6,591 stories from Stage and Cinema
A MASTERPIECE OF MUSICAL MISCHIEF In 1911, the Louvre was the largest building in the world, containing more than a thousand rooms, spread out over 45 acres and housing over a quarter millio…
MOTHERFUCKER! WHAT A COLOSSAL MISSED OPPORTUNITY With heightened and relentless dialog, Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Motherfucker with the Hat follows Jackie, a recently paroled ex-con and rec…
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME A friend warned me that The Heidi Chronicles might feel dated"after all, Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play ends in 1987.…
COMING HOME When Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway in 1964, it collected nine Tony Awards and captured the universality about families weathering change. But backstage, Zero Mostel a…
AMAZE TURNS SLEIGHT OF HAND INTO SLEIGHT OF HEART; THE MOST DAZZLING TRICK IS MAKING YOU CARE Jamie Allan, the UK's original technology magician, brings his new work Amaze to New York's New …
GO-GO SEE THIS SHOW-SHOW The jukebox musical Head Over Heels is a mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney's long 1590s poem Arcadia and the songs of the iconic 1980s' female rock band The Go-Go's, t…
TIME IS OUR FRIEND A Victorian inventor travels thousands of years into the future, only to discover that humanity has evolved"and devolved"into two radically different species. The 14/48 Ho…
Half an hour before opening, crowds gathered at the entrance of Parque del Oeste in Málaga, Spain. Children stood on tiptoes, eagerly looking at the dazzling lights inside the park, where…
ANIMATION, POLITICS, AND THE ART OF BEING HUMAN Cameron Darwin Bossert's The Animals Speak closes his Disney-centered trilogy A Venomous Color (produced by Thirdwing) which began with The Fa…
13,000 SHOWS LATER, FILICHIA STILL DRAWS A CROWD: THIS TIME, THE STARS CAME OUT FOR THE GUY WHO'S SEEN IT ALL 13,000 Shows Later, Filichia Still Draws a Crowd The number in the next sentence…
RIDE THIS TRAIN TO THE END OF THE LINE One of Chicago's oldest store-front theaters, City Lit, opens its 45th season with a production of Pulitzer winner, Stephen Adly Gurgis' Jesus Hopped T…
SHANKS FOR THE MEMORIES Currently packing in audiences"and now extended"at The Independent Theater, Luigi: The Musical is a sharp, clever, and gloriously irreverent parody of pop culture and…
TRANSCENDENCE DOES BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFULLY Sonoma County's home-grown musical revue troupe Transcendence Theatre Company has launched a wonderful production of Douglas McGrath's theatrical bio…
NEW YORK, NY " For decades, Broadway has been synonymous with dazzling lights, standing ovations, and world-class theatre. But could it also become a market for bettors in the United States?…
TA-DA! AND OTHER QUEER MAGIC TRICKS For Josh Sharp, "ta-da!" is code for gay. As a twelve-year-old magician, it was his entrance line: "ta-da!" Yeah, totally gay. But growing up in the South…
FROM TWEE TO TRÈS MAGNIFIQUE It's fascinating how some stories lend themselves better to one medium than the other. In 2001, the French romantic comedy, Amélie was an unexpected worldwid…
JOHN + SWING 7 = JAZZ HEAVEN Attend a set by John Pizzarelli and you're set for a satisfying songfest, whether it's a solo affair with just the mega-musical Mr. P. playing guitar and singing…
A LOOK BACK AT AN OLD MUSICAL ABOUT STRIKING OIL STRIKES IT RICH AS IT STRIKES ALL THE RIGHT NOTESÂ Â "Kid, when you need the crowd the tickets are hard to sell." That's a line from "He…
TWINS, TWISTS, AND A TENDER TOUCH The Old Globe Theatre closes out its summer Shakespeare Festival at the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre in Balboa Park with a zippy 90-minute one-act…
FLYING HIGH, CAROLE DEMAS'S FIREFLY LIGHTS UP THE ROOM "I could say life is just a bowl of Jello / And appear more intelligent and smart / But I'm stuck like a dope with a thing called hope …
SONGS OF MR. STROUSE IN THE HOUSE One of the greats of The Great White Way's great golden age, Charles Strouse was the honoree in absentia in an especially splendid presentation on July 2…
NOW SERVING LEGS, LEAPS, AND LIFE: AN EVENING THAT OFFERS PIROUETTES WITH A PURPOSE Dance for Life, the exuberant gala of dance created in 1992 to help address the impact of AIDS on a beleag…
DON'T LET THIS PARADE PASS YOU BY In 1913, in Atlanta, Georgia, the body of Mary Phagan, a thirteen-year-old factory laborer, was found in the basement of a pencil factory. On the flimsiest …
THE WEIGHT OF WHAT REMAINS In Brooklyn's charming Fort Greene, Bubba Weiler makes his playwriting debut with Well, I'll Let You Go, a lightly funny meditation on grief and healing, brought t…
DARWIN DEL FABRO STUNS IN A PERFORMANCE OF BECOMING One reason the queer community has found broader acceptance in America " generally speaking " is that most people today know someone who i…
