1,395 stories by "Tony Frankel"
A CROSSWORD, CODE-BREAKING COLLABORATION WITH KWONG One of my happiest achievements was getting my husband hooked on solving Crossword Puzzles. Here's your opportunity to find out why puzzli…
CHICAGO SHAKES UP ITS SEASON Chicago Shakes' 35th Anniversary Season offers an amazing array of options, both in‑person performances and virtual streaming. Look for plays written a…
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 Phanto…
IRISH 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…
When 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…
ROMANTICS 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 productio…
PETULA 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 the…
NICK 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…
ORIGINAL CAST OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL REUNITES FOR ONLINE READING ON 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF TILL'S MURDERÂ The original director and cast of the Fountain Theatre's 2010 brilliant, movin…
LOVE, 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…
LITTLE-KNOWN CHICAGO DISASTER BECOMES TOWERING MUSICAL; THE BRILLIANT LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE PRODUCTION STREAMS ONE NIGHT ONLY FOR FREE In 2012, Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company presente…
LAWFUL 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 staffe…
WHAT 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 edit…
MARSH'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 have ever…
VOYAGE 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…
A 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…
A 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 Mar…
FASTEN 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 is ba…
CELEBRATE '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 theater …
THE 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 direct…
CRAPSHOOT! Or Why Al Voted for Trump: a love story will open the Reykjavik International Fringe Festival The ReykjavÃk Fringe Festival 2020 (RVK) is a festival unlike any other. While mos…
RUBICON 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 swel…
BLOODY 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…
ALL 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 life a…
ONE 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 …
