A BLINDINGLY BRILLIANT PRODUCTION Since its premiere in c. 429 BC, Sophocles' Oedipus the King has been considered the Mount Olympus of Greek Tragedies, largely because it humanizes the them…
SMALLS MAKES A HUGE STORY In January 2017, President Barack Obama issued an executive order establishing Reconstruction Era National Monument in Beaufort County, noting the significance of R…
OKLAHOMA! AS WOKELAHOMA NOT SO OK ON TOUR This ain't your mama's Oklahoma! While Daniel Fish's completely rethought and stripped-down production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 watershed m…
THE HEAVEN'S BREATH SMELLS WOOINGLY HERE It seems odd to say that I was enchanted and beguiled with Independent Shakespeare Co.'s (ISC's) production of Macbeth, which opened this past weeken…
A SALUTE TO STORYTELLERS Stage and Cinema is grateful to GMCLA Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison for taking time out of rehearsing to chat a bit about A Salute to Sondheim,Â…
PROM-COM Dust off the Mylar balloons and wrist corsages and head over to The Ahmanson Theatre, where The Prom just landed as part of its national tour. Forget smelly gymnasiums or dated t…
GO TO TOWN I am convinced that me colleague Marc Wheeler nailed the many reasons in his review of Hadestown why you must see this national tour. One of the most original musicals to come out…
IDIOT IS AS IDIOT DOES Inspired by a 2004 rock album by the American pop-punk rock band Green Day, American Idiot has received its share of positive reviews since its premiere in Berkeley, C…
A PLAY OFF A rich, black, ball-busting pro-sports super-agent who has worked her way up from poverty to making partner at a major firm. The white male head of that agency who wants his prot�…
YES, IT'S THAT GREAT One of my favorite musicals of the year is moving its Off-Broadway production to Broadway, which is right where it belongs. Beginning previews on October 12 and official…
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING Transport Group has announced that Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Broadway Celebration will be the next installment in its Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series on M…
The Fountain Theatre jumps into action with a "hyper-staged" reading of Roe, a powerful, poignant and often humorous play by Lisa Loomer that cuts through the headlines to reveal th…
INTERPLAY In the age of A Strange Loop, the hit Broadway musical about a "Big Black Queer" it seems the time is ripe for more musicals about the gay experience, but one with transgender char…
BASKETBALL BROMANCE Center Theatre Group's winning new dramady King James " a co-production with Chicago's Steppenwolf Company " is a must see for more than just rabid sports fans. Nobody wr…
STILL BANGING FOR THE BUCKS The incredibly basic concept behind Stomp, a phenom now in its third decade, remains: "Make a rhythm out of anything we can get our hands on that makes a sound…
ALICE RIPLEYTOÂ REPRISE HERÂ TONY-WINNING ROLELIVE IN PERSON JULY 1-31, 2022 Tickets are now on sale for the new, live, 60-minute immersive adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awar…
A new play by Stephen Beresford Directed by Nicholas Hytner A co-production with The Bridge Theatre Chichester Festival Theatre, 13 " 25 June, 2022 Bridge Theatre: 1 July " 27 August, 2022 S…
AWARD WINNERS THAT STAGE AND CINEMA AGREES WITH ACROSS THE BOARD Well, well, well. Bless the 2021-2022 Drama Desk Nominating Committee. Not only were their nominations truly for achievement …
IT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUST Fake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming event This American Wife (review), are very very bright and insightful, au couran…
GUESS WHAT PLAY WORKS Based on the screenplay of the same name, writer Todd Kreidler has updated for the stage Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer's smash-hit 1967 movie by William …
BELOVED THEATER At first, we think that Beloved is about the tragic state of the internet, that a high school boy at the prestigious St. Albans in Montreal, Canada, would never be in the mes…
DON'T GET HUNG OUT BY MISSING THIS MASTERPIECE Blimey, friends, you only have two more weeks to see my favorite play on Broadway. And not only my favorite, but the best. Martin McDonough's t…
GODDAMNED MEN Four Korean teen missionaries from Los Angeles " Kyung-Hwa (Ji-Young Yoo), Samantha (Shirley Chen), Jen (Emma Galbraith), and Mimi (Erin Rae Li) " have arrived in Bangkok with …
A NEWFOUND(LAND) WAY OF LOOKING AT MUSICAL THEATER This intimate ensemble piece may only have one stand-alone song, and it may not even be the best-crafted musical or have the emotional impa…
MUSICAL THEATRE GUILD KNOWS HOW TO SUCCEED Reams can and have been written about the glories of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, a…