Monday, December 19, 2022
By: David Sheward
December 19, 2022: Rebecca Nurse is a minor character in The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s harrowing dramatization of the witch-hunt hysteria which gripped colonial America…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:12AMSaturday, December 17, 2022
Maverick theatre group, Ruth Stage, announced the return engagement of their hit Cat On A Hot Tin Roof with TV star Courtney Henggler making her NYC stage debut as “Maggie the Cat” in th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:55PMBy: Alix Cohen
December 17, 2022: Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) spent seven decades as figurehead at the prow of the New York Times Arts and Leisure section. Drawings were delivered wrapped…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:31PMFriday, December 16, 2022
Michael Urie Co-stars in Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Revival of Talene Monohon’s Jane Anger …
By: Ellis Nassour
December 16, 2022: Are you ready for a bloody good …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:02PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
December 16, 2022: In an afterword appended to her script for Becky Nurse of Salem, playwright Sarah Ruhl (In the Next Room, or the vibrator play), whose unsatisfying…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:10PMWednesday, December 14, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 14, 2022: Regardless of what Rodgers and Hammerstein may have said, there has always been something like a dame, namely, men who dress as dames. And from The…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:10PMTovah Feldshuh: Celebrating 50 Plus Years Onstage and a Heartfelt Tell-All Memoir - Part Two
By: Ellis Nassour
December 14, 2022 – Tovah Feldshuh, the four-time Tony …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:23PMTuesday, December 13, 2022
CBS will present “THE 76th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS®” airing Sunday, June 11, 2023, from a New Location, the United Palace in New York City. The TONYS will celebrate 76 years of the best of…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:11PMMonday, December 12, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 12, 2022: As it has on five earlier occasions since 2002, the Irish Repertory Theatre has retained its venerable name despite leaping over the Irish Sea to W…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:10PMFriday, December 9, 2022
Josephine Beavers brings her cool jazz to 54 Below.
By: Patrick Christiano
December 7, 2022: Josephine Beavers wowed the audience on Tuesday, the opening night of a two-night engagement a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:30AMBroadway Babe: West Side Story, Toast of the Town, Johnny Mathis and more.
December 9, 2022: Randie Levine-Miller has unearthed some wonderful nostalgic finds including film clips from th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:18AMThursday, December 8, 2022
Tovah Feldshuh: Celebrating 50 Plus Years Onstage
By: Ellis Nassour
December 8, 20222: The four-time Tony and two-time Emmy nominee Tovah Feldshuh has done just about all there’s to do …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:54PMMonday, December 5, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 5, 2022". As Kermit the Frog often reminded us, it’s not easy being a color different from that of the dominant culture. Some Black American playwrights, es…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:07PMThursday, December 1, 2022
By: Paulanne Simmons
December 1, 2022: Hoagland Howard Carmichael, more famously known as Hoagy, was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s. Today he is remembe…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:30PMEdited by David Leopold with almost 300 Hirschfeld drawings the new book covers nearly 50 years of the American Theater in one volume.
The American Theatre As Seen By Al Hirschfeld
By: Pau…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:47PM“Al had one of the only unique styles in the history of art.” Caricaturist David Levine
By: Alix Cohen
December 1, 2022: For a lover of the stage, paging through a book of Al Hirsch…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:27AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 30, 2022: If you go to Show-Score.com, an online site for theatre reviews, you’ll find that, within the past few year…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:42PMBy: Alix Cohen
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Make Merry for the Holidaze.
November 30, 2022: The world’s foremost, all-male comic ballet company delighting the savvy and novi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:27AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 23, 2022: & Juliet, a raucous jukebox musical that even has a jukebox as a prominent stage property, belongs as well to a genre with a much longer tradit…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMUnique finds from Broadway Babe this week include Tony winner, Glynis Johns, from 1973, Shirley Jones, Marlo & Phil, and a tribute to Kander & Ebb.
November 26, 2022: Broadway Bab…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:02PMTuesday, November 22, 2022
By: Paulanne Simmons
November 23, 2022: On the heels of the international success of Six, comes another woke Elizabethan musical from the West End, & Juliet, directed by Luke Sheppa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:37PMBilly Crystal in Mr. Saturday Night: A New Musical Comedy premiers on BroadwayHD December 1, just in time for the Holidays.
November 22, 2022: Broadway HD, the premiere streaming service fo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:22PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
November 21, 2022: In his newest solo show, The Old Man and The Pool, Mike Birbiglia looks to one of the most unlikely subjects for the source of humor: his own mo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:09AMMonday, November 21, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 21,2022: In 1918, when he was a mere stripling of 18, Noël Coward (1899-1973), budding British playwright/ performer/song writer, and so forth, wrote The R…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:00PMA new solo show, Cheese Fries & Froot Loops, written and performed by Chris Fuller will play the Triad Theater on Tuesday, November 29th @ 7pm.
November 22, 2022: Step Forward Entert…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:11PMSunday, November 20, 2022
Home-Grown Circus Vazquez Is Celebrating 20th Season Under the Big Top in the New York Area
By: Ellis Nassour
November 18, 2022: The extraordinarily entertaining Circus Vazquez, one …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:41AMFriday, November 18, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 18, 2022: In Downstate, Bruce Norris’s invigoratingly provocative new play at Playwrights Horizons—previously seen at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre and…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:15PMStars Celebrate at Only Make Believe’s Back on Broadway Gala
By: Iris Wiener
On November 14th, Broadway’s elite came out to celebrate Only Make Believe’s 23rd Annual Gala, “Back…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:43AMThursday, November 17, 2022
The Museum of Broadway, Saluting the Artistry and History of New York Theater, Opens in the Heart of the Theatre District.
By: Ellis Nassour
November 17, 2022 – A museum dedicated t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:44AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
“You’ve got to have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?” Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific)
By Alix Cohen
November 15, 2022: That Broadway…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:11PMMonday, November 14, 2022
By: Isa Goldberg
November 14, 2022: Watching the director/choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler’s new work, “Only Gold,” at MCC Theater, brings a surge of energy, such as one needs to b…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:46PM 
