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Film Preview: BEA ARTHUR: THE DOCUMENTARY — “I’VE DONE EVERYTHING EXCEPT PORN.” (Palm Springs)
BEA, UNFILTERED A never-before-seen interview brings us closer to the woman behind that voice, that stare, and those indelible performances There are performers we admire, and then there are performers who become part of our vocabulary. Bea Arthur was one of those. The voice, the height, the exquisitely timed pause, that look capable of reducing…
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Dance Preview: DRACULA, A DARK SHADOW (State Street Ballet / Santa Barbara)
BALLET GOES FOR THE THROAT Nicolas Blanc sets Stoker in motion to the hypnotic pulse of Philip Glass Dracula has conquered the page, the screen and just about every other corner of popular culture. This Halloween, the Count is coming for ballet. State Street Ballet gives him the full treatment in Dracula, a dark shadow,…
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Theater and Tour Preview: CIRQUE MUSICA HOLIDAY WONDERLAND (2026 National Tour)
IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CIRQUE-MAS A high-flying holiday spectacle takes its acrobatic wonder on a 50-city tour If your holiday traditions could use a little more danger, Cirque Musica Holiday Wonderland has an answer: put some acrobats in the air. The family-friendly spectacle returns in an all-new production that combines favorite holiday…
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Theater Preview: KOWALSKI (Lookingglass Theatre Company / Chicago)
STELLA! MEET TENNESSEE Once Tennessee met Brando, American theater would never be the same Before Marlon Brando bellowed “STELLA!” into theatrical immortality, he was a hungry 23-year-old actor who had yet to become Marlon Brando. And before A Streetcar Named Desire became one of the defining American plays of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams needed…
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Opera Preview: LINCOLN IN THE BARDO (Death of Classical / The Metropolitan Opera)
ABE AMONG THE GRAVES Death of Classical takes “Lincoln in the Bardo” where it was practically begging to go: the cemetery Talk about knowing your venue. Before the Metropolitan Opera unveils Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Lincoln in the Bardo on October 19, Death of Classical is taking this ghost-filled new opera out for a…
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Broadway Opening: THE IMAGINARY INVALID (Roundabout Theatre Company)
THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW, WHETHER YOU NEED ONE OR NOT Bill Irwin makes a house call on Molière There are hypochondriacs, and then there is Argan, the gloriously self-absorbed “professional patient” at the center of Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid. This fall, Tony winner Bill Irwin returns to Broadway, and to a playwright particularly…
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Film Preview: 10 KILOS (directed by Doron Eran)
TEN KILOS, FIVE YEARS A trip to Bolivia lands a 20-year-old inside a prison ruled by violence, corruption, and cartels At 20, Sharon Yitzhaki traveled to Bolivia and wound up accused of trying to smuggle 10 kilos of cocaine. The charge landed her in Mira Flores women’s prison, where she would spend nearly five years…
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Theater Preview: TARTUFFE (REMIXED) (Marylebone Theatre / London)
TARTUFFE GETS A REMIX Mark Rylance meets Molière in a Nigerian-Jamaican reimagining of the classic comedy Molière is getting quite the makeover in London this fall. Oscar and Olivier Award winner Mark Rylance stars as Pastor Terrance Blake in the world premiere of Tartuffe (Remixed), Darren Raymond’s new adaptation of the 17th-century comedy, opening 4…
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Regional Theater Preview: FORBIDDEN! (Plays of Wilton / The Foundry / Wilton Manors, FL)
OUT OF THE CLOSET, OUT OF THE ARCHIVES Silenced after two performances in 1922, a remarkably progressive Dutch drama finally receives its U.S. premiere A play that scandalized Rotterdam in 1922 is finally getting its American premiere more than a century later. Written by Dutch novelist and playwright Jo M. van Ijssel de Schepper-Becker (pronouned…
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Opera Preview: A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (Opera Montana in Bozeman and Missoula)
HOOK, LINE AND SINGER For the 50th anniversary of Norman Maclean’s beloved story, the river runs all the way to the opera stage “There was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.” Few sentences evoke Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It quite so perfectly. Published in 1976, his semi-autobiographical tale of two brothers,…
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Broadway Preview: 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
10 THINGS WE LOVE ABOUT THIS ALREADY The popular teen comedy heads to Broadway with Carly Rae Jepsen supplying the tunes Padua High is back in session. 10 Things I Hate About You, the 1999 teen comedy that introduced a generation to Kat Stratford, Patrick Verona—and Heath Ledger singing his way across a set of…
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Off-Broadway Preview: MEMOIRS OF AMOROUS GENTLEMEN (The Night Egg at Culture Club / Chelsea)
MANGA À TROIS Duncan Sheik and Leah Nanako Winkler turn Moyoco Anno’s provocative graphic novel into an Off-Broadway musical A manga set in early 20th-century Paris is about to become an American musical, and it is getting a suitably unusual home. Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, with music and lyrics by Spring Awakening composer Duncan Sheik…
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Theater Preview: BLUE MAN GROUP’S A NEW HOLIDAY SURPRISE (CIBC Theatre / Chicago & Boch Center Wang Theatre / Boston)
HAVE YOURSELF A BLUE LITTLE CHRISTMAS The silent trio returns to Chicago with its first holiday show and an unconventional take on seasonal cheer Blue Man Group has spent decades turning paint, percussion, plumbing, and three silent blue heads into controlled chaos. This holiday season, they’re adding Christmas music to the mix. Blue Man Group’s…
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Museum Preview: THE BOWERY: DEVIL’S MILE (New Museum / New York)
THE STREET THAT DOESN’T STAND STILL A fascinating new exhibition explores the colorful, chaotic, and endlessly reinvented history of one of New York’s most storied streets The Bowery has worn more identities than perhaps any other street in New York. Over four centuries it has been a Lenape footpath, farmland, an entertainment district, the city’s…
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Theater Preview: MYSTIC PIZZA (National Tour)
A FRESH SLICE OF NOSTALGIA The cross-country tour is ready to win over a whole new crowd When Mystic Pizza played La Mirada Theatre in 2024, Stage and Cinema found it charming, energetic, and heavy on laughs, buoyed by a terrific trio of leading ladies and a soundtrack packed with irresistible ’80s and ’90s hits….
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Dance Preview: FALL FOR DANCE FESTIVAL (New York City Center)
A WORLD OF DANCE IN TEN DAYS Eleven premieres and an extraordinary range of artists make New York City Center’s annual festival one of the season’s most rewarding events. For more than two decades, New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival has been one of New York’s most welcome annual traditions, offering audiences the…
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Comedy Preview: UNITARD – “UNI-VERSARY: 25 YEARS OF UNITARD” (Joe’s Pub, NYC)
STILL RUDE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS The cult comedy trio celebrates 25 years of saying what you’re thinking—and shouldn’t If you like your comedy sharp, shameless, and just a little dangerous, Unitard is back to celebrate a quarter-century of gleeful bad behavior. The long-running trio—Mike Albo, Nora Burns, and David Ilku—returns to Joe’s Pub on…
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Broadway Opening: REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES: THE MUSICAL (James Earl Jones Theatre)
Based on the play by Josefina López and HBO’s Real Women Have Curves (screenplay by Josefina López and George LaVoo), Real Women Have Curves: The Musical is set to begin performances on April 1 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, ahead of an opening night on April 27, 2025. Broadway newcomer Tatianna Córdoba will make her…
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Theater Opening: BAD DOG (World Premiere, Miami New Drama)
A Bold & Hilarious New Play Exploring Art, Identity, and Power Miami New Drama in Miami Beach is presenting the world premiere of Bad Dog, a wildly entertaining and provocative play written by Harley Elias and directed by Miami New Drama’s Artistic Director, Michel Hausmann. The production will open at the historic Colony Theatre on…
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Off-Broadway: HOLD ON TO ME DARLING (written by Kenneth Lonergan; starring Adam Driver; Lucille Lortel)
Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling is playing through Dec. 22, starring Adam Driver, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Joining Driver as Strings McCrane are Heather Burns as Nancy, Adelaide Clemens as Essie, Keith Nobbs as Jimmy, CJ Wilson as Duke, and Frank Wood as Mitch. On learning of his mother’s death, country music icon Strings McCrane (Driver) finds himself in an existential tailspin. The only way out,…
Interview: DAVID SERERO (director of “Tovah,” a documentary about Tovah Feldshuh)
by Shari Barrett | August 31, 2026
in Film, Interviews, Los AngelesMusic Preview: PACIFIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA BENEFIT CONCERT (October 10, 2026 | L.A.)
by pwsadmin | August 30, 2026
in Los Angeles, MusicTheater Review: ADOLESCENT SALVATION (Theater Wit / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | August 29, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterDance Preview: GLORYA KAUFMAN PRESENTS DANCE AT THE MUSIC CENTER 2026–27 (L.A.)
by pwsadmin | August 28, 2026
in Dance, Los AngelesTheater Preview: KAIJU (The Road Theatre Company & BroadStage / Los Angeles)
by pwsadmin | August 28, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterDance Preview: DRACULA, A DARK SHADOW (State Street Ballet / Santa Barbara)
by Gregory Bernard | August 28, 2026
in Dance, Los Angeles, RegionalTheater Review: BEING PIAF (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble / Los Angeles)
by Ernest Kearney | August 27, 2026
in Los Angeles, Theater
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