4,063 stories from theaterlife
MTC Season: Sondheim, Eureka, Vladimir
By: David Sheward
April 9 , 2024: Manhattan Theater Club has announced plans for its 2024-25 season on and Off-Broadway, which will include the Bro…
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 8, 2024: This season the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players are presenting a double header, The Sorcerer & Trial By Jury. This means twice the enjoy…
By: Iris Wiener
April 10, 2024: Novel adaptations are hit (Wicked) or miss (The Notebook anyone?), but Water for Elephants falls somewhere in between. This show begs the question…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 8, 2024: After a youth spent listening obsessively to The Who's Tommy, this staged revival on Broadway feels like a burst of validation, just the kind of validation…
By: Alix Cohen
April 7, 2024: Having presented his solo Great Expectations, Eddie Izzard returns with her one person rendition of William Shakespeare's Hamlet " all 23 charac…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 6, 2024: The third and last in the Irish Repertory Theatre's current season of Brian Friel (1929-2015) revivals (following Translations and Aristocrats) is Phil…
Our Town; OCC Noms
By: David Sheward
April 5, 2024: Cast members, dates and a theater have been announced for the upcoming Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's beloved Our Town, to be d…
By: David Sheward
April 5, 2024: Wet Brain, John J. Caswell's Jr.'s play about a Hispanic family dealing with the father's alcoholism and delusions of being kidnapped by aliens, co-produc…
By: David Sheward
April 5, 2024: Technology and the political zeitgeist have caught up with The Who's Tommy, rendering the rock opera even more timely than during its initial release. The…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 5, 2024: As theatregoing experiences go, waiting in line for the Nederlander Theatre to open for The Who's Tommy at the April 2 matinee definitely ranks at the …
By: David Sheward
April 2, 2024: In Sam Gold's electrifying revival of Henrik Ibsen's classic social drama An Enemy of the People, Jeremy Strong of Succession fame as the idealistic Dr. Pe…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2024: Known for their crafty storytelling, and several albums, Pigpen Theatre Co.'s new musical, Water for Elephants, is an adaptation of Sarah Gruen's titular n…
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 1, 2024: Although it's called Stalker, street magicians and illusionists Peter Brynolf and Jonas Ljung's New York theatrical debut has nothing to do with …
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 31, 2024: In a theater season that has been rather sedate, the new musical, Water for Elephants comes as a welcome shot in the arm. Like so many other rec…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 30, 2024: Pop quiz: two recently opened Broadway musicals include the following: 1) a heartwarming story in which an elderly man, living in a facility, has good…
Charles Busch's campy fantasy, Ibsen's Ghost, delights.
By: Patrick Christiano
March 29, 2024: The incomparable Charles Busch is at it again stirring up a hornet's nest of fun with his …
Five Reasons Why The Notebook is Not Noteworthy
By: Iris Wiener
March 31, 2024: Based on Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel (which also inspired the 2004 film adaptation starring …
By: David Sheward
March 28, 2024: Though J.T. Rogers is an American playwright, his new work Corruption at Lincoln Center's Off-Broadway Mitzi Newhouse Theater, has a distinct British fee…
By: Isa Goldberg
Much 28 , 2024: Daring it is, that Bekah Brunstetter and Ingrid Michaelson's new musical, The Notebook, arrives in such a crowded musical season. It's subject, nearly…
Tammy Faye, Sunset Boulevard and Delia Ephron.
By: David Sheward
March 26, 2024: As the 2023-24 Broadway season begins the final mad rush to its conclusion just before the Tony deadline,…
Delightful Picks by Broadway Babe include Ethel Merman, Bebe Neuwirth, Katrina Lenk and More.
March 23, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has found some delightful onlineÂ�…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 22, 2024: If a Broadway show's success could be measured by how many buckets of tears it produced, The Notebook: The Musical, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, …
By: Pailanne Simmons
March 22, 2024: If there were an award for putting the most clichés into one work, surely the new musical, The Notebook, would win it. In about two hours and t…
By: David Sheward
April 22, 2024: Comedy, tragedy and romance collide in Brooklyn Laundry, John Patrick Shanley's latest depiction of damaged souls stumbling towards connection, at Manhat…
By: Alix Cohen
April 21, 2024, on Coney Island, performing artist Harley Newman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from Sideshow Hootenannyduring a weekend long celebration.
