2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
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 specific …
LIZA: 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 performe…
The 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…
By: 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, S…
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't hi…
By: 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…
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 Broadw…
By: 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 perhaps…
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…
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, Red, a…
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 abandon…
By: 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 me.…
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 …
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 exteri…
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 …
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…
By: 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…
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…
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 re…
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…
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 a…
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…
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…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
September 19, 2024: [Note: In January of this year Theater Life posted my ***** review of Our Class, a Polish play by Tadeusz Slobodzniak directed by Igor Golyak at BA…
