6,591 stories from Stage and Cinema
LISTEN TO THE LISTENERS. DO YOU HEAR THE HUM? Perhaps the most contemporary opera ever to grace the Lyric stage, Missy Mazzoli's The Listeners borrows heavily from reality television, social…
SHARP AS EVER, BUT DOES IT CUT DEEP ENOUGH? OR, IF YOU WANT BIGGER SHARKS, YOU NEED MORE BLOOD IN THE WATER Glengarry Glen Ross is a testosterone-saturated 24 hours of five salesmen, some me…
HAUNTING, URGENT, AND SPEAKS VOLUMES Priyanka Shetty's #Charlottesville, currently running at the Keegan Theatre, is a searing and deeply personal exploration of one of the darkest moment…
CELEBRATING KANDER & EBB: WHAT A LARK! In the heart of southern Marin County, Larkspur's Lark Theater is a 1936 art deco movie house with a single screen. It required hard work, dedicate…
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do. " American essayist Sloane Crosley First, I want to acknowled…
BENEATH THE SCHMALTZ IS A JOYFUL NOISE Fun, uplifting, and yes, frivolous, Sister Act is a musical remake of the famously successful 1992 hit movie starring Whoopi Goldberg. The historic For…
AN HONEST INTERVIEW ABOUT LYING Tom Moran is many things: a stage and film actor, a writer, a voice-over artist, a budding author, and a podcast host of Personality Bingo. Under the auspi…
I had a blind date. I waited two hours on the corner. A girl walked by. I said, "Are you Louise?'" She said, "Are you Rodney?" I said, "Yeah." She said, 'I'm not Louise." Â Â " Rodney …
TRUE ZEST IN TRUE WEST As my sixtieth year on earth winds down, I'd like to believe those years have seasoned me with a strong degree of wisdom, patience, and finesse. As I said, I'd like to…
THE FAIRY TALES BREAK" AND THAT'S THE POINT The stories are still here. Cinderella. Jack. Little Red. Rapunzel. A Baker and his Wife, tangled in a curse and each other. Into the Woods has al…
BEE MINUS Now playing at Wisteria Theater in North Hollywood is one of the few wonderful musicals from this century so far, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, by William Finn (music…
A RIPPING GOOD YARN WITH A JOLLY GOOD CAST OPERATION MINCEMEAT LANDS ON BROADWAY When I first encountered Operation Mincemeat at Riverside Studios in London back in 2022, it was a scrappy, s…
WHITEOUT NYU Skirball adheres closely to James Baldwin's dictum: "Artists are here to disturb the peace." With the U.S. premiere of Masterclass, Skirball's mission has been resoundingly fulf…
A WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN BERNSTEIN AND VON KARAJAN… AND THE AUDIENCE LOSES Peter Danish's Last Call at New World Stages imagines a high-stakes intellectual showdown between two musical titan…
THE PICTURE OF ASTOUNDING THEATRE I've been fortunate to witness some extraordinary one-person plays on Broadway. To name a few: Zoe Caldwell in Lillian, Ben Kingsley in Edmund Kean, Robert …
QUITE A NIGHT WITH MISS WHITE The series of concerts by Lillias White at 54 Below"running nightly through March 29 (and live streamed on the 28)"is billed as Divine Sass: A Tribute to Sarah …
IT'LL KNOCK THE PANTS OFF O' YOUSE Who Is Jimmy Pants? is the second production in the York's Spring 2025 "New2NY" series, presented at the Theater at St. Jean's on East 76th Street"a welcom…
STITCHING TOGETHER BEAUTY AND HORROR: SF BALLET'S ELECTRIFYING FRANKENSTEIN San Francisco Ballet's Frankenstein, a co-production with The Royal Ballet of London, had its world premiere in Lo…
WHEN THE GRIM PAST WAS A PARTY Willkommen to the intimate 99-seat NTC Playhouse in Novato, transformed into the seedy Kit Kat Klub in pre-war Berlin. While poverty, unemployment, and a sense…
LOOM WITH A VIEW Ghost Road Theatre's The Unraveling pulls you into its strange, hypnotic orbit and doesn't let go. This is a truly original work with some breathtaking theatrical coups. Ann…
HERE'S A BROADWAY SUCCESS THAT ALSO BRIMS WITH PURPOSE Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' doesn't just expose the cracks in a so-called perfect life"he shines a floodlight on them. Except for a few seq…
WE HAD A BALL Manhattan Theatre Club's We Had a World is an unconventional modern-day three-hander memory play that covers roughly 30 years. Our diarist, memoirist, and damn funny playwright…
UPSIDE DOWN A STRAIGHT UP MUSICAL SATIRE I admire AMT Theater for two key reasons: its dedication to developing new works"particularly musicals, which I've witnessed in the past"and its comm…
Now playing at The Hobby Center in Houston is the national tour of the absolute crown jewel of the theater known simply as Hamilton. This artistic cultural phenomenon is non-stop high-energy…
ASHES TO ASHES, PIXIE DUST TO PIXIE DUST Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright, and former Bay Area resident Colman Domingo's semi-autobiographical dramedy, Wild With Happy, is having it…
