In 2010, I witnessed the work of playwright Terrell Alvin McCraney for the first time. I knew immediately that his would prove to be an important voice in the theater. Since that fateful day…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:29PM[SHARE]GREAT STUFF IS COOKING IN THIS KITCHEN The world premiere of new coming-of-age musical, HELL'S KITCHEN, with music and lyrics by New York's own 15-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys and pl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34PM[SHARE]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: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]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 of Mu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:14PM[SHARE]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 an in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:51PM[SHARE]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: Stage and Cinema at 07:04PM[SHARE]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 Jay…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:32PM[SHARE]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, dialogue…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:15PM[SHARE]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: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]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-Americ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:37PM[SHARE]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 det…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:35PM[SHARE]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 thi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:25PM[SHARE]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 t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:09PM[SHARE]THEATER 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 private…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]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 as…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:26PM[SHARE]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 Hairy Ape by …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:44PM[SHARE]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 is leg…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:35PM[SHARE]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 Rag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:33PM[SHARE]BETTER 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: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]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: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]THIS 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: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]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 brig…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:21AM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:58PM[SHARE]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 Theatre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:33PM[SHARE]PIFFLING 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 Sull…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:18PM[SHARE]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 reviews were…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]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 ON…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:46PM[SHARE]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 to th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:45PM[SHARE]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: Stage and Cinema at 09:35PM[SHARE]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 worry a…
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