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  • New York City Theater Reviews prior to August 2010

    By John Topping | November 9, 2010
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    New York City Theater Reviews of the 2010-2011 season Off Broadway .22 Caliber Mouth (Cindy Pierre) Falling For Eve (Cindy Pierre) The Fix-Up Show (Michael Narkunski) Howard Barker Poems (Alexander Harrington) Lovesong of the Electric Bear (Alexander Harrington) A Question of Mercy (Alexander Harrington) Three Irish Widows vs. The Rest of the World (Robert Choi)…

  • Extras prior to August 2010

    By John Topping | November 9, 2010
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    EXTRAS 2010 The ACME Comedy Theater in Los Angeles Harvey Perr is still not dead Harvey Perr, troublemaker at large John Topping, blogger and future predictor Planet Connections Theater Festivity World of Color, Disney California Adventure  (review) 2009 Chester Gregory Benefit Concert for DOE Serious Moonlight NYC red carpet premiere photos

  • Interviews prior to August 2010

    By John Topping | November 9, 2010
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    interviews and panel discussions 2010 Theater Interviews Nilo Cruz (playwright) (Cindy Pierre) 2010 Film Interviews and Panel Discussions Nicoye Banks (The Green Zone, Brooklyn’s Finest) (William Gooch) Supporting cast of Precious (William Gooch) ——————– 2009 Theater Interviews Bill Connington (Zombie) (John Topping) Eisa Angela Davis (Angela’s Mixtape) (William Gooch) David Heron (Trickster at the Gate)…

  • Film Reviews prior to August 2010

    By John Topping | November 9, 2010
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    Film reviews 2010 After.Life (Kevin Bowen) Alice in Wonderland (Kevin Bowen) The Bounty Hunter (Kevin Bowen) Clash of the Titans (Kevin Bowen) Death at a Funeral (Kevin Bowen) Despicable Me (Kevin Bowen) Dinner for Schmucks (Kevin Bowen) Edge of Darkness (Kevin Bowen) The Empire Strikes Back (30th Anniversary) (Kevin Bowen) Extraordinary Measures (Kevin Bowen) From…

  • Where are the older reviews?

    By John Topping | September 9, 2010
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    Stage and Cinema has recently undergone a structural change, and reviews published prior to August 2010 have not been migrated to the new system.   In the meantime, those older reviews are still available at http://old.stageandcinema.com. To search for a particular title, hit Control-F (PC) or Command-F (Mac), type in title and hit “enter” or “return”…

  • MAD RON’S PREVUES FROM HELL – reissue of 1987 VHS tape – DVD Review

    By John Topping | September 8, 2010
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    YAWNS, GIGGLES, AND SHRIEKS It takes so long to see the first preview in the DVD reissue of the 1987 VHS curiosity Mad Ron’s Prevues From Hell that one begins to wonder if it will ever make good on its promise of showing them. Â  For the first ten minutes we are, ahem, “treated” to ventriloquist…

  • DVD Reviews prior to August 2010

    By John Topping | September 1, 2010
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    DVD Reviews 2010 How I Got Lost (Caroline Hagood) North Face (Colin George) Word Is Out (Harvey Perr) 2009 The Universe of Keith Haring (Pamela Lewis) 2008 Bad Meat (Chad Menville) Big Ideas for a Small Planet (Chad Menville) Black Christmas (John Topping) The Cool School (Chad Menville) Confessions of a Superhero (John Topping) Death…

  • HEY! What the hell’s going on with Stage and Cinema?

    By John Topping | August 13, 2010
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    Devoted readers and new visitors: Stage and Cinema is undergoing a change.   We will look largely the same but operating under a different system.   Everything will be in order soon, so please bear with us.   To find reviews that have been previously published, the old version of our site is still available at http://old.stageandcinema.com. Sorry…

  • Off-Off-Broadway Review: ARIAS WITH A TWIST (HERE)

    A smoky ghostly figure with the text 'It's a Twist.'
    By John Topping | August 5, 2008
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    PUPPETS + DRAG QUEEN = THE BEST SHOW IN THE WORLD Basil Twist can be called many things: a theatrical wunderkind, an artist, a genius. But officially, his title is Puppeteer. Well, also co-creator and director of Arias With a Twist, his amazingly beautiful collaboration with the hysterically funny and talented drag queen Joey Arias…

  • Film Review and Commentary: GRINDHOUSE (directed by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez)

    Retro poster featuring two cult classic grindhouse films: Planet Terror and Death Proof.
    By John Topping | April 8, 2007
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    THE RETURN OF 70s NOSTALGIA After walking out of the auditorium, one of my friends with whom I saw Grindhouse asked me if I liked it. It was with hesitancy that I had to admit, “Yeah, I did.” “It sounds like you’re ashamed to admit it.” Well, perhaps, but, if so, it wasn’t the deep,…

  • Broadway Review and Commentary: HIGH FIDELITY (Imperial Theatre)

    Black-and-white portrait of a man with a confident smile and 'High Fidelity' text.
    By John Topping | December 8, 2006
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    SIZE MATTERS It wasn’t long into the show before our staff reviewer already felt somewhat helpless about writing a review of High Fidelity, the new Broadway musical that is based on the film of the same name that is based on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby. “I’m not the audience for…

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