Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Christopher Massimine, whose compulsive lying derailed a promising career in theater, maintains that it’s a mental illness that has dogged him since childhood.
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By: Paulanne Simmons
British cabaret dynamo Barb Jungr grew up in Rochdale, Lancashire, just a few miles
from Liverpool. So it’s not surprising she has a special attraction to the
Beatles.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:03PMMonday, January 9, 2017
By: Paulanne Simmons
In1957 Edith Piaf gave her second and last concert at Carnegie Hall. The concert
included "La vie en rose," "Padam Padam," and "L'Accordéoniste.” Sixty years later, o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:09PMTuesday, January 3, 2017
By: David Sheward
The moment you enter New York Theatre Workshop for Sam Gold’s searing production of Othello, you know it will be a startlingly different interpretation of Shakespeare’…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:18AMSunday, January 1, 2017
Bronco Action Hits Town as the Professional Bull Riders Buck-Off Returns
By: Ellis Nassour
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:18PMSaturday, December 31, 2016
Remembering Almost Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds
By: Ellis Nassour
In 2009, legendary film star Debbie Reynolds returned to New York for her first
professional appearance in over 25 years -- p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:30PMTuesday, December 27, 2016
For one night only on January 6, 2017 @ Carnegie Hall
With over a half a million tickets sold in more than 30 countries and worldwide acclaim, PIAF! THE SHOW – a musical ce…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:32AMSunday, December 25, 2016
A Bleak January 2017 Ahead with the Closing of 12 Shows
By: Ellis Nassour
January is always a dark time for Broadway. Many shows survive by having pre-season sales to fill seats during cold,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:41PMFriday, December 23, 2016
The 62nd Annual DramaDesk Awards will be presented on Sunday,
June 4, 2017 at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall (123 W. 43 Street).
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:48PMBy: David Sheward
Margo Seibert, James Snyder In Transit
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:42PMBy: Isa Goldberg
Edward Albee, 1928 – 2016, the three time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and author of the groundbreaking plays Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Zoo S…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:13PMThursday, December 22, 2016
Broadway’s Analisa Leaming Celebrates the Holidays on Long Island as Mary Poppins
By Iris Wiener
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:28PMFriday, December 16, 2016
By Isa Goldberg
“Smash everything.” “Be ruthless,” opines the central character in Richard Greenberg's new play, set in an adult creative writing class. Indeed, It’s of no great su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:46PMBy Isa Goldberg
The giddy revival of Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur’s The Front Page on
Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre is sheer entertainment, especially when
Nathan Lane, t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:41PMBy Paulanne Simmons
At the beginning of The Band’s Visit, Dina (Katrina Lenk), the proprietor
of a cafe in a small Israeli town called Bet Hatikvah, tells the audience, “Once
not long ag…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:13AMThursday, December 15, 2016
By: David Sheward
A Bronx Tale
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:50AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
A Visit We're Sorry to See Come to an End
By: Lauren Yarger
Ari'el Stachel, David Garo Yellin, George Abud, Tony Shaloub, Harvey Valdes, Sam Sadigursky, Alok Tewari
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:23AMSaturday, December 10, 2016
Don't Call Hamilton Curtain Speech Bullying
By: David Sheward
Brandon Victor Dixon of Hamilton addresses Mike Pence
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:54PMHighlights from Stephen Hanks’s New York Cabaret’s Greatest Hits Series
By: Paulanne Simmons
Urban Stages’ Winter Rhythms, which benefits its Arts & Education program,
…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:31PMThursday, December 8, 2016
Michael Riedel’s Theatrical Tell-All Is Reissued in Trade Editio
By: Ellis Nassour
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:55PMDaring Acrobats and Jubilant Dancers in Mother Africa Circus’ Return to New Victory Theatre
By: Beau Jared
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:50PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
Sgt. Stubby, The Great American War Dog Musical
By: Patrick Christiano
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:00PMMonday, December 5, 2016
Paper Mill Playhouse Debuts U.S. Premiere of The Bodyguard Starring Deborah Cox
By: Ellis Nassour
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:06PMThe North American premiere of THE BODYGUARD, a hit new musical based on the Warner Bros. film by Lawrence Kasdan, with a book by Alexander Dinelaris opened at The Paper Mill Playhouse, the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:33AMSunday, December 4, 2016
By Paulanne Simmons
Although “White Christmas” is certainly appropriate for the season, as Alexis Fishman
said at the beginning of her show, Boychiks of Broadway, “It was not the…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:38PMFriday, December 2, 2016
By Isa Goldberg
Cultural anthropologist, sociologist, and performance artist, Anna Deavere Smith returns to the New York stage, with yet another jolting theater documentary. This time the s…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:04PMBy: Isa Goldberg
It's not entirely clear what Suzan-Lori Parks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is
up to in her phantasmagoria at The Signature Theatre, Off Broadway. Written in
…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:06PMBy: Isa Goldberg
The horrors of family life have been fueling Nicky Silver’s dramadies for some time
now. In his early play, Pterodactyls (1993), he wished the nuclear
family into ex…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:40PMThursday, December 1, 2016
Call Fosse at the Minskoff December 3 Performance to Benefit Steps on Broadway
By: Ellis Nassour
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:33PMTuesday, November 29, 2016
The Broadway League announced the shows participating int he 21st Kids' Night on Broadway, which will take place Tuesday, February 28th, 2017. Tickets to participating shows will go on …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:03PMMonday, November 28, 2016
Two Magical Christmas Celebrations on Center Stage @ Southampton Cultural Center
A heartwarming radio play of the Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” by Joe Landry is back and no…
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