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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Broadway Review: JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE (Barrymore Theatre) by Paola Bellu

FINDING YOUR SONG Debbie Allen’s revival honors Wilson’s depth with a richly realized production The Barrymore Theatre’s revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, dire…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:57PM
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Broadway Review: FALLEN ANGELS (Roundabout Theatre Company at Todd Haimes Theatre) by Paola Bellu

A LITTLE SIN, A LOT OF GIN A fizzy Noël Coward comedy where anticipation —and alcohol—do the heavy lifting There is a particular kind of overupholstered, well-mannered, and suffocating …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:03PM
Monday, April 13, 2026

Dance Review: SCORCHED EARTH (St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn) by Paola Bellu

LAND, LABOR, AND THE BODY Luke Murphy's dance-theatre work turns ownership into something visceral and urgent St. Ann's Warehouse unveils Scorched Earth, a striking dance-theatre work from A…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: THE PUSHOVER (John Patrick Shanley World Premiere, Chain Theatre) by Paola Bellu

POWER, CONTROL, AND WHAT LURKS BENEATH Shanley's psychological thriller simmers with tension, even when it overreaches John Patrick Shanley digs back into power and vulnerability in The Push…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Theater Review: UNCLE VANYA, SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE (La MaMa, NYC) by Paola Bellu

CHEKHOV, REIMAGINED IN BEAUTIFUL CHAOS Dmitry Krymov turns a classic into a surreal theatrical hallucination There are many ways to stage Anton Chekhov. You can do it the traditional way wit…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: TITUS ANDRONICUS (Red Bull Theater at Pershing Square Signature Center) by Paola Bellu

FEAST ON THIS: BLOOD, REVENGE, AND A SHOCKINGLY GOOD TIME A ferocious, darkly funny take that makes Shakespeare's grisliest play thrillingly alive (Back) Anthony Michael Martinez, Zack Lopez…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:30AM
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Dance Review: HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO PROGRAM A (The Joyce Theater, NYC) by Paola Bellu

THREE STYLES, ONE ELECTRIFYING COMPANY A vibrant program that moves effortlessly from sensual modernism to jazzy precision to kinetic abstraction Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns to The …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: IVANOV (New American Ensemble at West End Theater) by Paola Bellu

CHEKHOV BEFORE THE MASTERPIECES A lean, lucid revival reveals Ivanov as an early, electric study of burnout, longing, and emotional paralysis Zachary Desmond, Paul Niebank, Casey Worthington…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:00PM
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: ZACK (Mint Theater Company) by Paola Bellu

EDWARDIAN ANXIETIES, COMEDIC COMFORT A rediscovered British comedy reminds us that decency"not money or status" may be the most radical virtue of all When the news of war grows terrifying, a…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Cabaret & Theater Review: GREY ARIAS (The Flea) by Paola Bellu

OPERA, DRAG, AND THE POLITICS IN BETWEEN Adrienne Truscott and Le Gateau Chocolat gleefully explore identity, allyship, and the "grey areas" where ideology and performance collide Grey Arias…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:30PM
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: BURNOUT PARADISE (Astor Place Theatre) by Paola Bellu

FULL SPEED AHEAD Pony Cam turns burnout, chaos, and cardio into delirious theater Dominic Weintraub, Claire Bird, Hugo Williams, William Strom Are you, perhaps, missing the wild energy of Bl…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AM
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: CHINESE REPUBLICANS (Roundabout Theatre Company) by Paola Bellu

A POWER LUNCH WITH KNIVES UNDER THE TABLE Ambition, rivalry, and assimilation simmer in Alex Lin's sharp corporate comedy There are ordinary lunches, and then there are Chinese Republicans l…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:43PM
Monday, March 2, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: PETITE ROUGE (Company XIV at Théâtre XIV in Bushwick, Brooklyn) by Paola Bellu

A FAIRY TALE REBORN IN HEELS, CORSETS, AND CANDLELIGHT Little Red gets very bad " and very fabulous " in Company XIV's Petite Rouge PhillVonAwesome In its twentieth anniversary season, Compa…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:01AM
Friday, February 27, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: MEAT SUIT, OR THE SHITSHOW OF MOTHERHOOD (Second Stage Theater) by Paola Bellu

AFTER BIRTH Meat Suit is a carnival of motherhood that mistakes provocation for revelation Meat Suit, or the Shitshow of Motherhood, a Second Stage Theater production which opened last night…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AM
Friday, February 20, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: THE DINOSAURS (Playwrights Horizons) by Paola Bellu

A RECOVERY GROUP WHERE LITTLE IS REVEALED AND LESS IS RESOLVED Superb performances anchor a script that withholds more than it delivers In the 1980s, film snobs treated TV like it had crashe…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:57AM
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Concert Review: ESPERANZA SPALDING (Well-Being Concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Room) by Paola Bellu

ESPERANZA SPALDING'S HOMEMADE FIELD OF LOVE A communal cleansing at Carnegie Hall Stepping out at night this winter requires real chutzpah because New York City is absolutely freezing, but y…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:30PM
Monday, February 2, 2026

Off-Broadway Review: ULYSSES (Elevator Repair Service at The Public Theater) by Paola Bellu

JOYCE'S ODYSSEY ON STAGE Elevator Repair Service turns the impossible into a joyous theatrical sprint Beloved, despised, or abandoned halfway through by most readers, Joyce's Ulysses is one …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:19PM
Sunday, December 28, 2025

Opera Review: AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (The Met and Lincoln Center Theater at Mitzi E. Newhouse) by Paola Bellu

A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, UP CLOSE AND BREATH-BY-BREATH Opera this intimate feels less like a performance and more like a shared act of wonder This holiday season, multi-Grammy Award winner and O…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:15PM
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: TARTUFFE (New York Theatre Workshop) by Paola Bellu

MORAL ROT MASQUERADING AS VIRTUE Broderick underplays the zealot Tartuffe in Lucas Hnath's contemporary take, but the cast keeps the comedy crackling The art of looking virtuous while being …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:51AM
Saturday, December 13, 2025

Theater Review: BIPOLAR & THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Julie Ridge at Theatre Row) by Paola Bellu

ENDURANCE, MANIA, AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE A raw solo performance that turns lived experience into hard-earned clarity Bipolar disorder, marked by its vertiginous highs and devastating lows, …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:58AM
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: QUEENS (Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center) by Paola Bellu

AN EXCEPTIONAL ENSEMBLE IN A CROWDED PLAY Immigrant stories echo through a Queens basement " and across decades ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Queens i…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:59AM
Friday, November 21, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: NUTCRACKER ROUGE (Company XIV at at Théâtre XIV in Bushwick, Brooklyn) by Paola Bellu

THE NUTCRACKER: NOW WITH 69% MORE CRACK Because sometimes holiday spirit comes in fishnets and a martini glass While The Nutcracker graces stages worldwide, Brooklyn's Company XIV continues …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:50PM
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Dance Review: GRAVITY (Ballet Preljocaj at The Joyce) by Paola Bellu

Angelin Preljocaj has carved out a daring niche in the dance world, fusing classical ballet with contemporary flair to invent a unique, bold alphabet of movements. Now, the US premiere of Ba…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: TARTUFFE (André De Shields at House of the Redeemer) by Paola Bellu

ANDRÉ DE SHIELDS THE REDEEMER André De Shields should be a landmark; for over six decades, he has towered over the worlds of theatre, film, and television with the kind of presence that…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM
Monday, October 13, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION (The Flea Theatre) by Paola Bellu

RECONCILING WITH SHANLEY'S PAST In Italian American Reconciliation, playwright John Patrick Shanley, best known for Moonstruck and Doubt, returns to the Bronx of his youth where conversation…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:56AM
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: THE HONEY TRAP (Irish Repertory Theatre) by Paola Bellu

SWEET LIES, STICKY MEMORIES, BITTER GUILT; THE HONEY TRAP STINGS AT IRISH REP In Northern Ireland, The Troubles only ended some 25"30 years ago, though their tensions and legacies reach far …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:30PM
Friday, October 3, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: AND THEN WE WERE NO MORE (Stop the Wind Theatricals at La MaMa) by Paola Bellu

Justice without mercy becomes punishment, and mercy without justice becomes apathy. But how do we strike the balance when the system and the society behind it seem to have forgotten both? In…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Theater Review: WEATHER GIRL (St. Ann's Warehouse) by Paola Bellu

WEATHER FORECAST: FUNNY AND SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF ARMAGEDDON In recent years, I have watched a wave of productions by Millennial and Gen Z artists who are, quite understandably, petrified b…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:00PM
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Art | Theater Review: SUBMERGE: BEYOND THE RENDER (ARTECHOUSE NYC at Chelsea Market) by Paola Bellu

DIGITAL DREAMS, SUPERCHARGED What happens when you combine a century-old boiler room, an army of graphics processing units (GPUs), and some of the most imaginative digital artists? You get S…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:00PM
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Off-Broadway Review: THE WILD DUCK (Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center) by Paola Bellu

TAKES FLIGHT AT TFANA: TRUTH, LIES AND QUACKING DELUSIONS While Shakespeare agonized over "to be or not to be," Henrik Ibsen was more concerned with "why is everyone being so fake?" It's exi…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:22PM
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Broadway Review: ART (Music Box Theatre) by Paola Bellu

THE FINE ART OF A THREE-MAN MASTERPIECE Yasmina Reza's Art returned to Broadway last night starring Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, and James Corden, and it is a tight, acidic joyride …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:01AM

All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off