Saturday, October 31, 2020
TRENCHANT TROLLS TRIUMPH BY TRANSMOGRIFYING TRUTH Somewhere in the bowels of Saint Petersburg, Russia, there is an agency made up of both Americans and Russians that trolls the internet, cre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:54AMThursday, October 29, 2020
WHO’S ON FIRST, LADIES? The program states: “Rather than presenting a purely biographical story, this project uses the “honorary” office of First Lady as a lens to examine the roles …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34AMMonday, October 12, 2020
TWO DO-NOT-MISS READINGS FROM ATLANTIC THEATER Atlantic Theater Company in New York is presenting a free virtual reading series of plays that had their World Premieres at Atlantic Theater C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:59PMFriday, October 9, 2020
STILL. WAITING FOR THEATER No one has articulated the black American experience in such a way that I, as a white man, “get it,” as has James Baldwin. His cool, unflappable, authoritative…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:39PMTuesday, October 6, 2020
WIESENTHAL ENTHRALLS Writer/performer Tom Dugan’s solo show Wiesenthal capitalizes on the strengths of the famous Nazi hunter – his resilience, tenacity and humor. Dugan has crafted a sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25PMFriday, September 25, 2020
A CROSSWORD, CODE-BREAKING COLLABORATION WITH KWONG One of my happiest achievements was getting my husband hooked on solving Crossword Puzzles. Here’s your opportunity to find out why puzz…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:28AMWednesday, September 23, 2020
CHICAGO SHAKES UP ITS SEASON Chicago Shakes’ 35th Anniversary Season offers an amazing array of options, both in‑person performances and virtual streaming. Look for plays written and in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:36AMSunday, September 20, 2020
BEST LEADS THE BEST Los Angeles-based Echo Theater Company, dedicated to creating new work for the theater, has named Ahmed Best (best known as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars The Phantom Mena…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:08AMThursday, September 17, 2020
IRISH REP ANNOUNCES NEW FALL SEASON When it comes to online theater, which basically began with the COVID-19 shutdown, no other company in the States has offered more compelling evidence for…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:03AMSaturday, September 12, 2020
When I first saw Herbert Siguenza’s solo show A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, I knew this tour-de-force triumph would live among the greatest one-person shows I could ever see, including Ja…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:16PMThursday, September 10, 2020
ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS MAKES U.S. DIGITAL PREMIERE LIVE One of the saddest cancellations due to COVID-19 was The Wallis Annenberg Center’s U.S. premiere of writer/director Emma Rice’s produ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:34PMTuesday, September 8, 2020
PETULA CLARK, PAMELA MYERS, BETH MALONE AND MORE SING THEIR HEARTS OUT AT KRITZERLAND’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Petula Clark. For the 109th Kritzerland show, roll out the ribbons and toss t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:14AMSaturday, September 5, 2020
NICK CORDERO MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO STREAM ON BROADWAY ON DEMAND One of the last performances I saw before the COVID-19 shutdown was Rock of Ages here in Los Angeles. I had always had issues wi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
ORIGINAL CAST OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL REUNITES FOR ONLINE READING ON 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF TILL’S MURDER The original director and cast of the Fountain Theatre’s 2010 brilliant, mov…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:19PMTuesday, August 11, 2020
LOVE, NOËL: THE SONGS AND LETTERS OF NOËL COWARD A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN Written and Devised by Barry Day Directed by Charlotte Moore Filmed at The Players Starring Steve Ross and KT…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:18PMFriday, August 7, 2020
LITTLE-KNOWN CHICAGO DISASTER BECOMES TOWERING MUSICAL; THE BRILLIANT LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE PRODUCTION STREAMS ONE NIGHT ONLY FOR FREE In 2012, Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company presen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:08PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
LAWFUL ENTRY Tonight, the cast of LA Law will join hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley on Stars in the House LIVE at 8pm ET on the Stars in the House YouTube channel. Former staffers of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:03PMWHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES Tonight through August 8, the extraordinary 2020 company members of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals will begin their weeklong intensive with their very own editio…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:47PMFriday, July 31, 2020
MARSH’S ONLINE SOLO FEST LOOKS FOR PERFORMERS From Ann Randolph’s Loveland in 2010 to Dan Hoyle’s Border People last year, The Marsh has presented some of the greatest solo shows I hav…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:17PMThursday, July 30, 2020
VOYAGE IN A CLOSET Whereas many theater companies are becoming experimenters with video during the COVID-19 shutdown, Theater in Quarantine has been actually transforming theater into a smal…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:30PMSunday, July 26, 2020
A CERTAIN UNCERTAIN I found myself alternately laughing, weeping, and being in the doldrums watching this new interdisciplinary work from the company Source Material. Founding Artistic Direc…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:35PMMonday, July 20, 2020
A FRESH FRANKENSTEIN STARRING STACY KEACH L.A. Theatre Works, the world’s leading producer of audio theater, has announced the release of its state-of-the-art audio recording of Mary Sh…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:16PMThursday, July 16, 2020
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS “Stardust” was the name for what made Bette Davis shine. With playwright Jessica Sherr’s solo recreation of more than big eyes and flouncing cigarettes, the magic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34AMMonday, July 13, 2020
CELEBRATE ’60’S MUSICALS WITH BRIAN CHENEY The 1960’s may have been one of the most turbulent decades in history, but it also gave a boost to the arts in their many forms. Music and th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:38PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS CHICAGO’S RAVEN THEATRE REVAMP ITS 2020-21 SEASON This fall’s planned revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s drama Inherit the Wind directed by�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:49PMSunday, June 28, 2020
CRAPSHOOT! Or Why Al Voted for Trump: a love story will open the Reykjavik International Fringe Festival The Reykjavík Fringe Festival 2020 (RVK) is a festival unlike any other. While most …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:00PMRUBICON GOES RETRO! Safe-Distance Drive-In Series Kicks Off Drive-In Hits The first event of Rubicon Goes Retro, the company’s Safe-Distance Drive-In Theatre Concert Series is here! The sw…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00PMFriday, June 26, 2020
BLOODY GOOD! You know, Stage and Cinema has received hundreds of podcasts and other streaming paraphernalia since April when COVID-19 shut the arts down, but most are technically awkward, st…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:43PMThursday, June 25, 2020
JUST AS MAGICAL REMOTELY Is stuff magical only because it can’t be explained? Perhaps it’s more than just the absence of logic, probability, or reason. There’s a presence too: Magic ev…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:46PMTuesday, June 23, 2020
ALL NEW PLAYS CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LORE OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present free “screened” readings of four new one-act plays inspired by li…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:38PMSaturday, June 20, 2020
ONE TO CATCH Between 1953 and 1965, ONE Magazine, the first openly gay & lesbian periodical in the United States, received thousands of letters monthly from its readers. a great many of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:20PM 
