Thursday, October 2, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
October 2, 2025: A small rash of serious playwrights better known as star actors has broken out recently in New York, with the recent openings of John Leguizamo’s The …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:53PMTuesday, September 30, 2025
By David Sheward
September 30, 2025: It’s going to be very difficult to resist the obvious praise for Punch, James Graham’s hard-hitting British import presented by Manhattan Theater C…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:19PMBy Isa Goldberg
September 30, 2025: Justice is not about revenge. Therein lies the ontological premise of Punch, an action-packed docudrama set in The Meadows, a social rented housing comp…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:10PMMonday, September 29, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
September 28, 2025: It’s been a long time since I’ve sat in a Broadway theatre—or a theatre anywhere—and felt my eyes and nose swell with so much moisture I had…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:30PMSunday, September 28, 2025
By David Sheward
September 28, 2025: The biggest box-office hit of the new, startlingly sparse Broadway fall season is, surprisingly, a revival of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s clas…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMThursday, September 25, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
September 25, 2025: John Leguizamo, popular standup comic, monologist, movie star, filmmaker, and, among many other accomplishments, leading advocate for Latino America…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMWednesday, September 24, 2025
By David Sheward
September 24, 2025: While it feels a bit like an Afterschool TV Special, Saturday Church, the new Off-Broadway musical celebrating LGBTQ youth, is fun, infectious, and liv…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:10PMSaturday, September 20, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
September 20, 2025: Saturday Church, a raucously upbeat new musical, with a score by pop star Sia, celebrates life in the LGBTQ community. Based by writers Damon Cardas…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:49AMFriday, September 19, 2025
By Alix Cohen
September 19, 2025: Mira (Tora Nogami Alexander), a biracial, Korean American, classical violinist, and her boyfriend Beckett (Morgan Morse) are in South Carolina on a trip t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:38PMBy David Sheward
September 19, 2025: On our way out of the Music Box Theater where the revival of Yasmina Reza’s Art is currently playing, my female theatergoing companion remarked, “I…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:15PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
By David Sheward
September 17, 2025. The worlds of camp and opera collide deliriously in the revival of Charles Ludlam’s 1983 Galas in a spectacularly silly outdoor production at Little I…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:01PMA METRPOLITIAN OPERA PREVIEW
By Alix Cohen
September 17, 2025: Tonight’s glimpse into The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay fea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:50PMMonday, September 15, 2025
By David Sheward
September 15, 2025: The Wild Duck (1884) is the red-headed step-child among Henrik Ibsen’s classic plays. It seems every time a high-powered actress best known for her fi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:18PMSunday, September 14, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
September 14, 2025: Revivals of Henrik Ibsen are common enough, though A Doll’s House tends to dominate. Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People appear regul…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:00PMMonday, September 8, 2025
DELIGHTFUL!
By Alix Cohen
September 8, 2025: Without other similarity to the character Baby June from Gypsy, Rachel Matz Hunter might be called “a five foot two bundle of dynamite.” D…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:50PMBy Isa Goldberg
September 8, 2025: A scream alert bursts your ears -- stabbing the subconscious, evoking fear, and demons that become real -- more than mere apparitions. Exorcistic: The Ro…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:38PMThursday, September 4, 2025
By Alix Cohen
September 4, 2025: An instrumental “After You’ve Gone” (Turner Layton/Henry Creamer) sashays in. Trombone surges, cornet and clarinet shimmy, sax kicks up. Tonight’s …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:45AMTuesday, September 2, 2025
Jaime Lozano and performers. Photo Credit: Rebecca J. Michaelson
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:03PMSunday, August 31, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 31, 2025: Magic, as Jamie Allan, the appealing British magician now holding forth at one of the venues in Off-Broadway’s New World Stages, explains, goes back…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:50AMBy David Sheward
August 31, 2025: You might expect a lot more snark from comedian Jeff Ross in his one-man show Take a Banana for the Ride at the Nederlander. After all, he is nicknamed th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:42AMWednesday, August 27, 2025
By Alix Cohen
August 27, 2025: With this 11” x 17” book, you too can put a Hirschfeld on your wall or gift an uber-fan. There are 58 pages, 50 drawings and 25 glossy, thick, ready to f…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:13PMThursday, August 21, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 21, 2025: At last! The Delacorte Theatre, home of Free Shakespeare in Central Park has reopened, after a two-year renovation costing a reported $85 million, with…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMMonday, August 18, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 18, 2025: In our currently niche-dominated entertainment world, including the infinitesimal number of choices on cable, streaming, and broadcast TV, it’s easy…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMSaturday, August 16, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
August 16, 2025: Late in her life, Ava Gardner decided to write an autobiography. She didn’t so much want to tell her story as raise money. She was low on funds and a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:10PMThursday, August 14, 2025
CHARMING AND ENTERTAINING
By Alix Cohen
August 14, 2025: “Every story begins with a spark of imagination…” Jamie Allan was eight when his parents bought him a Fisher Price magic set.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:22PMBy Paulanne Simmons
August 14, 2025: When theater star and Nashville recording artist Rachel Potter turned forty, she was living in Nashville doing corporate real estate. After many years…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:03AMTuesday, August 12, 2025
By David Sheward
August 12, 2025: Bubba Weiler’s new play Well, I’ll Let You Go at the Space at Irondale in Brooklyn breaks a few rules and doesn’t seem to have much going for it at …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:01PMMonday, August 11, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
August 11, 2025: Oddly, Bubba Weiler’s new play at the Irondale Brooklyn, Well, I’ll Let You Go, begins where the story ends …after Marv’s death. Being iconoclastic…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:04AMFriday, August 8, 2025
By David Sheward
August 7, 2025: “The story you are about to see is true…except for the parts that aren’t.” So reads a disclaimer flashed on the curtain before the start of Ava: Th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:53AMThursday, August 7, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 7, 2025: In 1988, former screen star Ava Gardner, famed much more for her sultry glamor (“the world’s most beautiful animal”) than her thespian artistry (a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:30PMSaturday, August 2, 2025
By David Sheward
August 1, 2025: Joy, subtitled a New True Musical, Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels, is a serviceable enough product to entertain intermittently for two hours, but it’s ba…
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