Saturday, November 21, 2020
EXTRA! EXTRA! MUSICAL COMEDY WHORE CAUGHT ON FILM! David Pevsner’s solo musical show Musical Comedy Whore! is about sex, love … and musicals. Whether acting in stage hits When Pigs Fly …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:04PMWednesday, September 16, 2020
WRITERS READY AND RARIN’ TO GO Chicago’s amazing company, Writers Theatre, has announced its 2020/21 Season with a new adaptive producing model, one committed to remaining flexible and r…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:39AMWednesday, September 9, 2020
GO AHEAD…ASK Theatre of the Electric Mouth (ThEM) — a newly formed theatre collective — will release its first audio drama, Ask the Void, on September 15, 2020, landing on on Spotify, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:44AMTuesday, June 23, 2020
LOVVE CONNECTION 3 Way Lovve is a modernized Shakespearean love tragedy with its lead character, Willie Kenwood aka Lovvespear, a talented street painter who is discovered by an art tycoon, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:32PMWednesday, June 3, 2020
YORK’S YOUNG PERFORMERS MAKE GOOD MON., JUNE 8, 7:10 pm EST Top: Josh Colley and Aidan Gemme Bottom: The full cast of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown Photos by Carol Rosegg. CLICK HE…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:32PMThursday, January 16, 2020
MY WHITE NIGHT I first saw Lillias White when she made her Broadway debut in Barnum in 1981; I’ve been watching her work for almost four decades since, and I promise you she never fails to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:43PMWednesday, January 8, 2020
MIXING IT UP For over four decades, The Groundlings has proved itself to be one of the premiere comedy troupes in the nation, creating more stars than the Big Bang. Performers showcase mater…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:49PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
THE MUSIC MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC MAN When 5-Star Theatricals announced their production of The Music Man, which opens next week in Thousand Oaks, I actually got excited. I never tire of seeing…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50PMTuesday, September 17, 2019
FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT; IT’S GOING TO BE A GRUMPY RIDE John and Max are elderly neighbors in a cold Minnesota town. They both live alone in their homes since their wives have died, and exch…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:55PMSunday, September 15, 2019
BONE CALL When a young Bekah Brunstetter set out to explore where she stood on issues like animal rights, faith, and even relationships, it was before she had ever learned to question what s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:16PMSaturday, September 7, 2019
GET SKINNED Joshua Harmon’s new play Skintight assays the nature of love, the power of attraction, and the ways in which a superficial culture persists in teaching its children that all th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:15PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
HOT, HOT, HOT I’m guessing most of you have not seen David H. Bell’s rousing Hot Mikado, a swing-era adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved 1885 operetta, The Mikado. It may be t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:10PMFriday, June 21, 2019
KEEP IT GAY It’s always springtime for Mel Brooks, who really does write musicals the way they used to. Even before Young Frankenstein, his 2001 triumph The Producers (based on the sidesp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:43PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
THERE WILL BE NO REVIEW This hasn’t happened before and I hope it won’t again. My regrets for a wasted night. I’m (sort of) sorry but, alas, I found last night’s Goodman Theatre worl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:27PMThursday, November 15, 2018
GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE Los Angeles, dubbed as the City of Angels, is truly a magnificent destination that holds some of the most beautiful architectural buildings in the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:32PMThursday, November 1, 2018
GREEK ACTIVE It only seemed natural that Michael Cacoyannis’s 1964 film, Zorba the Greek, about a happy-go-lucky fisherman on the isle of Crete, should one day become a musical. It took J…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:50PMFriday, October 19, 2018
THE DEVIL’S AT THE DOOR “He knows not Who lives most easily on land, how I Have spent my winter on the ice-cold sea Wretched and anxious, in the paths of exile Lacking dear friends, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:32PMThursday, October 11, 2018
YOU’VE GOT SOME FEET TO MEET Call us saps or suckers but we can’t, it seems, get enough of “The Understudy Who Becomes A Star.” Not when the sweet and satisfying story is stuffed…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:19PMWednesday, October 3, 2018
A READY ROGUE MACHINE OPENS OPPENHEIMER J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant, enigmatic and complex man. Ambitious and charismatic, Oppenheimer found himself uniquely placed to spearhead th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:44PMMonday, October 1, 2018
GENDER-SWITCHED REENACTMENT OF THE KAVANAUGH/FORD TESTIMONIES ONE NIGHT ONLY, TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 If you think the Senate hearings last week were high drama, imagine seeing them live in the th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:01PMWednesday, September 5, 2018
PLAY ON Opening Night of the 2018 PLAY LA Festival of New Plays takes place Friday, September 7, at CASA 0101. Doors open at 7:00 pm at the Casa 0101 Gallery space for Hotel Mariachi, phot…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:25PMWednesday, August 29, 2018
SWEATING IT OUT Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer winner for drama — couldn’t have come at a better time. Since its arrival, the play has been hailed as a benchmark for our times…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:14PMFriday, June 29, 2018
TARANTINO IN THE STICKY SWAMPS OF SADNESS Tom Jacobson’s Tar is from his The Ballad of Bimini Baths, a triad of works playing concurrently in Los Angeles. For half a century (1902-1951), t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:57AMWednesday, June 27, 2018
AN ACT IN THE DARK For her debut at 54 Below in NYC – a nearly solo cabaret which was recorded for release on Broadway Records – the triple-threat Arielle Jacobs opened by letting us kno…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:33AMSaturday, June 23, 2018
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” Author Lois Lowry On June 28 & 29, Ford Theatres, in associat…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:47PMThursday, June 7, 2018
GAME OF THRONES — FROM THE SMALL SCREEN TO THE BIG CURTAIN Since HBO’s Game of Thrones hit our screens back in 2011, the show has gone on to become one of the most popular and b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:29PMFriday, May 18, 2018
GIMME THAT DO-RE-MI, BOYS The 1960 musical Do Re Mi is about a would-be big shot named Hubie Cram, a wheeler dealer who just can’t make the big time. As his wife Kay says, they have 40…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:18PMSaturday, May 5, 2018
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT THIS SUMMER WITH TWO BIG SHOWS The West End, one of the great epicentres of the Theatrical world, is undergoing something of a renaissance these days. It has always popula…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:55PMThursday, March 15, 2018
57 CHEVY: THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT ANTIDOTE, OR HOW BROWN WAS MY VALLEY? There’s palpable excitement surrounding the upcoming West Los Angeles engagement of Cris Franco’s autobiographical come…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:11PMMonday, February 19, 2018
SHORES ‘NUFF Texas-born playwright Del Shores, best known for his romp Sordid Lives (the hilarious play and movie that also introduced us to Leslie Jordan) is coming to the Celebrati…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:32PMFriday, January 12, 2018
A BROADWAY AMUSEMENT PARK THAT FLIES LIKE A CARPET “Open sesame” indeed. It’s “Abracadabra” times ten as the arrival of Aladdin in Hollywood feels as triumphant as Prince Ali�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54PM 
