Sunday, March 13, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 12, 2022: On March 13, 2020, precisely two years ago, minus one day, I was scheduled to see Coal Country at the Public Theater; you all know what happened next…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:12AMTuesday, March 8, 2022
By: David Sheward
March 8, 2022: The offstage war in On Sugarland, Alesha Harris’ poetic and riveting new play at New York Theater Workshop, is unnamed. It could be the Persian Gulf War…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:39AMMonday, March 7, 2022
Isaac Mizrahi: ‘In Person’ (at Café Carlyle) – Fun!
By: Alix Cohen
March 6, 2022: Isaac Mizrahi almost bounds onto the stage wearing urbane black with two BIG silk flower boutton…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:13AMSunday, March 6, 2022
By: Alix Cohen
March 7, 2022: Yes, Virginia, there are women magicians. This March, Women’s History Month, as we celebrate more visible achievers, Monday Night Magic brings attention…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:26PMFriday, March 4, 2022
By: David Sheward
March 3, 2022: James Earl Jones, whose theatrical career spans six decades, will become the second African-American theatre artist and the only living person to have a B…
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Award-winning Broadway and film designer, Tony Walton, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, from complications of a stroke.
March 3, 2022: Tony Walton was an award-winning…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:10AMSunday, February 27, 2022
By: David Sheward
February 27, 2022: Our relationship with language is the subject of Sanaz Toossi’s perceptive new play English, presented in a taut and affecting production by Knud Ad…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:49PMBy: David Sheward
February 27, 2022: We have the first definite date for a Broadway opening for the 2022-23 season. Kimberly Akimbo, the hit musical version of David Lindsay-Abaire's quir…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:31PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
February 27, 2022: Anyone who’s ever struggled to master a foreign language in private classes will find something to appreciate in English,Sanaz Toossi’s fitfully …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:04PMFriday, February 25, 2022
By: Patrick Christiano
Musical satire, with exciting Bill T. Jones choreography and an eclectic score, lampoons race inequalities with style. The outstanding ensemble, headed by the chari…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:08PMThursday, February 24, 2022
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 24, 2022: D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), the deservedly admired British novelist, known for provocative works like Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Sons and Lovers…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:04PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
February 25,2022: With his first play, The Daughter-in-Law, D. H. Lawrence returned once again to familiar territory: Eastwood, the coal mining town in the Erewash V…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:22AMBy: Bernard Carragher
March 2, 2022: “The Music Man” is a simple, innocent, endearing musical from 1957 which requires a cast of wonders. The stars this time are formidable Broadwa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:03AMWednesday, February 23, 2022
By: David Sheward
February 23, 2022: The question on every theater fan’s mind for two years has been: Will the highly anticipated revival of The Music Man, Meredith Willson’s beloved…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:26AMSaturday, February 19, 2022
By: David Sheward
February 19, 2022: The African-American experience in different decades of the 20th Century is explored with ingenuity and passion in two new Off-Broadway musicals. Both…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:57PMThursday, February 17, 2022
“THE FINEST VIRTUOSOS”: THE MUSIC MAN ****I/2
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 17, 2022: If anybody requires assurance that Broadway is back they need look no further than the Winter Ga…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:51PMMonday, February 14, 2022
The musical MJ, an electrifying explosion of music and dance, is a thrilling tribute to the artistry of Michael Jackson, featuring over twenty-five of his hit songs.
By: Patrick Christiano…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:14PMSunday, February 13, 2022
By: Bernard Carragher
February 15, 2022: We have a new version of Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play, “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” at Off-Broadway’s Audible Theater on …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:37PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
February 15, 2022: Recently, Whoopi Goldberg of ABC’s “The View,” found herself at the center of controversy when she said, “Let’s be truthful, the Holocau…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:07AMSaturday, February 12, 2022
By: JK Clarke
February 11, 2022: The opening night celebration of The Music Man on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater starring Tony winners Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman. After the s…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:23AMTuesday, February 8, 2022
By: David Sheward
February 8, 2022: Transposing classic plays into modern eras has been an accepted theatrical technique for quite a while now. Moving these timeless works into a contempo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:19AMMonday, February 7, 2022
Based on a Shady Lady lecture by Edith de Belleville.By: Alix Cohen
February 10, 2022: Françoise de Rochechouart’s path to becoming the favorite of Louis IV The Sun King, was paved …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:41AMSaturday, February 5, 2022
Based on A Shady Lady Zoom Lecture by Edith de Belleville
By: Alix Cohen
February 7, 2022: “According to artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), there were only two types of women – g…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:51PMFriday, February 4, 2022
By: David Sheward
February 4, 2022: “It’s the suitcase or the coffin,” bluntly explains a character in Prayer for the French Republic, Joshua Harmon’s somewhat overlong, but ultim…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:45PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
February 4, 2022: As a note in the Playbill for MJ—the lively if less than sensational new Broadway juke box musical about Michael Jackson—reminds us, the “King…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:48PMThursday, February 3, 2022
Huron Club to Reopen with Comedy on Thursday Nights produced by Alex Simmons
February 3, 2022: New York City’s historic Huron Club will open its doors once again on Thursday nights with…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:44AMElectrifying musical, Leave It On the Floor, starring Ephraim Sykes headlines a robust February platform with specialty playlists to honor Black History Month.
February 3, 2022: The month …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:04AMB’way Update: Hangmen Returns from the Dead; Shakespeare in the Park Season
By: David Sheward
February 3, 2022: Hangmen, Martin McDonough's dark comedy about a public executioner and hi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00AMSaturday, January 22, 2022
I Just Want To Tell Somebody -- Noteworthy Theater
By: Alix Cohen
January 22, 2022: Ronald “Smokey” Stevens’ one man tell-all is worth the trip downtown. The Washington, D.C. bo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:07PMWednesday, January 19, 2022
B’way Update: Kite Runner, Strange Loop Set Dates; WSJ Critic Terry Teachout Dies
By: David Sheward
January 19,2022: Amid news of many shows closing or going into hibernation for the w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:02AMThursday, January 13, 2022
By: David Sheward
January 13, 2022: Two more Broadway shows are going on hiatus, joining Mrs. Doubtful as productions temporarily closing during these volatile COVID-tinged times in hopes…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:16PM 
