2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
By: Paulanne Simmons
July 15, 2022: First, let me confess; I am not a Sondheim fan. His music leaves me unimpressed. His lyrics leave me confused. His characters often make me want to for…
Broadway Update: Lea Michele Joins Funny Girl; Ain't No Mo Transfers; Paradise Square Closing
By: David Sheward
July 12, 2022: It was one of the worst kept secrets in recent Broadway his…
Jamie deRoy & friends acclaimed Cabaret Show To Benefit The Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund) Special Guests include: Judy. Gold, Ben Jones, Daisy Jopling, R…
By: David Sheward
July 11, 2022: There have been female Hamlets (most notably Sarah Bernhardt, Diane Venora, and Ruth Negga), female King Lears (Glenda Jackson on Broadway and the West En…
Cabaret legend, Marilyn Maye, brings her acclaimed show, "94, OF COURSE THERE IS MORE," to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on July 18 @8pm.
July 11, 2022:Â If you have never experience…
Broadway Barks Returns to Shubert Alley
July 11, 2022: BROADWAY BARKS returned to Shubert Alley on Saturday, July 9th, 2022 for the 24th annual star-studded dog and cat adoption eve…
French Music and Dance Spectacular Notre Dame de Paris Makes New York Debut
By: Ellis Nassour
July 9, 2022: After more than two decades playing in over 23 countries (selling more than 15…
By: Randie Levine-Miller
July 8, 2022: Our Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller has some great entertainment finds for us, perfect for a long weekend. In honor of Mel Brooks 96th birthday,…
By: Alix Cohen
July 9, 2022: First, multi-hyphenate talent Harvey Fierstein is not just a good writer, but a talented storyteller. You may be familiar with his plays, screenplays, and boo…
Broadway Update: Collaboration, & Juliet, Almost Famous
By: David Sheward
July 8, 2022: Summertime and the livin' is easy. Fewer shows are opening so my life isn't quite so hectic. B…
Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Anna in the Tropics, opens at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
By: Patrick Christiano
July 6, 2022:Â Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is on-a-roll. T…
"Sex and the City" creator Candace Bushnell brings her one woman show to Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center this Saturday, July 9 at 8pm.
July 7, 2022: Ladies, just three more days be…
East Village All Stars Make Hot Jazz for the Summer
By: Paulanne Simmons
July 8, 2022: If you'd happened to be walking past Greeley Square any late afternoon on a Thursday in June, you w…
July 5, 2002: The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Anna in the Tropics, opened at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The moving drama directed by Marcos Santana won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Se…
By: David Sheward
July 4, 2022: Shakespeare's Hamlet is usually conceded to be the greatest play in world literature, because its essential conflict of the individual with him or herself…
By: Isa Goldberg
July 4, 2022: It verges on being a little too "Arsenic and Old Lace," but in the agile hands of Marylouise Burke, "Epiphany" is a deliciously acidic satire about people w…
Arts Education Nonprofit Hosts Festival De La Posibilidad, a Festival of Possbilites, celebrating cultural diversity July 16 & 17 at The Clemente Cultural and Educational Center on th…
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 with wh…
Broadway 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…
Off-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…
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…
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 barroom pl…
By: 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'Â Epiphany.�…
Hamptons Pride celebrated with a Fundraiser at LongHouse on Sunday.
June 26, 2022:Â Â Hamptons Pride, the East End's new LGBTQ+ nonprofit that brought you the first Pride parade in the …
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…
