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Friday, December 27, 2024

Theater Opening: LIFE AFTER (Mirvish Theatre in Toronto) by Frank Arthur

The full cast and creative team for the new musical Life After at CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto have been announced and tickets are now on sale at Mirvish. With book, music & lyrics …

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:44PM
Friday, December 13, 2024

Theater Preview: EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON (World Premiere Musical in Pasadena) by Frank Arthur

Karen, a young woman, is offered the chance to rescue her impoverished family from its dire straits if she agrees to become the companion of an enchanted bear for a year. Within the body of …

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:12AM
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Upcoming Theater: UNWANTED LAUGHTER (Staged Reading Fundraiser at Temple Isaiah Lieberman Chapel in Palm Springs) by Frank Arthur

TALLULAH BANKHEAD AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS RETURN TO PALM SPRINGS Unwanted Laughter by Marty Martin plays for one night only, November 9, 2024, at 7pm, as a fundraiser for Temple Isaiah’s LG…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:29PM
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Recommended Theater: DOGS (Red Theater in Chicago) by Frank Arthur

It is the Fourth of July sometime in the future, and history is about to be made. We are about to witness the annual Hot Dog Eating Contest. The five women invited to this stage have set out…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:03PM
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Highly Recommended Album: THE SECRET GARDEN: A NEW MUSICAL (London Studio Cast Reissue) by Frank Arthur

THE SECRET GARDEN: A NEW MUSICAL STREAMING FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME StarVista Music has reissued of The Secret Garden: A New Musical, featuring an extraordinary ensemble of West End talent �…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:53PM
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Recommended Theater: ROOM-I-NATION (CAP UCLA’s Nimoy) by Frank Arthur

Aditya Prakash’s ROOM-i-Nation, an unprecedented adaptation of his 2023 album ISOLASHUN, comes to CAP UCLA’s Nimoy Theater on October 4 & 5, 2024. Drawing from his vibrant Los Ange…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:22PM
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Highly Recommended Theater: PARENTS IN CHAINS (Developmental Workshop Production at Whitley Theatre in L.A.) by Frank Arthur

It’s rare to see so many superstars on stage at once. That’s what you’ll get for Parents in Chains, a new comedy by Jay Martel, which will have a developmental workshop production at H…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:27PM

Theater: WAITRESS (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts) by Frank Arthur

If the heat in the kitchen is getting you down, you’ll want to head on over to La Mirada Theatre, where the Broadway hit Waitress opens tonight and plays through October 13. Designed by an…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:57AM
Friday, August 30, 2024

Theater Review: THE REVOLUTIONISTS (Lamplighters Community Theatre in San Diego) by Frank Arthur

HEADS. WILL. ROLL. The Revolutionists is feminist history laced with an argument for the value of art in revolution. Playwright Lauren Gunderson (The Book of Will, Silent Sky, Exit, Pursued…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:11PM
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Broadway & Pre-Broadway: STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS (Ahmanson Theatre, L.A. | Samuel J. Friedman, NY) by Frank Arthur

A GREAT BIG BROADWAY SHOW Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, starring Bernadette Peters & Lea Salonga, and directed by Sir Matthew Bourne — side by side with Julia McKenzie — with …

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:15AM
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Theater Opening: THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL (Otherworld Theatre in Chicago) by Frank Arthur

HOLY HADES! HERE COME LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE! Otherworld Theatre, North America’s premier fantasy and genre live theatre production company, is bringing The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jacks…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:31PM
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Theater Review: THE EXPLORER’S CLUB (Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills) by Frank Arthur

A PLAY NOT WORTH EXPLORING Doggedly determined to fight yesterday’s battles, Nell Benjamin’s chronic farce The Explorers Club manically mocks the heyday of male British explorers. Fudd…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:55PM
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Theater/Film: MUSICAL COMEDY WHORE! (Breaking Glass) by Frank Arthur

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 07:04PM
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Theater Preview: WRITER THEATRE’S 2020/21 SEASON (Chicago) by Frank Arthur

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 01:39AM
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Theater Preview: ASK THE VOID (Theatre of the Electric Mouth) by Frank Arthur

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 03:44AM
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Virtual Theater Preview: 3 WAY LOVVE (Hollywood Fringe) by Frank Arthur

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 04:32PM
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Theater Preview: OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR / YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (The York Theatre Company) by Frank Arthur

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 06:32PM
Thursday, January 16, 2020

Concert Preview: LILLIAS WHITE (Samueli Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa) by Frank Arthur

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 08:43PM
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Los Angeles Theater Preview: GROUNDLINGS MIX TAPE (The Groundlings Theatre) by Frank Arthur

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 05:49PM
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Los Angeles Theater Preview: THE MUSIC MAN (5-Star Theatricals in Thousand Oaks) by Frank Arthur

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 02:50PM
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Theater Preview: GRUMPY OLD MEN — THE MUSICAL (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts) by Frank Arthur

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 03:55PM
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Theater Interview: BEKAH BRUNSTETTER, Playwright of MISS LILLY GETS BONED (West Coast Premiere by Rogue Machine at Electric Lodge in Venice) by Frank Arthur

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 04:16PM
Saturday, September 7, 2019

Theater Preview: SKINTIGHT (Geffen Playhouse) by Frank Arthur

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 06:15PM
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Theater Preview: HOT MIKADO (42nd Street Moon in San Francisco) by Frank Arthur

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 04:10PM
Friday, June 21, 2019

Theater Feature: THE PRODUCERS (Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles) by Frank Arthur

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 05:43PM
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Theater: LOTTERY DAY (Goodman in Chicago) by Frank Arthur

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 09:27PM
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Theater Feature: GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE by Frank Arthur

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 04:32PM
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Theater Preview: ZORBA (Musical Theatre Guild) by Frank Arthur

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 06:50PM
Friday, October 19, 2018

Theater Preview: THE SEAFARER (Laguna Playhouse) by Frank Arthur

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 07:32PM
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Theater Preview: 42ND STREET (3-D Theatricals) by Frank Arthur

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 08:19PM
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Theater Feature: OPPENHEIMER (Rogue Machine Theatre at its new home, Electric Lodge in Venice) by Frank Arthur

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 06:44PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre