Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Broadway-Bound The Sting, Starring Harry Connick Jr.,
Receives Rousing Premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse
By: Ellis Nassour
Is Broadway ready for a high stakes street con? No, not the thr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:45AMSunday, April 8, 2018
By: David Sheward
Recycling continues to be the main mode of operating on Broadway. Two American plays (Three Tall Women, Lobby Hero) are making their belated Main Stem debuts after success…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:35AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
By: Iris Wiener
You may not know John Rando by name, but if you have experienced intelligent, entertaining theatre in the past few decades, you have certainly taken in some of his work.
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By: Isa Goldberg
April 5, 2018. As humorous and unpretentious as Lobby Hero is, in its portrayal of everyday urban life, it’s a delving piece of theater, about the stories we tell ourse…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:50PMBy: Isa Goldberg
April 5, 2018. While Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, his 1994 Pulitzer Award-winning drama, is full of sadness, Joe Mantello’s revival plays on its underlying and un…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:40PMWarren Carlyle: Living the Dream and Going Places – For Now, Seguing from Hello, Dolly! to the Premiere of The Sting
By: Ellis Nassour
British-born choreographer/ director Warren Carl…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:23PMThe 63rd Annual Drama Desk Awards will be hosted by Michael Urie at The Town Hall.
Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie, who won his award for Buyer and Seller and starred in Torch Song Tr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:14AMTuesday, April 3, 2018
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 3, 2018 - The Berlin collective Gob Squad works collaboratively with performance, video installation and interactive theater to produce innovative and challengi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:53PMMonday, April 2, 2018
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert: a Colossal, Moving, and Defining Project for TV
By: Ellis Nassour
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has stated, “Jesus Christ Superstar has always bee…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:08PMFriday, March 30, 2018
By: Lauren Yarger
March 30, 2018
An exquisite and tasteful staging of the New York premiere of Babette's Feast serves up this week's Easter message of love and grace.
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:19AMThursday, March 29, 2018
Part Two
By: Ellis Nassour
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber worked in earnest on the Jesus Christ project. From the very beginning Lloyd Webber knew what he want…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:24AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
Long before Manhattan began moving uptown, the theatre district made its home on 14thStreet, where performance halls provided magnificent shows, just as they do today in Times Square…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:36PMOn Thursday, April 26 from 1-4pm Linda Amiel Burns will be moderating a panel on the tools needed to sustain your career in the Business of Cabaret with knowledgeable abnd talented experts�…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:25PMAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
By: David Sheward
It’s been over 20 years since Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s epic two-part dramatic response to the AIDS crisi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:00AMBy: Iris Wiener
It was all about the fun at MCC’s annual Miscast gala on March 26th. Some of Broadway’s best were in attendance, performing songs from roles in which they would never…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:31AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
Part One
By: Ellis Nassour
With the 1968 release of the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonelyhearts Band, not only a mega sales blockbuster but also the albu…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:01PMMonday, March 26, 2018
NBC Presents Salute to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Career Prior to Easter Sunday Live Telecast of Jesus Christ Superstar
By: Ellis Nassour
Ten-time Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Golden Globe winner…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:09PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
In 1953, at the height of the American film and television industry’s fascination with the West, Warner Brothers released Calamity Jane, a musical loosely based on th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:19PMSunday, March 25, 2018
By: Isa Goldberg
That Admissions, Joshua Harmon’s new play at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E Newhouse Theater, feels like it’s stuck in banalities, is much to the playwright’s point. Here…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:48AMSaturday, March 24, 2018
By: Paulanne Simmons
Despite its somewhat misleading title, A Letter to Harvey Milk is not about the gay activist who was shot and killed in San Francisco by Dan White. Although Milk does m…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:10PMFriday, March 23, 2018
By: David Sheward
Let me confess that margaritas are my cocktail of choice. Having one while watching the new Broadway musical Escape to Margaritaville certainly put me in the appropriate…
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By: Iris Wiener
Fans of the film Frozen will experience the musical adaptation as though they are at a rock concert; it’s a waiting game for the hit songs and now iconic characters, with…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:57PMBy: Isa Goldberg
An epic gaze into the love of wealth, Bruce Norris’ new play The Low Road at The Public Theater is dramatically quite fabulous. In it, the prophet of free market econom…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:31AMMonday, March 19, 2018
By: Paulanne Simmons
It’s the fourteenth century in Jordan Harrison’s new play, The Amateurs. A troupe of feisty actors drag their pageant wagon across Italy, preparing their version of…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:03PMSaturday, March 17, 2018
By: David Sheward
The Pershing Square Signature Center is currently housing a diverse array of theatrical attractions Off-Broadway, one from the resident Signature Theater Company and a p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:25AMFriday, March 16, 2018
World Premiere of Brian Dykstra’s thought provoking new play, Education, focuses on the escalating fallout from a high school student’s confrontational art project.
Theater provocateu…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:19AMThursday, March 15, 2018
The Actor’s Temple Hosts a Fund-raising gala Monday at the Friars Club
By Ellis Nassour
To fete the 101st anniversary of the Actors’ Temple (West 47th Street, between Eighth and Ninth …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:36AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Dogs of Rwanda @ Urban Stages
New York Premiere of award winning playwright, Sean Christopher Lewis’ potent tale, Dogs of Rwanda, opens at Urban Stages.
March 13, 2018: Urban Stages i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:46PMMonday, March 12, 2018
="p2">Phoebe Legere @ Dixon Place
The incomparable Phoebe Legere is Joe Carstairs in the World Premiere of SPEED QUEEN, a zany musical mashup by the Queen of performance art.
By: Patrick…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:35PMChita Rivera in a unique solo concert
The incomparable Broadway icon and two-time Tony Award winner revisits moments from her legendary career, showcasing the artistry and history that h…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:39PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
If America has its own Chekhov, it would have to be A. R. Gurney. As Chekhov, in his short career as a playwright (he died of tuberculosis at 44), illuminated and eluci…
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