Friday, November 14, 2025
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 03:55PMTWO BECKETTS: ONE ON, ONE OFF
By Isa Goldberg
November 11, 2025: Friendship, because it is a sustaining force, is the revelation of Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting f…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:47AMBy Paulanne Simmons
November 11, 2025: Fixing Frankie, a new musical with book and lyrics by Joe Longworth and music by Steve Marzzullo, does not tell a particularly unique story. But it te…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:34AMSunday, November 9, 2025
By David Sheward
November 9, 2025: I was looking forward to Anne Washburn’s The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire, a co-production of The Vineyard Theatre and the Civilians playing at the fo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMWednesday, November 5, 2025
By David Sheward
November 5, 2025: “I did the best I could,” cries the intense Marin Ireland as Renia, a Polish immigrant struggling to justify her questionable actions in abandoning …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:40PMBy David Sheward
November 5, 2025: Two fantasy-based productions are currently running Off-Broadway, one darkly satirical, the other raucous yet reverential. The campy comedy is Bat Boy, N…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:32PM“TIRED, POOR, AND HUDDLED IN A QUEENS BASEMENT”
By Samuel L. Leiter
November 5, 2025: The topically seasoned plays of Martyna Majok reveal a deep connection to people struggling under …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:30PMA TOUR DE FORCE!
By Alix Cohen
A Woman Silenced and Maddened
November 5, 2025: Written in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper was published as a series of diary entries by an unnamed woman suffer…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:32AMTuesday, November 4, 2025
Master of Illusions Rob Lake on Broadway with Guests the Muppets to Ring in the Holidays
By Ellis Nassour
November 4. 2025: Named “The World's Greatest Illusionist” by NBC, magician…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:07PMBy Paulanne Simmons
November 4, 2025: Once again, A Celtic Christmas by A Taste of Ireland is paving the way for the holiday season with a production featuring an all-Star Lineup of dancers…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:56AMMonday, November 3, 2025
Meet the Queen as Ruler and Woman
By Alix Cohen
November 3, 2025: Elizabeth, “by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith” never expected to assume…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:21PMSunday, November 2, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
November 2, 2025: Ann Kittredge’s newest show is called When in Love, and with such a title, most people might think the Bistro Award-winning singer would have chosen …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:08PMFriday, October 31, 2025
By David Sheward
October 31, 2025: You would think Samuel D. Hunter would run out of ideas. Every one of his plays takes place in his native Idaho and usually features a gay man struggling…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:27PMBy Paulanne Simmons
October 31, 2025: Ethan Coen, most famous for the films he has made with brother Joel (Fargo, O, Brother Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski), pr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:00PM“I come but stand as 10,000” - Maya Angelou
By Alix Cohen
October 31, 2025: Hannah Senesh – an anglicized Hannah Szenes, (1921-1944) is revered by Jewish people as a symbol of courag…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:32AMThursday, October 30, 2025
By David Sheward
October 30, 2025: Quirky, silly fun can be had at Romy & Michele: The Musical, based on the 1997 cult film comedy Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. Yes, this is…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:16PMMonday, October 27, 2025
By David Sheward
October 27, 2025: Love is a battlefield in Let’s Love!, Ethan Coen’s trio of darkly funny one-acts at Atlantic Theater Company. Sex can be a weapon, a bargaining chip o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:32AMFriday, October 24, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
October 24, 2025: On the “language of love,” Zoe Kim’s Did You Eat? at The Public Theater is a poetic solo piece about growing up as a woman, and while Kim’s Korean …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMBy David Sheward
October 24, 2025: John Leguizamo has carved out a unique position for himself in the American theater with a series of riotously funny solo plays, including Freak, Spic-O-…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:12AMBy Paulanne Simmons
October 24, 2025: When Vayle stepped onto the stage of Don’t Tell Mama on October 15, the room was filled. It seemed many people in the audience had already heard the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:01AMUnstoppable Cabaret Queen Marilyn Maye Returns to 54 Below Sunday Through November 6 – Then, Again, To Launch the Holiday Season
By Ellis Nassour
October 24 2025: Marilyn Maye is an art…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:54AMThursday, October 23, 2025
Gingold Theatrical Group Continues Its Shaw Repertory With A Star-Studded Pygmalion on Theatre Row
By Ellis Nassour
October 22, 2025: Saluting its 20th Anniversary, Gingold Theatrical Gro…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:28AMBy Paulanne Simmons
October 22, 2025: In Deborah Stone’s cabaret show, String Theory, she tells the audience her interest in music began when she was 13, and her mother, who was a classic…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:40AMWednesday, October 22, 2025
By Ellis Nassour
October 22, 2025: John Lloyd Young, the multi-award winning Frankie Valli from Broadway’s Jersey Boys, the star of Clint Eastwood’s movie adaptation, and, the only A…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:17AMMonday, October 20, 2025
UNIQUELY CAPTIVATING
By Alix Cohen
October 20, 2025: If work by Talking Band has escaped your radar, Triplicity is an opportunity to rectify its notable absence. The genre-defying collabo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:22AMSunday, October 19, 2025
By David Sheward
October 19, 2025: For an intimate and raucous evening with a slightly modern twist, you can’t do much better than the current revival of Tartuffe, Moliere’s classic com…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:59PMThe Emperor’s New Clothes?
By Alix Cohen
October 19, 2025: “We’re not selling objects—we’re selling ideas, emotions, and the aura of cultural relevance.” Larry Gagosian (Gagosi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:47AM 
