Monday, March 12, 2018
By: 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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GOLDSTEIN, a new musical about family with music and lyrics by Michael Roberts and a book by Charlie Schulman will open Off Broadway on Thursday, April 5th at the Actors Temple Theatre (33…
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Musical tale of twin sisters born in Transylvania based on the novel, Wicked Clone or how to deal with the evil.
March 8, 2018: The musical, Wicked Clone, created and performed by the Ind…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:52AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
By: Isa Goldberg
Religious persecution, the dysfunctional family, assimilation, and loss of identity ripple down, like the domino effect, in An Ordinary Muslim, at The New York Theater …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:51PMMonday, March 5, 2018
When The Fantasticks was on its way to becoming a solid Off Broadway hit, composers Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt were dangled a carrot of another kind: Broadway. N. Richard Nash wanted to …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:59AMBy: Paulanne Simmons
It’s taken fifteen years, but Jerry Springer - the Opera has finally arrived in New York City. With music and lyrics by Richard Thomas, and book and additional lyrics…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:45AMFriday, March 2, 2018
Remembering Harvey Schmidt: Composer of The Fantasticks
By: Ellis Nassour
Harvey Schmidt of the composing team Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt died Wednesday at his longtime home in Tomball, …
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By: Ellis Nassour
Remembering Harvey Schmidt – and Tom Jones, who recently turned 90:
Part Two
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:39PMThe Best of 2017 Vie for the Gold at the Very Diverse 90th Academy Awards Telecast Sunday on ABC
By: Ellis Nassour
The 90th Academy Awards will telecast live by ABC from L.A.’s Dolby…
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Theater for the New City’s 15th Annual bash honors activist & actress Vinie Burrows
February 27, 2018: A Gala tribute at The Players Club in New York City honored Vinie Burrows fo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:15PMThe Shape of Water leads the pack with 13 nominations, Dunkirk follows with eight nods, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has seven.
2017 Nomination Highlights:
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:35AMSunday, February 25, 2018
By: Paulanne Simmons
If Alfred Hitchcock had been Irish, and if he’d possessed a rascally sense of humor, he might have produced Hangmen. In the event, the play, now onstage at Atlantic T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:57PMFriday, February 23, 2018
Satirical musical spoof of 90’s TV show with arias and dancing reflects the chaos of our times.
By: Patrick Christiano
February 23, 2018: With a reality TV star firmly ensconced in t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:50PMThursday, February 22, 2018
By: Isa Goldberg
Like “The Play that Goes Wrong,” “Stiff,” playing at TBG Theatre (312 West 36th St), is a comedy, about a murder mystery that runs amok. And yes, the set (Aaron P…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:57PMLea Salonga: Celebrating 40 Years Onstage – from Li’l Orphan Annie, Vietnamese War Orphan, Disney Princess, and Now Love Goddess
By: Ellis Nassour
Olivier and Tony Award winner, �…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:05PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
By: Isa Goldberg
“Radiate my vagina! Do you know who I am?”, Eve Ensler demands of medical practitioners at the Mayo Clinic. After all, The Vagina Monologues, Ensler’s seminal work, h…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:06PMSunday, February 18, 2018
By: Paulanne Simmons
At the opening of her new cabaret show, Back When We Were Young,” on February 17, Meg Flather told the audience, “I love songs that tell stories, and I love stories…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:45PMBy: Isa Goldberg
For his direction of Urinetown The Musical, director John Rando garnered his first Tony Award. With Jerry Springer the Opera, produced by The New Group at the Signature T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:06PMSaturday, February 17, 2018
A quirky tale about a smooth-talking Tyrannosaur is an homage to late night creature films.
February 15, 2018: The Dreamscape Theater is presenting the NYC premiere of PETE REX , a quirky …
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World Premier of Fusiform Gyrus - A Septet for Two Scientists and Five Horns by OBIE Award winner Ellen Maddow
February 13, 2018: OBIE Award winner Ellen Maddow’s new musical piece, Fusif…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:40AMBy: David Sheward
Martin McDonagh takes the phrase “gallows humor” a bit too literally in his new play Hangmen now at the Atlantic Theater Company after hit London runs at the Royal C…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:57AMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Broadway Bound - Not!
Every theater professional wants to be Broadway bound. But is Broadway the best place for every show? The record shows the answer to this question is often no.
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46AMFriday, February 9, 2018
By: David Sheward
Two short, explosive new Off-Broadway works depict wars of race and gender with women’s bodies as the battlefield. Both are intense and earnest, challenging theatergoers…
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Eve Ensler’s compelling life story is beautifully enhanced by Diane Paulus for MTC.
By: Patrick Christiano
February 8, 2018: Tony Award winner, Eve Ensler, a world-renowned author, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:08PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
By: Isa Goldberg
A fitting metaphor for our times, Rock, Scissors, Paper is a zero-sum game. One man wins and the other loses, so the outcome is nought. It’s a strictly competitive game.
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:29AMSunday, February 4, 2018
BroadwayCon Panels Feted
January 26, 2018: The Drama Desk hosted a reception for critics on the BroadwayCon panels "Being a Critic of Color," organized by Drama Desk member Jose Solis, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:24AMSaturday, February 3, 2018
By: David Sheward
“Does my enthusiasm exhaust you?,” exclaims Douglas Hodges as Serge Diaghilev in Terrence McNally’s new play Fire and Air about the volatile Russian impresario, his …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:45AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
The amusing new musical THIS ONE'S FOR THE GIRLS by Dorothy Marcic and directed by Tamara Kangas Erickson is a series of witty snapshots chronicling celebrated archetypical women’s role mo…
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