Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
“Last Flight to Senegal”
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 8, 2019: As Kermit the Frog reminded us, it’s not easy being a color different from that of the dominant culture. Some black…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:00PMDrama Desk winner Michael Urie will host the 64th Annual Drama Desk Awards
April 8, 2019: The 64th Annual Drama Desk Award will be presented Sunday, June 2 at The Town Hall in New York C…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:53PMSaturday, April 6, 2019
New York premiere of I Carry Your Heat by Georgette Kelly at 59E59 Theaters
April 4, 2019: 59E59 Theaters is thrilled to present the New York premiere of I Carry Your Heart, a moving dr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:52PMFriday, April 5, 2019
By: Iris Wiener
April 5, 2019: Though he had been performing and tap dancing since he was 5 years old, it was working on a high school production of Me and My Girl that changed the path…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:26AMThursday, April 4, 2019
By: Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2019: If “A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a post-apocalyptic future, fleeing from zombies” doesn’t sound like your idea of a great show, Be More Chill, may…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:59AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
By: David Sheward
April 3, 2019: Three disparate visions of America, two focusing on capitalism and one on the constitution, raise a multitude of questions about where we’ve been and w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:11PMBy: Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2019: A most memorable of Broadway Valentines, Kiss Me Kate, is getting a rousing revival at Studio 54, with Kelli O’Hara (Lilli Vanessi) and Will Chase (Fre…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:04AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Lyrics & Lyricists celebrated legendary composer Stephen Sondheim in "Wordplay" at the 92Y's renowned series on 3/30-4-1/19.
By: Linda Amiel Burns
April 2, 2019: In 1971 Stephen …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:43PMSunday, March 31, 2019
Benefit and Silent Auction Tuesday, April 2nd
April 1, 2019: The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling with ACA Galleries is hosting The Anyone Can Fly Benefit and Silent…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:10PMBruce High Quality Foundation: The End of Western Art, March 29 through May 24, 2019
March 30, 2019: An exhibition by Bruce High Quality foundation opened at ACA Galleries, 520 West 29th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:49PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
March 31, 2019: If Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, with its misogynistic undertones, is sometimes hard to swallow. Cole Porter, and Samuel and Bella Spewack�…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:01AMBy: Paulanne Simmons
March 31, 2019: Superhero has a book by John Logan who won a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League award for his play Red, and is credited with man…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:33AMFriday, March 29, 2019
Life Is Filled with (Wonderful) Surprises
April 1, 2019: Nine years ago I was holding auditions for a staged reading of my musical In the Schoolyard at the Dramatist Guild. Most of the p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:49PM“They’re Gonna Make You Love Them (Oh, Yes, They Will)”
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 29, 2019: There a lot of words in the full title of this latest jukebox musical but the essenc…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:02PMBrian d’Arcy James Leads New American Cast of The Ferryman
By: Ellis Nassour
Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman is one of the most acclaimed plays of this or any season. In its London …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:04AMTuesday, March 26, 2019
By: David Sheward
March 26, 2019: John Guare takes us on a wild romp through personal ups and downs, toxic pop culture, murder mystery tropes, literary and cinema allusions in his off-ki…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:31PMMonday, March 25, 2019
Thomas Bradshaw’s provocative melodrama closes out The Flea’s Color Brave Season.
March 24: 2019: The Flea’s Artistic Director, Niegel Smith, has helmed a disturbing new productio…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:23AMSaturday, March 23, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
Town Hall Presents Scott Siegel’s Broadway by the Year 1943/1951 on March 25
By: Ellis Nassour
March 22, 2019: Town Hall presents Scott Siegel’s Broadway by the Year, now in it…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:53AMThursday, March 21, 2019
By: Isa Goldberg
March 21, 2019: Definitely a Hallmark play, The Cake lives fashionably in that zone where people-friendly, shallow social acknowledgements thrive.
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:39AMFathom Events and TCM Big Screen Classics Presents Screenings of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird
By: Ellis Nassour
March 22, 2019: Experience one of the most significant mileston…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:37AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 20, 2019: The first Holocaust drama I ever saw was the original Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank, in 1955; I was 15. The second, in 1960, was The…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMBy: Isa Goldberg
March 21, 2019: Subtitled “A Melodrama,” Jeremy O. Harris’ new play “Daddy,” exploits the perception that gay lives matter. If you smell disgust and contempt…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:34AMMonday, March 18, 2019
By: Iris Wiener
March 18, 2019: “My name is Renee and I am a food tramp. That is someone who eats around,” says Renee Taylor at the start of her touchingly hilarious memoir-on-stage,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:48PMSunday, March 17, 2019
By: David Sheward
March 17, 2019: The new Kiss Me, Kate from Roundabout Theater Company at Studio 54tries a bit too hard to be au courant with feminist perspectives on the historically s…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:01PMBonnie Comley to be honored at WP 40th Anniversary Season Gala
This year, at their 40th Anniversary Season Gala, WP Theater is honoring Bonnie for her incredible accomplishments as a lead…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:32PMThe Gingold Theatrical Group honored Stephen Schwarz and Mary Pamela Singleton
March 17, 2019: The Gingold Theatrical Group hosted their 2019 Golden Shamrock Gala on Saturday, March 16th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:05AMSaturday, March 16, 2019
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 18, 2019: Bobbie Gentry is not exactly a name we hear often these days. Yet the singer/songwriter was one of the first female artists to compose and produce he…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:57AMFriday, March 15, 2019
Premiere of a New Drama by Andrew Bovell
March 15, 2019: Andrew Bovell’s new drama,Holy Day, set in Australia, 1850 opened at the New Ohio Theater in the West Village directed by B…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:49PMThursday, March 14, 2019
