Friday, April 14, 2023
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Behind the Mask: “It Wasn’t the Best Time of My Life".
By: Ellis Nassour
April 14, 2023 --“Though London advance sales and audience reaction during previews sug…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:26AMThursday, April 13, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 13, 2023: Shucked, the new musical at the Nederlander Theatre, may be as corny as Kansas in August, but it's for that very reason it's also one of the surprise …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:59PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
April 13, 2023: Whether or not you enjoy Shucked, Broadway's new musical based on corn, both the kind you grow and the kind you write, depends mostly on your sense o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:54PMThe Phantom of the Opera, Breaking Records for 35 + Years Closes on
Broadway with Friday Benefit and Sunday Star-Studded Gala.
By Ellis Nassour
April 13, 2023 - Instead of Cats being lab…
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Get Them Straight, Please! Monday for One Night Only: Tony Nominees Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller Sin Again.
By: Ellis Nassour
April 11, 2023: Broadway and 86th Street: Tony nominee A…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:01PMTony Nominee/Emmy Winner Sheryl Lee Ralph Will Sign Memoir DIVA 2.0: 12 Life Lessons from Me for You Tuesday at Barnes & Noble
By: Ellis Nassour
April 10, 2023: Indefatigable Tony no…
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Paul Davis: INKLINGS, Works on Paper, on view through May 5, 2023, at Keyes Art, 45 Main Street Sag Harbor
April 9, 2023: Julie Keyes hosted an opening reception for Paul Davis’s Inklin…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46AMRelive the magic of T he Phantom of the Opera on BroadwayHD.
April 8, 2023: After 35 years, The Phantom of the Opera is leaving Broadway on April 16 after over 12 thousand performances an…
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By: David Sheward
April 7, 2023: Theater is the ultimate medium of the imagination, more so than film or TV. With the latter two, there is the potential to travel literally anywhere in t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:17PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
By: Isa Goldberg
April 5, 2023: What is joie de vivre, if not “Dancin’”! With direction and staging by Wayne Cilento, Bob Fosse’s explosive choreography gets a rousing revival on …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:28PMB’way Update: Window Replaces Sign
By: David Sheward
April 5, 2023: Donald Trump's 34-count indictment isn't the only big news coming out of Manhattan this week. The revival of Lorrain…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:51PMTuesday, 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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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