By: Samuel L. Leiter October 29, 2024: My name is Sam and I am not an alcoholic, recovering or otherwise. However, in Another Shot: A New Play by Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz, at Of…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMBy: Isa Goldberg October 29, 2024: If you can’t imagine Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd., head over to the St. James Theatre. This uncanny production—a reimagining…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:54PMGreat picks from Broadway Babe include Hugh Jackman, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, and Carol Burnett & Julie Andrews together in concert. October 28, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:16PMBy: David Sheward October 27, 2024: Two upcoming Broadway shows, Smash and Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, have announced specific details on dates, theaters and cast members. Smash, the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:58PMBy: Paulanne Simmons October 27, 2024: At the very beginning of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, the Stage Manager, who narrates, tells us, “The name of the town is Grover’s …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:09PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter October 25, 2024: The minute I walked in the door at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to see director Kenny Leon’s much-lauded revival of Thornton Wilder’s beloved 1938…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:54PMBy: Carol Rocamora October 24, 2024: If there’s one reason why you should go to see Sunset Boulevard, the radical revival now playing on Broadway it’s this: to see how far the contemp…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:41AMBy: Paulanne Simmons October 21, 2024: Nancy Harris’s The Beacon, now at the Irish Repertory Theatre, is certainly an ambitious play. In fact, the playwright juggles so many plots and s…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:00PMBy: David Sheward October 19, 2024: The spring Broadway season is getting more crowded. Sadie Sink (Stranger Things, The Whale) will star in Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor Is the Villa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:59PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter October 19, 2024: The Mint Theatre has built a well-regarded reputation for finding long-forgotten plays and giving them polished Off-Broadway productions. Of course,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:29PMBy: Isa Goldberg October 18, 2024: In Thoreau and Emerson lie the roots of theater in America. So, it is blissfully discovered in Kenny Leon’s contemporary staging of Thornton Wilder�…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:07PMBy: Carol Rocamora October 17, 2024: Kenny Leon’s extraordinary Our Town is more than just a revival – it’s a momentous event, one that unites us all in these contentious times. …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:57AMBy: David Sheward October 16, 2024: Two new productions on and Off-Broadway feature a major male star best known for his work in media other than theater playing a world-renowned celebrit…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter October 16, 2024: Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling, seen at Off Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre in 2016, has returned, eight years later, to another Off-Broad…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMBy: Carol Rocamora October 14, 2024: The Greek gods on Mt. Olympus must be trembling from the sound coming out of the Sheen Center. The ancient story of Medea is being retold with a power …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:15PMLiev Schreiber, the 2024 HIFF Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award winner, chats with Alec Baldwin. By: Patrick Christiano October 12, 2024: HIFF awarded actor/director Liev Schreiber …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:40PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter October 12, 2024: The Hills of California, now at the Broadhurst Theatre, is British playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth’s sixth play to transfer from Londo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:44PMBy: Paulanne Simmons October 12, 2024: Eugene O’Neill meets Gypsy, topped with a heavy Northwest Britain accent (sometimes unintelligible) in Jez Butterworth’s newest drama, The Hil…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:19AMBy: Alix Cohen October 11, 2024: A great many politically themed plays have been produced these last few years. The best of them enmesh protagonists’ struggles, offer insight to specifi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:03PMLIZA: A TRULY TERRIFIC ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY @ HIFF with the film’s director Bruce David Klein. October 11, 2024: A special screening of the recently released film on the legendary perfor…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:58PMThe Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons held their Annual Stroll to the Sea on Sunday, October 6 in East Hampton. October 11, 2024: The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons held their annual S…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:40PMBy: Paulanne Simmons October 11, 2024At the beginning of Ayad Akhtar’s new play, McNeal, we see the protagonist, Jacob McNeal (Robert Downey Jr.) being scolded by his physician, Sahra…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:08AMBy: David Sheward October 10, 2024: Kenny Leon’s starry revival of Thornton Wilder’s classic 1938 portrait of everyday life, Our Town, features a diverse, multiethnic cast, but doesn�…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter October 10, 2024: David Finnigan, a wiry, lightly bearded, slightly graying, 41-year-old man with a short mullet, is a playwright, actor, and game designer from Ngunn…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMBy: David Sheward October 9, 2024: Roundabout Theatre Company currently offers two diverse entertainments with varying ambitions, each succeeding on its own terms. In the company’s Broa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:11PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter October 9, 2024: At the center of the stage at the Laura Pels Theatre, where Meghan Kennedy’s The Counter is being performed, is a tiny coffee shop, occupying perha…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:39PMThe White Room Gallery presents CRYPTIC featuring Michael Lotenero on view October 16 through November 24 with Claire Florence In The Black Room October 7, 2024: The White Room Gallery, 3 R…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:50AMBy: David Sheward October 6, 2024: The cast list for Mathilde Dratwa’s Dirty Laundry at the WP (Women’s Project) Theater, gave me pause. Three female characters are listed as Blue, Re…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:30PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter October 4, 2024: It wasn’t until the 1930s that, apart from a few exceptions (including stars Ethel Barrymore and Walter Hampden), mainstream New York theater aband…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:02PMBy: David Sheward October 4, 2024: It took a while, but Safety Not Guaranteed, the new musical based on the 2012 indie cult film now playing at BAM’s Harvey Theater, gradually grew on m…
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