Friday, October 11, 2024
By: Alix Cohen
October 11, 2024: A great many politically themed plays have been produced these last few years. The best of them enmesh protagonists' struggles, offer insight to specific …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:03PM[SHARE]LIZA: A TRULY TERRIFIC ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY @ HIFF with the film's director Bruce David Klein.
October 11, 2024: A special screening of the recently released film on the legendary performe…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:58PM[SHARE]The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons held their Annual Stroll to the Sea on Sunday, October 6 in East Hampton.
October 11, 2024: The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons held their annual S…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:40PM[SHARE]By: Paulanne Simmons
October 11, 2024At the beginning of Ayad Akhtar's new play, McNeal, we see the protagonist, Jacob McNeal (Robert Downey Jr.) being scolded by his physician, S…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2024
By: David Sheward
October 10, 2024: Kenny Leon's starry revival of Thornton Wilder's classic 1938 portrait of everyday life, Our Town, features a diverse, multiethnic cast, but doesn't hi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PM[SHARE]By: Samuel L. Leiter
October 10, 2024: David Finnigan, a wiry, lightly bearded, slightly graying, 41-year-old man with a short mullet, is a playwright, actor, and game designer from Ngunn…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2024
By: David Sheward
October 9, 2024: Roundabout Theatre Company currently offers two diverse entertainments with varying ambitions, each succeeding on its own terms. In the company's Broadw…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:11PM[SHARE]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 perhaps…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:39PM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2024
The 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 11:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 6, 2024
By: 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, Red, a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:30PM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2024
By: 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 abandon…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:02PM[SHARE]By: 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 me.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2024
Snook 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 02:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2024
By 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 exteri…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:15PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2024
By: 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 06:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2024
By: 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 11:00PM[SHARE]By: 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 02:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 28, 2024
By: 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2024
By: 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 re…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2024
By: 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 07:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2024
By: 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 a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:09AM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2024
By: 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 05:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2024
Burstein 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 01:04PM[SHARE]By: 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 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2024
By: 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 08:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2024
By: 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 07:33PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2024
By: 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 te…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2024
By: 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 12:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2024
By: 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 star…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Elf; 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…
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