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Theater Preview: THE NICETIES (MOXIE Theatre)
MOXIE’S NEXT PRODUCTION IS ALSO THE CENTER OF A DOCUMENTARY FILM Turning sixteen means new responsibility and new freedom. The same goes for San Diego’s scrappy, innovative, and critically acclaimed MOXIE Theatre, kicking off their sweet sixteen season with a drama that is just as scrappy and innovative. Not only will they be filming the…
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Theater Preview: ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS (UK’s Bristol Old Vic, streamed for The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS MAKES U.S. DIGITAL PREMIERE LIVE One of the saddest cancellations due to COVID-19 was The Wallis Annenberg Center’s U.S. premiere of writer/director Emma Rice’s production of Romantics Anonymous, a new musical experience. Until the global pandemic passes, and we will hopefully get a chance to see this on stage in the U.S., the…
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Theater Preview: ASK THE VOID (Theatre of the Electric Mouth)
GO AHEAD…ASK Theatre of the Electric Mouth (ThEM) — a newly formed theatre collective — will release its first audio drama, Ask the Void, on September 15, 2020, landing on on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. With an absurdist lens somewhere between Eugene Ionesco and Tim and Eric, Ask the Void imagines a world…
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Concert Preview: MUSIC OF THE KNIGHTS: THE SONGS OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, ELTON JOHN & PAUL MCCARTNEY (Rubicon Theatre at Ventura Fairgrounds)
THREE KNIGHTS OUT Rubicon presents the last program in its concert series at the Ventura Fairgrounds September 7-9, 2020. The event, a cross between a live concert and drive-in, will celebrate with Music of the Knights: The Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Elton John and Paul McCartney. Ted Neeley will brings his rock wail to “Gethsemane”…
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Concert Feature: BRAT PACK (For the Record Talent Search)
FOR THE RECORD SEEKS STUDENTS TO JOIN THE PACK JOIN THE PACK! Follow These Simple Steps – Write a short essay via email describing who you are. – Make a video of you singing OR submit a video of a past performance. Pop music only. – Send to info@fortherecordlive.com
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Theater Review: MARGIN OF ERROR (The Roustabouts)
CATCH THE VIRTUAL WORLD PREMIERE OF MARGIN OF ERROR As with many companies, San Diego’s The Roustabouts have had to restructure due to COVID-19. Now, they are presenting productions and readings in the virtual world. This week, they begin with their archival recording of the 2017 play, Will Cooper’s Margin of Error, a fast-moving drama…
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Event Preview: ANDROMEDA SISTERS: A TWO-PART ARTS AND ADVOCACY FORUM (The Neo-Political Cowgirls)
YOU GO, COWGIRL! Neo-Political Cowgirls (NPC), an organization created for women in theater to help increase the female voice in the narrative of our society’s stories, will present their annual fundraiser, Andromeda’s Sisters: An Arts and Advocacy Forum, remotely via Zoom in two parts: One on Friday, August 14 celebrates, highlights and honors women story…
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Music Feature: SAVE OUR STAGES (National Independent Venue Association)
SAVE OUR STAGES Contact Congress Tell Congress to #SaveOurStages Your local independent music venues are in trouble. You can help #saveourstages by supporting the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) – an organization of nearly 2000 music venues and promoters who have joined together to fight for the survival of the independent music business. Independent music venues provide…
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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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Theater Preview: THE BOY WHO DANCED ON AIR (Diversionary Theatre in San Diego)
THIS BOY WILL STREAM ON AIR Beginning July 6, 2020, San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre will be streaming the archival recording of their original hit production, The Boy Who Danced on Air, a soaring and heart-rending tale of two rural Afghan boys falling in love against the backdrop of a shattered country. The show moved to…
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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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Theater Preview: BEETHOVEN — LIVE FROM FLORENCE (Hershey Felder)
BEETHOVEN TO APPEAR LIVE IN YOUR HOME Dramatizing Dr. Gerhard von Breuning’s factual memoir, Aus dem Schwarzspanierhaus (Out of the House of Black-Robed Spaniards, Beethoven’s last residence), Hershey Felder brought Ludwig van Beethoven to life on stage through the eyes of the Viennese Doctor Breuning who spent his boyhood by the Maestro’s side. Featuring some of…
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Theater Preview: INTERSECTIONALITY AND JUSTICE: A DISCUSSION (Diversionary Theatre in San Diego)
INTERSECTIONALITY AND JUSTICE: A DISCUSSION Diversionary Theatre will be hosting an online panel discussion on Intersectionality & Justice, which takes place on Thursday ,June 25, 2020 at 6pm PST. The online panel, available here, includes Andrea Agosto, Kian Kline Chilton, Kandace Crystal, August Turner Sonnenberg, and Daniel Jáquez. Diversionary, the nation’s third oldest LGBTQ theatre…
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Virtual Theater Review: THE PRESENT (Geffen Stayhouse a.k.a. Geffen Playhouse)
CALIFORNIA STREAMIN’ Even after postponing the remaining productions of their 2019/2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Geffen Playhouse is forging ahead. While the UCLA-owned theater has high hopes for their upcoming 25th-anniversary season, let’s be honest: futures for any theater are being made with cautious optimism. Wearing the resilient adage “the show must…
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Theater Extra: SEASONS OF LOVE (San Diego Musical Theatre)
REASONS FOR LOVE Covering the arts nationwide means that Stage and Cinema has received hundreds and hundreds of virtual entertainments, from classical and jazz to theater and art, all with basically the same purpose: to entertain you at home and try to raise money for struggling organizations. But nothing in the past two months has…
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THE MAGIC WILL RETURN (Disney Theme Parks)
YOU THINK YOU’RE FEELING RESISTANT?! It has now become woefully clear that we will have quite a wait until crowd-gathering can return to a pre-coronavirus level. While you may be feeling a bit edgy, remember we will all be returning to the magic one day. In an attempt to fill my storehouse of magic, I…
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Music Preview: JOHN WILLIAMS: MAESTRO OF THE MOVIES (and more from Pacific Symphony)
SOME OFFERINGS FROM PACIFIC SYMPHONY Introducing the Virtual “Symphony Mixer” Symphony Mixer is a new virtual social series hosted by Symphony Principal Flutist Ben Smolen, each virtual happy hour will feature live performances, interviews with artists, musical anecdotes and stories from behind-the-scenes. “John Williams: Maestro of the Movies” Pacific Symphony has produced its first-ever virtual…
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Theater Review: SHE LOVES ME (San Diego Musical Theatre at Horton Grand Theatre)
SHE LOVES ME:AND WITH GOOD REASON! Ah, love. As hard to find as ever, but so satisfying when it is. But what did the ancients (20th-century people) do to find love before Tinder, eHarmony, and the like? Joe Masteroff’s book takes us to the simpler days of Lonely Hearts Clubs, when people exchanged letters (on…
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Theater Review: FUN HOME (Chance Theater)
TAKE A CHANCE WITH FUN When a newly “out” lesbian learns her closeted father has taken his life mere months after revealing to him her sexuality, she has a lot to process. Being an artist, she attempts to make sense of her trauma through storytelling – that’s the power of art. More specifically, that’s the…
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