4,063 stories from theaterlife
By: David Sheward
May 8. 2024: When Cabaret, the musical based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and I Am a Camera, John Van Druten's straight-play adaptation, opened on Broadway …
By: Alix Cohen
May 8, 2024: Windows are so filthy, only shadows show beyond. Everything inside is concealed by dirty drop cloths. There's an old shopping cart piled high with " what? Only…
New York. Broadway. Hell's Kitchen. Manhattan Plaza " it's apocalyptic.Â
By: Isa Goldberg
May 7, 2024: From The Public Theatre to Broadway, Alicia Keys' new musical celebrates pop…
By: Alix Cohen
May 7, 2024: "The clothes we choose to wear " and how we choose to wear them " send out messages that reveal many aspects of personality and emotional health. A number of l…
By: Isa Goldberg
May 6, 2024: Bawdy, entertaining, grotesque at times " this revival of Cabaret on Broadway focuses on those elements that have made it a beloved musical for a half centur…
By: David Sheward
May 5, 2024: Lila Neugebauer's laugh-filled, all-star revival of Anton Chekhov's classic Uncle Vanya, at Lincoln Center's cavernous Vivian Beaumont Theater, removes the …
Fabulous Finds from Broadway Babe feature Alan Menken, Sammy Davis, Jr., Marilyn Maye & Harry Connick, Jr.
May 8, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller has come up with a ple…
By: Paulanne Simmons
May 5, 2024: Many of Paula Vogel's plays explore themes related to her own life. In Vogel's Baltimore Waltz, she turns her brother's death from AIDS into an absu…
By: Alix Cohen
May 6, 2024: In 1969, The University of Cincinnati's Musical Theater Program was the first of its kind in the country offering a BFA. Its first graduate, Pamela Myers, was…
By: Paulanne Simmons
May 3, 2024: If you're in for a good time, complete with drinks, snacks and pre-show entertainment, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, the British revival of the iconic musi…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
May 1, 2024: Sally & Tom, Suzan-Lori Parks's new play at the Public Theater, is a conceptually challenging, historically pertinent, and sociologically woke explor…
STILL GOING STRONG: RICHARD SKIPPER CELEBRATES 60 YEARS OF "HELLO DOLLY" AT REVOLUTION STAGE COMPANY IN PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 19TH, 2024
By: Joel Vig
May 4, 2024: In early 1964,…
By: David Sheward
April 30. 2024: At the start of Paula Vogel's Mother Play, presented by Second Stage at the Hayes Theater, I thought, "Oh no, not another monster mother drama!" The open…
April 30, 2024: Tony Award winners Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry announced the nominations this morning. The 77th annual Tony Awards will air live from Lincoln Center o…
April 29, 2024: Nominations for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced today by stage and screen star Kathleen Turner. The Full List of Nominees Are Below.
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 29, 2024: F. Scott Fitzgerald never really liked The Great Gatsby as the title of his 1925 novel, preferring instead Trimalchio in West Egg, which, wisely, he cha…
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 28, 2924: It has been said short stories make great theater and film. Novels don't. If you want proof, buy a ticket for  Broadway's new musical, The Great…
April 24, 2024: Stage and Screen icon Kathleen Turner will announce the nominations for the 68th Annual Drama Desk Awards (www.DramaDesk.org) LIVE on NBC'S New York Live on…
By: Iris Wiener
April 29, 2024: There is immersive theatre, and then there is Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, which takes immersion to an entirely new level of theatergoing and entertainm…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 27, 2024: The titular heroine of Amy Herzog's affecting play Mary Jane"a name, as far as I can tell, not intended as a euphemism for marijuana"reminds us tha…
Who's Who Versus What's What
April 28, 2024: I've been trying to figure out why I'm finding so many plays boring these days. Sometimes these are plays that have received almost universal a…
By: David Sheward
April 26, 2024: If you've never read The Great Gatsby you will probably enjoy the new musical version now at the Broadway Theater after a run at New Jersey's Paper Mill …
Oh, Mary, Crazy Rich Asians, R&J, Drama Desk Awards.
By: David Sheward
April 25, 2024: Mary Todd Lincoln is coming to Broadway. After a sold-out, twice extended run at the Lortel Thea…
Dead Outlaw Alive with 9 Outer Critics Nominations
By: David Sheward
April 25, 2024: Dead Outlaw, the Off-Broadway musical tracing the true history of a mummified corpse found in an amuse…
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night directed by Randall Sharpfor Drama Desk nominated Axis.
April 25, 2024: Â Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Randal Sharp, began previews yesterday at …
