Saturday, 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 04:20PMFriday, June 19, 2020
FREE STREAMS OF SIX PLAYS BY BLACK WRITERS L.A. Theatre Works, the world’s leading producer of audio theater, has chosen six titles by Black playwrights from its extensive collection of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:21PMTuesday, June 16, 2020
A SAD DAY FOR THEATER Executive Director, L. Walter Stearns and partner Business Manager Eugene Dizon announced today the permanent closure of Mercury Theater Chicago after ten years and 25 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:30PMSaturday, June 6, 2020
HOW YOU GET TO FINISH THE HAT This has been a milestone year for America: but aside from an epidemic and protests — and all that is entailed therein — we have Stephen Sondheim’s 90th b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00PMThursday, June 4, 2020
ABSOLUTELY BRIGHT INDEED Available now at 92Y, here’s is a can’t-miss piece of pride — and handily one of the best solo shows I’ve seen in years: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard P…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36PMTuesday, May 19, 2020
REASONS FOR LOVE Covering the arts nationwide means that Stage and Cinema has received hundreds and hundreds of virtual entertainments, from classical and jazz to theater and art, all with b…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:34PMSaturday, May 16, 2020
DICK EXTENDS Chicago’s Theater Wit announced a third and final extension today of Teenage Dick, its long-running critically acclaimed virtual production of Mike Lew’s devastatingly funny…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:04PMWednesday, May 13, 2020
HAND SOLO How many of us theater addicts have gone to a solo show only to find some woman squealing about her private parts (or man for that matter), and you think “Never Again.” Then yo…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:04PMMonday, May 11, 2020
STARVING FOR THEATER? FEAST ON THIS! It’s not just for Chicagoans anymore. Time and again, we have trumped that Chicago theater is the most exciting in the country. Not just because of the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:55PMThursday, May 7, 2020
CELEBRATING A PASSION FOR SONDHEIM Welcome to a new, free virtual series to celebrate Stephen Sondheim as an American icon while celebrating his 90th birthday year. Sondheim @ 90 Roundtable,…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:23PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
CAUGHT ON TAPE It was an unprecedented and timely decision. It was March 15, 2020, and the American Shakespeare Center — which operates the fantastic Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:17PMMonday, May 4, 2020
UPCOMING STAR-FILLED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY LIVESTREAM EVENTS TO BENEFIT THE ACTORS FUND Broadway’s Best Shows is about to launch the weekly one-night-only “Spotlight On Plays” series beginnin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:50PMMonday, March 9, 2020
PARTS OF A BODY Part Albee, part Ionesco, part mystery thriller, part Doubt, part Groundhog Day and — sadly — all red herrings, Lee Blessing’s 2005 A Body of Water can’t decide what …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:35PMMonday, February 24, 2020
HERE’S SOMETHING THAT WILL INTEREST YOU This is the second show this year in L.A. to take head-on the insanity of modern journalism (the insanity being that while newspapers deliver so-cal…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:12PMFriday, February 21, 2020
IT’S THE HIGH SCHOOL SHOW THAT I WISH I WROTE IN HIGH SCHOOL The thing that looks like a high school vanity project at the Geffen Playhouse is actually a world premiere with a lot of bucks…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:57PMI CAN ALWAYS USE MORE MEN Well, here’s a national tour that isn’t resting on its laurels. Somewhat tighter with impeccably glorious performances, a golden angel high above at the center …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:04AMThursday, February 20, 2020
CARYL ME HOME When the author is famed English playwright Caryl Churchill, theater about death and life’s surmounting surrealism isn’t depressing at all; it’s exhilarating. The author …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:58PMMonday, February 10, 2020
AT DAY’S END Thanks to Lanie Robertson’s bedrock-basic script, Wren T. Brown’s dedicated staging, Karole Foreman’s extraordinarily vulnerable performance, and Stephan Terry’s elega…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:59PMMonday, February 3, 2020
THERE’S ARSENIC AND LACE; BUT IT DOESN’T FEEL OLD Serial murder, euthanasia, slasher psychopaths, bodies buried in a crawl space, face-lifts for people trying to change their images, the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AMSaturday, February 1, 2020
AFTER THE FLOOD Until the Flood lasts only 70 minutes. But its concentrated running time delivers a devastating drama. A ton of truth-telling now on tour at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, this 20…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:26PMThursday, January 30, 2020
YELLOW JOURNALISM, BLUE PLANET — UNCERTAIN FUTURES Propaganda has always existed. It’s when people promote and publicize their agenda utilizing biased or misleading information, a perfec…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:14PMFriday, January 24, 2020
A SHIP THAT REMAINS DOCKED Sting’s musical The Last Ship has been in a shakedown cruise since it opened in Chicago six years ago. Based on last night’s star-studded opening night at the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:27PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
PLENTY OF WATTAGE, EVEN WITH AN OBSCURE STORY Cirque du Soleil is back with its latest touring show, which opened last night, January 21, at Dodger Stadium. At its best, Volta provides all t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:46PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
WHAT WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME MEANS TO ME Given the barrage of nasty nightly news, I don’t doubt that Americans are champing at the bit for a large slice of patriotism as they wat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:47AMFriday, January 17, 2020
TOUCHING BUT TRAPPED IN A TIME WARP Stop Kiss was a big 1998 hit at New York’s Joseph Papp Public Theater. In 2000 it arrived in Chicago in a tepid local premiere by the Naked Eye Theatre …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:32PMSunday, December 29, 2019
AN AMAZING INCIDENT Meet Christopher, a wannabe bloodhound who has significant social, behavioral and communication challenges; we assume the unnamed disorder is on the autism spectrum, but …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AMSaturday, December 28, 2019
NOT A SEVEN-COURSE DINNER, BUT FILLING JUST THE SAME While on a Midwest lecture tour, arrogant and overbearing critic and radio commentator Sheridan Whiteside slips on an icy doorstep, injur…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:40PMThursday, December 19, 2019
LOST IN AUSTEN All of Jane Austen’s novels are built on the same premise. A woman meets and marries an eligible man after a series of usually comic difficulties. But Austen extracts a rema…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:33AMThursday, December 5, 2019
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SATIRE Has it really been 40 years since Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9 was first presented? The biting satire is so topical — containing cross-dressing, gay relations…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:43PMMonday, December 2, 2019
DOES GROUNDHOG DAY BEAR REPEATING? At the center of San Francisco Playhouse’s first regional premiere of Broadway’s Groundhog Day the Musical is the brilliant, perfectly cast Ryan Drum…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:48AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
NOT AS KEYED UP AS IT SHOULD BE The Geffen Playhouse has really been on a roll under the newest Artistic Director Matt Shakman. There are many more interesting scripts, and many more chances…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:41PM 
