Thursday, January 20, 2022
The Bay Area Premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery — the winner of the 2020 Obie Award for Playwriting, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Pulitzer Finalist…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:50PMSaturday, January 15, 2022
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD GOES ON HIATUS Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the best play I’ve seen on Broadway in years — and the most successful American play in Broadway history �…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:58AMFriday, January 14, 2022
BROADWAY HOTSPOT THE GREEN ROOM 42 CELEBRATES 5 YEARS WITH JUDY KUHN AND ALEXANDRA SILBER ON VALENTINE’S DAY The outstanding venue Green Room 42, which I had the pleasure of getting to kno…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:28PMRelevant. Absorbing. Intense. Thought-provoking. Riveting. Ambitious. This is powerful theatre that plumbs the depths. It does not allow you to breathe. It’s rewards are rich and will stay…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:45PMMonday, January 10, 2022
J.M. BARRIE’S MARY ROSE BECOMES WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL Black Button Eyes Productions concludes its 2021-22 season with Mary Rose, a world premiere musical adapted from the same-titled play…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:20PMFriday, December 24, 2021
HELLO, BIRDIE! THE FILM BYE BYE BIRDIE PLAYS AT THE MONTALBAN IN L.A. ON JANUARY 13; ANN-MARGRET AND BOBBY RYDELL TO APPEAR IN PERSON Cinelounge Theatres and Cleopatra Records will present a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:51PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
SLOW TO DIE, OR FAST TO LIVE? The setting is the story in The Children, Fountain Theatre’s L.A. premiere. Set designer Andrew Hammer depicts a hand-me-down yet tidy seaside cottage off …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18AMFriday, November 19, 2021
A BEAT OFF You may have never heard of the musical Head Over Heels, but this screwy mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century poem Arcadia and the songs of the iconic 1980s’ femal…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:34PMFriday, November 5, 2021
THANKFULLY, WE’RE STILL SEARCHING Is there life after Lily Tomlin? The Shed, the cool new space for theater and art in Hudson Yards, is about to prove that question with a resounding “ye…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:11PMThursday, October 28, 2021
CHANGE IS NOW We hear that that the only thing constant is change, yet we struggle against change, we fight against change, and some are even willing to succumb to the unyielding stress of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
THE THEATER IS RICHER DUE TO POOR CLARE Every once in a while, a bright shiny play comes along that absolutely restores my faith in theater as a place to be entertained, enthralled, and enli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:20PMSunday, October 17, 2021
AMERICA’S BEST NOTES Beginning its first season since the COVID shutdown, Musical Theater West has, true to its name, celebrated musical theatre with A Grand Night for Singing, a heartfelt…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:13PMFriday, October 15, 2021
MAGIC IN THE MUSIC Sometimes jukebox bio-musicals get so caught up in the fame and fortune of the journey that they miss the creative passion that is the true force driving most artists forw…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25PMTuesday, October 12, 2021
STILL THE FAIREST I’m rather certain one cannot visit enough productions of My Fair Lady. The 1956 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, tells the tale of Professor Henry…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:51PMMonday, October 11, 2021
THEY’RE FRIGGIN’ BACK By now, the world knows about the musical Jersey Boys, the story of pop sensation Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. It’s a triumph, and the NY production leav…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:31PMTuesday, October 5, 2021
The Echo Theater Company’s world premiere production of Poor Clare will open in October, 19 months after the originally scheduled March, 2020 opening that was shuttered by the pandemi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:42AMTuesday, September 28, 2021
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is opening Eduardo Machado’s Celia and Fidel on October 8, 2021. It’s 1980 and Cuba is dealing with a failing economy. As Fidel Castro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:15AMFriday, September 10, 2021
YOU THINK BIGGER IS BETTER ON BROADWAY? THINK AGAIN. This is a fascinating year for Broadway. Not only are big-ticket plays and musicals coming back to life post-COVID, but we are also seein…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:51PMThursday, September 9, 2021
“STARS IN THE HOUSE” “MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG” REUNION WITH JIM WALTON, LONNY PRICE, ANN MORRISSON, AND JASON ALEXANDER Playing tonight Thursday, September 9 at 8pmET live, hosts Seth …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55PMWednesday, September 8, 2021
A hidden Latina history, pop music fantasies, sex, war, black-market cheese & child-snatching! True tales of a Texas tween in the ’70s… Comedy and drama collide in the shifting reali…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:15PMMonday, September 6, 2021
Odyssey Theatre presents 4 performances of John Fleck’s it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE! a musical cabaret special event-in-progress We’re deconstructing again. Odyssey Theatre Ensemble pr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AMTuesday, August 24, 2021
Chicago’s Porchlight Music Theatre’s 27th season has been announced. Single tickets and a variety of subscription options for the Mainstage and Porchlight Revisits are on sale now at Por…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:36AMTuesday, August 10, 2021
HAPPINESS IS JUST A THING CALLED LILLIAS So, which Lillias White is your favorite? Is it the bluesy, searching, achy soul singer? The sassy sweetheart of standards? The darling diva of Broad…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:50PMMonday, August 2, 2021
PREPARE FOR ONE HELLUVA TRIP 1950s Hollywood. You are at a beautiful beach house overlooking the Pacific with Cary Grant, Clare Boothe Luce and Aldous Huxley… and they are on an acid…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:54PMTHE TROUBIES ARE PUTTING OUT Tickets are now on sale for this hilarious musical retelling of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, one of history’s greatest theatrical offerings. Lizastrata takes o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AMSunday, August 1, 2021
TASTY THEATER James Beard Award-winning Chef Rick Bayless and Windy City Playhouse Artistic Director Amy Rubenstein and Associate Artistic Director Carl Menninger are teaming up to create A …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:30PMTuesday, July 27, 2021
CHICHESTER’S SOUTH PACIFIC GOES INTERNATIONAL Chichester Festival Theatre’s hugely acclaimed new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific will be streamed internationall…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:50PMThursday, July 22, 2021
New Great Performances Documentary Explores 1959-1983 Broadway Shows Through Stars’ Personal Stories. Begins August 14, 2021 on PBS. Great Performances – Broadway: Beyond the Golden Ag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:48PMWednesday, July 21, 2021
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME Stage and Cinema has received the first six minutes of a virtual production of URINETOWN The Musical that looks more-than-intriguing. MSD Productions clearly has a non-…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:16PMTuesday, July 20, 2021
The Town Hall has announced that Christine Baranski, who was in the original off-Broadway production of Sunday In the Park with George at Playwrights Horizons, will moderate an intimate digi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:12PMSunday, July 18, 2021
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF Go figure. Just as I declared, “No More ZOOM plays,” along comes the wittiest — no — most hilarious play I’ve seen since COVID shut down live performances. No, b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:21PM 
