Thursday, May 2, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
May 1, 2024: Sally & Tom, Suzan-Lori Parks’s new play at the Public Theater, is a conceptually challenging, historically pertinent, and sociologically woke expl…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
By: David Sheward
April 30. 2024: At the start of Paula Vogel’s Mother Play, presented by Second Stage at the Hayes Theater, I thought, “Oh no, not another monster mother drama!” Th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:59PMApril 30, 2024: Tony Award winners Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry announced the nominations this morning. The 77th annual Tony Awards will air live from Lincoln Center on …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:03PMMonday, April 29, 2024
April 29, 2024: Nominations for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today by stage and screen star Kathleen Turner. The Full List of Nominees Are Below.
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:26PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
April 29, 2024: F. Scott Fitzgerald never really liked The Great Gatsby as the title of his 1925 novel, preferring instead Trimalchio in West Egg, which, wisely, he cha…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:46AMSunday, April 28, 2024
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 28, 2924: It has been said short stories make great theater and film. Novels don’t. If you want proof, buy a ticket for Broadway’s new musical, The Great…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:51PMApril 24, 2024: Stage and Screen icon Kathleen Turner will announce the nominations for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards (www.DramaDesk.org) LIVE on NBC’S New York Live on Monday, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:49AMBy: Iris Wiener
April 29, 2024: There is immersive theatre, and then there is Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, which takes immersion to an entirely new level of theatergoing and entertainmen…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:37AMSaturday, April 27, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 27, 2024: The titular heroine of Amy Herzog’s affecting play Mary Jane—a name, as far as I can tell, not intended as a euphemism for marijuana—reminds us…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:25PMWho’s Who Versus What’s What
April 28, 2024: I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m finding so many plays boring these days. Sometimes these are plays that have received almost uni…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:38PMFriday, April 26, 2024
By: David Sheward
April 26, 2024: If you’ve never read The Great Gatsby you will probably enjoy the new musical version now at the Broadway Theater after a run at New Jersey’s Paper M…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:48PMThursday, April 25, 2024
Oh, Mary, Crazy Rich Asians, R&J, Drama Desk Awards.
By: David Sheward
April 25, 2024: Mary Todd Lincoln is coming to Broadway. After a sold-out, twice extended run at the Lortel Thea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30AMDead Outlaw Alive with 9 Outer Critics Nominations
By: David Sheward
April 25, 2024: Dead Outlaw, the Off-Broadway musical tracing the true history of a mummified corpse found in an amuse…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:13AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night directed by Randall Sharpfor Drama Desk nominated Axis.
April 25, 2024: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by Randal Sharp, began previews yesterday a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:49PMTuesday, April 23, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 23, 2024: David Adjmi’s play, Stereophonic, with music by Will Butler (formerly of Arcade Fire), is now on Broadway at the Golden Theatre after its Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:45PMBy: David Sheward
April 23, 2024: After examining the reverberations of the Lincoln assassination in The America Play and Topdog/Underdog, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori P…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:51PMBy: Iris Wiener
April 24, 2024: The new musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s classic novel The Outsiders and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film of the same name is a quiet, though gut-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:32PMBy: Alix Cohen
April 23, 2024: Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, her most popular, was written for lover, Vita Sackville West. its noble protagonist changes from man to woman over …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:27AMMonday, April 22, 2024
By: David Sheward
April 22, 2024: “Oh my God! It’s cardboard,” exclaims one of the characters in The Heart of Rock and Roll, the latest jukebox musical to hit Broadway, now at the J…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:18PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
By: Iris Wiener
April 23, 2024: Rachel Chavkin’s quite unique stamp on the trope of theatre is on fine display at Broadway’s Lempicka, a beautifully constructed musical about an artis…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:54PMFriday, April 19, 2024
By: David Sheward
April 19, 2024: When it opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater for a relatively short run in 2022, Suffs, Shaina Taub’s sweeping musical history of the women’s su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:38AMThursday, April 18, 2024
Nostalgic picks from Broadway Babe include Sondheim, Jule Styne, Do re Mi and more.
April 21, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine Miller has some truly nostalgic finds—with some going…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:16AMBy: Paulanne Simmons
April 19, 2024: S.E. Hinton began writing the coming-of-age novel, The Outsiders, when she was fifteen and finished it when she was a junior in high school. Viking Pr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:18AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
By: David Sheward
August 17, 2024: There are a few bumps on the yellow brick road in the new revival of The Wiz at the Marquis Theater, but this shiny new rendition of the Tony-winning 19…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy: Isa Goldberg
April 17, 2024: The scandalous, and dangerous life of art deco artist, Lempicka fuels this exciting new Broadway musical. And a smashing Broadway debut for the writers Ca…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:40PMBy: Maryann Lopinto
April 23, 2024: The 38th edition of the MAC AWARDS was held on Monday, April 15th at 7pm at Symphony Space. The show was produced by Julie Miller and directed by Am…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:14AMSunday, April 14, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 15, 2024: We were pushing our way through the excitedly buzzing crowd leaving the Longacre Theatre after just having seen Lempicka, the new musical about Polish …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:01PMBy: Alix Cohen
April 15, 2024: “The sideshow as a separate, specialized variety form begins around the same time as dime museums (mid 1800s)… relatively wholesome alternative for a w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:26AMFriday, April 12, 2024
Opening reception for METAMORPHOSIS now on view at The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue East Hampton, through May 19.
April 14, 2024: Andrea McCafferty & Kat O’Neill, co-owners, …
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