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By: Alix Cohen
(The two exclamation points, Petit explains, are for him to walk between.)
August 11, 2024: Fifty years ago, 24 year old Philippe Petit traversed the two towers of The Wo…
Glengarry Glen Ross
By: David Sheward
August 8,2024: David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winning play of ruthless real estate salesmen, Glengarry Glen Ross, will return to Broadway for the four…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
August 8, 2024: On the night I saw Catherine Gropper's political mishmash, The Meeting: The Interpreter, at Off Broadway's Theatre at St. Clement's, a single male voic…
Stranger Things; Whoopi in Annie; Etc.
By: David Sheward
August 7, 2024: Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage prequel to the hit Netflix series which is a smash in London, will t…
Randall Sharp's fascinating staging of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night returns to the Axis Theatre for a limited engagement, September 25 " October 26.
August 6, 2024: Just announced! Randall S…
Godot, Driver, MACNEAL, etc.
By: David Sheward
August 5, 2024: Keanu Keeves and Alex Winter, co-stars of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and its two sequels, will reunite for a Broadw…
Brash & Fabulous - Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, The Musical opens @ Bay Street in Sag Harbor for a limited run through August 25.
August 4, 2024:Â Looking for a good laugh? in the…
By: Isa Goldberg
August 4, 2024: The conflict at the heart of Max Wolf Friedlich's two-hander, The Job, is not only who gets fired and/or does the firing, but also between real and somati…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
August 2, 2024: Job, a two-hander by Max Wolf Friedlich, has had a peripatetic history since it premiered last September at Off Broadway's SoHo Playhouse (where I fir…
Premiere Screening: Ethereal - Alice Hope Art by Lana Jokel @ SAC on Sunday, August 4 at 6pm followed by a wine reception.
August 1, 2024:Â Southampton Arts Center will present the premi…
By: David Sheward
August 1, 2024: Who says opera and operetta can't be fun? The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY, opened its 2024 season with two lighthearted productions, Gilbert…
EXHIBITION: COUPLES SQUARED curated by Phyllis Tuchman on view at Southampton Arts Center July 27 " September 14.
July 31, 2024:Â Southampton Arts Center hosted the opening reception for…
By: David Sheward
July 30, 2024: The play starts with a bang"well, not literally. After being bombarded with high-decibel rock music before the lights dim, the audience is confronted with…
By: Iris Wiener
July 29, 2024: A celebration of all things Broadway, BroadwayCon 2024 was the ultimate experience for theater fans. An extravaganza of performances, panels, games, and sho…
Jeff Harnar sings Sammy Cahn The Second Time Around
By: Alix Cohen
July 29, 2024: Had Jeff Harnar come up in the forties and fifties, he would've been a boy singer with Goodman or Dorse…
Mike Birbiglia returns to Bay Street Theater with PLEASE STOP THE RIDE through July 28.
July 27, 2024:Â World renowned stand-up comic Mike Birbiglia returns to Bay Street Theater in Sag …
By: David Sheward
July 21, 2024: Cats was never among my favorite musicals. The appeal of Andrew Lloyd Webber's whimsical doodle based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,…
 BOOP!, Redwood, Maybe dates; West Bank Cafe to Close.
By: David Sheward
July 19, 2024: Two previously announced Broadway musicals have confirmed their dates and theaters, and one mor…
Fascinating finds from Broadway Babe include Fiddler on the Roof the, Steve & Eydie, the Boston Pops and more.
July 16, 2024: Broadway Babe Randie Levine-Miller has found some…
Mattress Casting; New Group Season; Etc.
By: David Sheward
July 15, 2024: The complete cast has been announced for the Broadway transfer of the Encores! presentation of Once Upon a Mattr…
POP FICTON at The White Room Gallery July 16 through August 11.
July 14, 2024:Â The White Room Gallery at 3 Railroad Ave in East Hampton will present POP FICTION from July 16 through Aug…
By: David Sheward
July 14, 2024: Country Western music is not what you might expect for the score of a dance-theater piece exploring the coming out process of a young gay man and the reac…
By: Alix Cohen
July 13, 2024: Bill is throwing himself party. He whips off a calendar page to display the date and BILL'S 44th BIRTHDAY! The audience spontaneously cheers. Dancing…
By: Alix Cohen
July 16, 2024: Mark your calendars! It's only 102 days till this year's Cabaret Convention October 22-24. Ok, it's not as if you need to make plane or hotel reservations- …
By: David Sheward
July 11, 2024: A musical centering on the deadly 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida? Well, anything can serve as the basis of a tuner including such unusu…
