Monday, March 4, 2024
Tony Winner, MELBA MOORE: FROM BROADWAY, WITH LOVE @ 54 Below March 15 & 16.
March 4, 2024: Melba Moore returns to Broadway's Living Room, 54 Below, with From Broadway, With Love …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:06PMBy: Alix Cohen
March 4, 2024: This imaginative puppet piece is based on “the true life of 16th-century copper smelter Joachim Ganz with a little leap to Ada Lovelace, Galileo, Al-Buzan…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:18AMSunday, March 3, 2024
By: Alix Cohen
March 4, 2024: An old fisherman (puppet) grey, frayed, pulpy, has lived his life married to the sea. The relationship is powerful, symbiotic. Sometimes she gives, sometimes…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:09AMFriday, March 1, 2024
Forbidden Broadway, Louis Armstrong Musical to Open
By: David Sheward
March 1, 2024: Forbidden Broadway is finally making it to Broadway. The latest iteration of the long-running parody s…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:34AMThursday, February 29, 2024
By: Paulanne Simmons
February 29, 2024: The British rock band, Queen, was composed of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), Roger Taylor (drums, vocals) and Jo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:46AMTuesday, February 27, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 27, 2024: The Ally, a new play at the Public Theater by Itamar Moses, a Tony winner for the book of the musical The Band’s Visit (2018), is bitingly releva…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMMonday, February 26, 2024
By: David Sheward
February 26, 2024: Theatrical productions are like collaborative jigsaw puzzles. When the pieces—script, acting, direction, design, etc.—fit perfectly together, you …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:57PMOpening Night “Nothing to Wear,” an interactive art installation by Bonnie Comely, at ChaShaMa, 340 East 64th Street.
February 25, 2024: Bonnie Comley & ChaShaMa celebrated the Open…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:03PMSaturday, February 24, 2024
By: David Sheward
February 24, 2024: The 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards—honoring excellence in the Off-Broadway theater—will be handed out in the annual ceremony on Sunday, May 5, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:42PMFriday, February 23, 2024
By: Paulanne Simmons
February 23, 2024: The 1960s was a period of great political and social upheaval. It was also a time when some pretty good music was made. A Sign of the Times, with …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:20AMNow and Then/Jazz Standard Time
By: Alix Cohen
February 23, 2024: Sally Mayes erupts on stage in full clarion voice, all cylinders firing. “Cloudburst” (Hendricks/Kirkand/Harris) is…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Four Notable Nostalgic picks from Broadway Babe include Chita Rivera & Dick Van Dyke, together in 2006.
February 21, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has four notable nos…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:22PMTuesday, February 20, 2024
FIVE: The Musical Parody, a WICKEDLY FUNNY tale, inspired by the former President opened at Theater 555 on 42nd Street.
February 20, 2024: FIVE: The Musical Parody, which opened last …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:14PMSunday, February 18, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 18, 2024: On Thursday, a day after seeing Corinne Jaber’s Munich Medea: Happy Family at the WP Theatre, I wrote about my disappointment at its being entirel…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:02PMSaturday, February 17, 2024
LIVE: LOOK AT THE BOOK Opening Reception @ SAC Saturday, February 24/5pm
February 17, 2024: Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, will host an opening reception for LOOK AT THE BOOK on S…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:20PMFriday, February 16, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 16, 2024: Like Corinne Jaber, whose first play this is, Alice, the heroine of Munich Medea: Happy Family (at the WP Theatre, coproduced with Playco),is a Syr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:42PMThursday, February 15, 2024
By: Alix Cohen
Background: Who Was Christine Jorgensen?“We didn’t start the sexual revolution, but I think we gave it a good kick in the pants!” Christine Jorgensen
February 15, 20…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:34AMWednesday, February 14, 2024
By: Isa Goldberg
February 14, 2024: Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins deals in the lexicon of racism that speaks to our American heritage.
His earlier, Obie Award-winning Octaroon, is a …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:44AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Appropriate Moves; News of Kristin Chenoweth, Amy Ryan, etc.
By: David Sheward
February 13, 2024: The Second Stage revival of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate will be moving from the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:25PMDrama Desks and Theater World Awards on the Same Day
By: David Sheward
February 13, 2024: Two major NY theater awards will be held on the same date. It was announced the 78th annual Theat…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:12PMSunday, February 11, 2024
By: David Sheward
February 11, 2024: Mary Todd Lincoln is an odd choice as the main character of a raucous, drag-centered satire. Most campy stage spoofs written by and starring either Ch…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:18PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
Opening reception for LOVE IS THE DRUG now on view at The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue East Hampton, through March 30.
February 11, 2024: Andrea McCafferty & Kat O’Neill, co-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:49PMThursday, February 8, 2024
By: David Sheward
February 8, 2024: The line between the truth and fake news becomes a blurry limbo pole the characters dance around, above and below in Sarah Gancher’s brilliantly rele…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMSunday, February 4, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 4, 2024: Note: The following is a slightly revised version of the review I posted on Theater Life last June, when this musical was at the Atlantic Theater Co…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:21AMSaturday, February 3, 2024
LIVE: JazzFest – Azar Lawrence Quintet @ SAC on Saturday, February 17th
February 3, 2024: Southampton Arts Center is excited to celebrate Black History Month and welcome Azar Lawrence to …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:54PMHistoric Flashbacks from Broadway Babe include West Side Story, Carol Burnett, Donna McKechnie & the original Sandy from Grease, Carol Demas.
February 3, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie L…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:15AMFriday, February 2, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 2, 2024: An enthusiastic response greeted the end of Jonah, Rachel Bonds’s intriguing, if determinedly ambiguous dramedy - receiving its world premiere at t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:05PMBy: David Sheward
February 1, 2024: “The present and the past. But everything is slippery.” So reads the time of the play in the program from Jonah, Rachel Bonds’ somewhat confusing…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Dark Disabled Stories and Downstate Among 67th Obie Winners
By: David Sheward
January 31, 2024: Dark Disabled Stories, Downstate, and The Comeuppance were among the winners of the 67th a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:26PMLegend Synonymous with Broadway ... A Tribute
By: Ellis Nassour
January 31, 2024: Long after many other performers of a certain age had disappeared from the scene, Broadway's former Q…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:13PMThursday, January 25, 2024
The White Room Gallery will present LOVE IS THE DRUG from February 9th through March 30th at their new East Hampton location/3 Railroad Avenue.
January 25, 2024: The White Room Gallery wi…
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