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 01:54PMBy: 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 08:38AMNostalgic 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 09:18AMBy: 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 10:14AMBy: 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 10:26AMOpening 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, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:20PMBy: Alix Cohen April 13, 2024: The hammer lane is the one used for passing. Truckers in North America came up with the term which references slamming the accelerator with a foot like ham…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:15PMVintage Musical Theater finds from Broadway Babe & A Day in the Life of Kristin Chenoweth. April 14, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has come up with some musical theat…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:11PMPatti LuPone, Mia Farrow, Tom Holland. By: David Sheward April 13, 2024: According to the New York Post, Tony winner Patti PuPone and Mia Farrow will return to Broadway in a two-person p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter April 11, 2024: As is well known, sports writer Mitch Albom’s 1997 book, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson, one of the best…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:52AMBy: David Sheward April11, 2024: In her classic YA novel The Outsiders, SE Hinton’s teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis explains the difference between “tough” and “tuff”: “Tou…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy: David Sheward April 11, 2024: Playwright, performer and drag legend Charles Busch is back and Henrik Ibsen’s got him. This may seem like an unlikely pairing, but Ibsen’s Ghost, Bu…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:10PMBy: Iris Wiener April 11, 2024: Just as powerful as it was when it debuted in 2005, Broadway’s current production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt has stood the test of time well. Th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:14PMDOCS EQUINOX April 12-13-14 at Southampton Arts Center. April 9, 2024: Southampton Arts Center and Hamptons Doc Fest greet Spring with DOCS EQUINOX, a 4-film festival on April 12, 13, &am…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:02AMMTC Season: Sondheim, Eureka, Vladimir By: David Sheward April 9 , 2024: Manhattan Theater Club has announced plans for its 2024-25 season on and Off-Broadway, which will include the Bro…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:51AMBy: Paulanne Simmons April 8, 2024: This season the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players are presenting a double header, The Sorcerer & Trial By Jury. This means twice the enjoyme…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:43AMBy: Iris Wiener April 10, 2024: Novel adaptations are hit (Wicked) or miss (The Notebook anyone?), but Water for Elephants falls somewhere in between. This show begs the question, “C…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:38PMBy: Isa Goldberg April 8, 2024: After a youth spent listening obsessively to The Who’s Tommy, this staged revival on Broadway feels like a burst of validation, just the kind of validati…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:39AMBy: Alix Cohen April 7, 2024: Having presented his solo Great Expectations, Eddie Izzard returns with her one person rendition of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet – all 23 characters…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:17PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter April 6, 2024: The third and last in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s current season of Brian Friel (1929-2015) revivals (following Translations and Aristocrats) is Ph…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:17PMOur Town; OCC Noms By: David Sheward April 5, 2024: Cast members, dates and a theater have been announced for the upcoming Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's beloved Our Town, to be d…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:58PMBy: David Sheward April 5, 2024: Wet Brain, John J. Caswell's Jr.'s play about a Hispanic family dealing with the father's alcoholism and delusions of being kidnapped by aliens, co-produc…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:38PMBy: David Sheward April 5, 2024: Technology and the political zeitgeist have caught up with The Who’s Tommy, rendering the rock opera even more timely than during its initial release. T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:37PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter April 5, 2024: As theatregoing experiences go, waiting in line for the Nederlander Theatre to open for The Who’s Tommy at the April 2 matinee definitely ranks at th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:57AMBy: David Sheward April 2, 2024: In Sam Gold’s electrifying revival of Henrik Ibsen’s classic social drama An Enemy of the People, Jeremy Strong of Succession fame as the idealistic Dr…
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