Nils Allen “Booboo” Stewart Jr. Exhibition @ Park West Gallery SoHo July 22, 2023: Actor/musician, Nils Allen “Booboo” Stewart Jr., best known for playing Seth Clearwater in The T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:52PMBy: David Sheward July 21, 2023: IATSE, the union representing backstage technicians and craftspeople, and the Broadway League and Disney have reached a tentative agreement, awaiting rati…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:54PMNostalgic videos from Broadway Babe include Mel Brooks on Johnny Carson, a star- studded PBS Camelot concert, Merv Griffin, and Jack Cassidy. July 22, 2023: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:11AMBy: Alix Cohen July 20, 2023: Wunderkind Charles Kirsch, whose smart theater interview podcasts now number over 150, brought the second iteration of his live show to 54Below Monday night.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:41PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter July 18, 2023: Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending has never been a critical favorite, and only the most enraptured Williams fans are likely to admire it much.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMAnnual Summer Gala returns to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Honorees include Julie Andrews, Matthew Broderick, and Sarah Jessica Parker. July 9, 2023: Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor h…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:46PMBy: Alix Cohen July 11, 2023: The Oxford English Dictionary definition of this invaluable collaborator is, to say the least, simplistic: The person responsible for the musical aspects o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:41PM5 Reasons Why “FAME-ish” is More Than Just GREAT-ish By: Iris Wiener July 13, 2023: Tichina Arnold and Beth Behrs know how to throw a party. The effervescent stars of the hit CBS ser…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:07PMBy: Marc Rifkin July 10, 2023: “It was a strange coincidence,” Nick Carraway says in chapter four of The Great Gatsby.Jordan Baker responds, “But it wasn’t a coincidence at all.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:23PMNostalgic finds from Broadway Babe include opening night (1960) of Camelot with Richard Burton & Julie Andrews; Mel Brooks, Lana Turner, and Lauren Bacall. July 10, 2023: Broadway Ba…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46AMBeat the heat this Summer with some “Binge Worthy” BroadwayHD title. July 6, 2023: When the heat rises this Summer, turn up the AC and chill out with BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:54AMBy: Alix Cohen July 7, 2023: Three years ago, Steve Ross and I were bemoaning lack of musical theater/cabaret awareness and appreciation among young people, when he suggested I listen to…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:11PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter July 5, 2023: Two mainstream comedy shows recently opened in New York, both directed by the late Adam Brace, who died in April at the tragically young age of 43. One …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:08PMBy: David Sheward July 4, 2023: Alex Edelman begins his Broadway one-man show Just for Us at the Hudson Theater with fairly standard jokes about gorillas and horses, but he soon makes a d…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:42PMDial M For Murder at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor brings a Fun-Filled modern flare to the classic mystery with a fresh and witty adaptation by Jeffery Hatcher. July 2, 2023: Dial M For…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:04PMBy: David Sheward July 2, 2023: A pair of current Off-Broadway productions present nontraditional interpretations of two of the most iconic male protagonists in Western literature—Hamlet…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:55PMImitation of Life Musical in Development By: David Sheward June 30, 2023: A new musical based on Imitation of Life, the Fannie Hurst novel and the classic Hollywood film version and su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:46PMBy: David Sheward June 28, 2923: Remember when theater used to be of the moment and reflect what was going on outside the auditorium politically and socially? How playwrights were like do…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:22PMBy: Paulanne Simmons June 26, 2023: Just for Us, Alex Edelman’s very funny, sometimes serious monologue on being Jewish in America, premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2021, and the…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:53AMPHASE 2 Upcoming Event “Funky Nous Deco” and Beyond Projection: A projection / presentation of PHASE 2 graphic works on Wednesday, June 28 @7pm. June 25, 2023: In conjunction with t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:00PMA tribute to Sheldon Harnick and more nostalgic finds from Broadway Babe. June 24, 2023: Our Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, pays tribute to Songwriter, Sheldon Harnick, who died ye…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:05AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter June 25, 2023: Jukebox musicals, as I’ve written before, typically use one of several templates to present a medley of well-known songs from one or more writers, si…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:03PMBernadette Peters & Randy Rainbow host Broadway Barks on Saturday, July 8 -Shubert Alley with a special appearance by Josh Groban. June 23, 2023: BROADWAY BARKS is thrilled to retur…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:53AMBy: David Sheward June 23, 2023: Mix the fairy-tale revisionism of Into the Woods with the tween pop jukebox format of & Juliet, add a dash of female empowerment from Six and a smidge…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMJosh Gad and Andrew Rannells in Gutenberg! The Musical. By: David Sheward June 22, 2023: Book of Mormon co-stars Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells will be reunited in the Broadway premiere o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:37PMThe Divine Comedy on view at Park West Gallery, Soho June 22, 2023: The Park West Gallery SoHo, 411 West Broadway, is showing Salvador Dalí’s expansive collection of Dante Alighieri’…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:58PMBy: David Sheward June 21, 2023: After you’ve seen as many dysfunctional families plays as this critic has, you may begin to doubt the absolute truth of Tolstoy’s famous maxim that ea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:40PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter June 21, 2023: It was the 1950s. Ike was president, Hoover headed the FBI, and, horror of horrors, rock and roll was sweeping the nation. It was a phenomenon many co…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter June 21, 2023: There was a time early in the 1960s when former President Dwight D. Eisenhower became a subject of the “wind-up doll” joke fad, which made fun of c…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:10AMHip to Hip started with about fifteen participants. This year there are forty-two. By: Alix Cohen June 22, 2023: Scenic Designer Robert Dutiel (an Associate Professor of Theatre Art…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:27AMTrials and Tribulations of A Traveling Shakespeare Company By: Alix Cohen “We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.” (The Tempest) J…
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