Tuesday, April 21, 2026
KAFKA IN AMERICA— AND LOST AT SEA Striking visuals adrift in an overlong adaptation Who isn’t familiar with Franz Kafka (1883–1924), the tormented Czech writer? Or The Metamorphosis, K…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AMSunday, April 19, 2026
LOST IN TRANSLATION— AND INTENTION Pulitzer winner that provokes, puzzles, and occasionally frustrates. Is it a scream into a void or a play? English, by Sanaz Toossi, won the 2023 Pulitze…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:42PMTuesday, April 14, 2026
FOUNDING FATHERS, FOUND WANTING A promising historical premise undone by uneven writing What Price Freedom, by Tony Blake, having its world premiere at Moving Arts Theatre, recounts one of t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:05AMThursday, March 26, 2026
SUPERSTAR STILL RISES Nocturne Theatre's high-concept staging proves that even a familiar rock opera can still feel fresh, fierce, and electrifying First, a Biblical passage…"Jesus Christ …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:01PMSaturday, March 21, 2026
CIVILITY ON THE BRINK OF CHAOS Jack Heller's polished production reveals Pinter's menace, even if it could use a bit more disorder First, a joke: "How many Harold Pinters does it take to cha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:54PMThursday, February 26, 2026
A GENDER-FLUID RICHARD III ROOTED IN HISTORY AND PERFORMANCE TRADITION A commanding central performance anchors a sharp, theatrically confident staging The Tragedy of Richard the Third, Will…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:32PMWednesday, February 11, 2026
MOZART MEETS THE FINAL FRONTIER Pacific Opera Project boldly goes where singspiel has gone before Begin with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1789 complex and comic singspiel Die Entführung aus …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:15PMSunday, February 1, 2026
POETRY AS ACTIVISM, MEMORY, AND INVITATION A moving, participatory tribute to June Jordan that insists poetry still matters June Jordan was a seminal feminist poet and essayist who"beyond ge…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AMSaturday, January 31, 2026
ZANDER RAPHAEL SPINS PUPPETRY INTO GOLD Gilded Spindle offers Shannon L. Reagan's retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin tale with a slight #MeToo twist. While the talents and artistry of Reagan, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:17PMKind Stranger … A Memory Play, conceived and performed by Rick Simone-Friedland is successful as a historical rendering of Playwright Tennessee Williams' life. It is also successful as a r…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00AMSaturday, January 24, 2026
A SOLO HAMLET BUILT ON PRECISION AND VELOCITY Inside the White-Box World of Izzard: One Performer, Twenty-Two Roles, No Safety Net Suzy Eddie Izzard"formerly known as Eddie Izzard until 2023…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:21PMWednesday, January 21, 2026
A MURDEROUSLY FUN MUSICAL SEND-UP OF KIDS-TV STARDOM Nathan Wang and Matthew Leavitt turn wholesome childhood icons into gleeful chaos" fast, filthy, and ridiculously entertaining. Sets are …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:57AMFriday, December 12, 2025
A HOLIDAY PANTO THAT KNOWS WHAT IT'S DOING The Actors' Gang offers a family-friendly fairy tale with teeth Children of the Winter Kingdom " The Bonkers Adventures of Holly and Spruce, now fr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AMFriday, November 21, 2025
THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD " IT RINGS THE DOORBELL Priestley's prophetic 1945 masterpiece glows with fierce clarity at Theatre 40 Masquerading as one of those staid drawing room mysteries Agatha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:39PMThursday, November 13, 2025
Bluebeard's Castle, A Medieval Musical Thriller by Russian director and playwright Sofia Streisand, making her U.S. debut at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, displays immense ambition that achi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:45AMTuesday, November 11, 2025
SUPER ZEROES UNITE! Aging heroes, flat jokes, and laughs that need life support Golden Age by Thomas J. Nisuraca is the roughest of rough theatre. Staged by Force of Nature Productions and d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:14AMFriday, October 24, 2025
THANKS TO ANTAEUS, CYMBELINE RIDES AGAIN Who knew Cymbeline could gallop? Director Nike Doukas's new staging at Antaeus Theatre Company turns one of Shakespeare's most notoriously unwieldy p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:17AMFriday, October 17, 2025
A MILD CASE OF THE CREEPS Ah, Halloween " All Hallows' Day, Allhallowtide, Jack-o'-lanterns, the madcap lads of West Hollywood, the troops of pint-sized witches, Iron Men and Disney princess…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMFriday, October 3, 2025
INTO THE WORDS Entering The Other Space at the Actors Company Theatre Complex, I was immediately taken by Fritz Davis's well-crafted video projections cast on Joel Daavid's set of three wall…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:41AMSunday, September 28, 2025
OH, WHAT A NIGHT Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana (1961) may be viewed as the finish of a journey the playwright began twenty years earlier with The Glass Menagerie (1944). The on…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AMSunday, September 14, 2025
A GEM OF A PRODUCTION FOR THERESA REBECK'S DAZZLING SUNDAY ON THE ROCKS Solid. Diamond Solid. Strength and luster. That is what's most striking about Sunday on the Rocks by playwright Theres…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:39PMWednesday, September 10, 2025
FLY ME TO THE SUN… AND LEAVE ME THERE I confess, playwright Brian Quijada was an unknown quantity to me, and after attending Fly Me to the Sun at the Fountain Theatre, I was of the mind th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:22PMWednesday, August 27, 2025
ACHILLES' HEEL IN ARCADIA There is a misunderstanding of critics among some circles, a sense that they are all cast in the mold of Ellsworth Toohey, the sniveling, Machiavellian art critic f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:09AMThursday, August 14, 2025
A MASTERPIECE OF MUSICAL MISCHIEF In 1911, the Louvre was the largest building in the world, containing more than a thousand rooms, spread out over 45 acres and housing over a quarter millio…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00AMTuesday, August 12, 2025
TIME IS OUR FRIEND A Victorian inventor travels thousands of years into the future, only to discover that humanity has evolved"and devolved"into two radically different species. The 14/48 Ho…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:35AMSaturday, August 2, 2025
Let there be no mistaking it, Mark Vigeant is so funny that if he was performing on an amphitheater set up in front of Mount Rushmore, after the first five minutes milk would be shooting out…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:05PMSunday, July 27, 2025
DEAD BLONDES TELL NO TALES " EXCEPT THIS ONE Conspiracy theories have surrounded the death of actress and restaurateur Thelma Todd since 1935, when her lifeless body was discovered in a gara…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:36PMWAITING FOR COWDOT Normally, a surfeit of hyphens in any production assures trouble ahead, but Aaron Francis, the writer-director-designer-producer of this subversive, potent indictment of t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:02AMSunday, July 20, 2025
A KNOCK AT THE HEART With her staging of Dolores, Edward Allan Baker's two-woman drama about domestic violence, director Stephanie Feury"at the theatre that bears her name"has placed on disp…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:06PMSaturday, July 19, 2025
OFFTIME Abi Watkinson's one-woman show 5:45 is a poor receptacle for a great deal of talent"one that feels underdeveloped and not fully thought through. The trouble starts with the title. A …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:58PMA TAIL OF LOVE ON A LEASH Playwright Benjamin Schwartz and director Natalie Nicole Dressel, in league with actors Callie Ott and Spencer Weitzel, have served up in Dog of Carnage one of the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:01PM 
