Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Nostalgic finds from Broadway Babe include Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr. Janet Leigh & Jamie Lee Curtis on the Phil Donahue Show, plus a documentary on Elaine Stritch.
April 3, 202…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:16AMMonday, April 3, 2023
By: David Sheward
At the 1988 Tony Awards, the big battle was between the shows composed by the two respective behemoths of the American and British musical theater: Stephen Sondheim’s t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:24PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
April 4, 2023: Vanities, Jack Heifner’s comedy-drama, opened at Playwrights Horizons on January 15, 1976, ran for 13 performances, and then transferred to the Che…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:35AMSunday, April 2, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 2, 2023: One of the most popular forms of theatre in the 19th century was the spectacular melodrama, a play whose most potent impact depended on special effects…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:53PMFriday, March 31, 2023
Jade Jones, Amy Keum, and Hayley Podschun star as three friends pushing the boundaries of their lives in a revised Vanities – The Musical directed by Will Pomerantz at The York.
March 31,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:09PMB'way Update: Smash to the Stage, Roundabout and CSC Seasons
By: David Sheward
March 30, 2023: It hardly seems possible, but there are already plans being hatched for the 2023-24 and 202…
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By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 31, 2023: Don't be deceived by the essentially bare stage facing you at the start Bob Fosse;s Dancin', a revival at the Music Box of Fosse's 1978 multi-Tony-winn…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:20PMBy: Isa Goldberg
March 31, 2023: A twist of dramatic form, as we know it, creates the matrix to Keith Bunin's new play, "The Coast Starlight" at Lincoln Center Theater at The Mitzi E. Newh…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:54PMTuesday, March 28, 2023
John Lloyd Young, the original Tony winning star of Jersey Boys, returns to Café Carlyle March 28 through April 1.
March 28, 2023: John Lloyd Young, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:31PMMarilyn Maye Highlights The New York Pops
By: Alix Cohen
Much 28, 2023: To a multitude of friends, fans, and fellow artists, Marilyn Maye is a lighthouse, a lodestar, The Little Prince�…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:14AMDevices and Gimmicks
March 27, 2023: A device is a plan or a method with a particular aim. A gimmick is a trick intended to attract attention, business or publicity. Sometimes it’s hard …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:36AMMonday, March 27, 2023
By: Maryann Lopinto
March 28, 2023: On Sunday, March 26th the Encompass Opera Company presented its 19th musical Salute at the National Arts Gramercy Park South with a reception, dinner an…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:28AMSaturday, March 25, 2023
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 25, 2023: On July 11, 1733, forty-two Jewish men and women disembarked in Savannah, Georgia, soon after James Edward Oglethorpe had arrived with Georgia’s ori…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:57PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
March 24, 2023: Parade, the topically relevant 1998 musical now being smashingly revived on Broadway, tells the truth-based story of Leo Frank (Ben Platt, Dear Evan Ha…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30AMFriday, March 24, 2023
By: David Sheward
March 24, 2023: It’s the casual, seemingly unobserved movements that makes the spectacular revival of Bob Fosse’s 1978 revue Dancin’ so special. Yes, there are th…
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Acclaimed comedian Judy Gold opened her new solo show, Yes, I Can Say That!, directed by BD Wong at 59E59 Theaters.
March 22, 2023: Acclaimed comedian Judy Gold opened her solo show Yes,…
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By: Alix Cohen
March 22, 2023: The Hunting Gun, a poem written by the prologue narrator, was derided when published as too sensitive for a gun magazine. Months later, its author received …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:18PMBy: Maryann Lopinto
March 23, 2023: Karen Mason returned to Birdland on Monday recreating her “ALL THAT JAZZ” the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb which she debuted there almost a yea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:08AMTuesday, March 21, 2023
By: Isa Goldberg
March 21, 2023: Emily Feldman’s new play, “The Best We Could " (a family tragedy), at The Manhattan Theatre Club, while contemporary in style, harkens back to classic…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:33AMMonday, March 20, 2023
Fantastic finds from Broadway Babe this week include Carol Burnett, Lena Horne, Angie Dickinson & Burt Bacharach, and new documentary on The Music Man’s Meredith Wilson.
March 19, 202…
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By: David Sheward
March 18, 2023: Perhaps the most powerful moment in Parade, the stunning revival of Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s 1998 musical about the infamous Leo Frank case…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:48PMPark West Gallery Launches First Annual "Painted in New York" Artist Competition.
March 19, 2023: Park West Fine Art Museum & Gallery announced their first annual "Painted in New York" …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:18AMCelebrity chef Sal Scognamillo hosted a special luncheon with a Sinatra-inspired vocalist @ the renowned Patsy’s at 256 West 56th Street,
March 18, 2023: Celebrity Chef Sal Scognamillo ho…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:18AMFriday, March 17, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 17, 2023: Jessica Chastain’s compelling performance of Nora in the current revival of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Hudson Theatre reminds us not only tha…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:39PMB'way Update: Final Sondheim; Merrily Finds Theater; No More Room
By: David Sheward
March 17, 2023: There are ups and down on and Off-Broadway this week. The last Stephen Sondheim show …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:16PMThursday, March 16, 2023
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 16, 2023: The Harder They Come , a musical based on the 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and starring reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, has all the e…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:50AMMonday, March 13, 2023
Tony nominee and Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralph of Dreamgirls and
TV’s Abbott Elementary Fame to Signs New Book Friday & Saturday
By: Ellis Nassour
March 14, 2023: Indefatigable Tony…
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By: David Sheward
March 11, 2023: Before Jamie Lloyd’s minimalist and strangely powerful revival of A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen’s prophetic proto-feminist masterpiece, begins, audi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:02PMBy: Alix Cohen
March 13, 2023: There’s still musical sophistication to be found in Manhattan. Every Saturday at 5:30, Eric Comstock assumes the piano at Birdland delivering an amalgam…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:53PMFriday, March 10, 2023
Golden Oldies from Broadway Babe feature Stephen Spielberg’s 1995 AFI Tribute, Nat King Cole, Dinah Shore, Ginger Rogers, George Burns and Ethel Merman plus 1985’s Night of a 100 Stars.
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