Tuesday, May 8, 2018
A HONEYMOON IN GLENDALE More fun than walking away a few bucks ahead from a black jack table, this pell-mell, silly-sweet, old-fashioned musical comedy (ya know, gangsters, lovers, Elvis imp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:50PMMonday, May 7, 2018
EAGER FOR EGAN It was sheer luck that I’ve been able to see Broadway Baby Susan Egan in over 10 shows since the mid-1980s. From intimate stages (Babes at the Matrix; Hello, Again at the Bl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:02PMSunday, May 6, 2018
WEST SIDE GLORY It’s a relief that Chita Rivera, one of the last great holdovers from the Golden Age of Broadway is still performing today, and you’ll get only one-night — Thursday…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:18PMFriday, May 4, 2018
A BLUES REVUE A female-centric revue from 1980, Sheldon Epp’s Blues in the Night celebrates the melancholic but often very humorous songs of black American folk origin. The blues as we…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:57PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR RISES AGAIN, BUT ONLY PARTIALLY TO THE HEAVENS Not nearly as powerful and raw as it could have been, NBC’s live telecast “event” of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Web…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:35AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
NO MUSICAL IS AN ISLAND Whenever it’s revived, it’s hard to imagine a more necessary musical than this 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner. 72 years after the Japanese surrender, it remains a hea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:25PMO, BEAUTYFUL AMERYKA After a successful run in 2016, Ameryka has arrived for a short run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre as part of CTG’s Block Party. It’s a testament to writer/dire…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:29PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
It’s 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where people are disappearing right off the street. The so-called “Dirty War” waged by the military Junta against its own people is in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:20PMJUBILATION! It promises to be one of the most enchanting nights of theater in a long time. On Saturday April 28 at 8:00, some of London and Hollywood’s greatest names will gather at The Wa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:07AMMonday, April 23, 2018
A ROYAL TREAT For almost 40 years, The Groundlings has proved itself to be one of the premiere comedy troupes in the nation, creating more stars than the Big Bang (and creating more Big Bang…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:55PMFriday, April 13, 2018
WILIES AT THE WALLIS First staged in 1841, Giselle is one of the oldest surviving ballets still in the international repertory, especially because the lead role is a showcase for the world…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:52PMSaturday, April 7, 2018
SAVING FAITH Even with a few blemishes, Bedlam’s revival of George Bernard Shaw’s 1923 masterpiece Saint Joan is an immersive and ultimately gratifying theatrical experience. The story…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:36PMThursday, March 15, 2018
WELL WORTH A VISIT Perhaps composer/lyricist David Yazbek (The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) was inspired by one of our best new playwrights, Itamar Moses, and his adaptation of the t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:20PMREPRISE REPRISED It’s a strange sort of serendipity. Just when Musical Theatre Guild announced its final season after eight glorious years presenting rarely produced musicals, along co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AMMonday, March 12, 2018
SUCH SWEET SORROW FOR THE WRONG REASONS It’s as if choreographer Krzysztof Pastor, director of the Polish National Ballet, gave Prokofiev the opportunity to protest Stalin’s tyranny that…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:36PMDON’T MYTH OUT, OR DANCING THAT’S ORPH THE CHARTS LA Opera’s gorgeous production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice), featuring a we…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:59PMFriday, March 9, 2018
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST I’m actually happy I didn’t see this musical live on stage. It makes for a wonderful original cast recording, but what seems like a giant heart on this CD,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:39AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
THE MUSICAL THAT KEEPS ON WORKING Was 2017 really the European premiere of this oft-produced musical? Yep. 40 years since the Broadway opening of Working, and we’re just getting the Or…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:51PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
A MODERNIZED STREETCAR Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams’ still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it makes perfect sense that dire…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:45PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
A BEAUTIFUL DOLL It’s amazing. Were this masterpiece from Broadway’s golden age an actual guy or doll, he or she would be scoring Social Security. But make no mistake, this 1950 hoofer i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:27PMMonday, February 19, 2018
HIS AND HERS HISTORY Looking for some inspiration? From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner and lauded author Sarah Vowell comes a powerful examination of one of American history�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:32PMSunday, February 18, 2018
MY KINDA CABARET ACT It was the decade that changed our nation forever. What began as nothing but promise — victors of a World War and a young forward-thinking President — sudden…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:51PMMonday, February 12, 2018
A MAGNIFICENT MARIACHI OPERA COMES TO THE SORAYA It was by sheer luck that I was in Chicago and happened upon the world’s first mariachi opera, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:46PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
MARVIN’S GARDEN One of composer Marvin Hamlisch’s first gigs was that of rehearsal pianist and assistant vocal arranger for the original production of Funny Girl on Broadway in 1964,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:19PMSunday, January 21, 2018
THESE THINGS MUST BE DONE DELICATELY If you lose your way trying to navigate the enigmatic journey Anna Ziegler wants to take us in her well-written but thematically dense A Delicate Ship, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:39PMFriday, January 19, 2018
RARELY PRODUCED BERLIN SCORE COMES TO LIFE No doubt when folks hear “Louisiana Purchase,” they think of Thomas Jefferson’s gargantuan land acquisition from France in 1803, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:35PMThursday, January 18, 2018
AN OPERATIC CIRCUS ODYSSEY The uber-innovative Australian performance troupe, Circa, returns to the States with its newest production, Il Ritorno, a unique production that melds circus arts …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:42AMMonday, January 15, 2018
YOU LEAVE SEEKING PEACE AND A PLOT When a play comes along that is entirely different from any play that has preceded it, especially in our era of over-informative white noise and copycattin…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:36PMFriday, January 5, 2018
THANKFULLY, NOT SO SILENT Based on her three previous theater outings alone, it’s fitting that writer/director Marja-Lewis Ryan has recently been tapped to be showrunner and executive prod…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:35PMWednesday, December 27, 2017
MEMORIES OF MEXICO, LUZIA UNLEASHES A RAIN OF JOY The Cirque du Soleil just made a run for the border — and not the Canadian one — as the Montreal-based human circus lavishes its un…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:39PMThursday, December 21, 2017
A PRINCH ASSAULT For 22 years, the Troubadour Theater Company (aka The Troubies) has amalgamated freely altered classics with music of a particular artist, creating riotous sketch/improv/ent…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:26PM 
