Wednesday, November 5, 2025
A TOUR DE FORCE!
By Alix Cohen
A Woman Silenced and Maddened
November 5, 2025: Written in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper was published as a series of diary entries by an unnamed woman suffer…
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Master of Illusions Rob Lake on Broadway with Guests the Muppets to Ring in the Holidays
By Ellis Nassour
November 4. 2025: Named “The World's Greatest Illusionist” by NBC, magician…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:07PMBy Paulanne Simmons
November 4, 2025: Once again, A Celtic Christmas by A Taste of Ireland is paving the way for the holiday season with a production featuring an all-Star Lineup of dancers…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:56AMMonday, November 3, 2025
Meet the Queen as Ruler and Woman
By Alix Cohen
November 3, 2025: Elizabeth, “by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith” never expected to assume…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:21PMSunday, November 2, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
November 2, 2025: Ann Kittredge’s newest show is called When in Love, and with such a title, most people might think the Bistro Award-winning singer would have chosen …
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By David Sheward
October 31, 2025: You would think Samuel D. Hunter would run out of ideas. Every one of his plays takes place in his native Idaho and usually features a gay man struggling…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:27PMBy Paulanne Simmons
October 31, 2025: Ethan Coen, most famous for the films he has made with brother Joel (Fargo, O, Brother Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski), pr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:00PM“I come but stand as 10,000” - Maya Angelou
By Alix Cohen
October 31, 2025: Hannah Senesh – an anglicized Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944) is revered by Jewish people as a symbol of courag…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:32AMThursday, October 30, 2025
By David Sheward
October 30, 2025: Quirky, silly fun can be had at Romy & Michele: The Musical, based on the 1997 cult film comedy Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. Yes, this is…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:16PMMonday, October 27, 2025
By David Sheward
October 27, 2025: Love is a battlefield in Let’s Love!, Ethan Coen’s trio of darkly funny one-acts at Atlantic Theater Company. Sex can be a weapon, a bargaining chip o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:32AMFriday, October 24, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
October 24, 2025: On the “language of love,” Zoe Kim’s Did You Eat? at The Public Theater is a poetic solo piece about growing up as a woman, and while Kim’s Korean …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy David Sheward
October 24, 2025: John Leguizamo has carved out a unique position for himself in the American theater with a series of riotously funny solo plays, including Freak, Spic-O-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:12AMBy Paulanne Simmons
October 24, 2025: When Vayle stepped onto the stage of Don’t Tell Mama on October 15, the room was filled. It seemed many people in the audience had already heard the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:01AMUnstoppable Cabaret Queen Marilyn Maye Returns to 54 Below Sunday Through November 6 – Then, Again, To Launch the Holiday Season
By Ellis Nassour
October 24 2025: Marilyn Maye is an art…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:54AMThursday, October 23, 2025
Gingold Theatrical Group Continues Its Shaw Repertory With A Star-Studded Pygmalion on Theatre Row
By Ellis Nassour
October 22, 2025: Saluting its 20th Anniversary, Gingold Theatrical Gro…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:28AMBy Paulanne Simmons
October 22, 2025: In Deborah Stone’s cabaret show, String Theory, she tells the audience her interest in music began when she was 13, and her mother, who was a classic…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:40AMWednesday, October 22, 2025
By Ellis Nassour
October 22, 2025: John Lloyd Young, the multi-award winning Frankie Valli from Broadway’s Jersey Boys, the star of Clint Eastwood’s movie adaptation, and, the only A…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:17AMMonday, October 20, 2025
UNIQUELY CAPTIVATING
By Alix Cohen
October 20, 2025: If work by Talking Band has escaped your radar, Triplicity is an opportunity to rectify its notable absence. The genre-defying collabo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:22AMSunday, October 19, 2025
By David Sheward
October 19, 2025: For an intimate and raucous evening with a slightly modern twist, you can’t do much better than the current revival of Tartuffe, Moliere’s classic com…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:59PMThe Emperor’s New Clothes?
By Alix Cohen
October 19, 2025: “We’re not selling objects—we’re selling ideas, emotions, and the aura of cultural relevance.” Larry Gagosian (Gagosi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:47AMThursday, October 16, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
October 16, 2025: Lear deBessonet makes a stunning debut as the Kewsong Lee Artistic Director at Lincoln Center with her magnificent revival of the musical Ragtime (1996…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy Paulanne Simmons
October 16, 2025: When Ragtime made its world premiere in Toronto in 1996, it seemed that E.L. Doctorow’s vision of an inclusive America might not be that far from rea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy David Sheward
October 16, 2025: Ragtime has been never been more relevant and Lear deBessonet’s epic production for Lincoln Center Theater where she has recently been installed as arti…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy Isa Goldberg
October 16, 2025: The greatest romance in history, as told in this revival of Ragtime at Lincoln Center, is based on the records of the immigrants who helped build our natio…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMWednesday, October 15, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
October 15, 2025: Four of the greatest female jazz vocalists are Lena Horne, Sarah Vaugn, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. If you like jazz, they are probably high …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00AMSunday, October 12, 2025
By David Sheward
October 12, 2025: “I didn’t think it made any sense to build an oral history of a three-way conflict that only spoke to two of the sides,” says Emily, an American of …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:26PMThursday, October 9, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
October 9, 2025: The 2025 republication of Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s1934 novel predicting the rise of Nazism, is a literary event of some significance, especially in o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:31PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
October 9, 2025: Early this year, Jonathan Bank, artistic director of the Mint Theatre—famous for reviving forgotten plays—learned of Crooked Cross, a 1934novel by …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:30PMTuesday, October 7, 2025
By David Sheward
October 7, 2025: Preston Max Allen’s perceptive, keenly observant, and ultimately moving play Caroline begins ordinarily enough. A mother and daughter are ordering mac an…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:42PMBy Paulanne Simmons
October 7, 2025: Murdoch: The Final Interview begins with William Butler Yeats’s poem, “The Second Coming” and ends with references to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstei…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:32PMMonday, October 6, 2025
"EVERYDAY THE CHOICE IS YOURS"
By Alix Cohen
October 6, 2025: The near? future. Population growth is bleeding earth’s resources. With AI rampant, employment is an issue. People haven’…
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