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Theater Review: (RE)DRESSING MISS HAVISHAM (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre)
GREAT EXPECTATIONS, OR GREAT DECEPTIONS? Miranda Jonte and playwright John Minigan turn Dickens into the subject of a witty and compelling literary cold case Despite the broken air-conditioning on a hot and sticky night, Miranda Jonte kept me engaged and curious with her spirited portrayal of both a literary sleuth and one of literature’s iconic…
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Theater Review: PICTURES FROM HOME (Marin Theatre / Mill Valley)
SAY CHEESE—AND PASS THE TRAUMA Sharr White’s adaptation of Larry Sultan’s memoir turns one California family into a deeply recognizable portrait of memory, regret, and love Now making its West Coast debut at Marin Theatre is a story with roots here in Marin County. Bay Area photographer Larry Sultan assembled a series of family photographs…
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Theater Review: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (Theatre Rhinoceros / San Francisco)
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE Theatre Rhinoceros turns its intimate Castro venue into a joyous explosion of feathers, farce, and fierce self-acceptance Since 1977, Theatre Rhinoceros has produced theater celebrating the LGBTQ community. This month, they’re presenting the classic Broadway musical La Cage Aux Folles. Originally written as a French play by Jean Poiret in…
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Theater Review: SCARAMOUCHE (City Lit Theater / Edgewater Presbyterian Church / Chicago)
EN GARDE, YOU FOOLS A spirited cast and plenty of swashbuckling fun can’t quite compensate for a forgettable score “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” That terrific sentence opens Rafael Sabatini’s 1921 novel Scaramouche. A smash hit on publication, this swashbuckling adventure has been adapted…
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Theater Review: BRIGADOON (Pasadena Playhouse)
BRIGADOON EARNS ITS MIRACLE Pasadena Playhouse’s revelatory new production treats Lerner and Loewe’s fable not as nostalgia, but as a question of faith, sacrifice, and survival Dormancy is a survival strategy. Seeds use it. Bears use it. A village in the Scottish Highlands uses it in Brigadoon, which premiered on Broadway in 1947 — the…
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Theater Review: OEDIPUS EL REY (Huntington Theatre Company / Boston)
GREEK TRAGEDY WITH A LOWRIDER HEART Luis Alfaro’s barrio reimagining of Sophocles turns Greek tragedy into a vibrant, joyous story of identity, fate, and survival Playwright Luis Alfaro’s reimagining of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus El Rey, relocates the ancient tragedy to a Los Angeles barrio, where hope is hard to come by—especially for the four…
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Comedy Review: THE ARABISH IMPROV SHOW (The Arabic Theater Company / Balance Arts Center)
LOST IN TRANSLATION? NOT TONIGHT The Arabic Theater Company blends improv chaos, bilingual comedy, and cultural specificity into a fun night of laughs First, take eight appealing actors, all with roots in the Arab world. Add fluency in both English and Arabic. Throw in considerable comedic talent and a desire to “amplify Arab voices” in…
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MOVIES FILLED WITH RISK, LUCK, & FORTUNE
Casinos and gambling are popular in films because of their stylish visuals, exclusivity, sense of danger and high-stakes drama. For decades, movies have portrayed them as glamorous but shady worlds of vice – though the reality is quite different. These portrayals have shaped public perception of gambling venues, while the rise of best crypto casino…
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WHEN CARDS HIT THE STAGE: THE SURPRISING ROLE OF CARD GAMES IN THEATER AND FILM
A deck of cards is one of the oldest dramatic props in existence. Long before cinema invented the close-up, playwrights understood that a card table was a stage within a stage, a contained arena where characters could reveal themselves through strategy, deception, and luck. The turn of a card could settle a debt, expose a…
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Theater Review: THE HULA-HOOPIN’ QUEEN (Young People’s Theatre Chicago)
HOOP DREAMS IN HARLEM Young People’s Theatre closes its season with a charming, energetic celebration of childhood, friendship, and community In The Hula-Hoopin’ Queen, the stakes are very low; to an adult, that is. But if you’re a 10-year-old girl like Kameeka (or her friend Jamara), being crowned the Hula-Hoopin’ Queen of 139th Street is…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company at AMT Theater)
WHO KILLED EDWIN DROOD? WELL, IT’S UP TO THE AUDIENCE The musical whodunit is done with panache by the reliable J2 Musical Theater Company The unpleasant fact about life is that everybody dies. In 1870, before completing his last novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in which the title character dies—apparently by murder—the author himself…
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Theater Review: EXIT THE KING (A Noise Within / Pasadena)
LONG LIVE THE ABSURD Michael Michetti’s visually stunning staging transforms Ionesco’s meditation on death into a thing of eerie beauty It is rare, nowadays, when a play by the Romanian Godfather of absurdist theatre, Eugène Ionesco, is staged, and rarer still when it is staged well. That happy convergence can be currently experienced at the…
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Theater Review: A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (The Bent / Palm Springs)
A LITTLE SHOW WITH A VERY BIG HEART The Bent’s first musical proves this company is ready for anything The Bent, Palm Springs’ queer theatre company, closes its fourth season with its first musical, A Man of No Importance — and what a debut it is. This intimate chamber piece proves the company’s trademark excellence…
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Theater Preview: AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (Ebony Rep / Nate Holden Performing Arts Center / Los Angeles)
FATS WALLER’S JOINT IS JUMPIN’ AGAIN Ledisi and an all-star cast bring the Harlem Renaissance roaring back to life at the Nate Holden Center Ain’t Misbehavin’ is a sizzling celebration of Fats Waller’s music—songs that he made famous in a career that ranged from uptown clubs to downtown Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood and concert…
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Theater Review: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (TUTA Theatre / Chicago)
GUILT TRIP TUTA Theatre turns Dostoevsky’s sprawling masterpiece into a feverish psychological horror story of conscience, damnation, and salvation Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece Crime and Punishment runs around 700 pages and involves close to two dozen significant characters. TUTA Theatre’s production uses as its text a 2003 adaptation by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus: this version…
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Theater Review: A ROOM IN THE CASTLE (Moxie Theatre / San Diego)
THE WOMEN LEFT OFFSTAGE Lauren Gunderson reclaims Shakespeare’s sidelined women in a sharp, emotionally intelligent companion piece to Hamlet The women in Hamlet exist largely to reflect Hamlet’s choices and actions. They are little more than props to propel the plot, with no backstory or motivation. Playwright Lauren M. Gunderson clearly feels frustration at this…
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DISCOVER HOW TICKET PRICES CHANGE DURING THE YEAR AND HOW TO SAVE WITH VIVID SEATS COUPONS
Ticket prices for festivals, concerts, and sports events are rarely fixed and tend to fluctuate significantly over time. Unlike traditional retail products, live event tickets are influenced by changing market conditions where supply and demand play a central role. Factors such as the popularity of an artist or sports team, venue capacity, timing of the…
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Theater Review: OCTET (Raven Theatre / Chicago)
LOG OFF AND SING Dave Malloy’s brilliant chamber musical turns doomscrolling, loneliness, and internet addiction into something unexpectedly humane [Editor’s Note (June 2026): Raven Theatre’s production of Octet, originally reviewed by Stage and Cinema in May, transfers intact to the Goodman Theatre for a limited engagement beginning July 15, 2026. DO NOT MISS.] ✦ ✦…
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SKIN UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT: HOW STAGE PERFORMERS CARE FOR THEIR FACES AFTER THE SHOW
The lights come down, the applause fades, and while the audience heads home, the performer faces one more act of the night: undoing everything the stage demands of their skin. Hours under hot lights, layers of heavy makeup built to read from the back row, sweat, adhesive, and the sheer repetition of it night after…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE PEOPLE VERSUS LENNY BRUCE (Cause Célèbre at Theatre Row)
A TRIAL FOR LENNY—AND SOMETIMES THE VIEWER A courtroom drama that probes language, censorship, and the cost of pushing boundaries Unique among the performing arts, standup comedy is the only craft that cannot be sharpened without an audience. And, ironically, the only performing art that we allow, even expect, to deeply offend. Who ever heard…
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