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 03:08AMIRISH 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 03:03AMWhen 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 06:16PMROMANTICS 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 05:34PMPETULA 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 03:14AMNICK 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 02:58PMORIGINAL 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 05:19PMLOVE, 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 05:18PMLITTLE-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 05:08PMLAWFUL 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 07:47PMMARSH’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 05:17PMVOYAGE 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 05:30PMA 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 03:35PMA 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 10:16PMFASTEN 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 02:34AMCELEBRATE ’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 02:38PMTHE 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 01:49PMCRAPSHOOT! 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 03:00PMBLOODY 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 04:43PMJUST 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 02:46PMALL 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 05:38PMONE 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 04:20PMFREE 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 02:21PMA 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 09:30PMHOW 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 02:00PMABSOLUTELY 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 07:36PMREASONS 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 04:34PMDICK 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 04:04PMHAND 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…
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