
By David Sheward March 12, 2026: There have been numerous attempts at updating Greek tragedy. This season alone the tale of Oedipus has seen a new modern version from Robert Icke and a revi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:27AMBy Samuel L. Leiter March 12, 2026: You can’t say that Bughouse, a mostly solo play (there are offstage voices) about an “outsider” artist, with direction by Martha Clarke, script b…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:25AMBy Iris Wiener March 9, 2026: New York City Center’s Bigfoot! is a delightfully quirky theatrical experience that embraces its offbeat premise with humor, heart, and an infectious sense o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:33PMBy Samuel L. Leiter March 8, 2026: The Mint Theatre has once again reached into the candy jar of forgotten or neglected plays, often from the UK. This time it’s plucked a British play wri…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMBy Isa Goldberg March 5, 2026: Brain health. It’s much more than a contemporary idea, and it triumphs here, in Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir at The Atlantic Theater. One might think …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:28PMBy Paulanne Simmons March 5, 2026: Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is a legendary apelike creature that has its origins in the Indigenous folklore of the Pacific Northwest. But he didn’…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:09PMYOUR KIND OF CAMP? By Alix Cohen March 2, 2026. Camp (idiomatic/aesthetic sense) refers to a style or sensibility that embraces exaggeration, theatricality, artificiality, and deliberate …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:52PMUNITED AGAINST BIAS, DIVIDED BY POWER By Alix Cohen February 27, 2026: Prejudice against Chinese women in corporate America often operates at the intersection of race and gender, where st…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:10PMBy Ellis Nassour February 24, 2026: Grammy winner and a seven-time Grammy nominee Debby Boone, quite celebrated as a multiple cross-over artist with Top 10 successes in pop, contemporary, a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:02AMBy Samuel L. Leiter February 23, 2026: Mother Russia, Lauren Yee’s satiric fantasia in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, arrives at Signature Theatre with an ambition that i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy Samuel L. Leiter February 21, 2026: Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters, a Manhattan Theatre Club production at NY City Center Stage II, is one of those rare evenings in the theater when you …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:09PMWild Things featuring Markus Klinko, Stephen Hall, and Mital Patel on view at The White Room Gallery March 6 - April 12, 2026. February 20, 2026: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:57PMBy Ellis Nassour February 19, 2026: Step inside 148th edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s next iteration of The Greatest Show On Earth and, though it may not hit or shock …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:48AMBy David Sheward February 17, 2026: Jacob Perkins’ The Dinosaurs at Playwrights Horizons starts out like a straightforward depiction of a weekly support group modeled on Alcoholics Anonym…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:44AMBy Samuel L Leiter February 16, 2026: Jacob Perkins’s The Dinosaurs, now receiving its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, belongs to the category we might call the “group therapy p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy Paulanne Simmons February 16, 2026: If you like plays with a lot of physical action, easy humor and obvious pathos, don’t miss The Monsters, a two-hander written and directed by Ngozi …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:18AMBy Alix Cohen February 14, 2026: Jeff Harnar’s last two shows/CDs set an extraordinarily high bar. Tonight, with the recreation of his first 1987 appearance at Don’t Tell Mama, he and c…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:24AMBy Isa Goldberg February 12, 2026: It’s Intriguing to me to read women writers on boxing and wrestling -- sports so demonstrably masculine, they would seem out of reach. However, a writer…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:42PMBy David Sheward February 12, 2026: The two-actor cast of Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters at the intimate Stage II at City Center in a Manhattan Theater Club production, go through quite a w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:33PMBy Ellis Nassour February 11, 2026: Tony, Emmy, and Grammy nominee and former Miss America Vanessa Williams, fresh from her West End debut in the dazzling musical The Devil Wears Prada,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:48PMBy David Sheward February 7, 2026: In a program interview, director-choreographer Danny Mefford reveals he never saw The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee before taking on its first-ev…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:19AMBy Samuel L. Leiter February 5, 2026: Erika Schmidt’s disappointing The Disappear, now at Off Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre, is a drawing-room comedy of manners whose surface polish i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:57PMBy Alix Cohen February 4, 2026: When Frenchwoman Margot Sergent appeared at the doors of Berklee School of Music 12 years ago, she had a classical harp background. When she left, the vocali…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:03PMBy Alix Cohen February 1, 2026. Peter Calo has worked with such diverse artists as Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Bernstein, Lesley Gore, and The …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:48AMBy David Sheward January 31, 2026: The innovative theater collective Elevator Repair Service has tackled such literary giants as Fitzgerald (Gatz, its day-long version of The Great Gatsby),…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:10AMIMAGINE featuring Elise Remender on view at The White Room Gallery through March 1, 2026. January 27, 2026: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, in the village of East Hampton will pr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:44PMBy Isa Goldberg January 27, 2026: On a recent Saturday night at the POWERHOUSE Arena, an independent bookstore in DUMBO, I fell into my first adventure with the playwright Ed Schmidt. To…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:41AMBy Iris Wiener January 26, 2026: The Broadway production of Marjorie Prime unfolds in a near future where artificial intelligence has become intimate enough to share a living room. Written …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:33PMBy David Sheward January 26, 2026: Matthew Libby’s Data could have easily become like one of those made-for-streaming spy thrillers in which attractive young techies steal vital software …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:25PMBy Alix Cohen January 26, 2026: Christopher Domig was an increasingly self-produced actor when asked to become artistic director of The Firebone Theater Company in Manhattan. He’d fostere…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:12PMBy Iris Wiener January 26, 2026: In a Broadway season often defined by scale and spectacle, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) is a reminder of the power of simplicity. Now playing…
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