Friday, February 14, 2025
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME SO, MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES It’s the perfect time for a Urinetown revival. Twenty-four years after its successful Broadway debut, City Center’s Encores! returns w…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:58AMWednesday, January 29, 2025
THE BONES OF GREAT THEATER Wakka Wakka, the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning theater company, returns with Dead as a Dodo, a surreal and darkly humorous production at the Baruch Performing …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:10AMSunday, January 12, 2025
RUNNING FOR ONE’S LIFE St. Ann’s Warehouse – one of the most eclectic and vibrant venues in New York – is now presenting another cutting-edge production, the North American premiere …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:20PMWednesday, January 8, 2025
A SPARKLING, SPIRITED PIRATES The Pirates of Penzance is a spirited lampoon of Victorian morality, skewering its pretensions and hypocrisies while also poking fun at the lackluster operas an…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:09PMWednesday, December 25, 2024
A MAGIQUE CARPET RIDE Do you need an escape from suffocating daily life? In Bushwick, across the street from Théâtre XIV, home to the best burlesque shows in the city, artistic director Au…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:06AMFriday, December 20, 2024
THERE’S A NEW GYPSY IN TOWN AND SHE’S STUNNING In the 1920s, Rose Thompson Hovick steamrolled her way through vaudeville and lived vicariously through her reluctant young daughters, Loui…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:14PMSaturday, November 30, 2024
PUT YOUR LIFE AND TRUST INTO THE HANDS OF LIFE AND TRUST There is a daunting immersive theater experience in Manhattan’s Financial District that is also somehow prophetic. The location, 69…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:37PMWednesday, November 27, 2024
A QUILT BLANKETED BY PREDICTABLE STITCHING Quilts always intrigued me; for millennia, women took scraps of fabric from discarded items and made quilts to be used for warmth or decorative pur…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, November 24, 2024
GET READY TO CRACK SOME NUTS WIDE OPEN Christmas can be very sexy if you step into the sumptuous world of Théâtre XIV in trendy Bushwick, and catch Company XIV’s neo-Baroque classic Nutc…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:07PMSaturday, November 23, 2024
PREPARE TO BE SWEPT AWAY What happens when we are faced with extreme necessity? The 1884 tragic wreck of the yacht Mignonette was a cause célèbre in late 19th-century Britain, but not beca…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:02AMWednesday, November 20, 2024
A GENERATIONAL GAP AND A PLAYWRITING GAP As a result of the #MeToo movement, there has been much brought to light about women working in America. But here’s a note to the younger generatio…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:23PMSaturday, November 16, 2024
JUST AS PROMISED, IT’S BIG! IT’S GAY! IT’S JAMBOREEING! Yes, there is a way to escape the post-election blues for 90 minutes: The Big Gay Jamboree at the Orpheum Theatre is the sublim…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:42PMThursday, November 14, 2024
A NEOLITHIC AND LEAN LEAR Shakespeare’s works can be read in many ways and I have witnessed so many diverse stage interpretations that I never know what I am about to see when I venture to…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:59PMTHE ZZZZzzz TEAM The Z Team, currently playing at Theatre Row, is a new work by father-and-son team Jeff and Jacob Foy. Directed by Jeff Whiting, it’s advertised to be uproarious: “If T…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Modern dance was born as a protest, a reaction to the rigid structure of classical ballet. It was evident when I’ve reviewed Extreme Taylor at the Joyce in June, and it was such a dazzl…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSaturday, November 9, 2024
MISSA BRAVOS The Limón Dance Company celebrates its 78th season at the Joyce Theater with an epic program that reflects José Limón’s humanist aesthetic: Limón’s The Traitor, Sche…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:04AMFriday, November 8, 2024
GREAT F. SCOTT! Elevator Repair Service’s justifiably heralded Gatz returns to The Public, opening tonight for a final New York City encore, and it’s congenial, unforgettable theater. …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:33PMSunday, October 27, 2024
Whore’s Eye View is a unique event, more of a lecture on the history of women’s sexuality than the personal monologue one would expect from a sex-worker. Now at HERE Arts Center as part …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSaturday, October 26, 2024
OUR SHOCKING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Rawshock, a new drama by Rita Lewis which opened last night for a limited run by Manhattan Rep at the Chain Theatre, is set in a psychiatric hospital. As is o…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMWednesday, October 23, 2024
EVERYTHING ABOUT KAFKAESQUE!, INCLUDING THE COCKROACH, PROVES THAT JAMES HARVEY HAS A HISS, I MEAN, HIT, ON HIS HANDS Full-time lawyer by day, prolific author Franz Kafka wrote at night and …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSunday, October 20, 2024
LET’S BE FRANKLIN Were our Founding Fathers good fathers to their children? Lloyd Suh‘s play Franklinland, directed by Chika Ike, now having its world premiere at the Ensemble Studio The…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:34PMTuesday, September 24, 2024
AN ASTOUNDING CAST CAN’T HELP TO SHAKE THE FEELING THAT WE’VE WITNESSED THIS BEFORE Pedro Antonio Garcia, a criminal defense attorney and a playwright, must have written The Witness Room…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:53AMMonday, September 23, 2024
SOMETIMES THINGS HAVE TO GET VERSE TO GET BETTER Medea: Re-Versed, a Hip Hopera by Luis Quintero, has landed at the Frank Shiner Theatre and it is, without doubt, a memorable experience.…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:27PMWednesday, September 18, 2024
I’D LOVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU WANT ME TO SEE It is extremely hard to translate the work of writers as ingenious and imaginative as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, the father of Japanese short s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:58PMFriday, September 13, 2024
RESPLENDENT ISLAND Sri Lanka is the epitome of a tropical paradise with golden sand beaches and luxurious palm trees, regal elephants and sexy leopards, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean once kn…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:50PMWednesday, September 4, 2024
A FASCINATING SUBJECT BOTH MOLD AND NEW In 2019, antibiotic resistance contributed to almost 5 million deaths globally affecting everyone, no matter what age, race or financial status. Here …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:18PMWednesday, August 28, 2024
A DOWNSIZED HURRICANE Hurricane Season at Theatre Row is an experimental play where it’s difficult to understand what is happening, and why, from the beginning to the very end. Produced by…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTuesday, August 13, 2024
MATTRESS HOLDS THE BREW THAT IS TRUE After 25 years, Once Upon a Mattress is back on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre, with a new adaptation by Amy Sherman-Palladino (creator of The Marvel…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:37AMMonday, August 12, 2024
IF ONLY THIS MUSICAL WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH THE SAME EFFICIENCY AS THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING Empire, at New World Stages, is unquestionably a musical created with an adult public in mind, par…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:22AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
A MEETING THAT’S TOUGH TO INTERPRET Four months before the November 2016 presidential elections, a crucial meeting took place at Trump Tower between Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.; Tru…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:51AMFriday, August 2, 2024
PILOBOLUS IS re:INVIGORATING In 1971, at Dartmouth College, three non-dance students were asked by their composition teacher to create a dance piece. The students were Jonathan Wolken, Steve…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AM 
