Monday, July 28, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
July 28, 2025: Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner were only married five years. Even though he was thirteen years older, she was married to SNL guitarist and bandleader G.E.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:11PMUplifting!
By Alix Cohen
July 27, 2025: We live in an Instagram, Tick-Tock driven society that makes successes of Influencers. Had Joy Mangano come up with her product a little later, she…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:42AMFriday, July 25, 2025
By Alix Cohen
July 25, 2025: Having noticed “a couple of blank squares” on his calendar, Sean Harkness shares his inner troubadour with an evening of instrumentals, songs and stories. T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:08PMBy Samuel Leiter
July 25, 2025: The Vietnam war and the theatre have not exactly been strangers, although nowhere near as many shows, especially good ones, have taken their cue from it as …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:59PMThursday, July 24, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
July 24, 2025: Rolling Thunder was the name of a Bob Dylan concert tour that also featured performers such as Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. And …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMBy David Sheward
July 24, 2025: The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY celebrates its 50th anniversary season with departures from traditional operatic fare. In addition to Stephen S…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:48PMBy Iris Wiener
July 24, 2025: John Krasinski is not Angry Alan, despite what one might believe from the title of this (mostly) solo play; instead, Krasinski is Roger, a suburban, disillusi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:31PMMonday, July 21, 2025
By David Sheward
July 21, 2025: Musical styles are mixed to maximum emotional effect in unusual productions in one new outdoor venue in Manhattan and at the 50th anniversary season of a lo…
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By Paulanne Simmons
July 16, 2025: It has been said, with a good deal of truth, that short stories make the best screenplays. This is certainly the case with the film, The Man Who Shot Lib…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:40PMBy David Sheward
July 16, 2025: Unconventional storytelling methods are on display in two Off-Broadway productions, offering brave theatergoers unusual and exciting experiences. John Krasi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:23AMSunday, July 13, 2025
A 1938 Radio Writers Room, as much refuge as employment
By Alix Cohen
July 13, 2025: Howard Edison (Dylan Smith) is new to a radio writers’ room where personnel have been confederates f…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:32PMSaturday, July 12, 2025
The Price of Popularity
By Alix Cohen
July 12, 2025: A splashy satire that bakes bullying, teenage suicide, and sexual assault in dark, subversive humor. Heathers has been around since th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:50PMFriday, July 11, 2025
By David Sheward
July 11, 2025: Heathers the Musical (Off-Broadway at New World Stages) is one of many recent teen-angst tuners. Others of this new genre include Tony-winning Best Musicals …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:27AMThursday, July 10, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
July 10, 2025: Eleven years ago, in 2014, I reviewed a show called Heathers: The Musical at New World Stages. So it wasn’t very fresh in my mind when I visited its …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMTuesday, July 8, 2025
By Alix Cohen
July 8, 2025: On the fifth anniversary of Charles Kirsch’s Backstage Babble, the young uber- fan/interviewer (250 and counting) again takes to the stage at 54Below to prese…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:17PMMonday, July 7, 2025
By David Sheward
July 7, 2025: When Prince Harry of England married Meghan Markle, an African-American actress, in 2018, I was teaching high school. On the Monday morning after their royal…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:12PMThursday, July 3, 2025
By David Sheward
July 3, 2025: In a program note for her play Trophy Boys (at MCC Theater), Emmanuelle Mattana observes, “Gender is a scam but it is also a gift. Drag is radical joy and l…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30AMMonday, June 30, 2025
Behind every child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed first.
By Alix Cohen
June 30, 2025: Lorelei Edwards comes from a musical family. “I’m Irish/Italian. Everybody …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:29AMSaturday, June 28, 2025
By Alix Cohen
June 28, 2025: Canada 2025 Duke, a successful, American rap artist, is questioned by an interviewer about a visit to Kabul, Afghanistan. At the insistence of his record comp…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:49PMBy David Sheward
June 28, 2025: Two unconventional plays about odd romantic pairings recently opened Off-Broadway. Both attempt to tackle significant topics outside of the “boy-meets-gir…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:40PMSaturday, June 21, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
June 21, 2025: During gay pride one should experience at least one gay happening – it’s a stereotypical thing to do. Such an event, Beau the Musical, performed on nat…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:58PMFriday, June 20, 2025
By David Sheward
June 20, 2025: Moliere is having a modern moment. Two adaptations of the 17th century French playwright’s comedies are now on display Off-Broadway. Both employ contempor…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:46PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
June 17, 2025: Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire) premiered in 1673, but its themes of narcissism, greed and the failures of healthcare, are just …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:07AMSunday, June 15, 2025
By Alix Cohen
June 15, 2025: As Producing Artistic Director of Musicals Tonight, Mel Miller began his endeavor with no experience managing to build an enthusiastic subscription audience fo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:16AMFriday, June 13, 2025
By David Sheward
June 13, 2025: Even though there is much that is familiar in Call Me Izzy, Jamie Wax’s new solo play at Studio 54, its star Jean Smart gives it a unique individual life.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:51AMThursday, June 12, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
(Note: Taylor Mac uses “judy” as a pronoun, but I’ve used conventional pronouns here.)
June 12, 2025: Molière, Molière, he’s everywhere. Well, not quite, but…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:42AMTuesday, June 10, 2025
By David Sheward
June 10, 2025: Donald Margulies’ tender and moving new play Lunar Eclipse from Second Stage at the Signature Theater Center, is a simple, direct depiction of a long marr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:44AMSunday, June 8, 2025
Potent and Beautifully Produced
By Alix Cohen
June 8, 2025: I’d be tempted to call this a perfect production were it not for the haunting Leonard Cohen quote, “There’s a crack in ev…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:48PMWednesday, June 4, 2025
Photos from the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards
June 1, 2024: The 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards held at the NYC Skirball Center on Sunday, June 1 hosted by Tituss Burgess and Debra Messing.
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:00PMMonday, June 2, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
June 2, 2025: It’s a bitter irony that, only days after the passing of Barry Gordin, Theater Life’s beloved editor-in-chief, the first two shows I’m reviewing for…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:01PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
June 2, 2025: Molière’s 1673 farce, The Imaginary Invalid, has had perhaps half a dozen professional New York revivals over the past century, most of short duration,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PM 
