By: David Sheward May 8. 2024: When Cabaret, the musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and I Am a Camera, John Van Druten’s straight-play adaptation, opened on Broad…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:05AMBy: Alix Cohen May 8, 2024: Windows are so filthy, only shadows show beyond. Everything inside is concealed by dirty drop cloths. There’s an old shopping cart piled high with – what? …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:45PMNew York. Broadway. Hell’s Kitchen. Manhattan Plaza – it’s apocalyptic. By: Isa Goldberg May 7, 2024: From The Public Theatre to Broadway, Alicia Keys’ new musical celebrates…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:23PMBy: Alix Cohen May 7, 2024: “The clothes we choose to wear — and how we choose to wear them — send out messages that reveal many aspects of personality and emotional health. A numbe…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:35AMBy: Isa Goldberg May 6, 2024: Bawdy, entertaining, grotesque at times – this revival of Cabaret on Broadway focuses on those elements that have made it a beloved musical for a half cent…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:01PMBy: David Sheward May 5, 2024: Lila Neugebauer’s laugh-filled, all-star revival of Anton Chekhov’s classic Uncle Vanya, at Lincoln Center’s cavernous Vivian Beaumont Theater, remove…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:12AMFabulous Finds from Broadway Babe feature Alan Menken, Sammy Davis, Jr., Marilyn Maye & Harry Connick, Jr. May 8, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller has come up with a plethor…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:04AMBy: Paulanne Simmons May 5, 2024: Many of Paula Vogel’s plays explore themes related to her own life. In Vogel’s Baltimore Waltz, she turns her brother’s death from AIDS into an ab…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:45AMBy: Alix Cohen May 6, 2024: In 1969, The University of Cincinnati’s Musical Theater Program was the first of its kind in the country offering a BFA. Its first graduate, Pamela Myers, w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:14PMBy: Paulanne Simmons May 3, 2024: If you’re in for a good time, complete with drinks, snacks and pre-show entertainment, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, the British revival of the iconic mu…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:42PMBy: 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 10:46AMSTILL GOING STRONG: RICHARD SKIPPER CELEBRATES 60 YEARS OF "HELLO DOLLY" AT REVOLUTION STAGE COMPANY IN PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 19TH, 2024 By: Joel Vig May 4, 2024: In early 1964,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:37PMBy: 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 12:03PMApril 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 09:46AMBy: 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 08:37AMBy: 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 01:38PMBy: 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 04:48PMOh, 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 10:13AMShakespeare’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 12:49PMBy: 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 09:27AMBy: 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 10:18PMBy: 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…
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