Friday, April 19, 2024
By: David Sheward
April 19, 2024: When it opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater for a relatively short run in 2022, Suffs, Shaina Taub’s sweeping musical history of the women’s su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:38AMThursday, April 18, 2024
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 19, 2024: S.E. Hinton began writing the coming-of-age novel, The Outsiders, when she was fifteen and finished it when she was a junior in high school. Viking Pr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:18AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
By: David Sheward
August 17, 2024: There are a few bumps on the yellow brick road in the new revival of The Wiz at the Marquis Theater, but this shiny new rendition of the Tony-winning 19…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy: Isa Goldberg
April 17, 2024: The scandalous, and dangerous life of art deco artist, Lempicka fuels this exciting new Broadway musical. And a smashing Broadway debut for the writers Ca…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:40PMSunday, April 14, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 15, 2024: We were pushing our way through the excitedly buzzing crowd leaving the Longacre Theatre after just having seen Lempicka, the new musical about Polish …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:01PMBy: Alix Cohen
April 15, 2024: “The sideshow as a separate, specialized variety form begins around the same time as dime museums (mid 1800s)… relatively wholesome alternative for a w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:26AMFriday, April 12, 2024
Opening reception for METAMORPHOSIS now on view at The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue East Hampton, through May 19.
April 14, 2024: Andrea McCafferty & Kat O’Neill, co-owners, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:20PMBy: Alix Cohen
April 13, 2024: The hammer lane is the one used for passing. Truckers in North America came up with the term which references slamming the accelerator with a foot like ham…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:15PMVintage Musical Theater finds from Broadway Babe & A Day in the Life of Kristin Chenoweth.
April 14, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has come up with some musical theat…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:11PMPatti LuPone, Mia Farrow, Tom Holland.
By: David Sheward
April 13, 2024: According to the New York Post, Tony winner Patti PuPone and Mia Farrow will return to Broadway in a two-person p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
April 11, 2024: As is well known, sports writer Mitch Albom’s 1997 book, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson, one of the best…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:52AMThursday, April 11, 2024
By: David Sheward
April11, 2024: In her classic YA novel The Outsiders, SE Hinton’s teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis explains the difference between “tough” and “tuff”: “Tou…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy: David Sheward
April 11, 2024: Playwright, performer and drag legend Charles Busch is back and Henrik Ibsen’s got him. This may seem like an unlikely pairing, but Ibsen’s Ghost, Bu…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:10PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
By: Iris Wiener
April 11, 2024: Just as powerful as it was when it debuted in 2005, Broadway’s current production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt has stood the test of time well. Th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:14PMDOCS EQUINOX April 12-13-14 at Southampton Arts Center.
April 9, 2024: Southampton Arts Center and Hamptons Doc Fest greet Spring with DOCS EQUINOX, a 4-film festival on April 12, 13, &am…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:02AMMTC Season: Sondheim, Eureka, Vladimir
By: David Sheward
April 9 , 2024: Manhattan Theater Club has announced plans for its 2024-25 season on and Off-Broadway, which will include the Bro…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:51AMBy: Paulanne Simmons
April 8, 2024: This season the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players are presenting a double header, The Sorcerer & Trial By Jury. This means twice the enjoyme…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:43AMMonday, April 8, 2024
By: Iris Wiener
April 10, 2024: Novel adaptations are hit (Wicked) or miss (The Notebook anyone?), but Water for Elephants falls somewhere in between. This show begs the question, “C…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:38PMBy: Isa Goldberg
April 8, 2024: After a youth spent listening obsessively to The Who’s Tommy, this staged revival on Broadway feels like a burst of validation, just the kind of validati…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:39AMSunday, April 7, 2024
By: Alix Cohen
April 7, 2024: Having presented his solo Great Expectations, Eddie Izzard returns with her one person rendition of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet – all 23 characters…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:17PMSaturday, April 6, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 6, 2024: The third and last in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s current season of Brian Friel (1929-2015) revivals (following Translations and Aristocrats) is Ph…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:17PMFriday, April 5, 2024
Our Town; OCC Noms
By: David Sheward
April 5, 2024: Cast members, dates and a theater have been announced for the upcoming Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's beloved Our Town, to be d…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:58PMBy: David Sheward
April 5, 2024: Wet Brain, John J. Caswell's Jr.'s play about a Hispanic family dealing with the father's alcoholism and delusions of being kidnapped by aliens, co-produc…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:38PMBy: David Sheward
April 5, 2024: Technology and the political zeitgeist have caught up with The Who’s Tommy, rendering the rock opera even more timely than during its initial release. T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:37PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
April 5, 2024: As theatregoing experiences go, waiting in line for the Nederlander Theatre to open for The Who’s Tommy at the April 2 matinee definitely ranks at th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:57AMTuesday, April 2, 2024
By: David Sheward
April 2, 2024: In Sam Gold’s electrifying revival of Henrik Ibsen’s classic social drama An Enemy of the People, Jeremy Strong of Succession fame as the idealistic Dr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy: Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2024: Known for their crafty storytelling, and several albums, Pigpen Theatre Co.’s new musical, Water for Elephants, is an adaptation of Sarah Gruen’s titul…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:03PMMonday, April 1, 2024
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 1, 2024: Although it’s called Stalker, street magicians and illusionists Peter Brynolf and Jonas Ljung’s New York theatrical debut has nothing to do with …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:52AMSunday, March 31, 2024
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 31, 2024: In a theater season that has been rather sedate, the new musical, Water for Elephants comes as a welcome shot in the arm. Like so many other recent …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:26PM 
