6,804 stories from Stage and Cinema
PIPPIN GOES HOLLYWOOD Pippin, with music and lyrics supplied by Stephen Schwartz, and book penned by Roger O. Hirson (who was best known for writing the script to the war flick The B…
A GREAT 70s TRIBUTE HAS VINYL-LY ARRIVED Normally, calling a show predictable isn't a compliment. But when I heard that director Kerry Meads and musical director Vanda Eggington were once ag…
STILL PLENTY TO DESIRE A Streetcar Named Desire was one of the greatest hits for playwright Tennessee Williams. Born in 1911, he didn't have any major successes until The Glass Menagerie pre…
A MONODRAMA OF SHADOWS AND SHATTERED SANITY As part of an international procession"a dread march of artistry across borders"Mr. Stephen Smith did, for a grievously brief engagement, alight a…
ELLA STILLER'S DILARIA: A DEBUT IN EXTREMIS Three striking Off-Broadway debuts anchor Dilaria, a sharp, volatile new play by Julia Randall at the DR2"the Daryl Roth Theater's 99-seat space j…
BROADWAY WELL-REPRESENTED IN A NIGHT OF MUSIC AND COMARADERIE From the first gleaming brass notes of Bernstein's Candide Overture, music director Jon Kalbfleisch deftly led the…
A Celebration of Legacy: Larry Fuller in Conversation Larry Fuller's career has spanned some of the most influential and transformative moments in musical theater history. As a choreographer…
CHICAGO-BORN AND HEAVEN-SENT, THIS IS NOT A REVIVAL. IT'S A RECKONING. Angels in America is one of the greatest plays in the American theatre canon. Period. Tony Kushner created a two-part e…
SHAKEN AND STIRRED "Shake it up" is exactly what this cabaret-style production does"blending rock 'n' roll and R&B classics with lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The focus is …
COLOR ME DISAPPOINTED I came to see the Goodman Theatre's current production of The Color Purple with a complicated history. I devoured Alice Walker's novel three times as a callow teenager …
DEFYING GRAVITY… AND CONVENTION Since its founding in 1971, Pilobolus has made a name for itself by celebrating the expressive potential of the human body"its weight, balance, connectivity…
FLY ME TO THE MOON… AND INTO HISTORY A song, a wish, a dream, a childhood astronaut fantasy in a family kiddie pool"Tom Hanks taps into all of it in The Moonwalkers, an amazing, enlighteni…
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY (AND A DREAM) If you have time off this month and are feeling wanderlust for foreign travel"but your summer budget doesn't allow for an actual trip around the world"I w…
MADNESS MADE FLESH I've seen several performances of Edgar Allan Poe's poems and short stories over the years, but none compare to the artistry, intensity, and total immersion Stephen Smith …
RADIO-ACTIVE SATIRE (WITH SONGS) And now for something completely different. Presented for your amusement is a skillful skewering of the approach to fundraising"or, to put it more plainly, b…
In Praise of a Misjudged Misfit: Mark Brokaw and the Undeserved Fate of Cry-Baby In the wake of director Mark Brokaw's untimely passing at 65 yesterday, I find myself returning not to one of…
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE What is theatre? This was the question that popped into my head as I took my seat in the tiny TUTA Theatre space in Chicago's Ravenswood Manor neighborhood, ready to t…
THE ODYSSEY, IN ASHES AND UPHOLSTERY The chair will not move. That is how we begin. In Anna Ziegler's The Janeiad, now in a quietly astonishing production at the Old Globe, which produced Zi…
IN THIS BEAUTIFULLY MOODY MAZE, THE LINE BETWEEN ENCHANTMENT AND ENTRAPMENT BLURS I have yet to encounter an immersive theatrical experience that captivates me as deeply as a well-staged pla…
There are two standout reasons to catch Beau the Musical, the moving and musically stirring new Off-Broadway production now playing at Theatre 154"aside from the fact that its cast of eight …
CAN THIS SHOW LIVE UP TO THE MOVIE? YES, IT CAN CAN! The 2001 film Moulin Rouge told its La Bohème-like story with tremendous use of cinematography and computer animation, pulling off an ot…
QUINTUPLE THREAT NYMPHIA WIND HAS MORE THAN BANANA APPEAL I'm a bad gay. I've only seen one or two episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race out of"how many seasons now? Seventeen! But after seeing Nym…
BULLISH ON WOMEN'S EDUCATION With sharp, witty, and informative dialogue, Bryna Turner's Bull in a China Shop offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and accomplishments of Mary Wooley (L…
SOBER TRUTHS AND SLIPPERY MEMORIES IN A COMIC, CHAOTIC QUEST FOR CLARITY Alcoholism and Alzheimer's. What a combo. Sounds serious, right? They both are, of course. But in the hands of playwr…
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF CLASSICAL BALLET Founded in New York in 2000 as a means to put professional ballet dancers to work during their summer hiatuses, Chamber Dance Project, now based in…
