Wednesday, May 14, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
May 14, 2025. There’s something deliciously anarchistic about Fat Cat Killers, Adam Szymkowicz’s new play now at the Gene Frankel Theatre, under the direction of And…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46PMBy David Sheward
May 14, 2025. The impact of our celebrity-obsessed digital culture is explored in the intimate and funny new musical The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse from The New Group at …
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By Paulanne Simmons
May 6, 2025. If you thought all Irish plays are dark and depressing, think again. Irishtown, by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth may be one of the funniest plays of the season. It�…
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By Samuel L. Leiter
May 2, 2025. In a season low on original musicals that spotlight underrepresented voices (The Buena Vista Social Club excepted), Real Women Have Curves: The Musical arri…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:53AMBy Paulanne Simmons
May 2, 2025. Abby Stein was born Srully Abraham Stein to a Hassidic family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She grew up speaking Yiddish and Hebrew. She attended an all…
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By Samuel L. Leiter
May 1, 2025. As its new title suggests, the Roundabout Theatre Company’s sparkling, New Orleans jazz-inspired revival of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1879 comic opera, The…
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By David Sheward
April 28, 2025. If you’ve been waiting for the must-see production of the Broadway season to justify plunking down your hard-earned bucks, wait no more. Stranger Things: …
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By Samuel L. Leiter
April 27, 2025. Before seeing Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow, originally produced on London’s West End in 2023, and now at the Marquis Theatre, I thoug…
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By Paulanne Simmons
April 25, 2025. In recent years, Broadway audiences have seen several reinterpretations of classic musicals. But no one has reinvented a classic with the perfect mix of …
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By David Sheward
April 24, 2025. The beloved, whimsical operettas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, composed between 1871 and 1896, have had their share of updating and transpositions. T…
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The White Room Gallery presents "STRIPPED: Music that Changed the World" on view April 23 - May 11, 2025.
April 22, 2025. Award-winning photographer and mixed-media artist Steve Joester will…
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By David Sheward
April 22, 2025. Two dramas on teen torment recently opened on and Off-Broadway, approaching their subjects through different lenses and both achieving dynamic theatrical re…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:02PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
April 22, 2025. Two current plays, one on Broadway and one Off, seem designed to attract younger audiences with their granular depiction of teenage angst, lingo, and beh…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:01PMVeteran Actress Victoria Rowell Pens Sizzling Tell-All and Is Onstage This Weekend in Jason’s Lyric, based on the Cult Film, at Brooklyn’s Historic Kings Theatre
By Elis Nassour
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:53PMSunday, April 20, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 20, 2025. As we exited the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre after seeing Sondheim’s Old Friends, producer-devisor Cameron Macintosh’s revue of around 40 songs by Ste…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:11PMSaturday, April 19, 2025
By Iris Wiener
April 19, 2025. There’s nothing better than a musical that explores unchartered territory. Operation Mincemeat’s originality is startlingly refreshing, if scarily relevan…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:34PMBy David Sheward
April 19, 2025. You never know what you’re going to get with a Caryl Churchill play, but it’s sure to be something unique, thought-provoking, and convention-breaking. A…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:26PMFriday, April 18, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 18, 2025. Twelve years ago, there was a TV series called“Smash,” whose showrunner was playwright Theresa Rebeck. It was largely a backstage look at the creatio…
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By Samuel L. Leiter
April 15, 2025: Cartoon characters, like L’il Abner and Superman, have inspired several Broadway musicals, so it’s not unusual that Boop!: the Musical takes its cue…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:18PMBy Paulanne Simmons
April 15, 2025. From the moment the dancers, dressed in sparkling tuxes, prance onto the stage at the Broadhurst Theatre and perform a number that includes an incredib…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:54AMSunday, April 13, 2025
By David Sheward
April 13, 2025. The Broadway premiere of The Last Five Years at the Hudson,Jason Robert Brown’s two-character tuner chronicling the romance, marriage and break-up of nove…
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April 13, 2025. The first thing you notice upon entering the Winter Garden Theater for Good Night, and Good Luck., the riveting new play headlined and co-written by George …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:54PMWednesday, April 9, 2025
By David Sheward
April 9, 2025. Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, which began life as a London tribute concert devised by uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh and then restaged for a commercial…
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George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in an adaptation of his acclaimed film, Good Night, and Good Luck, directed by David Cromer at the Winter Garden.
By Patrick Christiano
April 7, 202…
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The film Goodnight, and Goodluck, directed by Goerge Clooney and co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, was released in 2005. The film chronicles Murrow’s campaign t…
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By Samuel L. Leiter
April 6, 2025. The big reason many are paying premium prices at the Winter Garden Theatre to see Good Night, and Good Luck,is not because they’re dying to witness a fa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:05AMSaturday, April 5, 2025
By David Sheward
April 5, 2025. Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s savagely funny takedown of cutthroat Chicago real-estate salesmen, has been a magnet for male actors to prove their thea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:41PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
April 5, 2025. First seen on Broadway 41 years ago (March 25, 1984), and revived three times since then (2005, 2012, and now, at the Palace), David Mamet’s Glengarry G…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:33PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
April 5, 2025. The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted by Kip Williams from the 1890 Gothic horror novel by Oscar Wilde (his only one), about a man who neither ages nor lo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:28PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Reviewed by David Sheward
April 2, 2025. The family drama is making a dynamic comeback this theater season. Cult of Love, The Blood Quilt, We Had a World, and now Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:51AMBy Paulanne Simmons
April, 2, 2025. It’s a well-known fact that playwrights have miserable childhoods. Their father was a drunken actor (Eugene O’Neill). Their father abandoned them, an…
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