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Thursday, May 9, 2024

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward May 8. 2024: When Cabaret, the musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and I Am a Camera, John Van Druten’s straight-play adaptation, opened on Broad…

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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Small Aspects of Daring Invention by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen May 8, 2024: Windows are so filthy, only shadows show beyond. Everything inside is concealed by dirty drop cloths. There’s an old shopping cart piled high with – what? …

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Hell’s Kitchen **** by Barry Gordin

New York. Broadway. Hell’s Kitchen.  Manhattan Plaza – it’s apocalyptic.  By: Isa Goldberg May 7, 2024: From The Public Theatre to Broadway, Alicia Keys’ new musical celebrates…

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Shimmer and Herringbone – A Whirlwind Hoot by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen May 7, 2024: “The clothes we choose to wear — and how we choose to wear them — send out messages that reveal many aspects of personality and emotional health. A numbe…

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Monday, May 6, 2024

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club **** by Barry Gordin

By: Isa Goldberg May 6, 2024: Bawdy, entertaining, grotesque at times – this revival of Cabaret on Broadway focuses on those elements that have made it a beloved musical for a half cent…

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Uncle Vanya ****, Patriots **** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward May 5, 2024: Lila Neugebauer’s laugh-filled, all-star revival of Anton Chekhov’s classic Uncle Vanya, at Lincoln Center’s cavernous Vivian Beaumont Theater, remove…

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Broadway Babe by Barry Gordin

Fabulous Finds from Broadway Babe feature Alan Menken, Sammy Davis, Jr., Marilyn Maye & Harry Connick, Jr. May 8, 2024:  Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller has come up with a plethor…

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Sunday, May 5, 2024

Mother Play *** by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons May 5, 2024: Many of Paula Vogel’s plays explore themes related to her own life. In Vogel’s Baltimore Waltz, she turns her brother’s death from AIDS into an ab…

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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Best of Broadway by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen May 6, 2024: In 1969, The University of Cincinnati’s Musical Theater Program was the first of its kind in the country offering a BFA. Its first graduate, Pamela Myers, w…

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Friday, May 3, 2024

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons May 3, 2024: If you’re in for a good time, complete with drinks, snacks and pre-show entertainment, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, the British revival of the iconic mu…

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Sally and Tom ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter May 1, 2024: Sally & Tom, Suzan-Lori Parks’s new play at the Public Theater, is a conceptually challenging, historically pertinent, and sociologically woke expl…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46AM
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Hello Dolly Celebration by Barry Gordin

STILL GOING STRONG: RICHARD SKIPPER CELEBRATES 60 YEARS OF "HELLO DOLLY" AT REVOLUTION STAGE COMPANY IN PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 19TH, 2024 By: Joel Vig May 4, 2024: In early 1964,…

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Mother Play *****, Mary Jane ***** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward April 30. 2024: At the start of Paula Vogel’s Mother Play, presented by Second Stage at the Hayes Theater, I thought, “Oh no, not another monster mother drama!” Th…

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Tony Award 2024 Nominations by Barry Gordin

April 30, 2024: Tony Award winners Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry announced the nominations this morning. The 77th annual Tony Awards will air live from Lincoln Center on …

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Monday, April 29, 2024

Drama Desk Awards Nominations 2023-2024 by Barry Gordin

April 29, 2024: Nominations for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today by stage and screen star Kathleen Turner. The Full List of Nominees Are Below.

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The Great Gatsby **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By Samuel L. Leiter April 29, 2024: F. Scott Fitzgerald never really liked The Great Gatsby as the title of his 1925 novel, preferring instead Trimalchio in West Egg, which, wisely, he cha…

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Sunday, April 28, 2024

The Great Gatsby **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons April 28, 2924: It has been said short stories make great theater and film. Novels don’t. If you want proof, buy a ticket for  Broadway’s new musical, The Great…

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Drama Desk Awards by Barry Gordin

April 24, 2024: Stage and Screen icon Kathleen Turner will announce the nominations for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards (www.DramaDesk.org) LIVE on NBC’S New York Live on Monday, …

SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:49AM

5 Reasons Why Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club is an Experience to Behold. by Barry Gordin

By: Iris Wiener April 29, 2024: There is immersive theatre, and then there is Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, which takes immersion to an entirely new level of theatergoing and entertainmen…

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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Mary Jane ***** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter April 27, 2024: The titular heroine of Amy Herzog’s affecting play Mary Jane—a name, as far as I can tell, not intended as a euphemism for marijuana—reminds us…

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Paulanne Simmons Unscripted by Barry Gordin

Who’s Who Versus What’s What April 28, 2024: I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m finding so many plays boring these days. Sometimes these are plays that have received almost uni…

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Friday, April 26, 2024

The Great Gatsby **1/2, Water for Elephants ***** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward April 26, 2024: If you’ve never read The Great Gatsby you will probably enjoy the new musical version now at the Broadway Theater after a run at New Jersey’s Paper M…

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Broadway Update by Barry Gordin

Oh, Mary, Crazy Rich Asians, R&J, Drama Desk Awards. By: David Sheward April 25, 2024: Mary Todd Lincoln is coming to Broadway. After a sold-out, twice extended run at the Lortel Thea…

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Outer Critic Circle Nominations by Barry Gordin

Dead Outlaw Alive with 9 Outer Critics Nominations By: David Sheward April 25, 2024: Dead Outlaw, the Off-Broadway musical tracing the true history of a mummified corpse found in an amuse…

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Twelfth Night @ Axis by Barry Gordin

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night directed by Randall Sharpfor Drama Desk nominated Axis. April 25, 2024:   Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by Randal Sharp, began previews yesterday a…

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Stereophonic *** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter April 23, 2024: David Adjmi’s play, Stereophonic, with music by Will Butler (formerly of Arcade Fire), is now on Broadway at the Golden Theatre after its Off-Broadw…

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Sally & Tom **** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward April 23, 2024: After examining the reverberations of the Lincoln assassination in The America Play and Topdog/Underdog, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori P…

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Five Reasons Why The Outsiders is as Innovative as it is Golden by Barry Gordin

By: Iris Wiener April 24, 2024: The new musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s classic novel The Outsiders and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film of the same name is a quiet, though gut-…

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Orlando ***** by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen April 23, 2024: Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, her most popular, was written for lover, Vita Sackville West. its noble protagonist changes from man to woman over …

SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:27AM
Monday, April 22, 2024

The Heart of Rock and Roll ** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward April 22, 2024: “Oh my God! It’s cardboard,” exclaims one of the characters in The Heart of Rock and Roll, the latest jukebox musical to hit Broadway, now at the J…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:18PM
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Five Reasons Why Lempicka is an Artistic Feat by Barry Gordin

By: Iris Wiener April 23, 2024: Rachel Chavkin’s quite unique stamp on the trope of theatre is on fine display at Broadway’s Lempicka, a beautifully constructed musical about an artis…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:54PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime