Saturday, November 20, 2021
SLOW TO DIE, OR FAST TO LIVE? The setting is the story in The Children, Fountain Theatre’s L.A. premiere. Set designer Andrew Hammer depicts a hand-me-down yet tidy seaside cottage off …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18AMFriday, November 19, 2021
A BEAT OFF You may have never heard of the musical Head Over Heels, but this screwy mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century poem Arcadia and the songs of the iconic 1980s’ femal…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:34PMThursday, November 18, 2021
PARADISE, INDEED The eyes of the theater world, both in Chicago and New York City, are likely now focused on the James M. Nederlander Theatre where Paradise Square is performing before its t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:02PMWednesday, November 17, 2021
THIS BUGABOO WILL FOLLOW YOU HOME The Steppenwolf Theatre’s extraordinary production of Tracy Letts’s Bug was winding down its highly praised production in March 2020 when the drama was …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:06PMMonday, November 15, 2021
[Editor’s Note: This week, Steppenwolf raises the curtain once again on its blistering and extraordinary revival of Bug. This time, audiences will return not to the same building they le…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:28PMSaturday, November 13, 2021
MY FAILED LADY Let’s make one thing clear. When a national touring company of a Broadway success comes to your city, proclaiming it is a duplicate of the original production, what is meant…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:11PMDallas Black Dance Academy (DBD Academy) presents its fourth annual Espresso Nutcracker, with a new twist on a holiday tradition. The performance is jazz-influenced by the music of Duke E…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:36PMSister Act at the Mercury Theater is the 2011 Broadway adaptation of a 1992 movie that became a surprise box office hit, largely elevated by a star performance from Whoopi Goldberg. The show…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AMFriday, November 12, 2021
MILLER THEATRE IS BACK Miller Theatre at Columbia University is the leading presenter of new music in New York City; now, one of the most vital forces nationwide for innovative programming i…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:39AMJESUS TRADES SOUL FOR A MAN BUN While the the 50th anniversary tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is still finding its footing in this truncated version (90 …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMA LITTLE LITE MUSIC Any theater company that decides to produce the entire body of work created by a single artist, like, say, aiming to produce every play Shakespeare ever wrote, deserves a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:39AMWednesday, November 10, 2021
AN ANIMATED FLUTE FANTASIA This new-to-Chicago production of Mozart’s Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) is the most unique production this writer has seen in eight years of reviewing Lyric Op…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:20PMEVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE‘S OPENING Casting has been announced and tickets are now on sale for Friends Ticket Presale & American Express® Presale and, Nov. 17, the general pub…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:05AMSunday, November 7, 2021
A Red Orchid Theatre’s 29th Season kicks off the with the Chicago Premiere of The Moors by Jen Silverman, directed by Kirsten Fitzgerald (Jan 6-Feb 27, 2022) and followed by the world prem…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:10AMFriday, November 5, 2021
THANKFULLY, WE’RE STILL SEARCHING Is there life after Lily Tomlin? The Shed, the cool new space for theater and art in Hudson Yards, is about to prove that question with a resounding “ye…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:11PMWednesday, November 3, 2021
TERRIFIC LINE-UP JUST ADDED AT AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE ‘1971: 50th Anniversary’ Series Sat. November 6, 2021 – Sun. November 28, 2021 Los Feliz 3 Theatre Celebrate the 50th anniversa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:54PMTuesday, November 2, 2021
COME IN TO GET OUT In an immensely satisfying Halloween entertainment, Jordan Peele’s splendid thriller, Get Out, was accompanied by the LA Opera Orchestra playing the score live under the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:44PMMonday, November 1, 2021
Useful Tips for Starting Your Own Theater Company Live theater in the USA is finally awakening after an extended lull of approximately 18 months. In order to keep the arts alive, it is impe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:43PMSEEING THIS REVUE MAY BE THE BEST DECISION YOU’VE EVER MADE I entered the Second City e.t.c. on opening night with a sense of unease. Two weeks earlier the Second City mainstage company, t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AMFriday, October 29, 2021
STREAM-N-SCREAM Fright seekers are spending their weekend with Oiwa, Japan’s most terrifying female ghost. GHOST LIGHT: THE HAUNTING is a streaming theatre experience based on Yotsuya Ghos…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00PMThursday, October 28, 2021
WHAT A GREAT SHOW CAN MEAN TO YOU What the Constitution Means to Me is back at the Broadway Playhouse after a two year pandemic hiatus. Again, it is delivering an entertaining, thoughtful, h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:23PMCHANGE IS NOW We hear that that the only thing constant is change, yet we struggle against change, we fight against change, and some are even willing to succumb to the unyielding stress of …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
Indra’s Net Conceived, Directed, and Composed by Meredith Monk Meredith Monk’s newest interdisciplinary, evening-length music theater piece is an experiential performance work affirming …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:04PMTHE THEATER IS RICHER DUE TO POOR CLARE Every once in a while, a bright shiny play comes along that absolutely restores my faith in theater as a place to be entertained, enthralled, and enli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:20PMTuesday, October 26, 2021
TURNING LYRICAL INTO A MIRACLE In emphasizing the “musical lyricism” of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, A Noise Within’s promotional copy for its new production echoes the numerous co…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:56PMFriday, October 22, 2021
IS LESS MOOR? The Court Theatre artistic management is giving William Shakespeare’s great tragedy Othello a startling makeover. The play has been condensed into a single 110-minute act. Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:06PMThursday, October 21, 2021
MCC Theater (511 W 52nd St) opens its 2021-22 season with Nollywood Dreams, which reunites the entire cast from the 2020 MCC production that was postponed due to the theater shutdown. Writt…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AMWednesday, October 20, 2021
THE RETURN OF THE SHOTGUN PLAYERS It is always a pleasure to come across a playwright with a love for (and a gift for) language and, better, an appreciation for the comic possibilities of wo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:57PMMonday, October 18, 2021
THE PUBLIC THEATER ANNOUNCES CASTING FOR WORLD PREMIERE PLAY CULLUD WATTAH Written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza Directed by Candis C. Jones Above is the cast for the world premiere of CULLUD …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:38PMDOUBLE TROUBLE IN MINEOLA Paula Vogel, likely best known for her Pulitzer prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, isn’t afraid to tackle tough themes. In The Mineola Twins, she does so by dr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59PMSunday, October 17, 2021
AMERICA’S BEST NOTES Beginning its first season since the COVID shutdown, Musical Theater West has, true to its name, celebrated musical theatre with A Grand Night for Singing, a heartfelt…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:13PM