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Dance Preview: BROADWAY BARES: ZOOM IN (Virtual event for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on August 1, 2020)
IN THE BOOM BOOM ZOOM ZOOM ROOM It’s coming this Saturday. And so should you. Normally the hottest ticket in New York, Broadway Bares, the fundraiser in which hunky performers pull out their stops to aid Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, is streaming all over your personal screens this year. The in-person 30th anniversary celebration has moved…
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Virtual Theater Review: IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES — A ZOOM PLAY (Source Material)
A CERTAIN UNCERTAIN I found myself alternately laughing, weeping, and being in the doldrums watching this new interdisciplinary work from the company Source Material. Founding Artistic Director Samantha Shay has created a compelling live virtual experience with In These Uncertain Times, created for and presented on Zoom. The 60-minute piece centers on life during the…
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Opera Preview: WAGNER RING CYCLE (Audio-Stream, LA Opera)
MUSIC DIRECTOR JAMES CONLON AND LA OPERA’S 2010 WAGNER RING CYCLE TO BE AUDIO-STREAMED IN MARATHON BACK-TO-BACK WEBCAST OF ALL FOUR MUSIC DRAMAS, JULY 25 STARTING AT 8 A.M. PST Ten years after presenting Wagner’s epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen in its first complete staging produced in the city of Los Angeles, Music Director James…
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Theater Preview: MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (L.A. Theatre Works, starring Stacy Keach)
A FRESH FRANKENSTEIN STARRING STACY KEACH L.A. Theatre Works, the world’s leading producer of audio theater, has announced the release of its state-of-the-art audio recording of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This new stage adaptation, written by the BBC’s Kate McAll, stars veteran stage actor Stacy Keach as “the creature,” with Adhir Kalyan (Arrested Development, Rules of Engagement) in the role of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. In…
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Album Review: DRIVEWAYS (Soundtrack by Jay Wadley)
DRIVE ME TO THE END OF LOVE The 2019 American drama film Driveways, directed by Andrew Ahn and starring Brian Dennehy, was a hit when it premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, 2019. It missed theatrical release due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but was released on video-on-demand on May 7, 2020 (it…
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Theater Review: BETTE DAVIS AINT FOR SISSIES (live streaming)
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS “Stardust” was the name for what made Bette Davis shine. With playwright Jessica Sherr’s solo recreation of more than big eyes and flouncing cigarettes, the magic is back to cast a second spell as Sherr presents a new 80-minute version directed for the small screen by Karen Carpenter. Each of the six…
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Museum Preview: DISNEYLAND’S 65TH (Walt Disney Family Museum)
DISNEYLAND CELEBRATION COMES TO YOU Celebrate Disneyland’s 65th trip around the sun this Friday, July 17. San Francisco’s Walt Disney Family Museum hosts a day filled with special Disneyland-centric virtual programming, Disneyland trivia, and a few surprises along the way. Expect some of your favorite Disneyland memories coming to life—virtually! Start the day with well-known…
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Music Preview: MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL (Virtual 2020 festival September 25-27)
Monterey Jazz Festival Presents Virtual 2020 Festival September 25-27, Featuring Historic Archival and Exclusive New Content Last year’s Monterey Jazz Festival was spectacular, not just offering name talent but showcasing the great players of tomorrow. Sadly, the concert was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, MJF announced that it will present a virtual version…
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Music Preview: MUSICAL THEATER DECADES – THE 1960’s (Tenor Brian Cheney & Pianist Cathy Venable on Stageit)
CELEBRATE ’60’S MUSICALS WITH BRIAN CHENEY The 1960’s may have been one of the most turbulent decades in history, but it also gave a boost to the arts in their many forms. Music and theater thrived individually, but together they gave us some of the best musicals Broadway has ever known. In fact, from Cabaret…
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Cabaret Feature: FULL MOON FRIDAYS (Live Cabaret Series from 42nd Street Moon in San Francisco)
COME TO THIS CABARET Let’s face it folks. Not every Broadway musical is a winner. Yet even the biggest flops have songs that are revelations to those who never heard them. Discover some of these jewels this Friday with San Francisco’s 42nd Street Moon as they continue their “Full Moon Fridays: Live Cabaret” series on…
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Theater Preview: CHICAGO’S RAVEN THEATRE (Season 2021)
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS CHICAGO’S RAVEN THEATRE REVAMP ITS 2020-21 SEASON This fall’s planned revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s drama Inherit the Wind directed by Ian Frank has been cancelled. Instead, the three-play season will kick off next February, 2021, with Jonathan Harvey’s sweet and charming coming-of-age play Beautiful Thing. Mikael Burke directs this touching story of two boys living in London who…
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Theater Preview: CRAPSHOOT! OR WHY AL VOTED FOR TRUMP: A LOVE STORY (opening Reykjavik’s International Fringe Festival)
CRAPSHOOT! Or Why Al Voted for Trump: a love story will open the Reykjavik International Fringe Festival The Reykjavík Fringe Festival 2020 (RVK) is a festival unlike any other. While most festivals are having to experiment with purely virtual acts or cancel altogether, RVK is half online, half onstage. All shows in the livestream are…
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Theater Preview: SAFE-DISTANCE DRIVE-IN CONCERT SERIES, RUBICON GOES RETRO (Rubicon Theatre at Ventura Fairgrounds)
RUBICON GOES RETRO! Safe-Distance Drive-In Series Kicks Off Drive-In Hits The first event of Rubicon Goes Retro, the company’s Safe-Distance Drive-In Theatre Concert Series is here! The swell series of live 75-minute concerts at the Ventura County Fairgrounds will have you viewers watching safely from the comfort of your cars. The concerts feature multimedia, lights,…
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Theater Review: BLEEDING LOVE (Musical Podcast)
BLOODY GOOD! You know, Stage and Cinema has received hundreds of podcasts and other streaming paraphernalia since April when COVID-19 shut the arts down, but most are technically awkward, strangely self-congratulatory, or simply meh. So it took a month for me to finally listen to a podcast of Bleeding Love, a wholly accessible and instantaneously…
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Events Preview: CAP UCLA’S 20-21 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT (UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance)
UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance Reimagines a 2020–21 Season for COVID-19 Realities CAP UCLA Develops New Commissions and Opportunities to Support Artists Facing Uncertainty and Instability ____________________________________________________ UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), a leading West Coast presenter dedicated to the advancement of the contemporary performing arts in all disciplines,…
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Theater Preview: EAST SIDE STORIES: INSIDE EDITION (Metropolitan Playhouse in New York)
ALL NEW PLAYS CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LORE OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present free “screened” readings of four new one-act plays inspired by life and history in the East Village, via live stream video and YouTube with talkback to follow, on Saturday, June 26 and 27, 2020, at 8…
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Book Review: UNOFFENDABLE: NO OFFENSE. NONE TAKEN. (Ryan Leak)
OFF THE OFFENSIVE I have a men’s large T-shirt that I bought at Disney World in 1990. It advertises the roller coaster Expedition Everest. Under the logo, it reads “Scream Like a Girl.” I love that shirt, and received nothing but positive comments until some years later, when on two separate occasions I was told…
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Film Review: 7500 (directed by Patrick Vollrath on Amazon Prime)
IT GRABS YOU BY THE COCKPIT AND DOESN’T LET GO 7500 gets a Five-Star rating for suspense. The rest is up to you. You can pick at it, or just enjoy the sensation of turbulence deep in your bowels. OK, maybe there’s little heart and even less backstory, but that ain’t what this movie is…
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Music Preview: MOVIE MUSICALS II (Tenor Brian Cheney & Pianist Cathy Venable on Stageit)
LET’S ALL GO TO THE MOVIE MUSICALS The brilliant American Tenor Brian Cheney has been giving thirty-minute recitals from his home since the quarantine began. The completely different shows — which moved from Saturdays to Thursdays at 7pm EST (4pm PST) — offer a thoroughly winning program each week. One mini-concert showcased the lush and…
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Dance Preview: DECLASSIFIED MEMORY FRAGMENT (Olivier Tarpaga, choreographer, on JoyceStream)
DECLASSIFIED IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN During the Broadway shutdown, The Joyce Theatre has been streaming, for free on JoyceStream, some of the best things I’ve seen from all the global offerings out there. For some reason, dance translates much better than theater performances when streaming. Now, they bring you the online premiere of…
Off-Broadway Review: ARIAS WITH A TWIST (HERE Arts Center / NYC)
by Kevin Vavasseur | September 23, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: LEGALLY BLONDE (Berkeley Playhouse / Berkeley)
by Chuck Louden | September 21, 2026
in San Francisco
(Bay Area), TheaterTheater Review: TEXAS SODOMY (Whitefire Theatre / Sherman Oaks)
by Michael Landman-Karney | September 20, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterTheater Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Center REP / Walnut Creek)
by Chuck Louden | September 20, 2026
in San Francisco
(Bay Area), TheaterTheater Review: HANGMEN (Long Beach Playhouse)
by Michael Landman-Karney | September 19, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterTheater Review: THE HUMANITIES (Victory Gardens Theater / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | September 19, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: BEGIN AGAIN (World Premiere Musical / The Old Globe / San Diego)
by Milo Shapiro | September 19, 2026
in San Diego, TheaterTheater Review: JEKYLL & HYDE (Kokandy Productions / Broadway Playhouse / Chicago)
by Emma S. Rund | September 19, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: MARISOL (Open Fist Theatre Company / Los Angeles)
by Lawrence Lucero | September 18, 2026
in Los Angeles, Theater
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