Sunday, July 9, 2023
By: Alix Cohen
July 11, 2023: The Oxford English Dictionary definition of this invaluable collaborator is, to say the least, simplistic: The person responsible for the musical aspects o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:41PMSaturday, July 8, 2023
5 Reasons Why “FAME-ish” is More Than Just GREAT-ish
By: Iris Wiener
July 13, 2023: Tichina Arnold and Beth Behrs know how to throw a party. The effervescent stars of the hit CBS ser…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:07PMBy: Marc Rifkin
July 10, 2023: “It was a strange coincidence,” Nick Carraway says in chapter four of The Great Gatsby.Jordan Baker responds, “But it wasn’t a coincidence at all.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:23PMNostalgic finds from Broadway Babe include opening night (1960) of Camelot with Richard Burton & Julie Andrews; Mel Brooks, Lana Turner, and Lauren Bacall.
July 10, 2023: Broadway Ba…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46AMThursday, July 6, 2023
Beat the heat this Summer with some “Binge Worthy” BroadwayHD title.
July 6, 2023: When the heat rises this Summer, turn up the AC and chill out with BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:54AMWednesday, July 5, 2023
By: Alix Cohen
July 7, 2023: Three years ago, Steve Ross and I were bemoaning lack of musical theater/cabaret awareness and appreciation among young people, when he suggested I listen to…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:11PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
July 5, 2023: Two mainstream comedy shows recently opened in New York, both directed by the late Adam Brace, who died in April at the tragically young age of 43. One …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:08PMTuesday, July 4, 2023
By: David Sheward
July 4, 2023: Alex Edelman begins his Broadway one-man show Just for Us at the Hudson Theater with fairly standard jokes about gorillas and horses, but he soon makes a d…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:42PMSunday, July 2, 2023
Dial M For Murder at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor brings a Fun-Filled modern flare to the classic mystery with a fresh and witty adaptation by Jeffery Hatcher.
July 2, 2023: Dial M For…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:04PMBy: David Sheward
July 2, 2023: A pair of current Off-Broadway productions present nontraditional interpretations of two of the most iconic male protagonists in Western literature—Hamlet…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:55PMFriday, June 30, 2023
Imitation of Life Musical in Development
By: David Sheward
June 30, 2023: A new musical based on Imitation of Life, the Fannie Hurst novel and the classic Hollywood film version and su…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:46PMWednesday, June 28, 2023
By: David Sheward
June 28, 2923: Remember when theater used to be of the moment and reflect what was going on outside the auditorium politically and socially? How playwrights were like do…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:22PMMonday, June 26, 2023
By: Paulanne Simmons
June 26, 2023: Just for Us, Alex Edelman’s very funny, sometimes serious monologue on being Jewish in America, premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2021, and the…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:53AMSunday, June 25, 2023
PHASE 2 Upcoming Event “Funky Nous Deco” and Beyond Projection: A projection / presentation of PHASE 2 graphic works on Wednesday, June 28 @7pm.
June 25, 2023: In conjunction with t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:00PMA tribute to Sheldon Harnick and more nostalgic finds from Broadway Babe.
June 24, 2023: Our Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, pays tribute to Songwriter, Sheldon Harnick, who died ye…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:05AMSaturday, June 24, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
June 25, 2023: Jukebox musicals, as I’ve written before, typically use one of several templates to present a medley of well-known songs from one or more writers, si…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:03PMFriday, June 23, 2023
Bernadette Peters & Randy Rainbow host Broadway Barks on Saturday, July 8 -Shubert Alley with a special appearance by Josh Groban.
June 23, 2023: BROADWAY BARKS is thrilled to retur…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:53AMThursday, June 22, 2023
By: David Sheward
June 23, 2023: Mix the fairy-tale revisionism of Into the Woods with the tween pop jukebox format of & Juliet, add a dash of female empowerment from Six and a smidge…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMJosh Gad and Andrew Rannells in Gutenberg! The Musical.
By: David Sheward
June 22, 2023: Book of Mormon co-stars Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells will be reunited in the Broadway premiere o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:37PMThe Divine Comedy on view at Park West Gallery, Soho
June 22, 2023: The Park West Gallery SoHo, 411 West Broadway, is showing Salvador Dalí’s expansive collection of Dante Alighieri’…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:58PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
By: David Sheward
June 21, 2023: After you’ve seen as many dysfunctional families plays as this critic has, you may begin to doubt the absolute truth of Tolstoy’s famous maxim that ea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:40PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
June 21, 2023: It was the 1950s. Ike was president, Hoover headed the FBI, and, horror of horrors, rock and roll was sweeping the nation. It was a phenomenon many co…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
June 21, 2023: There was a time early in the 1960s when former President Dwight D. Eisenhower became a subject of the “wind-up doll” joke fad, which made fun of c…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:10AMMonday, June 19, 2023
Hip to Hip started with about fifteen participants. This year there are forty-two.
By: Alix Cohen
June 22, 2023: Scenic Designer Robert Dutiel (an Associate Professor of Theatre Art…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:27AMTrials and Tribulations of A Traveling Shakespeare Company
By: Alix Cohen
“We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.” (The Tempest)
J…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46AMOuter Critic Circle Award winning actor, director, playwright, teacher & coach, dies at 84.
June 19, 2023: Zina Jasper, an acclaimed award-winning actor, director, playwright, teac…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:54AMThursday, June 15, 2023
By: David Sheward
June 16, 2023: The potential was there: a musical based on Days of Wine and Roses, the searing 1962 film detailing an alcoholic couple’s smash-up and painful partial ro…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:32PMBroadway Update: Cabaret, Purlie, Second Stage, Cats
By: David Sheward
June 16, 2023: It's not official, but according to a report by Philip Boroff in Broadway Journal, the hit London…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:45AMNostalgic picks from Broadway Babe include the cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Oprah & an Ed Sullivan tribute to show-stopping theater performances.
June 15, 2023: Broadway Babe R…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2023
By: Samuel L. Leiter
June 13, 2023: “Temperance dramas,” so-called, remain alive and well. These, of course, are cautionary tales that first attained widespread success in the 19th cen…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:28AM 
