6,591 stories from Stage and Cinema
Aditya Prakash's ROOM-i-Nation, an unprecedented adaptation of his 2023 album ISOLASHUN, comes to CAP UCLA's Nimoy Theater on October 4 & 5, 2024. Drawing from his vibrant Los Ange…
THE LAUGHS ARE IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH, TOO Playwright Alexis Scheer draws on her Colombian-Jewish upbringing in Miami to create this comic celebration of the city's Wynwood arts scene and th…
ATTEND THIS TALE: IT'S MURDER Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical filled with gore, brutality, hate, and vengeance. But the show, as composed by the great Stephen Son…
The wider trend of streaming live events has now made its way to the theatre, and in the recent past, Broadway and The West End have been embracing streaming more than e…
DRAC-OOH-LA-LA The play Dracula, in its West Coast premiere at the Old Globe is subtitled A Comedy of Terrors. It's unlikely that viewers will be terrified by the show, but as for "Comedy," …
LIVING IT UP IN HER LIVING ROOM In the shimmering galaxy of cabaret, few stars sparkle with the vivacity and brilliance of Jessica Vosk, who, at 40, is the real deal. You're talking about a …
CREATIONISM VS. EVOLUTION; RELEVANCE VS. TIMELESSNESS THE GOODMAN HAS THE PLAY OF THE MOMENT Dubbed "The Trial of the Century," the inspiration for Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inheri…
IT'S OK TO GET SAUCED FOR STUNNING SAUCY STRIPPERS AND SPECTACULAR SAUCERS, OR MAY THE TORSO BE WITH YOU Forget about Broadway or the latest Marvel Comic movie. The fun, hip and cool burlesq…
LET IDLE MUSE'S INDULGENCE SET YOU FREE Idle Muse Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest immerses its audience in a dark and stormy night full of magic and mischie…
JAGGED WITH SOPHISTICATION A.C.T. is bringing back on stage to the Bay Area a tried and true favorite: Noël Coward's Private Lives. An ultimate comedy of manners, this three-act play cent…
WEAVING TOGETHER THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE JaJa's African Hair Braiding " beginning a regional tour after Broadway success and Arena Stage's season starter " is a peek into the immigrant expe…
MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES Courtney O'Connor's masterful direction of the unpleasantly titled Urinetown: The Musical brings together numerous wonderful performances along with great music (Da…
AN ASTOUNDING CAST CAN'T HELP TO SHAKE THE FEELING THAT WE'VE WITNESSED THIS BEFORE Pedro Antonio Garcia, a criminal defense attorney and a playwright, must have written The Witness Room as …
STUNNING STORYTELLING Many times when I go to see a show, whether as a critic or just a patron, I'll come in not knowing in advance what I'm going to see. With a reputable theater company, m…
A LIVELY AND TIMELY EXAMINATION OF VOTING BEHAVIOR Fight Night, brought to seven American states by the Belgian performance group Ontroerend Goed (a punning name, roughly translated as "Feel…
THE IMPORTANCE OF SEEING THIS IMPORTANCE Is there a funnier comedy in the English language than Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest? Since it opened in London in 1895 the play has …
BOY, OH JERSEY BOY, IS THIS SHOW EVER GREAT In 2004, a new musical called Jersey Boys quietly debuted at the La Jolla Playhouse. It transferred to Broadway the next year, running for 12 year…
SOMETIMES THINGS HAVE TO GET VERSE TO GET BETTER Medea: Re-Versed, a Hip Hopera by Luis Quintero, has landed at the Frank Shiner Theatre and it is, without doubt, a memorable exp…
SEEING ONCE ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH Ironically, the real-life love affair between collaborators Glen Hansard, an Irish singer-songwriter, and Markéta Irglová, a Czech songwriter, fizzled afte…
A NEW MUSICAL THAT JUST MIGHT RIP YOUR HEART OUT Preston Max Allen's new musical Never Better at Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre is an emotionally raw folk-punk musical. It sometimes struggles w…
LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE There's Gounod's Faust (the opera), Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (the novel), Christopher Marlowe's Faust (the play), then there's the classic Faust " Johann Wol…
It's rare to see so many superstars on stage at once. That's what you'll get for Parents in Chains, a new comedy by Jay Martel, which will have a developmental workshop production at Hollywo…
Arsenic and Old Lace, the classic black comedy about two sweet old sisters poisoning old men lodgers has been told on stage and screen for decades. This includes the original play written by…
IT TICKS, IT BOOMS, IT EXPLODES! Theatre Palisades has struck gold with its astoundingly entertaining and moving production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick… BOOM! Expanding the cast from t…
If the heat in the kitchen is getting you down, you'll want to head on over to La Mirada Theatre, where the Broadway hit Waitress opens tonight and plays through October 13. Designed by an a…
