Friday, December 19, 2014
AN EXTRA CHANCE TO CHECK-IN With ticket sales hotter than the Great Chicago Fire, the even greater Robey Theatre Company has just announced an extension of their wildly popular, sold-out The…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:54PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE, NOËL Noël Coward would have loved that his name appears twice in Love, Noël: The Letters and Songs of Noël Coward, which, having completely sold out its run at th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:44PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
A HOT CHRISTMAS Under boughs of holly and multi-media of silver and gold, stars and snowflakes will glitter as Upright Cabaret combines the Best of Broadway with the Carols of Christmas for …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:43AMFriday, December 12, 2014
COEURAGE, I COULD EAT YOU UP It is rare when a theater company lives up to its mission statement. Normally, the vision is so hifalutin as to be obscure. Luckily, Los Angeles has Coeurage The…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:35PMMonday, December 8, 2014
FLARE DONE WITH FLAIR Unlike Sherwood’s Idiot’s Delight (1936), Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path (1941) is not an anti-war play. Both take place in a hotel and have a rich variety of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:46PMSaturday, December 6, 2014
EVERYBODY LOVES SHE LOVES ME I’ll be the first to admit that it may be impossible to create a bad production of the 1963 jewel-box musical She Loves Me. This perfect show, based on the 193…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:57AMThursday, December 4, 2014
THIS WOODS DELIVERS THE GOODS Somewhere between “Once Upon a Time” and “Happily Ever After” there is a very adult world of tests, losses, disappointments, and grief. Despite this, we…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:24PMCROSS OVER INTO IMPRO’S TWILIGHT ZONE After last year’s crop of run-of-the-mill Christmas plays, I swore off any theater that even alludes to the holidays. Now, I must eat my words. Open…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:36PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
A REALLY GOOD LIFETIME MOVIE ON STAGE Chicago Theater comes to L.A. lock, stock and barrel with the Goodman production of Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale. A winning cast—led by the remarkab…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:59PMSunday, November 23, 2014
IT’S ONLY INVISIBLE IF YOU KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN The first time I heard Christopher Cerrone’s opera Invisible Cities, based on Italo Calvino’s 1972 fictional novel, was during The Indust…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:22AMFriday, November 21, 2014
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT Beginning November 26, 42nd Street Moon will revist one of its earliest hits, the mirthful 1943 farce Something for the Boys. This rarely performed boisterous music…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:40PMThursday, November 20, 2014
PROMISING PROMISES, I PROMISE The premise of Promises, Promises is one you are probably familiar with even if you have never seen the 1968 musical, which opens in a splashy revival at San Fr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:29PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
KANDER & EBB’S DANCE MARATHON MUSICAL FINALLY ARRIVES IN LOS ANGELES I can understand why you hear about a “Staged Reading” and want to bolt in the opposite direction. Don’t let …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:33PMThursday, November 13, 2014
SILVER DOESN’T EVEN GET A BRONZE It took fifteen actors, two writers, two directors, and three designers to create a Working Theater’s one-hour interactive theatrical experience, a Silve…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:31PMMonday, November 10, 2014
HAUNTED BY POWER Aurora Theatre once again proves its might by presenting the West Coast Premiere of a great play. Opening this week and running through Dec. 7, 2014, Breakfast with Mugabe …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:29PMA CASE WHERE CURIOSITY WON’T KILL THE CAT Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the global phenomenon Cirque du Soleil arrives at San Francisco’s AT&T Park for the U.S. Pr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AMThursday, November 6, 2014
COMPLETELY SMART The exciting and insightful writer Itamar Moses may be one of our brightest playwrights, yet he has astoundingly been given short shrift by the L.A. theater community. With…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:28PMWednesday, November 5, 2014
GRANTING YOUR WISH FOR A FUN OPERA Gioachino Rossini’s Cinderella (La Cenerentola) was written in 1817 during the bel canto era when operas were written to showcase beautiful singing, and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:17PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
REIMAGINING THE REIMAGINED AT NCTC No one can deny why Romeo and Juliet has achieved cult status. Not only is Shakespeare’s comic tragedy one of the most enduring stories ever told, but i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:46AMFriday, October 31, 2014
SLIDING BORES A or B? The question of Ken Levine’s title refers to the choice between two parallel universes set forth in his two-act two-hour two-hander. Played out simultaneously with fl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:46AMThursday, October 30, 2014
COOL AS A CUCUMBER BUT NOT AS REFRESHING In Boys in the Band, the character of Harold states: “Although I’ve never seen my soul, I understand from my mother’s Rabbi that itR…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:09PMWednesday, October 29, 2014
I’M NOT SAYING YOU SHOULD BE SKIPPIN’ PIPPIN, BUT… Prepare yourself. After all the rave reviews and buzz from New York, Diane Paulus’s Tony-winning revival hits the road filled with …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:38AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
NUDITY IS AS NUDITY DOES For the sake of argument (“arguendo”), let us consider G-strings as tools of oppression, and pasties as violations of our First Amendment rights. This was the pe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:28PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
KOSKY’S QUEEN AND CASTLE On the surface, there isn’t much that unites Henry Purcell’s 1688 Dido and Aeneas and Béla Bartók’s 1918 Bluebeard’s Castle, except perhaps that men …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:17PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
FOR BETTER OR WORSE Based on her own experience with a dying father and marital breakup with playwright Hamish Linklater (whose The Vandal is currently running in Chicago), Jessica Goldberg…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
THERE’S A BRIGHT STAR SOMEWHERE ON THE HORIZON It takes a while to get on board with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s new musical at The Old Globe. In fact, emotional involvement by inte…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:12PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
TRICKSTERS WHO ARE A TREAT From Vegas extravaganzas to intimate parlors, my favorite magicians are those with personality and humor. Even when tricks are well-rehearsed and mindboggling, sli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:30AMMonday, October 6, 2014
SWAN IN A MILLION Featuring a live orchestra, The Australian Ballet’s Swan Lake comes to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion this weekend, October 9-12, 2014. While this is one of the world’s …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:51PMWednesday, October 1, 2014
A TRANS-PORTIVE EXPERIENCE AWAITS YOU When I saw the trio of headliners who will be performing for one night only at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, I had to do a Little Rascals double-take. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:07PMFriday, September 26, 2014
REAWAKENING In one of the bios for Deaf West’s production of Spring Awakening, actress Ali Stroker thanks the company for stepping out of the box, and turning what some may think as a ‘l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:50PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
COME HOME TO THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL The Trip to Bountiful, Horton Foote’s plaintive 1953 teleplay (adapted for Broadway and for the 1985 film with Geraldine Page), paints a picture of rural…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:16PM 
