The names Red Nichols and Cliff Edwards may not be recognized by any but a few aficionados of 1920s jazz these days, but after seeing Mike Davis and Bryce Edwards‘ Hot Combination at Birdland, most people will certainly remember their music. Ukulele-toting, mouth-trumpeting Cliff Edwards was one of the era’s most innovative pop vocalists and an early […] The post Cabaret Review: HOT COMBINATION: THE CLIFF EDWARDS / RED NICHOLS PROJECT (Mike Davis, Bryce Edwards@Birdland) appeared firs...| Stage and Cinema
ON THE RIGHT TRACK The 7 Fingers (Les 7 Doigts), a Montréal-based circus arts company, brings 90 spellbinding minutes of exhibitions of strength, flexibility, coordination, balance, courage, timing, and trust to the A.R.T.’s Loeb Drama Center in Passengers. The 7 Fingers collaborated with A.R.T.’s 2012 production of Pippin and have performed on numerous occasions at […] The post Theater Review: PASSENGERS (The 7 Fingers at American Repertory Theater) appeared first on Stage and Cinema.| Stage and Cinema
Ambient music has quietly revolutionized how we experience sound in our daily lives. From meditation sessions to creative workspaces, this ethereal genre transforms ordinary moments into immersive sonic landscapes. Whether you’re a content creator seeking the perfect background score or simply someone who appreciates atmospheric soundscapes, understanding ambient music opens doors to a world of […] The post THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO AMBIENT MUSIC: CREATING ATMOSPHERE THROUGH SOUND appeared fi...| Stage and Cinema
HOW TO SUCCEED IN HISTORY WITHOUT REALLY TELLING IT Meet Lettice Douffet (Bobbi Randall), an eccentric tour guide at Fustian House, a drab Tudor mansion. Burdened with delivering its painfully dull history to visitors, she finds the plain facts intolerable. Instead, Lettice gradually begins to embellish wildly, weaving dramatic tales of intrigue, passion, and bloodshed […] The post Theater Review: LETTICE & LOVAGE (Lamplighters Community Theatre in San Diego) appeared first on Stage and Cin...| Stage and Cinema
A FEATHERBABY IN SPRECKELS’ CAP A talking, squawking parrot dispenses wit, wisdom, and wonder in Featherbaby at Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park. In a bright green suit and yellow bow tie, Gina Alvarado astounds as a wise-cracking high-energy Amazon parrot belonging to forensic photographer Angie (Mercedes Murphy), newly single after her lover walked […] The post Theater Review: FEATHERBABY (Spreckels Theatre Company in Rohnert Park) appeared first on Stage and Cinema.| Stage and Cinema
Theater has always been about immersion. Actors on stage, lights shifting, the audience leaning forward—yet the limits were clear: a stage, a set, and the walls of the theater itself. Virtual reality (VR) has entered quietly but forcefully, pulling down those walls. Suddenly, a spectator can stand in the middle of Hamlet’s castle or drift […] The post HOW VIRTUAL REALITY IS TRANSFORMING LIVE THEATER EXPERIENCES appeared first on Stage and Cinema.| Stage and Cinema
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From “Blewu” to Bolero: Yo-Yo Ma and Kidjo Bridge Worlds Yo-Yo Ma’s charisma, joy, and childlike wonder never fail to delight. On this cooling summer night, August 28, at the Hollywood Bowl, I was reminded again why Ma remains such an extraordinary ambassador of music. Joined by Angélique Kidjo on vocals, Thierry Vaton on piano, […] The post Concert Review: SARABANDE AFRICAINE (Angélique Kidjo & Yo-Yo Ma at The Hollywood Bowl) appeared first on Stage and Cinema.| Stage and Cinema
SONGS FOR A SUMMER EVENING Palm Springs during summer becomes – well – a desert. All of the theatres close for the summer, and a large percentage of the winter population heads back to their northern homes for the hot months. So it was exciting when the Roost Lounge, technically in Cathedral City, launched The […] The post Cabaret Review: THE ROOST REVUE (The Roost Lounge) appeared first on Stage and Cinema.| Stage and Cinema
WHO NEEDS A HEALTHY CORTEX WHEN YOU’VE GOT THIRTY-TWO SHOWSTOPPERS? The urge to create has served as a muse for countless forms of art: literature, opera, film, and theatre are littered with examples of the form. Opening the new season of Pride Arts at Center on Halsted A New Brain, a musical by multiple Tony winners, […]| Stage and Cinema
MOTHERFUCKER! WHAT A COLOSSAL MISSED OPPORTUNITY With heightened and relentless dialog, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherfucker with the Hat follows Jackie, a recently paroled ex-con and recovering addict whose fragile new life teeters when he finds an unfamiliar hat in his girlfriend Veronica’s apartment. The discovery ignites suspicions of betrayal that ripple through his relationships—with […]| Stage and Cinema
THE WORST BEST MAN MAKES THE BEST MAN SHOW A GUARANTEED WINNER We’re attending a wedding. Every viewer in the audience is an attendee. The vows have already been exchanged, and now it’s time for the groom’s brother — his best man — to give the customary speech. Charming and truthful but filled with toxicity […]| Stage and Cinema
Let there be no mistaking it, Mark Vigeant is so funny that if he was performing on an amphitheater set up in front of Mount Rushmore, after the first five minutes milk would be shooting out of Lincoln’s nose, Washington would be laughing so hard his cumbersome dentures would go flying out of his mouth, […]| Stage and Cinema
A VOICE THAT SPANNED CONTINENTS AND CENTURIES The trouble with singers who insist on being versatile is that they make everyone else look lazy. Dame Cleo Laine, who died on July 24th at her home in Wavendon, England, aged 97, was particularly guilty of this sort of thing. Her nearly four-octave voice wandered from gravelly […]| Stage and Cinema
LIFE ON REWIND In a co-production with HorseChart Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre continues its astounding season with John Kolvenbach‘s gem of a play, Reel to Reel, a heart-warming, but definitely not sappy, time-jumping story of a 55-year marriage between the determined Maggie Spoon (Alley Mills Bean), a sound and performance artist, and her more reticent […]| Stage and Cinema
DÉJÀ LOUCHE Just to Be Close to You opens with an immaculately coiffed and mustachioed Cam Poter stepping before the packed audience at the Broadwater Studio as his alter ego, the renowned lounge singer, Carl Poteraychke, and immediately announcing, “For my last song – ” And we are off to the races. Poter is a […]| Stage and Cinema
A DUPLEX THAT’S GOING TO THE DOGS Those who flocked to the “Sunshine State” during the population boom of the 1920s and ’30s, were mostly “easterners” who had only known tenement living, cut off from the world outside on the upper floors of some aging brownstone and reduced to the numbers of their apartment door. […]| Stage and Cinema
Have you ever wondered how some businesses manage to leave such a lasting impression on people just by sharing a short video? You might be thinking, can a simple video make such a strong impact? Well, the answer is yes. Today, more and more businesses are turning to videos not just to explain what they […]| Stage and Cinema
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A NEW MUSICAL HAS ARRIVED TO PUMP UP PATRONS FOR DECADES TO COME Allen Moyle’s 1990 film Pump Up the Volume starred Christian Slater as Mark, a graceless, socially awkward high school student in Phoenix, Arizona, a town so conservative that even the Saguaro cactus wore Bush/Quayle campaign buttons. Unable to fit in, Mark resorts […]| Stage and Cinema
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CAST TRAVELS LIGHT-YEARS, SCORE FINDS A NEW UNIVERSE, THE BOOK GETS LOST IN SPACE. CAN THE WRINKLES IN THIS NEW MUSICAL BE IRONED OUT? Round about a lifetime ago, in the shadow of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War, Madeleine L’Engle wrote a fable for precocious children that she was pretty sure no one […]| Stage and Cinema
THE DEVIL’S IN THE FINGERS: TRIFONOV TAKES FLIGHT AT A THUNDEROUS TANGLEWOOD OPENING Conductor Andris Nelson led the Boston Symphony Orchestra at last night’s opening of its 2025 Tanglewood concerts season with an all-Rachmaninoff program. The piano soloist was Daniil Trifonov (dan-EEL TREE-fon-ov), who Stage and Cinema hailed as the “Big Thing of the piano world” […]| Stage and Cinema
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A SUSPENSEFUL ONE-MAN MURDER MYSTERY The Gay community in San Francisco was shocked and terrified by a series of murders between 1974-75 committed by a serial killer known as “The Doodler.” Believed to have killed between six and sixteen men, most of whom were gay, he was known for meeting his victims in bars, and […]| Stage and Cinema
