Sunday, 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 03:21PMFriday, July 16, 2021
GORY, FREAKY AND DOWNRIGHT ALARMING The West Coast Premiere of the Off-Broadway production, The Wake of Dick Johnson, performed live and in person by writer and director Luke Walker, will be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:02PMOPENS TODAY, JULY 16TH IN SELECT THEATERS & VIRTUAL CINEMAS New York, Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Seattle *Expanding to Los Angeles, Detroit, San Francisco, Toronto o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:39PMThursday, July 15, 2021
Long ago, I saw a very tired Lés Miz on Broadway. Not long thereafter, producer Cameron Mackintosh replaced the cast with a new ensemble rife with folks who had never performed on Broadway …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:35PMTHEY’RE BA-A-A-A-A-A-A-CK L.A.’s home-grown Groundlings in-person programming returns with all of the best they got beginning July 23, 2021. An evening at the Groundlings means a packed…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:41PMMonday, July 12, 2021
NOW THIS IS HOW YOU TELL A STORY Over the last 28 years, San Francisco’s Word for Word theater company has performed short stories of over 100 writers, ranging from Alice Munro to Amy Tan,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:10PMWednesday, June 30, 2021
National Virtual Casting Call Announced For TREVOR, A NEW MUSICAL Submit Your Audition by July 26! Teenagers, here’s a great opportunity to be in a musical in New York! Trevor: The Musical…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:22PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
IT’S SAFE TO SAY THERE’S MAGIC IN STORE You know, I was never bored watching the epic two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; it truly was a magical experience, and the production te…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:29AMSaturday, June 19, 2021
THE PLAY’S THE THING It’s no wonder that Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ brilliant adaption of Dion Boucicault’s 1895 suspenseful melodrama The Octoroon is eight times better and more exciti…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:07PMTO TELL THE RUTH Talk about becoming a hit. Playwright Mark St. Germain (Camping with Henry and Tom, Freud’s Last Session) has done it again. He loves to take us into the lives of renowned…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:35PMFriday, June 18, 2021
RETURNING TO UTOPIA Talking Heads superstar David Byrne has acquired a home for his acclaimed rock spectacle American Utopia — Broadway’s St. James Theatre, beginning Friday, September 1…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:54AMHOW BROWN WAS MY VALLEY? Following the successful streamed productions of A Weekend with Pablo Picasso and JQA, San Diego REP is offering a filmed version of Cris Franco’s play 57 Chevy, d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:54AMWednesday, June 16, 2021
The beloved East Village supper club Pangea, which came perilously close to closing during COVID, is announcing a mixture of ticketed and no-cover entertainment during the summer. The announ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:29PMSunday, June 13, 2021
THE MUSIC CENTER WELCOMES BACK PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Los Angeles’s Music Center has a hit on its hands with its DANCE AT DUSK outdoor performance series. First, we had amazing tap dan…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:06AMSaturday, June 12, 2021
SILLY PROCOPIO LEFT ME IN OSTRITCHES Well, last Sunday night, courtesy of Pacific Opera Project’s presentation of Don Procopio, I had my first foray to a live production since the pandemic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:33PMFriday, June 11, 2021
Awesome Broadway fave Lillias White releases her first Solo Studio Album: Get Yourself Some Happy! Here she is, boys! The great Lillias White is releasing her first solo studio album, Get Yo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:26PMThursday, June 10, 2021
L.A. Theatre Works has commissioned a new audio theater adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie “whodunit” The Murder on the Links. The all-star cast includes Alfred Molina (as Ch…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:09AMSUPERCALILINEUP Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley’s Cal Performances has announced its 2021–22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well befo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:08AMTuesday, June 8, 2021
Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley’s Cal Performances has announced its 2021–22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before the pandemic …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:51PMSunday, June 6, 2021
REIGNITING THE RHYTHM STOMP, which I originally saw at New York’s 299-seat Orpheum Theatre in 1994, has performers using their bodies and both industrial and household objects as percussiv…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:42AMTuesday, June 1, 2021
A.C.T. OFFERS ONLINE SCREENING OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN’S TALES OF THE CITY, THE MUSICAL Filmed during its original 2011 run, this 10th Anniversary event will stream during San Francisco Pri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:53PMI just watched Manhattan Theatre Club‘s special new adaptation of The Niceties updated for the virtual stage by playwright Eleanor Burgess. In The Niceties an ambitious young Black co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:53PMFriday, May 28, 2021
KRON-OLOGY Who knew a trip to Auschwitz could be so much fun? Almost as fun as taking a roller coaster ride at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. These two locations have been tet…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:49AMThursday, May 27, 2021
THE ILLUSION OF AGENCY Beamed to us from the Chekhov Operating System (chekhovOS), a virtual panoply that contains the great Russian playwright’s works and forlorn characters — who spout…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:34PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
HIGH FIVE Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is contextually brilliant: it is a two-character musical that starts at the end of a five year relationship for the woman, but at the be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:41PMI WANT TO SEE MORE DEAD PEOPLE Who doesn’t love a good ghost story? Jared Mezzocchi (Russian Troll Farm, my favorite theater stream of the COVID era) brings an Amityville Horror-esque, tr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:41PMCOME JOIN THE CIRCUS AS A METAPHOR FOR LIFE It’s here! The world premiere of a new opera by Philip Glass which will take place on Malmö Opera‘s main stage with live music to a live audi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:41PMAS AMERICAN AS LEMON CHICKEN PIE Girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl! Wazzup? So, listen, I saw the craziest thing the other night. No, not THAT thing. That’s old news. No, it’s this kinda performance ar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:48AMStreaming for free through June 30, 2021, is Artists Repertory Theatre’s five-part, four-hour audio drama Magellanica on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Sticher, and where you find podcasts. Mag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:48AMMonday, May 24, 2021
I’ve known about Brian Copland’s work for years, but didn’t get a chance to see the Bay Area performer until the virtual presentation of his solo show The Jewelry Box, easily one of th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:59PMCENTER THEATRE GROUP’S 54th SEASON AT THE AHMANSON THEATRE TO BEGIN NOVEMBER 30, 2021 Ahmanson Theatre Will Have Been Dark For 20 Months While it’s a shame that Diane Paulus’s new revi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:59PM 
