Saturday, April 27, 2024
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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:25PMWho’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 uni…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:38PMFriday, April 26, 2024
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 M…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:48PMThursday, April 25, 2024
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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30AMDead 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:13AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night directed by Randall Sharpfor Drama Desk nominated Axis.
April 25, 2024: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, directed by Randal Sharp, began previews yesterday a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:49PMTuesday, April 23, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 23, 2024: David Adjmi’s play, Stereophonic, with music by Will Butler (formerly of Arcade Fire), is now on Broadway at the Golden Theatre after its Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:45PMBy: David Sheward
April 23, 2024: After examining the reverberations of the Lincoln assassination in The America Play and Topdog/Underdog, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori P…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:51PMBy: Iris Wiener
April 24, 2024: The new musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s classic novel The Outsiders and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film of the same name is a quiet, though gut-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:32PMBy: Alix Cohen
April 23, 2024: Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, her most popular, was written for lover, Vita Sackville West. its noble protagonist changes from man to woman over …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:27AMMonday, April 22, 2024
By: David Sheward
April 22, 2024: “Oh my God! It’s cardboard,” exclaims one of the characters in The Heart of Rock and Roll, the latest jukebox musical to hit Broadway, now at the J…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:18PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
By: Iris Wiener
April 23, 2024: Rachel Chavkin’s quite unique stamp on the trope of theatre is on fine display at Broadway’s Lempicka, a beautifully constructed musical about an artis…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:54PMFriday, April 19, 2024
By: David Sheward
April 19, 2024: When it opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater for a relatively short run in 2022, Suffs, Shaina Taub’s sweeping musical history of the women’s su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:38AMThursday, April 18, 2024
Nostalgic picks from Broadway Babe include Sondheim, Jule Styne, Do re Mi and more.
April 21, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine Miller has some truly nostalgic finds—with some going…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:16AMBy: Paulanne Simmons
April 19, 2024: S.E. Hinton began writing the coming-of-age novel, The Outsiders, when she was fifteen and finished it when she was a junior in high school. Viking Pr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:18AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
By: David Sheward
August 17, 2024: There are a few bumps on the yellow brick road in the new revival of The Wiz at the Marquis Theater, but this shiny new rendition of the Tony-winning 19…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00PMBy: Isa Goldberg
April 17, 2024: The scandalous, and dangerous life of art deco artist, Lempicka fuels this exciting new Broadway musical. And a smashing Broadway debut for the writers Ca…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:40PMBy: Maryann Lopinto
April 23, 2024: The 38th edition of the MAC AWARDS was held on Monday, April 15th at 7pm at Symphony Space. The show was produced by Julie Miller and directed by Am…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:14AMSunday, April 14, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 15, 2024: We were pushing our way through the excitedly buzzing crowd leaving the Longacre Theatre after just having seen Lempicka, the new musical about Polish …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:01PMBy: Alix Cohen
April 15, 2024: “The sideshow as a separate, specialized variety form begins around the same time as dime museums (mid 1800s)… relatively wholesome alternative for a w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:26AMFriday, April 12, 2024
Opening reception for METAMORPHOSIS now on view at The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue East Hampton, through May 19.
April 14, 2024: Andrea McCafferty & Kat O’Neill, co-owners, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:20PMBy: Alix Cohen
April 13, 2024: The hammer lane is the one used for passing. Truckers in North America came up with the term which references slamming the accelerator with a foot like ham…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:15PMVintage Musical Theater finds from Broadway Babe & A Day in the Life of Kristin Chenoweth.
April 14, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has come up with some musical theat…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:11PMPatti LuPone, Mia Farrow, Tom Holland.
By: David Sheward
April 13, 2024: According to the New York Post, Tony winner Patti PuPone and Mia Farrow will return to Broadway in a two-person p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00AMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
April 11, 2024: As is well known, sports writer Mitch Albom’s 1997 book, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson, one of the best…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:52AMThursday, April 11, 2024
By: David Sheward
April11, 2024: In her classic YA novel The Outsiders, SE Hinton’s teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis explains the difference between “tough” and “tuff”: “Tou…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy: David Sheward
April 11, 2024: Playwright, performer and drag legend Charles Busch is back and Henrik Ibsen’s got him. This may seem like an unlikely pairing, but Ibsen’s Ghost, Bu…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:10PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
By: Iris Wiener
April 11, 2024: Just as powerful as it was when it debuted in 2005, Broadway’s current production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt has stood the test of time well. Th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:14PMDOCS EQUINOX April 12-13-14 at Southampton Arts Center.
April 9, 2024: Southampton Arts Center and Hamptons Doc Fest greet Spring with DOCS EQUINOX, a 4-film festival on April 12, 13, &am…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:02AM 
