Tuesday, February 25, 2025
By: Paulanne Simmons
February 24, 2025. According to Finn (Michael Park), the environmental scientist in Redwood, the roots of the redwood tree don’t go down very far. They form relatio…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:52PMSaturday, February 22, 2025
By: David Sheward
January 21, 2025. The trouble with most “issue” plays is the characters seem more like animated talking points, rather than complex, flesh-and-blood human beings. Fort…
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By: Patrick Christiano
February 21, 2025: Redwood, a visually stunning new musical about healing, directed by Tina Landau, and starring Idina Menzel in her highly anticipated return to Broa…
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By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 20, 2025. The Mint Theatre, whose mission is to find forgotten modern plays deserving revivals, sometimes swings and misses; with British playwright Harold Bri…
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February 19, 2025. Amy Beth Williams’ Valentine’s Day show at Don’t Tell Mama, Amy Beth Williams: In Reverse, was about time and how it cycles through the season…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:16AMBy: Alix Cohen
February 19, 2025. When playwright Philip W. Chung noticed an Asian man in the cast of Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 short, The Adventurer, he was sufficiently intrigued to do so…
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By: David Sheward
February 17, 2025: The potential is there for a gripping and informative play in Gregg Ostrin’s Kowalski, but sadly all we get is forced conflict and sitcom-level humor.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:47AMThursday, February 13, 2025
By: David Sheward
February 13, 2025. There’s an awful lot of talk about trees in Redwood, the uneven new musical at the Nederlander after a run at the La Jolla Playhouse. During one of t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
Broadway Con Celebrating their 10th Consecutive Year
February 12, 2025. Whether you want to make your friends jealous with a selfie taken with your favorite celebrity…
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By: Alix Cohen
February 12, 2025: There will probably never be a last word on masterful composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021). As I write, I’m sure students are researching thes…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:00PMSaturday, February 8, 2025
By: David Sheward
February 8, 2025. The most striking image in Khawla Ibraheem’s disturbing and moving solo play A Knock on the Roof at New York Theater Workshop is not the one you’d e…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:03PMFriday, February 7, 2025
By: David Sheward
February 7, 2025. Sequels of classic plays have a mixed history. Some are total bombs such as the famous flop musical A Doll’s Life which follows Ibsen’s Nora after …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:45PMSunday, February 2, 2025
By: David Sheward
January 29, 2025: When Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day opened Off-Broadway in 2019, the dark comedy about the vaccination debate at a high-toned private school in Berkel…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:53PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
January 31, 2025: Anyone who’s ever struggled to master a foreign language in private classes will find something to appreciate in English, Sanaz Toossi’s fitfull…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:49PMBy: David Sheward
January 24, 2025: If you’re looking for the perfect date night show—or just want a massive injection of laughs—then head over to the Hudson Theater for All In: Come…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:47PMFriday, January 31, 2025
By: David Sheward
January, 31, 2025: Ken Urban’s A Guide for the Homesick, now at the intimate Daryl Roth 2 stage following a run at Huntington Theater Company in 2017, has its heart in…
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January 31, 2025: Here we go again. It’s time for yet another dysfunctional family reunion. Cult of Love, presented by Second Stage at the Hayes Theater after a produ…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:32PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
By: David Sheward
January, 28 2025: The sixth Broadway production of Gypsy, the classic musical based on the memoirs of legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, is a theatrical miracle. Not onl…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:24PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
January 28, 2025: There have been many iconic performances of important dramatic roles in the modern American theatre, but only a very few that arouse the kind of elec…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:03PMBy: Paulanne Simmons
January 28, 2025: There’s nothing particularly new about a play based on correspondence between two friends (one can’t help thinking of A. R. Gurney’s Love Let…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:31PMSunday, January 26, 2025
By: David Sheward
January 24, 2025: In recent decades, the theatergoing public has had a love/hate relationship with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Show Boat. When Florenz Ziegfe…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:47PMTuesday, November 5, 2024
By: Isa Goldberg
November 5, 2024: In 1996, as we know, the landmark musical Rent at New York Theatre Workshop rocked the world of musical theater. Through its diverse cast of actors and …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:43PMMonday, November 4, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 5, 2024: There was a time, not that long ago, when productions of Romeo and Juliet,Shakespeare’s tale of two passionate, star-crossed, young lovers, was con…
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November 3, 2024: Regardless of how familiar you’ve previously been with Nicole Scherzinger, the lead singer of the unusually successful, early 2000s’ girl band T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:03PMSunday, November 3, 2024
By: David Sheward
November 3, 2024: Delia Ephron’s memoir Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life is a moving, heartbreaking account of the author’s reclaiming love and life after losi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:31PMThursday, October 31, 2024
By: Carol Rocamora
October 31, 2024: Teddy bears? Really?!!!What are all those warm and fuzzy teddy bears doing in the lobby of the Circle in the Square theatre? Not a few, but dozens of…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:56PMTuesday, October 29, 2024
By: Samuel L. Leiter
October 29, 2024: My name is Sam and I am not an alcoholic, recovering or otherwise. However, in Another Shot: A New Play by Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz, at Of…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMBy: Isa Goldberg
October 29, 2024: If you can’t imagine Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd., head over to the St. James Theatre. This uncanny production—a reimagining…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:54PMMonday, October 28, 2024
Great picks from Broadway Babe include Hugh Jackman, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, and Carol Burnett & Julie Andrews together in concert.
October 28, 2024: Broadway Babe, Randie Levi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:16PMSunday, October 27, 2024
By: David Sheward
October 27, 2024: Two upcoming Broadway shows, Smash and Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, have announced specific details on dates, theaters and cast members. Smash, the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:58PMFriday, October 25, 2024
By: Paulanne Simmons
October 27, 2024: At the very beginning of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, the Stage Manager, who narrates, tells us, “The name of the town is Grover’s …
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