Monday, December 18, 2023
By: David Sheward
December 18, 2023: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate premiered at the Actors Theater of Louisville in 2013 and subsequently opened Off-Broadway at the Signature Thea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:10PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
December 18, 2023: Two recently opened shows raise the question: how do you turn a popular documentary film into a successful stage musical? The creators of Broadway�…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:36PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
This is going to be a short review. The material does not need acute analysis.
December 18, 2023: Buena Vista Social Club, developed and directed by Saheem Ali, has…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:54PMBy: Alix Cohen
December 19, 2023: The Trickster and The Fool are alive within all of us. The Fool is an archetype that holds universal wisdom, crosses mutable boundaries, and speaks trut…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:22AMFriday, December 15, 2023
Two-time Tony Winner, Christine Ebersole, shines at 54 Below with Billy Stritch.
By: Patrick Christiano
December 15, 2023: Performing together for 20 years, Christine Ebersole and Bill…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:12PMThursday, December 14, 2023
By: Mark Rifkin
December 15, 2023: “Will I be totally humiliated if I mess it up?” Remy (Desmond Luis Edwards) asks in the Broadway premiere of Rebekah Greer Melocik and Jacob Yandur…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:24PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
December 15, 2023: In 2015 Alexandra Shiva created a bittersweet but heartwarmingly inspiring documentary, How to Dance in Ohio, about a group of autistic persons, ra…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:12PMWednesday, December 13, 2023
By: David Sheward
December 13, 2023: Two new musicals are inspired by real events and by documentaries which are readily available for viewing on the Max streaming services. This provides…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:20PMCircus Vasquez Can’t Get Enough of NY and NY Can’t Get Enough of Circus Vasquez, Now in Queens through January 7.
By: Ellis Nassour
December 14, 2023: On what has become …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:56AMMonday, December 11, 2023
By: Paulanne Simmons
December 11, 2023: Graciela Daniele is an Argentina-born dancer, choreographer and director who has worked in theater, dance and opera throughout the United States. I…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:27AMSunday, December 10, 2023
By: Isa Goldberg
December 10, 2023: Unusual, in the world of musical theater, The Gardens of Anuncia is a delightfully understated work, and a departure for the writer/composer Michael Jo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMWednesday, December 6, 2023
“Dixon’s Soul of Broadway,” an intimate evening with the Dynamic Brandon Victor Dixon @ 54 Below.
By: Patrick Christiano
December 5, 2023: Making his solo debut at 54 Below with a …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMBy: David Sheward
December 5, 2023: It should come as no surprise that Here We Are, the final effort by Stephen Sondheim, is unlike any other work from the late master of the American mus…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:24AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Hell’s Kitchen Transfers; Busch and Izzard Return Off-Broadway
By: David Sheward
December 5, 2023: Hell's Kitchen, the new musical employing the songs of and inspired by the life of po…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
December 5, 2023: I Can Get It for You Wholesale, with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and book by Jerome Weidman, based on his 1937 novel of the same name, is set i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:28PMBy: Alix Cohen
December 5, 2023: Sally Mayes, too rarely on a Manhattan stage, intends this to be the first of four distinctively different cabaret evenings. Heads up. Those of you unini…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:03AMMonday, December 4, 2023
How Shakespeare Invented the Villain
By: Paulanne Simmons
December 4, 2023: When it comes to evil, no one understood it better than the incomparable William Shakespeare. In his solo show…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:17PMSunday, December 3, 2023
Fun Finds from Broadway Babe include Ethel Merman, Donna McKechnie, Stephen Sondheim, and Meryl Streep.
December 3, 2023: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has come up with some delightf…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:09PMTHE BIG CHRISTMAS SHOW, A MUSICAL RADIO PLAY will play on Friday, Dec 8 through Sunday Dec 10 at Southampton Arts Center.
December 3, 2023: Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, is presen…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:16PMFriday, December 1, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 1, 2023: Two new Off-Broadway musicals inspired by the pre-fame years of famous artists are presently attracting attention. One, reviewed here recently, is H…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:36AMBy: Mark Rifkin
November 30, 2023: Arizona-born Vietnamese American playwright and screenwriter Qui Nguyen follows up his semiautobiographical Vietgone with Poor Yella Rednecks, making it…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:36AMThe White Room Gallery presents NAUGHTY OR NICE? December 1- February 4 @ their new East Hampton location/3 Railroad Avenue.
December 1, 2023: NAUGHTY OR NICE? presented by The White Room G…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00AMThursday, November 30, 2023
An Evening of Dance-Theater Pieces from Tiffany Mills Company and Ensemble Ipse
By: Paulanne Simmons
November 30, 2023: The performing arts are all about collaboration. This is certainly …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:44AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
By: Isa Goldberg
November 29, 2023: Harry Bogen, the central character in Jerome Weidman’s 1961 musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (music and lyrics by Harold Rome), is something o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:36PMBig Apple Circus Returns Full of Surprises As It Presents Germany’s’ Beloved Roncalli Circus.
By: Ellis Nassour
November 27, 2023: For its 46th Anniversary season at Lincoln Center …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:50AMMonday, November 27, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 27, 2023: Hell’s Kitchen, the Public Theater’s new jukebox musical, with music and lyrics by Alicia Keys and a book by Kristoffer Diaz, is a propulsive, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:02PMSunday, November 26, 2023
Ukraine Fundraiser at The White Room Gallery to aid refugees in the war-torn country.
November 26, 2023: The White Room Gallery hosted a Ukraine Fundraiser at their new home across from the…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:46PMSaturday, November 25, 2023
By: David Sheward
November 24, 2023: Two new Off-Broadway plays focus on characters encountering conflict, angst and passion as they pursue their creative ends. Scene Partners by John Cas…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:11AMFriday, November 24, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 24, 2023: It looks a lot like the Broadway revival of Monty Python’s Spamalot, now at the St. James Theatre after a fondly received run at Washington’s K…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:08PMBy: Mark Rifkin
November 18, 2023: In May 2021, Tony nominee Patrick Page presented a streaming version of his one-man show All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:51AM 
