MARSH'S ONLINE SOLO FEST LOOKS FOR PERFORMERS From Ann Randolph's Loveland in 2010 to Dan Hoyle's Border People last year, The Marsh has presented some of the greatest solo shows I have ever…
VOYAGE IN A CLOSET Whereas many theater companies are becoming experimenters with video during the COVID-19 shutdown, Theater in Quarantine has been actually transforming theater into a smal…
A CERTAIN UNCERTAIN I found myself alternately laughing, weeping, and being in the doldrums watching this new interdisciplinary work from the company Source Material. Founding Artistic Direc…
A FRESH FRANKENSTEIN STARRING STACY KEACH L.A. Theatre Works, the world's leading producer of audio theater, has announced the release of its state-of-the-art audio recording of Mar…
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS "Stardust" was the name for what made Bette Davis shine. With playwright Jessica Sherr's solo recreation of more than big eyes and flouncing cigarettes, the magic is ba…
CELEBRATE '60'S MUSICALS WITH BRIAN CHENEY The 1960's may have been one of the most turbulent decades in history, but it also gave a boost to the arts in their many forms. Music and theater …
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS CHICAGO'S RAVEN THEATRE REVAMP ITS 2020-21 SEASON This fall's planned revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's drama Inherit the Wind direct…
CRAPSHOOT! Or Why Al Voted for Trump: a love story will open the Reykjavik International Fringe Festival The ReykjavÃk Fringe Festival 2020 (RVK) is a festival unlike any other. While mos…
RUBICON GOES RETRO! Safe-Distance Drive-In Series Kicks Off Drive-In Hits The first event of Rubicon Goes Retro, the company's Safe-Distance Drive-In Theatre Concert Series is here! The swel…
BLOODY GOOD! You know, Stage and Cinema has received hundreds of podcasts and other streaming paraphernalia since April when COVID-19 shut the arts down, but most are technically awkward, st…
ALL NEW PLAYS CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LORE OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present free "screened" readings of four new one-act plays inspired by life a…
ONE TO CATCH Between 1953 and 1965, ONE Magazine, the first openly gay & lesbian periodical in the United States, received thousands of letters monthly from its readers. a great many of …
FREE STREAMS OF SIX PLAYS BY BLACK WRITERS L.A. Theatre Works, the world's leading producer of audio theater, has chosen six titles by Black playwrights from its extensive collection o…
A SAD DAY FOR THEATER Executive Director, L. Walter Stearns and partner Business Manager Eugene Dizon announced today the permanent closure of Mercury Theater Chicago after ten years and 25 …
HOW YOU GET TO FINISH THE HAT This has been a milestone year for America: but aside from an epidemic and protests " and all that is entailed therein " we have Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthda…
ABSOLUTELY BRIGHT INDEED Available now at 92Y, here's is a can't-miss piece of pride " and handily one of the best solo shows I've seen in years: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. O…
REASONS FOR LOVE Covering the arts nationwide means that Stage and Cinema has received hundreds and hundreds of virtual entertainments, from classical and jazz to theater and art, all with b…
DICK EXTENDS Chicago's Theater Wit announced a third and final extension today of Teenage Dick, its long-running critically acclaimed virtual production of Mike Lew's devastatingly funny new…
HAND SOLO How many of us theater addicts have gone to a solo show only to find some woman squealing about her private parts (or man for that matter), and you think "Never Again." Then you ca…
STARVING FOR THEATER? FEAST ON THIS! It's not just for Chicagoans anymore. Time and again, we have trumped that Chicago theater is the most exciting in the country. Not just because of the a…
CELEBRATING A PASSION FOR SONDHEIM Welcome to a new, free virtual series to celebrate Stephen Sondheim as an American icon while celebrating his 90th birthday year. Sondheim @ 90 Roundtable,…
CAUGHT ON TAPE It was an unprecedented and timely decision. It was March 15, 2020, and the American Shakespeare Center " which operates the fantastic Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA " …
UPCOMING STAR-FILLED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY LIVESTREAM EVENTS TO BENEFIT THE ACTORS FUND Broadway's Best Shows is about to launch the weekly one-night-only "Spotlight On Plays" series beginning this…
PARTS OF A BODY Part Albee, part Ionesco, part mystery thriller, part Doubt, part Groundhog Day and " sadly " all red herrings, Lee Blessing's 2005 A Body of Water can't decide what it wants…
HERE'S SOMETHING THAT WILL INTEREST YOU This is the second show this year in L.A. to take head-on the insanity of modern journalism (the insanity being that while newspapers deliver so-calle…