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 10:02AMMTC 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:51AMBy: 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 enjoyme…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:43AMBy: 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, “C…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:38PMBy: 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 validati…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:39AMBy: 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 characters…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:17PMBy: 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 Ph…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:17PMOur 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:58PMBy: 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:38PMBy: 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. T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:37PMBy: 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 th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:57AMBy: 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy: 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 titul…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:03PMBy: 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 …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:52AMBy: 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 recent …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:26PMBy: 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:16AMCharles 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 wit…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:11PMFive 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 Ra…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:10PMBy: 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 f…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:42AMBy: 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, near…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:57AMTammy 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,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:23PMDelightful 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 online enter…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:07PMBy: 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:00PMBy: 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 twent…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:13PMBy: 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 Manh…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:23AMBy: 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.
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:19AMWhy Like They Do in the Movies Doesn’t Live Up to Its Name. By: Iris Wiener March 23, 2024: Laurence Fishburne’s career is a formidable resume filled with as many powerful projects …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:09PMIllinoise, Ben Platt, Stranger Things By: David Sheward March 21, 2024: As if this Broadway season couldn't get any more crowded or crazy, we have a last-minute entry in time for the Ton…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:02AMBy: David Sheward March 20, 2024: In this crowded Broadway season of movie adaptations, revivals and Off-Broadway transfers, the most original and captivating tuner so far in 2023-24 can …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:37PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter March 18, 2024: American playwright J.T. Rogers’s Corruption is a sprawling, two hour and 40-minute, political docudrama based on a major British scandal involving …
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