — including American Ballet Theatre’s Of Love and R…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:33PMBETTER MAKE THAT LATER Christopher Shinn clearly understands the American consciousness. In Now or Later, a 2008 one-act which opened at the Royal Court Theatre with a fresh-faced Eddie Redm…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:45AMMonday, June 12, 2023
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO YOU TO SEE RAINEE BLAKE AS JONI MITCHELL LIVE During the 2018 Music Center concert, Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration Live, Peter Gabriel sent a prescient message to the a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTHIS SOUL NEEDS DOCTORING Soul Doctor is a 2010 musical about Rabbi Shlomo Carlbach, a.k.a. The Singing Rabbi and The Rock and Roll Rabbi, from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to his O…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, June 5, 2023
MUELLER IS COOLER IN UP-CLOSE CABARET The Wallis in Beverly Hills lays claim to being the place to see and be seen on Friday June 16 at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, as one of Broadway’s br…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:21AMThursday, June 1, 2023
EVERYONE IS WELCOME AT THESE PARTIES With a fierce commitment to inclusivity and celebrating the beauty of individuality, Company XIV captivates audiences throughout Pride Month with its aw…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:06PMMonday, May 29, 2023
A NEOPHYTE BROWNSHIRT UNDER A BLUE WALL OF DEFENCE Written by June Carryl and directed by Michael Matthews, Blue is a 60-minute nailbiter which has been extended to June 5. Rogue Machine Th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:58PMThursday, May 25, 2023
THE SONERO, THE BETTER Here’s what tipped me off that we were about to see something special: Pianist Carlos Ordiano enters with four band members (“The Razor Blades”) at Los Angeles T…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:33PMPIFFLING PIRATES OF PENZANCE POPS WITH POP The plot of The Pirates of Penzance, a satire so cutting in Victorian days, will likely come off as inane to today’s spectators. Still, Arthur Su…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:18PMSunday, May 21, 2023
CELEBRATION THEATRE GOT IT RIGHT! (BUT “THEY” DIDN’T) When William Finn‘s autobiographical musical A New Brain opened at Lincoln Center in 1998, I couldn’t understand why the revi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMThursday, May 18, 2023
DEAR SAN FRANCISCO: A HIGH-FLYING LOVE STORY AT SAN FRANCISCO’S HISTORIC CLUB FUGAZI EXTENDED THRU DECEMBER 31, 2023 WORLD-RENOWNED CIRCUS AND ARTS COLLECTIVE, THE 7 FINGERS, CREATED THIS …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:46PMWednesday, May 10, 2023
CHEERS! If there’s anything better than a cocktail before or after a Broadway show, it’s a cocktail in a Broadway show. So, I’d like to propose a toast … slide your coffee table book…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:45PMMonday, May 8, 2023
QUEERILY, WE ROLL ALONG From June 15-July 3, 2023, the 9th annual Queerly Festival hits The Kraine Theater (85 E 4th St) and UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl), Most performances will also be …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:35PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
HOP INTO SPRING Friendship is among the hardest subjects to parse, but this musical based on Arnold Lobel’s “Frog and Toad” stories, considers friendship warts and all. Frog and Toad w…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:11AMSaturday, April 29, 2023
After the roaring success of Pasadena Playhouse’s wonderful production of Sunday in the Park with George, now comes A Little Night Music, which officially opens May 1, 2023. This is the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:43AMThursday, April 27, 2023
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES No plague can kill a great show. It’s back. In a rare clash of film noir, performance art, an awesome murder mystery party, and Shakespeare, Punchdrunk’s S…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:33PM 
