Today is Sunday, December 22, 2024 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Ralph Fiennes Andrew Lippa
By: Samuel L. Leiter October 9, 2024: At the center of the stage at the Laura Pels Theatre, where Meghan Kennedy’s The Counter is being performed, is a tiny coffee shop, occupying perha…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:39PMThe White Room Gallery presents CRYPTIC featuring Michael Lotenero on view October 16 through November 24 with Claire Florence In The Black Room October 7, 2024: The White Room Gallery, 3 R…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:50AMBy: David Sheward October 6, 2024: The cast list for Mathilde Dratwa’s Dirty Laundry at the WP (Women’s Project) Theater, gave me pause. Three female characters are listed as Blue, Re…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:30PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter October 4, 2024: It wasn’t until the 1930s that, apart from a few exceptions (including stars Ethel Barrymore and Walter Hampden), mainstream New York theater aband…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:02PMBy: David Sheward October 4, 2024: It took a while, but Safety Not Guaranteed, the new musical based on the 2012 indie cult film now playing at BAM’s Harvey Theater, gradually grew on m…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:47PMSnook as Dorian Gray; Mincemeat Confirmed By: David Sheward October 3, 2024: Emmy and Olivier Award winner Sarah Snook (Succession) will make her Broadway debut playing 26 characters in …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:10PMBy Samuel L. Leiter As “Good Bones,” TV’s popular home restoration TV program, indicates, an older house with such a skeleton has a solid foundation and sturdy structure, even if its …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:15PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter September 30, 2024: From February 28, 2022, to March 8, 2022, a 50-year-old Texas resident named Guy Wesley Reffitt was the defendant in a jury trial held before the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:26PMBy: David Sheward September 29, 2924: Estranged siblings gather at the bedside of a dying parent. Crushed dreams have an inextricable hold on the family. A dying town symbolizes those das…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy: David Sheward October 1, 2024: According to Broadway Journal, the British musical Operation Mincemeat is eying a Broadway transfer to the Golden Theater once the Tony-winning Stereoph…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:43PMBy: Alix Cohen October 1, 2024: Last February, I reviewed The Christine Jorgensen Show, a highly recommended, two-hander with music that made its debut at 59E59 Theaters. The piece has b…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:34AMBy: David Sheward September 24, 2024: Musical theater conventions past, present and future come in for a riotous ribbing in the latest edition of Gerard Alessandrini’s perennial parody …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter September 22, 2024: Nearly 20 years ago I was reading whatever I could find about theater in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) as background for the two-volume Encyclopedia…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:42AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter September 22, 2024: The Witness Room is a fierce, flawed, and familiar cop drama at Off Broadway’s intimate, smartly refurbished AMT Theatre, set around a table in…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:09AMBy: Alix Cohen I saw a Marvelous Movie September 23, 2024: Sir Noël Peirce Coward (1899 –1973) was an extraordinarily multifaceted talent, excelling as actor, director, vocalist (…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:50PMBurstein in Gypsy, Buena Vista By: David Sheward September 19, 2024: Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle winner Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge, Fiddler on the Roof, Follies) will st…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:04PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter September 19, 2024: [Note: In January of this year Theater Life posted my ***** review of Our Class, a Polish play by Tadeusz Slobodzniak directed by Igor Golyak at BA…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:18AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter September 18, 2024: Table 17, a slight, charming, if mostly familiar rom-com by Douglas Lyons (Chicken and Baskets) at MCC Theater is proof positive that even the f…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:33AMBy: David Sheward September 17, 2024: In recent years, the romantic comedy genre has had several hits on screen, but few on stage. The musical version of Pretty Woman and the original Fir…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:33PMBy: Paulanne Simmons September 15, 2024: Becoming a parent can certainly change your life. Children can make life rewarding or, let’s say, challenging. Written by real-life Mom and Dad …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:15AMBy: Paulanne Simmons September 15, 2024: Vocalist Susan Gregory is no stranger to one-woman shows. But while her previous shows have been largely autobiographical, her newest one proudly a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:19AMBy: David Sheward September 12, 2024: The Roommate, Jen Silverman’s slight two-character comedy at the Booth, begins in an unusual way. After the house lights have dimmed, the play’s …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:30PMElf; Real Women; McKean in Glengarry; New LCT Leaders By: David Sheward September 12, 2024: A new production of Elf the Musical will hit Broadway just in time for the holidays. Following…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:10PMThe White Room Gallery presents POETRY IN MOTION featuring Stuart Yankell with Taylor Smith in the Back Room on view September 10 through October 13. September 6, 2024: The White Room Ga…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00AMJohn Mulaney in All In; Purpose; Othello By: David Sheward September 9, 2024: Comedian-actor John Mulaney will return to Broadway in All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich beginning per…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:11AMSouthampton Arts Center presents The 7th Annual Architecture & Design Tour on Saturday, September 14, 2024, at 11 AM. September 5, 2024: The Southampton Arts Center’s 7th Annual Arc…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:38PMSeptember Picks from Broadway Babe feature Patti LuPone, Karen Akers, Donna McKechnie, & Rare rehearsal footage from 1959’s Gypsy. September 9, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:57PMDittmer Wins $400,000 Longines Hampton Classic 5* Grand Prix & Erwin prevails in $75,00 Hampton Classic 2* Grand Prix on closing day. September 2, 2024: The 49th annual Hampton Clas…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:22PMBy: Alix Cohen September 4, 2024: Through the door of a vintage Coke machine on Eighth Aenue between 18th and 19th Streets, down cellar stairs (hold on), one enters Adélaïde’s Salo…
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