Wednesday, January 7, 2026
By Paulanne Simmons
January 6, 2025: In his excellent tribute to Tom Lehrer, Thank You Tom Lehrer, actor/comedian Bobby Underwood, quotes The New York Times, saying, “Mr. Lehrer is unfette…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:18AMSaturday, January 3, 2026
“Nonsense wakes up the brain cells…If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.” - Dr. Seuss
By Alix Cohen
January 3, 2026: Tom Lehrer (1928–202…
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A VAUDEVILLE
By Alix Cohen
December 22, 2025: Imagination, theatrical skill and physical puppet craft has had a home at HERE Arts Center’s Dream Music Puppetry program since 1999. Endowe…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:48PMWednesday, December 17, 2025
A PICK ME UP FOR A WEARY SOUL.
By Alix Cohen
December 17, 2025: For those of you sadly unfamiliar, throwback Bryce Edwards plays and sings 1920s/30s songs as they would’ve been performe…
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By Isa Goldberg
December 16, 2025: Although not a memory play, memory itself plays a big role in Marjorie Prime, so does the ability to create a memorable experience, and in that way, strive…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:37PMBy David Sheward
December 16, 2025: When Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2015, the play was hailed as a complex, compassionate ruminatio…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:31PMBy Ellis Nassour
December 15: You can add to NYC’s long list of anticipated Christmas traditions -- the giant Rock Center tree, the Rockettes' high kicks and wooden soldiers, holiday wi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:22AMWednesday, December 10, 2025
By Alix Cohen
December 10, 2025: Sammy Davis Jr. (1925–1990) was a trailblazing entertainer whose career spanned singing, dancing, and acting. Rising from vaudeville as a child prodigy, h…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:33AMBIG APPLE CIRCUS AT LINCOLN CENTER EXPLODES WITH WOW! HOLIDAY FAMILY FUN
By Ellis Nassour
December 10, 2025: The Big Apple Circus is back, packed with a WOW! of thrills and fun. And a bit …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:15AMMonday, December 8, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
December 8, 2025: We all remember the great dance scenes on Broadway and in movies, whether it’s Gene Kelly twirling around a lamppost in Singin’ in the Rain or Jud…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:32AMThursday, December 4, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
December 4, 2025: In 1905, Jacob Adler, a giant of Manhattan’s Yiddish theater, spoke these (or similar) words from the stage of Teller’s Broadway Theatre in Brooklyn…
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By Ellis Nassour
December 1, 2025: On what has become an annual holiday tradition for over two decades, the Circus Vazquez has returned from Mexico to Queens’ Citi Field – through …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:08PMBy David Sheward
December 1, 2025: At this year’s Thanksgiving dinner, a young relative expressed her fears the world might be doomed because of AI and a certain lawless occupant of the W…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:50AMBy David Sheward
November 30, 2025: A pair of two-character shows with differing depictions of amorous connections have recently opened on and Off-Broadway. One is a charming rom-com musica…
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By Paulanne Simmons
November 26, 2025: Samuel D. Hunter’s Little Bear Ridge Road has almost no set (Scott Pask) and not much by way of costumes (Jessica Pabst). One might think the writer…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:23AMBy Ellis Nassour
November 25: It’s the parade that has everything: giant helium balloons, award-winning marching bands from across the country, performance groups, floats with celebrities…
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By David Sheward
November 23, 2025: The big question is does the first Broadway revival of Chess solve the cult musical’s previously impossible problem of the messy book dragging down the…
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By Samuel L. Leiter
November 20, 2025: Two-hander musicals occupy the tiniest niche among the categories of Broadway musicals. A few more, like Marry Me a Little, to name just one, have pla…
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November 20, 2025: The story of Oedipus has terrified and troubled people for generations. But it has never been more troubling and terrifying than in Robert Icke’s ad…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:05PMBy Ellis Nassour
November 20: Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson is co-starring opposite Tom Hanks and Kelli O’Hara in Hanks and James Glossman’s This World of Tomorrow. The world premi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:56AMWednesday, November 19, 2025
SPIN featuring Russell Young on view at The White Room Gallery through December 28, 2025.
November 19, 2025: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, in the village of East Hampton will p…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:31PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
November 19, 2025: The idea behind the new Off-Broadway musical, Reunions, at the New York City Center Stage II makes good sense. It takes two once very popular early 20…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:17PMBy David Sheward
November 19, 2025: The countdown clock in Hildegard Bechtler’s sterile set for Robert Icke’s explosively dramatic adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus was ticking down to…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:01AMBy Paulanne Simmons
November 19, 2025: Laurie Krauz began Sets at Don’t Tell Mama on November 13 with the same humor that pervaded the entire show.
“Why are we here… Back when dinosa…
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Stephen Hamilton brings a stylish thought- provoking staging of Bradbury’s 1953 science fiction classic to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
By Patrick Christiano
November 18, 2025: Step…
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By David Sheward
November 17, 2025: Stephen Schwartz has the distinction of having three shows running simultaneously on New York stages. In addition to the long-running Wicked, Schwartz’…
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By David Sheward
November 14, 2025: “Now this show has some real star power,” declares Miss Piggy, the porcine puppet star, late in Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets, now i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:40AMThursday, November 13, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
November 13, 2025: Illusionist Rob Lake does magic on Broadway. Not any ordinary Svengali, Lake is charismatic, and confidently narcissistic. Pretty hot, in a tee shirt and…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:53AMWednesday, November 12, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
November 12, 2025: A month ago, as I walked to a show on W. 42nd Street with my middle-aged daughter, we passed Stage 42, where large signs announced the imminent arriv…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:04PMWHO GETS TO TELL THE STORY?
By Alix Cohen
November 12, 2025 Between Acts I and II of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice the production is shut down by protesters. Saul Rubinek, as a v…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:56AMTuesday, November 11, 2025
By David Sheward
November 11, 2025: Michael Urie proves he is as adept at Shakespearean tragedy as he is at musical comedy and TV sitcoms in a powerful staging of the Bard’s Richard II fr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:55PM 
