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TO READ A BOOK. TO SEE A PLAY. TO CORROBORATE LESSONS LEARNED. I have been an avid reader my whole life beginning at the age of eight. I can't remember the exact year that I read Harper Lee'…
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? Take a look at the new production photos of Roundabout's current Broadway revival of 1776, featuring Kristolyn Lloyd, who joined the company Octob…
GIMME MO, MO, MO Ain't No Mo began previews last night on Broadway (the official opening is Dec 1, 2022), having transferred from The Public Theater, where I caught it. It's a must-see. Ain'…
MADELINE SAYET LIFTS US UP WHERE SHE BELONGS Near the start of her solo show Where We Belong, currently playing at The Public Theater, playwright-performer-academic Madeline Sayet evocativel…
NEIL WITH THE SHEPHERDS Heck no, it ain't too early. And with the new Broadway musical A Beautiful Noise just about to spring to life, it seems that we can't get enough of the legendary sing…
GOLF IS ON COURSE, BUT JUST A BIT UNDER PAR Pittsburgh in 1997 is the setting for the last of renowned playwright August Wilson's series of 10 dramas that highlight aspects of African-Americ…
GET INTO TROUBLE Written by Alice Childress " the first Black woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City " Trouble in Mind recently played on Broadway, and it amazed m…
DOC NYC RETURNS WITH 13TH EDITION NOV 9-27, 2022 IN THEATRES AND ONLINE FULL PROGRAM & SCHEDULE LISTED BELOW and can also be found here DOC NYC, America's largest documentary festival ro…
ACE YOUNG AT HEART At The Tank theater on West 36th Street, Stage and Cinema's Gregory Fletcher spoke with Ace Young who stars in Off-Off-Broadway's Vatican Falls, the controversial play wri…
Continuing the legendary playwright's singular legacy of mentorship and activism, the Terrence McNally Foundation has been launched. The nonprofit organization is committed to supporting bol…
DAY OF THE DEAD, WITH A TOUCH OF KAHLO'S HUMOR If you think this is going to be the story of Frida Kahlo's life set to operatic music, you've got another think coming. Conversely, if you mig…
CRACKLIN', SWEET, BEAUTIFUL, AND CHERRY A Beautiful Noise, the new Broadway bio-musical about the extraordinary life story of singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, opened for previews at the Broad…
WOMEN IN PANTS? WHERE WILL IT ALL END? It's 1942 and most of the men in Rhode Island are off to war. As such, most theatres, especially those who focus on the heavily male casts of Shakespea…
THE ULTIMATE DREAM The tumultuous relationship between legendary Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and muralist Diego Rivera has inspired many films, books, operas, and musicals.  El último …
YOU WANT THE TRUTH? SEE THIS ASTOUNDING PRODUCTION. Many are familiar with A Few Good Men, the 1992 courtroom drama film starring Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, and Demi Moore, which uses clash…
STITCHED WITH NEW MUSIC The hugely popular annual Halloween mash-up of film and opera at the Theatre at Ace Hotel is back. This time LA Opera has the Boris Karloff shocker Frankenstein on th…
Will Legislation Protect Gig Workers In Theater " Or Simply Restrict Opportunities For Minority Groups? When it comes to stage and cinema, productivity relies completely on gig workers. Howe…
Don't let this gripping production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone come and go without seeing it yourself. This is classic American theater essential to our collective understa…
CAUGHT BY THE TALE The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare is kind of a weird play. It's a comedy because a pair of young lovers are united in the end but many awful things happen before th…
I'M SMILING ALREADY Hooray! IAMA Theatre is back with its 15th season, its first full season since COVID. One of L.A.'s best companies, IAMA opens with the world premiere of Smile, a new pla…
LOOKOUT FOR STEPPENWOLF'S NEW SERIES LookOut, Steppenwolf Theatre's performance series that presents the work of artists and companies across genre and form, presents the Winter 2023 seas…
A THREE-HOUR HOME RUN Clearly and cleanly, tried and true director Cynthia Ferrer and choreographer Alexis Carra Girbés trust the heart out of Adler and Ross's 1955 Broadway classic, Damn Y…
WHEN SHERLOCK ISN'T A SURE LOCK Arguably Arthur Conan Doyle's most successful Sherlock Holmes mystery The Hounds of the Baskervilles was actually first run as a serial from 1901-1902. It dre…
WHAT WILL YOU INHERIT? That Matthew Lopez's sprawling near-7-hour 2-part play, with 3 acts in each part, keeps us captivated is quite a feat. Beautifully written, funny, sad, and hopeful, Th…
PLANT YOURSELF AT SDMT Let's start with the fact that it's a show about a plant that craves human blood. Oh, and there's this nerdy botanist Seymour who raises him, whom the plant intimidate…
