Friday, May 27, 2022
B'way Update: Into the Woods; OCC Ceremony
By: David Sheward
May 30, 2022: When I went to see Golden Shield at Manhattan Theater Club's City Center Off-Broadway space, I had to stand in…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:38AMTuesday, May 17, 2022
ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 71ST ANNUAL OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS COMMEMORATING THE 2021-22 BROADWAY & OFF-BROADWAY SEASON
The Lehman Trilogy Leads with 6 Awards including Outs…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:44PMFive Reasons Why We Make A Case for the Existence of God
By: Iris Wiener
May 29, 2022: If you can get past the complex title of this astute play, you will experie…
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May 16, 2022: Nominations for the 66th AnnualDrama Desk Awards were announced today, and the full list of nominees is available below.
In keeping with the Drama Desk's mission, the no…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:18PM5 Reasons Why American Buffalo Has Lost its Shine
By: Iris Wiener
May 23, 2022: David Mamet’s work is notably controversial and quite often meant to rile up li…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:23AM5 Reasons Why We Can Forgive Mr. Saturday Night for Being a Musical
By: Iris Wiener
May 22, 2022: The musical adaptation of Billy Crystal’s Mr. Saturday Night features a score by To…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:04AMBroadway Update: Beautiful Noise, Kimberly, Mask Mandates, Etc.
By: David Sheward
May 22, 2022: As the 2021-22 Broadway season comes to a close, 2022-23 is taking shape. A Beautiful Nois…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:21AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
May 24, 2022: Remember the postman’s motto? “Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds.” These words coul…
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5 Reasons Why Paradise Square is Worth a Visit
By: Iris Wiener
May 24, 2022: Paradise Square is the important piece that we don’t see often these days: a gre…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:44PMBy: David Sheward
May 22, 2022: When I saw the poster advertising the Signature Theater production of Samuel D. Hunter’s latest work, I joked to a friend, “This will be about lonely p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:11PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
May 22, 2022: In Golden Shield, now at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage 1,Thai-Australian playwright Anchuli Felicia King has written a semi-fictional docudrama a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:18PMFive Reasons Why We Have Questions About Macbeth
By: Iris Wiener
May 22, 2022: Sam Gold certainly takes a unique spin on Shakespeare, though sometimes his forays into originality demons…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:05AMPOTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
By: Paulanne Simmons
May 20. 2022: POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Hi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:19AM5 Reasons Why How I Learned to Drive is Still an Important Lesson
By Iris Wiener
May 18, 2022: At its core it’s a play about child abuse, despite a number of fantastic metaphors and wel…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:00AMSaturday, May 14, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
May 17, 2022: Among many things for which this addled season of Covid-based cancelations and postponements will be remembered is the abundance of those little slips o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:46PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
Mary 22, 2022: If you’re a fan of classic Russian literature, there’s a treat waiting for you at The Sheen Center, where Blueprint Productions in presenting in r…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:17PMBy: David Sheward
Mary 16, 2022: You know you’re in trouble at a production of Macbeth when the three witches look like they’re about to start a cooking class at a suburban shopping m…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:57AMFriday, May 13, 2022
ARF Designer Auction & Preview Cocktail Party
Join ARF Hamptons on Saturday, May 28, for the 2022 ARF Designer Auction & Preview Cocktail Party from 6 to 8 PM at the ARF Thrift …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:09AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Company’s Claybourne Elder Celebrates Young Trailblazers at Live Out Loud Gala
By: Iris Wiener
May 19, 2022: Claybourne Elder will provide good “company” for a number of generous …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:41PM5 Reasons Why We’re Confused About Harmony’s Afterlife
By: Iris Wiener
May. 15, 2022: With the upcoming closing of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Harmony: A New Music…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:18AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
MAY 13, 2022: David Mamet’s American Buffalo, often considered a modern, if minor, American classic, has been produced countless times worldwide since its late 1975…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:01AMFive Reasons Why ¡Americano! is an Off-Broadway Gem
By: Iris Wiener
March 16, 2022: Tony Valdovinos tried to enlist in the Marines at the age of 18, only to find that he was not an Amer…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:01AMTuesday, May 10, 2022
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 12, 2022: Despite the fact that I was born and raised Jewish and have heard more stories of the Holocaust than I can remember, I knew nothing about the Comedian…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:42PM5 Reasons Why Birthday Candles is Worth Celebrating
By: Iris Wiener
May 9, 2022: In the swiftly-moving, 90-minute Birthday Candles, we see a woman celebrating her birthdays from ages 1…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00AMBy Samuel L. Leiter
May 12, 2022: Finally, after yet another cancellation setback caused by a backstage Covid outbreak, I was able to see Paradise Square, the final iteration (one assumes)…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:56AMMonday, May 9, 2022
By: David Sheward
May 10, 2022: Varying takes on toxic masculinity and dysfunctional families are on view in two Broadway reviews of powerful, late 20th century works. Paula Vogel’s Ho…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:02PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
May 10, 2022: If you’ve ever wanted to know what it means to be an American, just ask someone who longs to be a citizen. Or go see the new musical ¡Americano!, w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:22PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
Perhaps David Mamet and his plays are an acquired taste. If this is true, I am one reviewer who has never acquired that taste.
May 13, 2022: American Buffalo, whic…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:41AMStrange Loop tops list with 11 nominations, followed by MJ and Paradise Square with 10 each. The Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 12th.
M…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:03AMSaturday, May 7, 2022
By: Paulanne Simmons
May 7, 2022: The Minutes, Tracy Letts’s new play about an unwelcome revelation at a small-town City Council meeting, might have been a comic masterpiece or a tragic…
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