Friday, July 1, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
July 1, 2022: Another Hamlet. Another chance for a rising conceptual director, in this case Britain’s Robert Ickes, to show what he’s got with a major classic wit…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:12PMBroadway Update: Leopoldstadt Announces Cast; Camelot Shifts Dates, etc.
By: David Sheward
July 1, 2022: We are now officially in the 2022-23 Broadway/Off-Broadway season. The first two s…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:29AMOff-Broadway Update: Ralph Fiennes and Jim Parsons Return to NY Stages This Fall
By: David Sheward
July 1 , 2022: Oscar nominee and Tony winner Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List, Hamlet) a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:20AMWednesday, June 29, 2022
By: David Sheward
June 29, 2022: At a recent Off-Broadway production, the gentleman behind me was complaining vociferously during intermission and occasionally during the show itself that…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:35PMTuesday, June 28, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
June 28, 2022: Dinner party plays, like Kaufman and Ferber’s Dinner at Eight and Margulies’s Dinner with Friends,are nearly as common a theatrical trope as barroo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:06PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
June 28,2022: I must admit I read James Joyce’s “The Dead” so many years ago that I had no idea what the short story was about when I saw Brian Watkins’ Epip…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:25AMMonday, June 27, 2022
Hamptons Pride celebrated with a Fundraiser at LongHouse on Sunday.
June 26, 2022: Hamptons Pride, the East End's new LGBTQ+ nonprofit that brought you the first Pride parade in the hist…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:22PMSaturday, June 25, 2022
June 4, 2022: East Hampton First Ever PRIDE Parade 2022: with Patrick Christiano, Publisher of TheaterLife.com and Jerry Larsen, the Mayor of East Hampton,, community leaders and over 500 p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:40PMBy: Bernard Carragher
June 24, 2022: "The Orchard," based on Anton Chekov's 1903 play "The Cherry Orchard" is at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on 37th Street and acted by the Arlekin Playe…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:41AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
June 22, 2022: There was no escaping the buzz of anticipation at Playwrights Horizons as I and the rest of the full house waited for a preview performance of Will Arb…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:23PMTuesday, June 21, 2022
By: David Sheward
June 21, 2022: The prospect of the great ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht, one of our most versatile and expressive actresses, in a new adaptation of …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:41AMSunday, June 19, 2022
Broadway Update: Suzan-Lori Parks, Lorraine Hansberry
By: David Sheward
June 19, 2022: Many African-American women playwrights such as Lynn Nottage, Aleasha Harris, Dominique Morriseau, A…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:45AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
June 19, 2022: As someone who has been studying Asian theatre for sixty years—in my salad days I even acted in an “authentic” Beijing Opera directed by a Chines…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:28AMFriday, June 17, 2022
The 66th Drama Desk Awards were presented at Sardi’s on June 14th
June 15, 2022: The 2022 Drama Desk Awards, announced earlier this month, were presented in an afternoon ceremony at the…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:37AMThursday, June 16, 2022
By: David Sheward
June 16, 2022: As you might expect, any musical from the pen of the notoriously profane comedienne Sarah Silverman has more than its share of what we used to call dirty …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:09PMMonday, June 13, 2022
A Strange Loop wins Best Musical as the Tony Awards return to Radio City Music Hall.
June 12, 2022: The Tony Awards returned to Radio City Music Hall for a live celebration of the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:10AMSaturday, June 11, 2022
Broadway Update: Stoppard, Sesame Street, Good Night Oscar, Lena Horne, etc.
By: David Sheward
June 11, 2022: Lots of theater news to report: Tom Stoppard's latest play Leopoldstadt has …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:45AMFriday, June 10, 2022
For the Milestone 75th Annual Presentation, the Tony Awards Return to the New Normal and Are Putting On a Spectacular Four Hour Televised Event; Ariana DeBose is Hosting
By Ellis Nassour
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:05AMThursday, June 9, 2022
By: David Sheward
June 9, 2022: The premise sounds like a SNL sketch: Hamlet updated and set at a contentious African-American family’s barbecue. But James Ijames’ scintillating rift…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMCelebrating 75 Years of the Tony Awards, But Have You Ever Asked “Who’s Tony”?
By: Ellis Nassour
June 9, 2022 – You’re not alone.Sunday’s Tony Awards mark 75 years of excellenc…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:38AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
By: Brian Scott Lipton
June 8, 2022: Buddha. The Goddess of Mercy. An appearance by Ox Head and Horse Face, who decide on reincarnation. Yes, we’re definitely in China during Frances Ya…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:22PM(Wednesday, June 8, 2022) – Winners for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today.
This year’s Drama Desk Awards will take place at Sardi’s Restaurant (234 W 44th Street)…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:48PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
Jason Alexander directs the East Coast Premiere of Windfall, an absurd farce, at Bay Street Theater
By: Patrick Christiano
June 7, 2022: After a three-year hiatus due to COVID, Bay St…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:43PMMonday, June 6, 2022
By: David Sheward
June 6, 2022: Once again the Tony and Drama Desk Awards will be very different from each other this year. The Tonys only consider Broadway shows and the DDs include on …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:10AMBy: Alix Cohen
June 6, 2022: Two years after the planned celebration of Peggy Lee’s 100th birthday, Stacy Sullivan, arguably the artist’s torch bearer, is finally able to present he…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:53AMMusic Man and HarmonyTony-nominated Choreographer-Director Warren Carlyle Has Had a Magical Six Months ~ “Part of a Dream I Never Imagined Coming True”
By:: Ellis Nassour
June 6, 2022:…
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Saturday, June 4, 2022
Broadway Update: Almost Famous, Thanksgiving Play, Theater for Salesman
By: David Sheward
June 4, 2022: We're almost at the very end of the 2021-22 Broadway/Off-Broadway season. Now we …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:46AMThursday, June 2, 2022
By: David Sheward
June 2, 2022: Late in …what the end will be, Mansa Ra’s combination sitcom and soap opera about three generations of gay black men, Keith Randolph Smith as the patri…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:02PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
June 3, 2022: History can be a hard taskmaster when it comes to writing plays about it. You have to draw a fine line between the historical facts, even when you have …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:39AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
Celebrate Pride Month With BroadwayHD
June 1, 2022: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert- June 1- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian road …
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