By David Sheward April 28, 2025. If you've been waiting for the must-see production of the Broadway season to justify plunking down your hard-earned bucks, wait no more. Stranger Things: Th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:13PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter April 27, 2025. Before seeing Broadway's Stranger Things: The First Shadow, originally produced on London's West End in 2023, and now at the Marquis Theatre, I thought I…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:22PM[SHARE]By Paulanne Simmons April 25, 2025. In recent years, Broadway audiences have seen several reinterpretations of classic musicals. But no one has reinvented a classic with the perfect mix of …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:01PM[SHARE]By David Sheward April 24, 2025. The beloved, whimsical operettas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, composed between 1871 and 1896, have had their share of updating and transpositions. T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:01PM[SHARE]The White Room Gallery presents "STRIPPED: Music that Changed the World" on view April 23 - May 11, 2025. April 22, 2025. Award-winning photographer and mixed-media artist Steve Joester will…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:35PM[SHARE]By David Sheward April 22, 2025. Two dramas on teen torment recently opened on and Off-Broadway, approaching their subjects through different lenses and both achieving dynamic theatrical re…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:02PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter April 22, 2025. Two current plays, one on Broadway and one Off, seem designed to attract younger audiences with their granular depiction of teenage angst, lingo, and beh…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:01PM[SHARE]Veteran Actress Victoria Rowell Pens Sizzling Tell-All and Is Onstage This Weekend in Jason's Lyric, based on the Cult Film, at Brooklyn's Historic Kings Theatre By Elis Nassour April 22, 2…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:53PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter April 20, 2025. As we exited the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre after seeing Sondheim's Old Friends, producer-devisor Cameron Macintosh's revue of around 40 songs by Stephen…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:11PM[SHARE]By Iris Wiener April 19, 2025. There's nothing better than a musical that explores unchartered territory. Operation Mincemeat's originality is startlingly refreshing, if scarily relevant. T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:34PM[SHARE]By David Sheward April 19, 2025. You never know what you're going to get with a Caryl Churchill play, but it's sure to be something unique, thought-provoking, and convention-breaking. After…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:26PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter April 18, 2025. Twelve years ago, there was a TV series called"Smash," whose showrunner was playwright Theresa Rebeck. It was largely a backstage look at the creation of…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:07PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter April 15, 2025: Cartoon characters, like L'il Abner and Superman, have inspired several Broadway musicals, so it's not unusual that Boop!: the Musical takes its cue fro…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:18PM[SHARE]By Paulanne Simmons April 15, 2025. From the moment the dancers, dressed in sparkling tuxes, prance onto the stage at the Broadhurst Theatre and perform a number that includes an incredib…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:54AM[SHARE]By David Sheward April 13, 2025. The Broadway premiere of The Last Five Years at the Hudson,Jason Robert Brown's two-character tuner chronicling the romance, marriage and break-up of noveli…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:03PM[SHARE]By David Sheward April 13, 2025. The first thing you notice upon entering the Winter Garden Theater for Good Night, and Good Luck., the riveting new play headlined and co-written by George …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:54PM[SHARE]By David Sheward April 9, 2025. Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, which began life as a London tribute concert devised by uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh and then restaged for a commercial r…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:41AM[SHARE]George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in an adaptation of his acclaimed film, Good Night, and Good Luck, directed by David Cromer at the Winter Garden. By Patrick Christiano April 7, 202…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:53PM[SHARE]By Paulanne Simmons The film Goodnight, and Goodluck, directed by Goerge Clooney and co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, was released in 2005. The film chronicles Murrow's campaign to …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00AM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter April 6, 2025. The big reason many are paying premium prices at the Winter Garden Theatre to see Good Night, and Good Luck,is not because they're dying to witness a famo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:05AM[SHARE]By David Sheward April 5, 2025. Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet's savagely funny takedown of cutthroat Chicago real-estate salesmen, has been a magnet for male actors to prove their theatr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:41PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter April 5, 2025. First seen on Broadway 41 years ago (March 25, 1984), and revived three times since then (2005, 2012, and now, at the Palace), David Mamet's Glengarry Gle…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:33PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter April 5, 2025. The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted by Kip Williams from the 1890 Gothic horror novel by Oscar Wilde (his only one), about a man who neither ages nor lo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:28PM[SHARE]Reviewed by David Sheward April 2, 2025. The family drama is making a dynamic comeback this theater season. Cult of Love, The Blood Quilt, We Had a World, and now Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Pu…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:51AM[SHARE]By Paulanne Simmons April, 2, 2025. It's a well-known fact that playwrights have miserable childhoods. Their father was a drunken actor (Eugene O'Neill). Their father abandoned them, and th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:33AM[SHARE]Jamie DeRoy & Friends to present 35th Anniversary Cabaret at Birdland to support The Entertainment Community Fund on Monday, March 31. March 28, 2025: Producer Jamie deRoy will presen…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:51PM[SHARE]By David Sheward March 28, 2025. In a dazzling feat of technology and acting pyrotechnics, Sarah Snook of Succession fame plays 26 characters and brings Oscar Wilde's 1891 classic of go…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:42PM[SHARE]By Samuel L. Leiter In 2023, two new musicals, Broadway's How to Dance in Ohio and Off Broadway's Buena Vista Social Club (at the Atlantic Theatre), were directly based on popular documenta…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:53AM[SHARE]By Paulanne Simmons March 23, 2025. Sarah Snook's one-woman The Picture of Dorian Gray is a combination of melodrama and farce, enhanced by technology and enabled by sheer stamina. With the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PM[SHARE]BroadwayHD BroadwayHD Marked 10 years of Excellence with a PIPPIN/ 50th Anniversary Celebration featuring Stephen Schwartz, Alex Newell, & Ben Vereen. March 26, 2025: Bonnie Comley and…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:43AM[SHARE]By David Sheward March 25, 2025. Two disparate musicals originating away from Broadway, one in London and the other Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Club, recently opened with a day of …
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