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 08:54AMBy 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:03PMBy David Sheward 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 01:54PMBy 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:41AMGeorge 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:53PMBy Paulanne Simmons 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00AMBy 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 11:05AMBy 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 02:28PMReviewed 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:33AMJamie DeRoy & Friends to present 35th Anniversary Cabaret at Birdland to support The Entertainment Community Fund on Monday, March 31. March 28, 2025: Producer Jamie deRoy will presen…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:51PMBy David Sheward March 28, 2025. In a dazzling feat of technology and acting pyrotechnics, Sarah Snook of Succession fame plays 26 characters and brings Oscar Wilde’s 1891 classic of go…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:42PMBy Samuel L. Leiter In 2023, two new musicals, Broadway’s How to Dance in Ohio and Off Broadway’s Buena Vista Social Club (at the Atlantic Theatre), were directly based on popular docum…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:53AMBy Paulanne Simmons March 23, 2025. Sarah Snook‘s one-woman The Picture of Dorian Gray is a combination of melodrama and farce, enhanced by technology and enabled by sheer stamina. With th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMBroadwayHD BroadwayHD Marked 10 years of Excellence with a PIPPIN/ 50th Anniversary Celebration featuring Stephen Schwartz, Alex Newell, & Ben Vereen. March 26, 2025: Bonnie Comley and…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:43AMBy David Sheward March 25, 2025. Two disparate musicals originating away from Broadway, one in London and the other Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Club, recently opened with a day of …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:46PMBy Samuel L. Leiter March 25, 2025. Despite its somewhat comedic title, Operation Mincemeat, the spectacularly clever British musical spoof (“spoofsical”?) at the John Golden Theatre, i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:30AMBy David Sheward March 23, 2025. After 31 Broadway shows, three Tony and two Drama Desk Awards, orchestrator Doug Besterman is achieving a rare feat: three shows running simultaneously in o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:17PMBy Paulanne Simmons March 23, 2025. Satires on war are perhaps as old as war itself. Consider Lysistrata, M*A*S*H, Catch-22 and now, Operation Mincemeat, the very energetic and occasionally…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:02PMBy Samuel L. Leiter March 22, 2025. Family dramas are theatrical staples, especially the kind where relatives gather from far and wide for some unifying function, like a holiday, death, or …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:02AMBy David Sheward March 22, 2025. “There is no straight line to tell this story,” says Joshua, the character standing in for the playwright Joshua Harmon in his touching autobiographical…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:47AMBy David Sheward March 20, 2025. Sex plays a vital role in three classics works, now in revival Off-Broadway: Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts and, su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:35PMBy Samuel L. Leiter March 19, 2025. We Had a World, the new, three-character, autobiographical dramedy by Joshua Harmon, Off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club’s City Center Stage II, i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy Iris Wiener March 19, 2025. Tony-Award winner Idina Menzel (Wicked) sure knows how to make a much-anticipated return to Broadway. She currently stars in Redwood, a musical that she co-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:37PMBy Paulanne Simmons March 17, 2025. If you’re a fan of country music, and especially the music of songwriter JT Harding, you’ll definitely like Bedlam’s Music City. The show is dir…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:14PMSara Blue and Dan O'Shea from Maureen’s Haven Homeless Outreach with The White Room Gallery Co-Owners Andrea McCaffery and Kat O'Neill at the opening reception this week for TRUE COLORS, i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:58PMMarch 14, 2025. The White Room Gallery, 2 Railroad Avenue in East Hampton, will present, TRUE COLORS, featuring Patrick Schmidt, Diego Velez, Seek One, Fringe, Stephan Gubert, Punk Me Tende…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:41AMBy: David Sheward March 10, 2025. At first Lisa Sanaye Dring’s Sumo, at the Public Theater in a co-production with Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, seems to be plotted lik…
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