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Theater Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Long Beach Shakespeare Company)
MORE VICTORIAN THAN NEW ROMANTIC Long Beach Shakespeare Company delivers Wilde’s classic with clarity and charm, even if its concept never fully blossoms Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest hardly needs reinvention. More than a century after its premiere, its razor-sharp epigrams, social satire, and exquisitely constructed farce remain as funny as ever. Long…
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Theater Review: F**KING STRANGERS (Echo Theater Company / Los Angeles)
NO STRINGS ATTACHED? THINK AGAIN Erik Patterson’s provocative world premiere boasts superb performances but mistakes repetition for depth In F**king Strangers, receiving its world premiere from Echo Theater Company, playwright Erik Patterson begins with an arresting image: a terrified young man stranded beside a freeway, begging his mother to stay on the phone until help…
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Cabaret Review: EMILY SKINNER (CV Rep Summer Cabaret Series / Cathedral City)
SKIN IN THE GAME Tony nominee Emily Skinner brings powerhouse vocals, incisive storytelling, and irresistible humor to CV Rep’s Summer Cabaret Series There is a rare tier of theatrical royalty that doesn’t just sing a song—they dismantle it, unearth its emotional marrow, and reconstruct it before your eyes. Coachella Valley audiences experienced exactly that kind…
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Theater Review: TWELFTH NIGHT: OR WHAT YOU WILL (Shakespeare & Company / Lenox, MA)
THE RAIN IT RAINETH A downpour doesn’t stop the cast from shining Heavy rains forced the July 18 performance of Twelfth Night indoors, but the cast and crew more than rose to the occasion. The change in venue meant that Shakespeare & Company‘s production, directed by Kate Kohler Amory with wit and verve, had little…
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Off-Broadway Review: CAFÉ D’AUTOMATIQUE (The Chain Theatre Summer One-Act Festival)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Dave Hanson’s clever one-act turns awkward honesty into comic gold First dates can be anxiety-inducing to begin with, but what if your first impression became a Tower of Babble? Welcome to Café d’Automatique, where candor is always the order of the day—and perhaps the only order you’ll receive. When Erin (Katie Aldhizer)…
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Theater Review: OCTET (Goodman Theatre)
A PERFECT EIGHT Dave Malloy’s singular a cappella musical proves just as spellbinding in its Goodman transfer Theatrical sensations happen when audiences find themselves captivated by something utterly unique. Stories resonate not only because they’re piercingly relatable, but because they’re presented in a way unlike anything else onstage. That, in essence, is Octet. Dave Malloy’s…
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Cabaret Review: ROBERT YACKO (CV Rep Summer Cabaret Series / Cathedral City)
YACKO OF ALL TRADES Broadway veteran Robert Yacko transforms an evening of songs into a heartfelt journey through a remarkable theatrical life Cabaret requires a delicate balance: a voice capable of filling a room, a repertoire built on timeless melodies, and the storytelling ability to make a theater feel like an intimate living room. At…
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Theater Review: THE WIZARD OF OZ (Palm Canyon Theatre / Palm Springs)
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE PCT A radiant Dorothy leads an enchanting journey down the Yellow Brick Road The 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz is part of our cultural DNA, so whenever it’s brought to the stage, the inevitable question is: How will they pull it off? Miss Gulch on her bicycle, the…
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Theater Preview: PROOF (El Portal Theatre / North Hollywood)
THE PROOF IS IN THE FAMILY Ed Begley Jr. and daughter Hayden Begley bring David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama to the stage for a four-performance benefit supporting Parkinson’s research Jason Jeske presents a special four-performance engagement of David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof at the El Portal Theatre, starring Ed Begley Jr. and his daughter, Hayden…
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Theater Review: TREASURE ISLAND (Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum / Topanga)
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARRRR A spirited cast and an unforgettable setting help this classic weather a few rough seas in Ellen Geer’s adaptation Driving up the twisty road along Topanga Creek to Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum for the first time and walking into the sprawling wooded compound, I was already halfway charmed before the…
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Theater Review: SAFE LANDING: COYOTE EMBRACE (Authentic Chicago Ensemble / Theater Wit / Chicago)
COYOTES, KILLERS, AND SECOND CHANCES Tim Kough’s unconventional thriller finds surprising humanity beneath its violence Theater comes wrapped in all manner of trappings, and it’s often the works that stray furthest from convention that linger longest in the memory. Safe Landing: Coyote Embrace, now playing at Theater Wit, is one of those productions. Written by…
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DROWNING IN MOVIES? HERE’S ONE SITE THAT ACTUALLY HELPS
At Stage and Cinema, we’re spoiled for choice. Every year, hundreds upon hundreds of films come across our desks—features, documentaries, animated films, festival favorites, indie productions, shorts, foreign films… you name it. We do our best to watch as many as humanly possible, but there’s only so much time in the day. And let’s be…
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Theater Review: NORTH BY NORTHWEST (The Old Globe / San Diego)
DIAL M FOR META Emma Rice’s inventive adaptation is an enjoyable ride; just don’t expect to be transported The movies lie to us in ways the stage cannot. Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest works because the camera goes where Roger Thornhill goes, feels what he feels, and cuts away before we notice the seams. A…
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GAME OF THRONES PREPARES TO CONQUER THE GLOBAL BOX OFFICE
It’s official. The land of Westeros is leaving the small screen for a blockbuster outing in theaters. Game of Thrones, considered one of the greatest TV series of all time and the most decorated Emmy-award-winning drama in television history, will arrive on the big screen with the prequel film, Aegon’s Conquest. For years, HBO guarded…
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Off-Off-Broadway Review: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Shakespeare, Entirely / La MaMa)
A CLASSIC THAT STILL DELIGHTS Strong performances and lively staging carry the day Small Boat and kotto Productions bring Shakespeare’s romantic comedy The Taming of the Shrew to life in La MaMa‘s downstairs Club Space. An onstage bar before curtain sets the tone for the evening, and by the end of the night, you may have…
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Off-Off-Broadway Review: PORTRAITS OF GAYS IN DESPAIR (HB Playwrights Theatre)
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS FIVE GAYS Paul Kubicki’s wildly inventive cycle of short plays finds humor, heartbreak, and humanity in unexpected places If Tennessee Williams and Cole Escola had an artistic progeny, the result might look something like Paul Kubicki’s Portraits of Gays in Despair: A Cycle of 5 Plays. Beginning with a vignette…
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Music Review: THE MUSIC OF US: FROM THEN TO NOW (The New York Pops / Carnegie Hall)
SOMETHING FOR ALMOST EVERYONE The New York Pops casts a wide musical net across two and a half centuries of American song. Although the first style of music most people think of when they think of Carnegie Hall is classical music, the storied venue’s grand Isaac Stern Auditorium and its co-inhabitant, Zankel Hall, quite regularly…
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Theater Review: THE GREAT GATSBY (National Tour)
GREAT LOOKS, LITTLE GATSBY Too loud, too repetitive, and nowhere near the Jazz Age The touring production of The Great Gatsby, now at the Citizens Opera House in Boston, gives us Linda Cho‘s Tony Award-winning costumes and great sets by Paul Tate dePoo III, but neither the book by Kait Kerrigan nor the score by…
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Off-Off-Broadway Review: WHAT A WORLD! WHAT A WORLD! (The Tank / New York City)
NOT WAITING FOR GODOT… WAITING FOR THE DINOSAUR This delightfully confounding absurdist comedy won’t convert skeptics, but devotees of the genre may find much to admire Halfway through What a World! What a World!, a pink dinosaur toy interrupts the action and powers onstage. The actors stop and stare. The toy stops and turns upstage…
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4 TIPS FOR MANAGING A THEATER COMPANY
Your passion for the performing arts is worth turning into a full-on enterprise. A theater company is your expression of how much you value the art of acting. Your experience in the craft is crucial in building an organization that aims to keep the art alive. However, your passion is not enough to build a…
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