Saturday, August 5, 2023
By: David Sheward
August 5, 2023: After beginning life as a 2010 concept album, then two separate Off-Broadway runs at the Public Theater (2013 and again the following season), engagement…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:59PMFriday, August 4, 2023
By: David Sheward
August 4, 2023: A musical version of The Notebook, Nicholas Spark's best-selling novel which became a beloved 2005 film starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garn…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:43AMWednesday, August 2, 2023
Spamalot, Readings and Regional
By: David Sheward
August 2, 2023: The Knights Who Say Ni, The Killer Rabbit, King Arthur and Patsy and all the other medieval maniacs are galloping back t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:25PMMonday, July 31, 2023
the BODY/The Watermill Center’s 31st Annual Summer Benefit.
July 30, 2023: The Watermill Center’s Annual Gala, always a lavish and spectacular event, where guests are encouraged to im…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:28PMSunday, July 30, 2023
Markus Klinko: “Bowie, Beyonce & Beyond” on view at The White Room Gallery through August 6th.
July 30, 2023: The White Room Gallery, 2415 Main Street in Bridgehampton, is featuring…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:37PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
The Cottage , a comedy by actress/playwright Sandy Rustin has been around since 2013 when it premiered at Astoria Performing Arts Center, and now it’s landed on Bro…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:35AMSaturday, July 29, 2023
By: David Sheward
July 29, 2023: Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson (American Crime Story) will return to the New York stage in the Broadway premiere of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkin…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:08PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
July 29, 2023: Sandy Rustin (Clue, a popular stage adaptation of the board game and cult film) is the American author of Broadway’sfaux British sex farce, The Cotta…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:34AMThursday, July 27, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
July 27, 2023: Ten years ago, I was standing on the crowded floor of a modestly-sized space at Off Broadway’s Public Theatre with a couple of hundred other human sa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:23PMTuesday, July 25, 2023
By: Patrick Christiano
Written and performed by Alan Palmer, Chanteuse: A Survival Musical, is a fascinating tale with a cruel unforgiving message.
July 24, 2023: Chanteuse: A Survival …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:58AMMonday, July 24, 2023
By: David Sheward
July 25, 2023: If you looking for a fizzy cocktail to help you cool off from the global triple-digit heat wave, you couldn’t find a funnier or more intoxicating concoc…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:30AMSunday, July 23, 2023
By: David Sheward
July 23,2023: You don’t need a working knowledge of basketball to enjoy Flex, Candrice Jones’s infectious and fast-paced new play on friendship and competition in a …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:45PMSaturday, July 22, 2023
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 02:52PMFriday, July 21, 2023
By: 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 10:11AMThursday, July 20, 2023
By: 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 04:41PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
By: 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 10:00PMSunday, July 9, 2023
Annual 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 12:41PMSaturday, July 8, 2023
5 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…
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Beat 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 10:54AMWednesday, July 5, 2023
By: 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 04:08PMTuesday, July 4, 2023
By: 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 02:42PMSunday, July 2, 2023
Dial 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 12:55PMFriday, June 30, 2023
Imitation 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 04:46PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
By: 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 08:22PMMonday, June 26, 2023
By: 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 07:53AM 
