By: David Sheward October 23, 2019: A trio of quirky tuners have just opened Off-Broadway while a small family show transfers from Off to on. Both Scotland, PA at Roundabout’s Laura Pe…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:04PMLittle Shop of Burgers By: Samuel L. Leiter October 23, 2019: Pop quiz: what current Off-Broadway musical contains all the following? A plot inspired by a cult movie. A setting m…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMBy: Paulanne Simmons October 23, 2019: Brian Friel’s 1994 drama, Molly Sweeney, is so thoughtful, inspired and profound one wonders why it is not revived more often. Fortunately, Keen…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMAmerican Premiere of Henry Naylor’s potent and cautionary tale, based on the true story of two Jewish/female athletes in Hitler’s Germany, is a mesmerizing account by two immensely skill…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:04PMHalloween Treats Abound with October releases on BroadwayHD October 20, 2019: BroadwayHD kicked off the month of October with a binge-worthy lineup of performances that are sure to ex…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:33PMBy: Isa Goldberg October 18, 2019: Director James Lloyd’s revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal embraces a chilly minimalism. As the pinnacle of this complex love triangle, Robert (…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMBy: David Sheward October 17, 2019: “My life is unhappy. I want to change it and I don’t know how.” That’s the subtext of a lot of American drama and four productions currently …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:56AMBy: Isa Goldberg October 17, 2019: The raves and buzz surrounding playwright Jeremy O. Harris are well deserved. A surprising young writer, his grasp of dramatic form, from medieval mir…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AM"On Broadway" directed by Oren Jacoby makes World Premiere at Hamptons International Film Festival October 13, 2019: An all-star cast tells the inside story of Broadway theatre, and how…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:09PMOctober 14, 2019: The 27th Hamptons International Film Festival, presented by HamptonsFilm, announced their award winners at a ceremony in East Hampton. The 2019 festival was dedicated to …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:10PMBy: Paulanne Simmons October 14, 2019: As the name implies, “The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter” is more about the times Porter lived i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:38PMA Conversation with Alfre Woodard @ Bay Street Theater October 12, 2019: In celebration of one of this year’s most talked about performances for her role in Chinonye Chukwu’s CLEMEN…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:08AMBy: Paulanne Simmons October 13, 2019: Playwright Jeremy O. Harris is making his Broadway debut this season with Slave Play, which premiered last season at New York Theater Workshop. Th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:05AMThe Pass, a musical by Denise Marsa October 11, 2019: It was 2016 and I was thinking about my life as a singer-songwriter and how it all started for me. I recalled pretending, at the age…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:22PMBy: David Sheward October 10, 2019: Robert Schenkkan provided a brilliant example of political theater with his Tony winning All the Way which played Broadway in 2014 after premiering a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMPaper Mill Playhouse Presents Young Judy Garland Chasing Rainbows: [on] The Road to Oz By: Ellis Nassour October 9, 2019: Judy Garland, maybe along with Streisand, might be the exce…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:56PMFive Reasons Why Freestyle Love Supreme is a Welcome Change for Broadway By: Iris Wiener October 8, 2019: Before there was Hamilton and In the Heights there wa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:54AMBy: Paulanne Simmons October 7, 2019: Jack Thorne’s new play, Sunday, making its premiere at Atlantic Theater Company, is about a group of 20-somethings, members of a book club, who m…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00AM“A Less Congenial Spot, In Cramalot” By: Samuel L. Leiter October 6, 2019: As I washed my hands in the men’s room after seeing Liba Vaynberg’s Round Table, a senior critic of my acqu…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:00PMThe Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, Inc. (ARF) announced today that its annual “Stroll to the Sea” Dog Walk presented by Chaser and The Corcoran Group will be held Saturday, October …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46AMFrench playwright Florian Zeller, well known in New York theater for his plays, The Father (Frank Langella) and The Mother (Isabelle Huppert), tells stories in a most outré fashion. Curren…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMBy: Isa Goldberg October 2, 2019: What woman doesn’t dream of having her own washing machine? Usually, however, it isn’t a momentous issue – at least not in the way Lois Robbins�…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:32PMBroadway’s 2019 Fall Season – Bigger Than Ever -- Is Off to a Roarin’ Start -- Headlining Acclaimed Stars, Playwrights, and Directors By: Ellis Nassour September 27, 2019: The…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:16PMBy: Bernard Carragher September 26, 2019: The Gingold Theatrical Group is presenting Bernard Shaw’s cool comedy of a very young Cleopatra (Teresa Avia Lim) and an elderly Julius Caesa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:13AMBy: David Sheward September 25, 2019: Reality is a slippery proposition in the plays of French dramatist Florian Zeller. In both The Father and The Mother, the title characters are lost…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:00AM“The Bats’ and Cats’ Adventures in Wellman-land” By: Samuel L. Leiter September 24, 2019: Lewis Carroll, you’ll recall, declared, “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/Did g…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:23AMA New Side to West Side Story? September 24, 2019: Theater lovers have been and should be delighted that West Side Story is once again being revived on Broadway. The production, directed…
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