2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
By: David Sheward
February 26, 2024: Theatrical productions are like collaborative jigsaw puzzles. When the pieces"script, acting, direction, design, etc."fit perfectly together, you have…
Opening Night "Nothing to Wear," an interactive art installation by Bonnie Comely, at ChaShaMa, 340 East 64th Street.
February 25, 2024: Bonnie Comley & ChaShaMa celebrated the Opening …
By: David Sheward
February 24, 2024: The 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards"honoring excellence in the Off-Broadway theater"will be handed out in the annual ceremony on Sunday, May 5, 2024…
By: Paulanne Simmons
February 23, 2024: The 1960s was a period of great political and social upheaval. It was also a time when some pretty good music was made. A Sign of the Times, wit…
Now and Then/Jazz Standard Time
By: Alix Cohen
February 23, 2024: Sally Mayes erupts on stage in full clarion voice, all cylinders firing. "Cloudburst" (Hendricks/Kirkand/Harris) is gla…
Four Notable Nostalgic picks from Broadway Babe include Chita Rivera & Dick Van Dyke, together in 2006.
February 21, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has four notabl…
FIVE: The Musical Parody, a WICKEDLY FUNNY tale, inspired by the former President opened at Theater 555 on 42nd Street.
February 20, 2024:  FIVE: The Musical Parody, which open…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 18, 2024: On Thursday, a day after seeing Corinne Jaber's Munich Medea: Happy Family at the WP Theatre, I wrote about my disappointment at its being entirely …
LIVE: LOOK AT THE BOOK Opening Reception @ SAC Saturday, February 24/5pm
February 17, 2024:Â Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, will host an opening reception for LOOK AT THE BOOK on…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 16, 2024: Like Corinne Jaber, whose first play this is, Alice, the heroine of Munich Medea: Happy Family (at the WP Theatre, coproduced with Playco),is a Syr…
By: Alix Cohen
Background: Who Was Christine Jorgensen?"We didn't start the sexual revolution, but I think we gave it a good kick in the pants!"Â Christine Jorgensen
February 15, 2024: …
By: Isa Goldberg
February 14, 2024: Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins deals in the lexicon of racism that speaks to our American heritage.
His earlier, Obie Award-winning Octaroon, is a …
Appropriate Moves; News of Kristin Chenoweth, Amy Ryan, etc.
By: David Sheward
February 13, 2024: The Second Stage revival of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate will be moving from the …
Drama Desks and Theater World Awards on the Same Day
By: David Sheward
February 13, 2024: Two major NY theater awards will be held on the same date. It was announced the 78th annual Theat…
By: David Sheward
February 11, 2024: Mary Todd Lincoln is an odd choice as the main character of a raucous, drag-centered satire. Most campy stage spoofs written by and starring either Ch…
Opening reception for LOVE IS THE DRUG now on view at The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue East Hampton, through March 30.
February 11, 2024: Andrea McCafferty & Kat O'Neill, co-ow…
By: David Sheward
February 8, 2024: The line between the truth and fake news becomes a blurry limbo pole the characters dance around, above and below in Sarah Gancher's brilliantly releva…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 4, 2024: Note: The following is a slightly revised version of the review I posted on Theater Life last June, when this musical was at the Atlantic Theater Co…
LIVE: JazzFest " Azar Lawrence Quintet @ SAC on Saturday, February 17th
February 3, 2024: Southampton Arts Center is excited to celebrate Black History Month and welcome Azar Lawrence to th…
Historic Flashbacks from Broadway Babe include West Side Story, Carol Burnett, Donna McKechnie & the original Sandy from Grease, Carol Demas.
February 3, 2024:Â Broadway Babe, Randie…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 2, 2024: An enthusiastic response greeted the end of Jonah, Rachel Bonds's intriguing, if determinedly ambiguous dramedy - receiving its world premiere at the…
By: David Sheward
February 1, 2024: "The present and the past. But everything is slippery." So reads the time of the play in the program from Jonah, Rachel Bonds' somewhat confusing but u…
Dark Disabled Stories and Downstate Among 67th Obie Winners
By: David Sheward
January 31, 2024: Dark Disabled Stories, Downstate, and The Comeuppance were among the winners of the 67th a…
Legend Synonymous with Broadway ... A Tribute
By:Â Â Ellis Nassour
January 31, 2024: Long after many other performers of a certain age had disappeared from the scene, Broadway's form…
The White Room Gallery will present LOVE IS THE DRUG from February 9th through March 30th at their new East Hampton location/3 Railroad Avenue.Â
January 25, 2024: The White Room Gallery …
