4,063 stories from theaterlife
By: Isa Goldberg
November 5, 2024: In 1996, as we know, the landmark musical Rent at New York Theatre Workshop rocked the world of musical theater. Through its diverse cast of actors and …
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 5, 2024: There was a time, not that long ago, when productions of Romeo and Juliet,Shakespeare's tale of two passionate, star-crossed, young lovers, was conve…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 3, 2024: Regardless of how familiar you've previously been with Nicole Scherzinger, the lead singer of the unusually successful, early 2000s' girl band The P…
By: David Sheward
November 3, 2024: Delia Ephron's memoir Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life is a moving, heartbreaking account of the author's reclaiming love and life after losing a…
By: Carol Rocamora
October 31, 2024: Teddy bears? Really?!!!What are all those warm and fuzzy teddy bears doing in the lobby of the Circle in the Square theatre? Not a few, but dozens …
By: Samuel L. Leiter
October 29, 2024: My name is Sam and I am not an alcoholic, recovering or otherwise. However, in Another Shot: A New Play by Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz, at Of…
By: Isa Goldberg
October 29, 2024: If you can't imagine Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd., head over to the St. James Theatre. This uncanny production"a reimagining of …
Great picks from Broadway Babe include Hugh Jackman, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, and Carol Burnett & Julie Andrews together in concert.
October 28, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie …
By: David Sheward
October 27, 2024: Two upcoming Broadway shows, Smash and Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, have announced specific details on dates, theaters and cast members. Smash, the …
By: Paulanne Simmons
October 27, 2024: At the very beginning of Thornton Wilder's 1938 play, Our Town, the Stage Manager, who narrates, tells us, "The name of the town is Grover's Corn…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
October 25, 2024: The minute I walked in the door at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre to see director Kenny Leon's much-lauded revival of Thornton Wilder's beloved 1938 cla…
By: Carol Rocamora
October 24, 2024: If there's one reason why you should go to see Sunset Boulevard, the radical revival now playing on Broadway it's this: to see how far the contemporar…
By: Paulanne Simmons
October 21, 2024: Nancy Harris's The Beacon, now at the Irish Repertory Theatre, is certainly an ambitious play. In fact, the playwright juggles so many plots and s…
By: David Sheward
October 19, 2024: The spring Broadway season is getting more crowded. Sadie Sink (Stranger Things, The Whale) will star in Kimberly Belflower's John Proctor Is the Villa…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
October 19, 2024: The Mint Theatre has built a well-regarded reputation for finding long-forgotten plays and giving them polished Off-Broadway productions. Of course,…
By: Isa Goldberg
October 18, 2024: In Thoreau and Emerson lie the roots of theater in America. So, it is blissfully discovered in Kenny Leon's contemporary staging of Thornton Wilder's O…
By: Carol Rocamora
October 17, 2024: Kenny Leon's extraordinary Our Town is more than just a revival " it's a momentous event, one that unites us all in these contentious times.
Th…
By: David Sheward
October 16, 2024: Two new productions on and Off-Broadway feature a major male star best known for his work in media other than theater playing a world-renowned celebrit…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
October 16, 2024: Kenneth Lonergan's Hold on to Me Darling, seen at Off Broadway's Atlantic Theatre in 2016, has returned, eight years later, to another Off-Broadway …
By: Carol Rocamora
October 14, 2024: The Greek gods on Mt. Olympus must be trembling from the sound coming out of the Sheen Center. The ancient story of Medea is being retold with a power …
Liev Schreiber, the 2024 HIFF Dick Cavett Artistic Champion Award winner, chats with Alec Baldwin.
By: Patrick ChristianoÂ
October 12, 2024:Â HIFF awarded actor/director Liev Schrei…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
October 12, 2024: The Hills of California, now at the Broadhurst Theatre, is British playwright and screenwriter Jez Butterworth's sixth play to transfer from London …
By: Paulanne Simmons
October 12, 2024: Eugene O'Neill meets Gypsy, topped with a heavy Northwest Britain accent (sometimes unintelligible) in Jez Butterworth's newest drama, The Hil…
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…
