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Interview: MICHELE RAGUSA (Now appearing in THE BUTCHER BOY at Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre)
GETTING TO THE MEAT OF HER CAREER Michele Ragusa is blessed and touched by the theater Gods — they’re real, trust us. Her career in theater is simply glowing, full of variety, and seemingly constant, conquering both musical comedy and drama. Her resume of credits is thrilling: On Broadway, Michele has recently created the role…
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Album Review and Recommendation: ARIAS (Jonathan Tetelman)
A TENOR FOR THE AGES When I played the debut album Arias by Chilean-American tenor Jonathan Tetelman, my partner said during the first track, “Is that Pavarotti?” Comparisons can fairly be made when you hear this powerful, colorful, emotional artist taking on an incredible range of styles from the French and Italian repertoire. Having signed an…
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Off-Broadway Review: DOWN TO EARTHA (Gene Frankel)
EARTHA HAS MOMENTS, BUT COULD USE A REPAIR KITT From almost any angle, singer/actress Eartha Kitt was a fascinating person. Born in 1927 into poverty and abuse in the American Deep South, she overcame her hardscrabble early years to become an internationally recognized and lauded performer. She found success in motion pictures, on Broadway, the…
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Theater Review: MACBETH (Independent Shakespeare Co. at Griffith Park in Los Angeles)
THE HEAVEN’S BREATH SMELLS WOOINGLY HERE It seems odd to say that I was enchanted and beguiled with Independent Shakespeare Co.’s (ISC’s) production of Macbeth, which opened this past weekend at the Dell in Griffith Park (site of L.A.’s old zoo). You would think perhaps horrified. After all, this is a tale of treachery, malice,…
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Theater Review: CABARET (Cygnet Theatre Company in San Diego)
COME SEE THIS CABARET, MY FRIEND One of the wonderful things about period pieces, including musicals, is that they rarely feel dated because the book writer (Joe Masteroff, in this case) starts with the premise that the show isn’t happening now. What’s marvelous, and sometimes chilling, about this fifty-six year old book is that it’s…
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Album Recommendation: CARIBBEAN NOCTURNES (Joachim Horsley)
It’s a thrilling album that hooked me at the first listen. Breaking new ground yet again, pianist Joachim Horsley takes classical favorites as a base, and infuses them with infectious Afro-Caribbean beats, such as Rumba and Zouk. His newest album, out September 2, 2022, is Caribbean Nocturnes, and I had the luck to attend his…
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Concert Recommendation & Interview: A SALUTE TO SONDHEIM (GMCLA, Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison)
A SALUTE TO STORYTELLERS Stage and Cinema is grateful to GMCLA Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison for taking time out of rehearsing to chat a bit about A Salute to Sondheim, an awesome new concert from the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. The season finale concert — which plays this Saturday and Sunday,…
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Theater Review: THE PROM (North American Tour)
PROM-COM Dust off the Mylar balloons and wrist corsages and head over to The Ahmanson Theatre, where The Prom just landed as part of its national tour. Forget smelly gymnasiums or dated themes, as this prom is full of high-energy dance numbers, colorful characters, theatrical in-jokes and a litany of Broadway-style tunes that divert even as…
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Theater Review: HADESTOWN (North American Tour)
GO TO TOWN I am convinced that me colleague Marc Wheeler nailed the many reasons in his review of Hadestown why you must see this national tour. One of the most original musicals to come out in years, Hadestown still sells out on Broadway even as a National Tour is on the road. Indeed, some…
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FILMS WHERE FLOWERS PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE
Flowers are a well-known symbol of a declaration of love, respect, and admiration. Large-scale events and intimate family gatherings would be impossible to imagine without a bunch of flowers. When someone wants to say thank you or sorry, they use flowers. However, it makes no difference where you are in the world; you can always…
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Off-Broadway Recommendation: 38TH MARATHON OF ONE-ACT PLAYS (Ensemble Studio Theatre)
Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST) has the the lineup for the 38th Marathon of One-Act Plays, works from artists who identify as Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC). This year’s selection of eleven plays was curated by Co-Artistic Directors Mike Lew (Teenage Dick) and Colette Robert (Behind the Sheet). Ten plays will be presented across two different series from Sunday October 16,…
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Theater Review: THE METROMANIACS (Theatre 40, Beverly Hills)
THE ANACHRONISMIACS Poetry is all the rage in the madcap comedy, The Metromaniacs, David Ives’ 2015 English “translaptation” of La Métromanie (1738), an obscure French farce by Alexis Piron. While La Métromanie jocularly reflected the “poetry craze” of its era, Ives’ remake offers a modern lens in which to lovingly jeer that same 18th-century phenomenon….
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Theater Review: AMERICAN IDIOT (Chance Theater, Anaheim)
IDIOT IS AS IDIOT DOES Inspired by a 2004 rock album by the American pop-punk rock band Green Day, American Idiot has received its share of positive reviews since its premiere in Berkeley, California in 2009 and subsequent runs on Broadway, on tour, at colleges, and regional and community theaters. When I saw the tour…
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Theater Review: THE REMARKABLE MISTER HOLMES (North Coast Repertory in Solano Beach)
THIS MUSICAL IS RIGHT AT HOLMES When we think of Sherlock Holmes in the dank, foggy streets of London, investigating death and deception, probably the next thought we have isn’t, “This would really work as a musical comedy.” Fortunately director/playwright David Ellenstein and lyricist/co-playwright Omri Schein don’t think like us; they saw the funny in…
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Music Reviews: PINK MARTINI / BERNADETTE PETERS (San Francisco Symphony)
SUMMER AT THE SYMPHONY 2 In their 25+ years as a fourteen member full “little orchestra,” Pink Martini has established a reputation for clever, daring, sophisticated and delightful music. The San Francisco Symphony provided an excellent opportunity for Pink Martini to perk up a news-weary public with some much needed color and sunshine. Did they…
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Off-Broadway Review: MAKE THICK MY BLOOD (DE-CRUIT at Studio Theatre, Theatre Row)
A BLOODY BUSINESS WHICH INFORMS “When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning or in rain? When the hurley-burley’s done, when the battle’s lost and won…” These opening lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth have probably been spoken by the witches in almost every production of this play since Shakespeare last sat in the back of…
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Theater Review: KING LIZ (Geffen Playhouse)
A PLAY OFF A rich, black, ball-busting pro-sports super-agent who has worked her way up from poverty to making partner at a major firm. The white male head of that agency who wants his protégé of 22 years to take over the company as he nears retirement. The agent’s put-upon ambitious Latina assistant of five…
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Concert Reviews: GET HAPPY: A JUDY GARLAND CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION / FOURTH WITH FIREWORKS (SF Symphony)
SF Symphony, Summer 2022 The San Francisco Symphony is no doubt ecstatic to welcome people back to live performances this summer in all of their venues. Davies Symphony Hall, Stern Grove and The Shoreline Amphitheatre all have full schedules of terrific performers to treat everyone this summer. There is definitely something for every age and…
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Theater Review: SPRING AWAKENING (Wildsong Productions in Ocean Beach, San Diego)
QUITE THE AWAKENING Watching Spring Awakening in 2008 at the Balboa Theatre and again in 2022 at the OB Playhouse, it is interesting how different the play struck me. Not because of the quality of either production, but because of how different our world is in the fourteen years from a just-elected Barack Obama nation to a…
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Theater Review: THE EMPIRE STRIPS BACK (Great Star Theater)
MAY THE TORSO BE WITH YOU Forget about Broadway or the latest Marvel Comic movie. The fun, hip and cool burlesque Star Wars parody — which isn’t just for fans of the franchise — is the show to see this summer live onstage in San Francisco. No stranger to SF, Burlesque started in the nineteenth…
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