Tuesday, February 6, 2024
THE ACTORS’ GANG PRESENTS YBOR CITY, A HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL NEW PLAY Ybor City tells the story of overworked Cuban cigar factory immigrants in 1931, who find themselves inspired by the spi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:08PMWorld premiere of Little Bear Ridge Road by Samuel D. Hunter and directed by Joe Mantello The Cast: Laurie Metcalf, Micah Stock, John Drea and Meighan Gerachis. June 13 – July 21, 2024 in…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:55AMFriday, February 2, 2024
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER IT’S THE KING OF MUSICALS OR NOT; IT’S THE KING OF EXPERIENCES Endearing heroes and villains. Shakespeare and ancient myth. Coherent storytelling. Anthropomor…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:02PMWednesday, January 31, 2024
A TOOTHLESS POTUS Seven women propping up one man at The White House — that’s the premise behind Selena Fillinger’s POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to K…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:18AMSaturday, January 27, 2024
Cabaret was and remains one of the boldest and most innovative experiments in the history of musical theater, a ravishing work that has neither lost its power nor its pertinence no matter w…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMFriday, January 26, 2024
While I’m wrecked that Harmony is closing on Broadway February 5, 2024 after only 96 performances, the music, fortunately, still lives on with the Original Cast recording from Ghostlight R…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:47PMThursday, January 25, 2024
ADVANCE WARNING: THIS CABARET WILL BE THE HOTTEST TICKET ON BROADWAY I saw this production in London, so prepare yourself for the most emotionally raw production of Cabaret you will ever see…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, January 22, 2024
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27 from 1:30 to 3:30, National Jewish Theater Foundation President Arnold Mittelman will interview creators of current NYC shows Harmony,…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:45PMWednesday, January 17, 2024
A VALENTINE’S CABARET WITH MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES PERFORMING SONGS OF PASSION Join the Troubies, masters of musical mirth, for an hour-long, family-friendly, song-filled sojourn with class…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:58PMThe Nosebleed, the Obie Award-Winning Show from Playwright and Director Aya Ogawa now on national tour The Walker, Minneapolis (Jan. 25-27); REDCAT in L.A. (West Coast Premiere Feb. 1-3, 20…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:37PMTuesday, January 16, 2024
Easily one of the best Broadway productions ever, the revival of Parade, winner of the 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and Grammy Award nominee for Best Musical Theater Alb…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:21AMFriday, January 12, 2024
AVENUE Q GETS AN A+ Avenue Q, the delightful musical comedy which affectionately lampoons Sesame Street, opened last night to a packed house at Revolution Stage Company, and it’s a non-st…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:31PMTuesday, January 9, 2024
With The Refuge Plays, English, Covenant (one of my favorite plays from 2023) and more, Roundabout continues to prove itself as a template for creating the best theater in the country. The …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:34PMFriday, January 5, 2024
MJ WANTS TO BE STARTIN’ SOMETHIN’ – AND DOES MJ The Musical, now on its first national tour, raises the bar for the bio-musical. It far exceeds a mere revue of Michael Jackson’s icon…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:11PMA GORGEOUS SHOW! An absolutely do-not-miss show at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke‘s, Make Me Gorgeous! is the reworking of several books by Kenneth aka Kate Marlowe, who has been described as on…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:17PMThursday, January 4, 2024
In Tiny Little Town — a new Musical Comedy reimagining Ukrainian playwright Nikolai Gogol’s 19th-century satire The Government Inspector, a small town in 1970s America is thrown into cha…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:27PMMonday, January 1, 2024
Diabolical comedy, stunning terror, razor-sharp wit and extraordinary, soaring music. A Noise Within presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the dark, brooding, yet shar…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:45PMFriday, December 22, 2023
David Dean Bottrell returns to Rogue Machine on January 10, 2024 with his latest critically acclaimed, recently off-Broadway solo show, David Dean Bottrell: The Death of Me Yet. An uplifting…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:55PMThursday, December 21, 2023
Running invisible endurance feats, the characters of Anton Chekhov expose what Henry David Thoreau called “lives of quiet desperation.” When the good doctor’s creations, compassionatel…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:35AMWednesday, December 20, 2023
For one night only on February 18, 2024, Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP) will present the next installment of its Broadway Series: The beloved musical Children of Eden. Broadway veterans…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:16PMFriday, October 6, 2023
A FEATHER IN ARYE GROSS’S CAP Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench uses the setting of a wooded area — beautifully designed at Odyssey Theatre by Mark Guirguis — as the backdrop of this bea…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:39PMA FULFILLING FOLLIES One night? I mean, ONE night? Then again, the reunion in Follies we witness takes place on one night as well. And for those at said reunion and those of us lucky enough …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:27PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
AN AMAZING INCIDENT Meet Christopher Francis Boone, a wannabe bloodhound who has significant social, behavioral and communication challenges; we assume the unnamed disorder is on the autism…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:56AMSan Francisco Playhouse has begun its 2023-24 Season with the West Coast Premiere of the romantic comedy Nollywood Dreams, directed by Bay Area theatre veteran Margo Hall. Written by Ghanai…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMSaturday, September 30, 2023
#METOO FOR MEASURE I can’t imagine the work that writer/director Jessica Kubzansky put into the world premiere of her immersive, hybrid-theater, play-within-a-play Measure STILL for Measur…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:31PMFriday, September 29, 2023
Sony Masterworks Broadway has released the Original Cast Recording to The Time Traveller’s Wife: The Musical, available everywhere now. The musical is now in previews and opens on Novembe…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:20PMMonday, September 25, 2023
THE CUBAN THEATRICAL PHENOMENON OF THE LAST DECADE ARRIVES IN NYC One of my favorite places to see plays in NYC is also NYC’s most prominent Latino theatre companies: Repertorio Español. …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:56AMWednesday, September 20, 2023
LIBERTY FOR WOLVES IS DEATH TO THE LAMBS Gabby Momah makes a star turn as Ash, a conflicted non-binary adoptive parent and up-and-coming boxer in Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play, a fascinating, th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:05PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
In 2010, I witnessed the work of playwright Terrell Alvin McCraney for the first time. I knew immediately that his would prove to be an important voice in the theater. Since that fateful day…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:29PMGREAT STUFF IS COOKING IN THIS KITCHEN The world premiere of new coming-of-age musical, HELL’S KITCHEN, with music and lyrics by New York’s own 15-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys an…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:34PMOUR DEAR DEAD PLAYWRIGHTING In Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, which opened last Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, feral feminism from sociopathic fledglings starts out fantastic but goes off the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AM 
