Monday, April 28, 2025
REASONABLE DOUBT? NOT ABOUT LEGALLY BLONDE‘S PINK POWER Let’s get one thing straight. Legally Blonde: The Musical is not highbrow theater. It is not Sweeney Todd with meat pies and too-c…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:52PMSunday, April 27, 2025
When There’s A Second Knock On The Door: Love and Lockup in Furlough’s Paradise In Furlough’s Paradise, a. k. payne has crafted something that moves like a whisper but hits like a reck…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:29PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
IN CORKTOWN ’39, THE LIVING ARE JUST GHOSTS WITH BETTER TIMING Mark Mendelson‘s tightly composed set at The Matrix Theatre is a room cloaked in aging wealth at the Keating family’s Phi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:30PMEND-OF-WORLD TRAGICOMEDY CRACKS, BLEEDS AND THRIVES The end arrives not with a sob, but with a drag queen in a glittering black pantsuit, standing in a celestial spotlight, grinning like the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:28AMSunday, April 13, 2025
A RIOTOUS CARRIAGE RIDE THROUGH TIME Somewhere between empire waistlines and leather harnesses, Regency Girls carves out a raucous, messy, and strangely moving place for itself onstage at Th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:51PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
EXIR, PURSUED BY MOVEMENT THAT CUTS DEEP Jealousy doesn’t sneak in. It bursts. You can see it take hold of Leontes the second doubt flickers behind his eyes. His body folds in. Hands clutc…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:51PMMonday, March 31, 2025
THE FAIRY TALES BREAK– AND THAT’S THE POINT The stories are still here. Cinderella. Jack. Little Red. Rapunzel. A Baker and his Wife, tangled in a curse and each other. Into the Woods ha…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:42PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
SWINGS BIG, SHINES BRIGHT All Roads Theatre Company just set the bar sky-high with One for My Baby, a slick, jazz-soaked tribute to the music of Harold Arlen. This is old-school showbiz at i…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:27PMMonday, March 10, 2025
THE JAZZ AGE MEETS OPERA IN LA OPERA’S SEXY COSI Mozart’s Così fan tutte started with royal scandal. In 1789, Emperor Joseph II commissioned the opera after a partner-swapping scandal s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:08AMSunday, March 9, 2025
A WHISPER THAT ECHOES There are plays that knock you over with intensity. And there are those that seep in, settle under your skin, and stay there long after the lights come up. Adam Szymkow…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:38AMFriday, March 7, 2025
YOU GO, GIRLS! San Diego’s theater scene is about to get a jolt of excitement as The Old Globe prepares the pre-Broadway world premiere of Regency Girls, a bold and hilarious new musical c…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:50AMWednesday, February 26, 2025
A SHAKESPEAREAN WESTERN MUSICAL? DON’T WORRY, IT MEASURES UP The wild west sizzles with song and chaos in Desperate Measures, the rootin’-tootin’ Wild West musical shinin’ bright at …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:05AMThursday, February 20, 2025
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE SUN DOESN’T COME OUT, SEE THIS NATIONAL TOUR OF ANNIE If the sun will come out tomorrow, somebody better tell this production. The national non-equity tour of…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:51PMWednesday, February 19, 2025
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. HIS NAME IS ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. At the tender age of 26, Alexander Robertson has made a mark on Broadway as a co-producer with his current show roster including Cabaret…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:09AMSunday, February 16, 2025
BACON SIZZLES If you’re in search of a play that simmers with tension before scorching the stage with raw, emotional fire, English playwright Sophie Swithinbank’s Bacon, currently searin…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:48PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
THE END OF THE WORLD COMES WITH A COFFEEE BREAK There’s something eerily familiar about the way Michael Redfield and Hugo Armstrong zip and unzip their parkas in Will Arbery’s haunting n…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMFriday, January 24, 2025
A MUSICAL PAIRING WRITTEN IN THE STARS Jason Robert Brown, the revered composer-lyricist who is considered by many as the natural successor to the late great Stephen Sondheim, graced Samueli…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:57AMTuesday, November 19, 2024
LA CAGE: STRIPPED OF ITS FEATHERS In Sam Pinkleton‘s well-intentioned but ultimately discordant revival of La Cage aux Folles at the Pasadena Playhouse, that old showbiz maxim about the sh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:43PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
BRAVO, AVI! As part of a SoCal tour, Israeli Mandolinist Avi Avital and San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra stopped at at Soka University Concert Hall on Sunday, Nove 10, 2024. …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMJASON ALEXANDER ISN’T FIDDLING AROUND — HIS POIGNANT PERFORMANCE GROUNDS THIS REVIVAL In Lonny Price’s revival of Fiddler on the Roof, Jason Alexander’s performance as Tevye stands o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMMonday, October 28, 2024
A WELL-PLAYED PIANO Though the surface plot of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson is fairly simple — an estranged brother and sister argue over whether to sell or keep a beautiful piano th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:56AMThursday, September 12, 2024
PLAYWRIGHT MARTIN CRIMP HAS A NOSE FOR UPDATES Martin Crimp’s Cyrano at the Pasadena Playhouse is nothing short of theatrical alchemy. This bold reimagining of Edmond Rostand’s beloved c…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:59PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
The San Diego Symphony delivered a night of sheer enchantment on Friday, August 23rd, with Sondheim Tonight! A Celebration of Genius. Held at the stunning Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, this con…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMFriday, August 2, 2024
A RIVETING TALE OF ART AND IDEOLOGY AT ITS FINEST In Tom Jacobson’s Crevasse, playing at the Victory Center Theatre, the curtain rises on a fractured world where art, love, and propaganda …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:15PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
MUSIC, MEMORY AND MORTALITY: THE MAGIC OF JELLY’S LAST JAM In the resplendent realm of musical theatre, Jelly’s Last Jam has once again ascended to prominence. Recently produced as a con…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:01AMMonday, June 3, 2024
BUILDING BONDS OVER BREAD AND BUTTER In the evocative narrative of Miranda Rose Hall‘s The Sandwich Ministry, — which opened last Saturday at Skylight Theatre — the audience is invited…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:05PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
UNDERWEAR TYCOONS AND AERIAL INTRUSIONS: THE UNRAVELING COMEDY OF MISALLIANCE So, you stroll into the theater, right? You see this fancy conservatory set up, all English manor-style, and you…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:20AMThursday, May 16, 2024
BRINGING BACK ROSAS’ BLOOM The inaugural presentation of the Latino Theater Company‘s 2024 season, Ghost Waltz stands as a testament to the company’s commitment to groundbreaking theat…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, May 6, 2024
Galilee 34 blends the divine and profane in its exploration of early Christianity Eleanor Burgess, a prolific playwright whose works have graced numerous stages (The Niceties, Wife of a Sale…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMFriday, May 3, 2024
SHAZAM, KAZAN! So, have you heard? Lainie Kazan‘s 60s tunes are now just a click away on all those streaming sites. We’re talking the kind of songs that make you want to break out in a d…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:22PMFriday, April 26, 2024
THE BOYS ARE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER In the never-ending array of jukebox musicals that have lit up Broadway’s vibrant landscape, Jersey Boys shines like a brilliant star. Premiering in …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AM 
