6,591 stories from Stage and Cinema
MAKING FACES You've heard of a play-within-a-play? Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang offers us a play-within-a-play-within-a-play in the semi-autobiographical Yellow Face. Lyric Sta…
ROB MCCLURE IS ON FIRE AS MRS. DOUBTFIRE Mrs. Doubtfire started its theatrical life as the hit 1993 film starring Robin Williams. As happens so often with hit movies, it was adapted into a s…
AVANT-GARDNER NewYorkRep is currently presenting the world premiere of The Opposite of Love by Ashley Griffin, which runs through June 15, 2024 at the Royal Family Performing Arts Space at C…
SHE'S THE ONLY ONE. HERE SHE COMES AGAIN. THIS TIME ON BROADWAY. Today, beloved icon Dolly Parton announced from the stage of the CMA Fest in Nashville, that she will partner with ATG …
COME HOME In the lovely Broadway revival of writer Samm-Art Williams' Tony-nominated play Home, an African-American man named Cephus Miles contemplates life or, more to the point, his life. …
Sugar Daddy, a new production of comedian and actor Sam Morrison's hilariously funny, unexpectedly moving one-man show, will play the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Be…
THIS AMERICAN FELT LIKE AN IDIOT UNTIL READING A SYNOPSIS When MTV hit the airwaves, a young generation stopped dead in their tracks and watched hours and hours of endless videos. Frequently…
CIRQUE AND THE CITY During Dear San Francisco at Club Fugazi in North Beach, one could be forgiven for feeling like you'd jumped into a Cirque Du Soleil production, and that's fine as the fo…
HAIR EXPLODES WITH ECSTACY AT SIGNATURE The 1967 "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair, currently at The Signature Theatre through July 7 and directed by Matthew Gardiner, is an explosion…
HOLY HADES! HERE COME LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE! Otherworld Theatre, North America's premier fantasy and genre live theatre production company, is bringing The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson…
MUSIC, MEMORY AND MORTALITY: THE MAGIC OF JELLY'S LAST JAM In the resplendent realm of musical theatre, Jelly's Last Jam has once again ascended to prominence. Recently produced as a concert…
BUILDING BONDS OVER BREAD AND BUTTER In the evocative narrative of Miranda Rose Hall's The Sandwich Ministry, " which opened last Saturday at Skylight Theatre " the audience is invited to pa…
A BRIEF SHINING MOMENT AT NORTH COAST REP Sometimes less can be more in the arts. Consider the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot. The show set a record for the biggest advance sale in Broadwa…
COME TO THIS CABARET Cabaret is a masterpiece of American musical theater that has been presented in a vast variety of musical and physical shapes and sizes since its premiere on Broadway in…
LA COMEDIA DE THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Full disclosure, I don't speak Spanish. Oh, I've picked up a few phrases over the years and still remember a bit of what Mr. Sanchez taught us in high scho…
A MUSICAL THEATRE EXPLOSION San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center is presenting a musical by the late Broadway composer, lyricist and playwright Jonathan Larson. If you have heard …
FAT HAM HATH POWER TO ASSUME A PLEASING SHAPE American playwright James Ijames has written a funny and thoughtful play based on the Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet. The work carries the unlikely …
THERE'S A STAR IN THIS DUSTY OLD COUCH OF A MUSICAL Funny Girl " the musical narrative of the ugly duckling turned Ziegfeld star turned tragic heroine " takes center stage once more. With be…
WHAT CAN I SAY EXCEPT, "I LOVE LUCIE" It has been said that the greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling and Lucie Arnaz is masterful at it. In her career of forty-five plus year…
PLATT'S WHERE IT'S AT AT THE PALACE As if opening the newly refurbished Palace Theater (after a 4 year hiatus) isn't exciting enough, why not add Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Plat…
COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY'S SUMMER CABARET SERIES of music, charismatic personalities and theatre insider stories galore continues through in June with Tony Award® nominee and 'Broadway …
BABY GO BOOM-BOOM Baby the 1983 Broadway musical now called Baby: The Musical with a book by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr., is a story that is almos…
TWAS BRILLIG! YOU'LL GET A HEART-ON IN THIS SEXY HOLE "All in the golden afternoon. / Full leisurely we glide" is part of the opening poem of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland…
YOU'RE THE TOPSY TURVY During the forced shutdown of theaters due to the COVID pandemic, The Actors' Gang in Culver City kept its employees on salary and health insurance, adapted their outr…
SWEENEY NOD By any measure, Irish playwright Brian Friel (who died in 2015) is one of the 20th-century's great dramatists, whose works are among the lasting treasures of Irish literature. Ir…
