Thursday, October 9, 2025
By 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’…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:18PMBy Alix Cohen
October 6, 2025: Every play does not have to be life changing. A One Act with limited production budget can offer as much value as theater with publicity and stars.
Lost and…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:44PMThursday, 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 09:03AM 
