Friday, October 18, 2024
By: Carol Rocamora
October 17, 2024: Kenny Leon’s extraordinary Our Town is more than just a revival – it’s a momentous event, one that unites us all in these contentious times.
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:57AMWednesday, October 16, 2024
By: David Sheward
October 16, 2024: Two new productions on and Off-Broadway feature a major male star best known for his work in media other than theater playing a world-renowned celebrit…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
October 16, 2024: Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling, seen at Off Broadway’s Atlantic Theatre in 2016, has returned, eight years later, to another Off-Broad…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMMonday, October 14, 2024
By: Carol Rocamora
October 14, 2024: The Greek gods on Mt. Olympus must be trembling from the sound coming out of the Sheen Center. The ancient story of Medea is being retold with a power …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:15PMSaturday, October 12, 2024
Liev Schreiber, the 2024 HIFF Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award winner, chats with Alec Baldwin.
By: Patrick Christiano
October 12, 2024: HIFF awarded actor/director Liev Schreiber …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:40PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
October 12, 2024: The Hills of California, now at the Broadhurst Theatre, is British playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth’s sixth play to transfer from Londo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:44PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
October 12, 2024: Eugene O’Neill meets Gypsy, topped with a heavy Northwest Britain accent (sometimes unintelligible) in Jez Butterworth’s newest drama, The Hil…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:19AMFriday, October 11, 2024
By: Alix Cohen
October 11, 2024: A great many politically themed plays have been produced these last few years. The best of them enmesh protagonists’ struggles, offer insight to specifi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:03PMLIZA: A TRULY TERRIFIC ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY @ HIFF with the film’s director Bruce David Klein.
October 11, 2024: A special screening of the recently released film on the legendary perfor…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:58PMThe Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons held their Annual Stroll to the Sea on Sunday, October 6 in East Hampton.
October 11, 2024: The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons held their annual S…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:40PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
October 11, 2024At the beginning of Ayad Akhtar’s new play, McNeal, we see the protagonist, Jacob McNeal (Robert Downey Jr.) being scolded by his physician, Sahra…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:08AMThursday, October 10, 2024
By: David Sheward
October 10, 2024: Kenny Leon’s starry revival of Thornton Wilder’s classic 1938 portrait of everyday life, Our Town, features a diverse, multiethnic cast, but doesn�…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
October 10, 2024: David Finnigan, a wiry, lightly bearded, slightly graying, 41-year-old man with a short mullet, is a playwright, actor, and game designer from Ngunn…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
By: David Sheward
October 9, 2024: Roundabout Theatre Company currently offers two diverse entertainments with varying ambitions, each succeeding on its own terms. In the company’s Broa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:11PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
October 9, 2024: At the center of the stage at the Laura Pels Theatre, where Meghan Kennedy’s The Counter is being performed, is a tiny coffee shop, occupying perha…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:39PMMonday, October 7, 2024
The White Room Gallery presents CRYPTIC featuring Michael Lotenero on view October 16 through November 24 with Claire Florence In The Black Room
October 7, 2024: The White Room Gallery, 3 R…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:50AMSunday, October 6, 2024
By: David Sheward
October 6, 2024: The cast list for Mathilde Dratwa’s Dirty Laundry at the WP (Women’s Project) Theater, gave me pause. Three female characters are listed as Blue, Re…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:30PMFriday, October 4, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
October 4, 2024: It wasn’t until the 1930s that, apart from a few exceptions (including stars Ethel Barrymore and Walter Hampden), mainstream New York theater aband…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:02PMBy: David Sheward
October 4, 2024: It took a while, but Safety Not Guaranteed, the new musical based on the 2012 indie cult film now playing at BAM’s Harvey Theater, gradually grew on m…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:47PMThursday, October 3, 2024
Snook as Dorian Gray; Mincemeat Confirmed
By: David Sheward
October 3, 2024: Emmy and Olivier Award winner Sarah Snook (Succession) will make her Broadway debut playing 26 characters in …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:10PMTuesday, October 1, 2024
By Samuel L. Leiter
As “Good Bones,” TV’s popular home restoration TV program, indicates, an older house with such a skeleton has a solid foundation and sturdy structure, even if its …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:15PMMonday, September 30, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
September 30, 2024: From February 28, 2022, to March 8, 2022, a 50-year-old Texas resident named Guy Wesley Reffitt was the defendant in a jury trial held before the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:26PMSunday, September 29, 2024
By: David Sheward
September 29, 2924: Estranged siblings gather at the bedside of a dying parent. Crushed dreams have an inextricable hold on the family. A dying town symbolizes those das…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy: David Sheward
October 1, 2024: According to Broadway Journal, the British musical Operation Mincemeat is eying a Broadway transfer to the Golden Theater once the Tony-winning Stereoph…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:43PMSaturday, September 28, 2024
By: Alix Cohen
October 1, 2024: Last February, I reviewed The Christine Jorgensen Show, a highly recommended, two-hander with music that made its debut at 59E59 Theaters. The piece has b…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:34AMTuesday, September 24, 2024
By: David Sheward
September 24, 2024: Musical theater conventions past, present and future come in for a riotous ribbing in the latest edition of Gerard Alessandrini’s perennial parody …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMMonday, September 23, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
September 22, 2024: Nearly 20 years ago I was reading whatever I could find about theater in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) as background for the two-volume Encyclopedia…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:42AMSunday, September 22, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
September 22, 2024: The Witness Room is a fierce, flawed, and familiar cop drama at Off Broadway’s intimate, smartly refurbished AMT Theatre, set around a table in…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:09AMFriday, September 20, 2024
By: Alix Cohen
I saw a Marvelous Movie
September 23, 2024: Sir Noël Peirce Coward (1899 –1973) was an extraordinarily multifaceted talent, excelling as actor, director, vocalist (…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:50PMThursday, September 19, 2024
Burstein in Gypsy, Buena Vista
By: David Sheward
September 19, 2024: Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle winner Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge, Fiddler on the Roof, Follies) will st…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:04PM 
