Sunday, March 23, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
March 23, 2025. Satires on war are perhaps as old as war itself. Consider Lysistrata, M*A*S*H, Catch-22 and now, Operation Mincemeat, the very energetic and occasionally…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:02PMSaturday, March 22, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 22, 2025. Family dramas are theatrical staples, especially the kind where relatives gather from far and wide for some unifying function, like a holiday, death, or …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:02AMBy David Sheward
March 22, 2025. “There is no straight line to tell this story,” says Joshua, the character standing in for the playwright Joshua Harmon in his touching autobiographical…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:47AMThursday, March 20, 2025
By David Sheward
March 20, 2025. Sex plays a vital role in three classics works, now in revival Off-Broadway: Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts and, su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:35PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 19, 2025. We Had a World, the new, three-character, autobiographical dramedy by Joshua Harmon, Off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club’s City Center Stage II, i…
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March 19, 2025. Tony-Award winner Idina Menzel (Wicked) sure knows how to make a much-anticipated return to Broadway. She currently stars in Redwood, a musical that she co-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:37PMMonday, March 17, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
March 17, 2025. If you’re a fan of country music, and especially the music of songwriter JT Harding, you’ll definitely like Bedlam’s Music City. The show is dir…
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Sara Blue and Dan O'Shea from Maureen’s Haven Homeless Outreach with The White Room Gallery Co-Owners Andrea McCaffery and Kat O'Neill at the opening reception this week for TRUE COLORS, i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:58PMFriday, March 14, 2025
March 14, 2025. The White Room Gallery, 2 Railroad Avenue in East Hampton, will present, TRUE COLORS, featuring Patrick Schmidt, Diego Velez, Seek One, Fringe, Stephan Gubert, Punk Me Tende…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:41AMMonday, March 10, 2025
By: David Sheward
March 10, 2025. At first Lisa Sanaye Dring’s Sumo, at the Public Theater in a co-production with Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, seems to be plotted lik…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:17PMSaturday, March 1, 2025
By: David Sheward
February 28, 2025. Sam Shepard’s darkly funny and tragic family drama Curse of the Starving Class premiered in London in 1977 and then Off-Broadway at the Public Theater…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:19AMTuesday, February 25, 2025
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 25, 2025. It’s been only six years since the 2019 revival of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class (London, 1977; New York 1978) at the Pershing Square…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:01PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
February 24, 2025. Having grown up in the industrial north of England, the son of a manager for a cotton-spinning business and a school headmistress, Harold Brighouse c…
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February 24, 2025. According to Finn (Michael Park), the environmental scientist in Redwood, the roots of the redwood tree don’t go down very far. They form relatio…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:52PMSaturday, February 22, 2025
By: David Sheward
January 21, 2025. The trouble with most “issue” plays is the characters seem more like animated talking points, rather than complex, flesh-and-blood human beings. Fort…
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By: Patrick Christiano
February 21, 2025: Redwood, a visually stunning new musical about healing, directed by Tina Landau, and starring Idina Menzel in her highly anticipated return to Broa…
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By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 20, 2025. The Mint Theatre, whose mission is to find forgotten modern plays deserving revivals, sometimes swings and misses; with British playwright Harold Bri…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:01PMBy Paulanne Simmons
February 19, 2025. Amy Beth Williams’ Valentine’s Day show at Don’t Tell Mama, Amy Beth Williams: In Reverse, was about time and how it cycles through the season…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:16AMBy: Alix Cohen
February 19, 2025. When playwright Philip W. Chung noticed an Asian man in the cast of Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 short, The Adventurer, he was sufficiently intrigued to do so…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:15AMMonday, February 17, 2025
By: David Sheward
February 17, 2025: The potential is there for a gripping and informative play in Gregg Ostrin’s Kowalski, but sadly all we get is forced conflict and sitcom-level humor.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:47AMThursday, February 13, 2025
By: David Sheward
February 13, 2025. There’s an awful lot of talk about trees in Redwood, the uneven new musical at the Nederlander after a run at the La Jolla Playhouse. During one of t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
Broadway Con Celebrating their 10th Consecutive Year
February 12, 2025. Whether you want to make your friends jealous with a selfie taken with your favorite celebrity…
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By: Alix Cohen
February 12, 2025: There will probably never be a last word on masterful composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021). As I write, I’m sure students are researching thes…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:00PMSaturday, February 8, 2025
By: David Sheward
February 8, 2025. The most striking image in Khawla Ibraheem’s disturbing and moving solo play A Knock on the Roof at New York Theater Workshop is not the one you’d e…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:03PMFriday, February 7, 2025
By: David Sheward
February 7, 2025. Sequels of classic plays have a mixed history. Some are total bombs such as the famous flop musical A Doll’s Life which follows Ibsen’s Nora after …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:45PMSunday, February 2, 2025
By: David Sheward
January 29, 2025: When Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day opened Off-Broadway in 2019, the dark comedy about the vaccination debate at a high-toned private school in Berkel…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:53PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
January 31, 2025: Anyone who’s ever struggled to master a foreign language in private classes will find something to appreciate in English, Sanaz Toossi’s fitfull…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:49PMBy: David Sheward
January 24, 2025: If you’re looking for the perfect date night show—or just want a massive injection of laughs—then head over to the Hudson Theater for All In: Come…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:47PMFriday, January 31, 2025
By: David Sheward
January, 31, 2025: Ken Urban’s A Guide for the Homesick, now at the intimate Daryl Roth 2 stage following a run at Huntington Theater Company in 2017, has its heart in…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:48PMBy: David Sheward
January 31, 2025: Here we go again. It’s time for yet another dysfunctional family reunion. Cult of Love, presented by Second Stage at the Hayes Theater after a produ…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:32PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
By: David Sheward
January, 28 2025: The sixth Broadway production of Gypsy, the classic musical based on the memoirs of legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, is a theatrical miracle. Not onl…
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