Thursday, January 11, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
[Note: some of what follows is adapted from my review of a 2014 production.]
January 10, 2024: Greeting the audience before the curtain rises on Branden Jacob-Jenk…
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Roundabout and Purple Rain
By: David Sheward
January 10, 2024: Roundabout Theater Company has announced major productions for its 2024-25 Broadway and Off-Broadway seasons and the new na…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:43PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Nostalgic finds from Broadway Babe include Leonard Bernstein, Anything Goes, Damn Yankees and Elaine Stritch.
January 8, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller has some great nostalgic …
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Center Stage @ SAC will present THE GLASS MENAGERIE on Saturday & Sunday, January 27 & 28.
January 7, 2024: A staged reading of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie produced…
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January 6, 2024: Terrific. Timely.Attorney Martin Garbus has argued cases involving the First Amendment, Constitutional, criminal, copyright and intellectual property law.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:56AMThursday, January 4, 2024
Sunset Boulevard to Transfer; Smash Workshop; Best Play Contenders
By: David Sheward
January 4, 2024: The minimalist revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard which is about to…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:53PMThe Journey of a Seder Plate or The Road to Broadway
June 4, 2024: Many years ago my mother-in-law, Adele, gave me a seder plate she had purchased in Israel. My mother-in-law placed great …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:19AMSunday, December 31, 2023
By: Isa Goldberg
December 31, 2023: Today's comedy routines and standup are tragic affairs - self-involved and monotonous. They can be a real downer, especially if you enjoy your own lau…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:33PMThursday, December 28, 2023
By: David Sheward
December 27, 2023: The revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana from La Femme Productions at the Pershing Square Signature Center sounded so promising (N…
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Give the gift that Buzzfeed, New York Magazine, Playbill and TheaterLife are raving about, BroadwayHD.
December 23, 2023: Not finished with your Holiday shopping or do you want something ex…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:20PMSaturday, December 23, 2023
By: David Sheward
December 23, 2023: Two Off-Broadway productions meld the past and the present with mixed results. Michael-John LaChiusa’s musical The Gardens of Anuncia at Lincoln Ce…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:01PMBy: Isa Goldberg
Buena Vista Social Club @ The Atlantic
December 23, 2023: Aged walls, stained with cigar smoke, sing the tale of Buena Vista Social Club. A tale about two sisters torn a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:35AMFriday, December 22, 2023
A Festival of Physical Theater - January 5-14-23
By: Alix Cohen
December 22, 2023: What IS Physical Theater? Its most obvious definition includes mime/pantomime, dance, circus/clowning,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:02AMThursday, December 21, 2023
Sign of the Times, Stranger Things, The Effect, Etc.
By: David Sheward
December 20. 2023: Yet another jukebox musical is headed our way. A Sign of the Times will feature music from 1960s…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:47AMTuesday, December 19, 2023
Nostalgic picks from Broadway Babe: Kismet, She Loves Me, Joan Rivers, and Frank Sinatra
December 19, 2023: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has come up with some nostalgic treasures. …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:06PMJoe Rosario’s staging of James McLure’s dark comedy mines the pathos over the comedy.
By: Patrick Christiano
December 18, 2023: James McLure’s dark comedy Lone Star, a tale about…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:21PMBy: Isa Goldberg
December 19, 2023: “We all like to socialize,” is a challenging premise to the new Broadway musical, How to Dance in Ohio. Challenging because many adults have yet to…
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By: David Sheward
December 18, 2023: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate premiered at the Actors Theater of Louisville in 2013 and subsequently opened Off-Broadway at the Signature Thea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:10PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
December 18, 2023: Two recently opened shows raise the question: how do you turn a popular documentary film into a successful stage musical? The creators of Broadway�…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:36PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
This is going to be a short review. The material does not need acute analysis.
December 18, 2023: Buena Vista Social Club, developed and directed by Saheem Ali, has…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:54PMBy: Alix Cohen
December 19, 2023: The Trickster and The Fool are alive within all of us. The Fool is an archetype that holds universal wisdom, crosses mutable boundaries, and speaks trut…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:22AMFriday, December 15, 2023
Two-time Tony Winner, Christine Ebersole, shines at 54 Below with Billy Stritch.
By: Patrick Christiano
December 15, 2023: Performing together for 20 years, Christine Ebersole and Bill…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:12PMThursday, December 14, 2023
By: Mark Rifkin
December 15, 2023: “Will I be totally humiliated if I mess it up?” Remy (Desmond Luis Edwards) asks in the Broadway premiere of Rebekah Greer Melocik and Jacob Yandur…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:24PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
December 15, 2023: In 2015 Alexandra Shiva created a bittersweet but heartwarmingly inspiring documentary, How to Dance in Ohio, about a group of autistic persons, ra…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:12PMWednesday, December 13, 2023
By: David Sheward
December 13, 2023: Two new musicals are inspired by real events and by documentaries which are readily available for viewing on the Max streaming services. This provides…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:20PMCircus Vasquez Can’t Get Enough of NY and NY Can’t Get Enough of Circus Vasquez, Now in Queens through January 7.
By: Ellis Nassour
December 14, 2023: On what has become …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:56AMMonday, December 11, 2023
By: Paulanne Simmons
December 11, 2023: Graciela Daniele is an Argentina-born dancer, choreographer and director who has worked in theater, dance and opera throughout the United States. I…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:27AMSunday, December 10, 2023
By: Isa Goldberg
December 10, 2023: Unusual, in the world of musical theater, The Gardens of Anuncia is a delightfully understated work, and a departure for the writer/composer Michael Jo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMWednesday, December 6, 2023
“Dixon’s Soul of Broadway,” an intimate evening with the Dynamic Brandon Victor Dixon @ 54 Below.
By: Patrick Christiano
December 5, 2023: Making his solo debut at 54 Below with a …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMBy: David Sheward
December 5, 2023: It should come as no surprise that Here We Are, the final effort by Stephen Sondheim, is unlike any other work from the late master of the American mus…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:24AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Hell’s Kitchen Transfers; Busch and Izzard Return Off-Broadway
By: David Sheward
December 5, 2023: Hell's Kitchen, the new musical employing the songs of and inspired by the life of po…
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