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 after …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:56PMIT 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…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMYOU’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 s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:55PMTRYING 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 a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:44PMNO 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: stageandcinema.com at 03:04PMTRIUMPH 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 o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMA 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, A…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:17AMTHIS 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 outrageo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:29PMTHE 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 wh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:10PMChicago’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, Bec…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:26PMRubicon 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, entit…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:52AMDido 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: stageandcinema.com at 07:02AMIn 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 charact…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:47AMGeffen 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 Steppenwolf Th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:47PMALL 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: stageandcinema.com at 02:44AMCHICKEN 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 no…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:55PMA 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 gidd…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:34AMSIZING 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 …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:04PMTHE 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 …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:03PMOne 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, th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:10PM“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�…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50PMThe 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 o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:42PMA 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 Expatria…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:45AMTHERE 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: stageandcinema.com at 02:15AMWHO 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 W…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:24PMALL 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, wh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:36PMA 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 Bui…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:03PMAN 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 churc…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:35PMSUPER 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, a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:03PMA PREMISE THAT DOESN’T SUCK I have dealt with PR firms for 15 years now, both in (mostly) and out of the arts world. Some may say that public relations is a strategic communication practic…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:12PMWhat Happens When a Right-Wing White Woman Wakes up Trapped in the Body of a Black Man? LA’s beloved and acclaimed writer and theatre performer Paul Outlaw presents his latest work BBC (Bi…
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