Tuesday, January 27, 2026
IMAGINE featuring Elise Remender on view at The White Room Gallery through March 1, 2026.
January 27, 2026: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, in the village of East Hampton will pr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:44PMBy Isa Goldberg
January 27, 2026: On a recent Saturday night at the POWERHOUSE Arena, an independent bookstore in DUMBO, I fell into my first adventure with the playwright Ed Schmidt.
To…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:41AMMonday, January 26, 2026
By Iris Wiener
January 26, 2026: The Broadway production of Marjorie Prime unfolds in a near future where artificial intelligence has become intimate enough to share a living room. Written …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:33PMBy David Sheward
January 26, 2026: Matthew Libby’s Data could have easily become like one of those made-for-streaming spy thrillers in which attractive young techies steal vital software …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:25PMBy Alix Cohen
January 26, 2026: Christopher Domig was an increasingly self-produced actor when asked to become artistic director of The Firebone Theater Company in Manhattan. He’d fostere…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:12PMBy Iris Wiener
January 26, 2026: In a Broadway season often defined by scale and spectacle, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) is a reminder of the power of simplicity. Now playing…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:34PMSunday, January 25, 2026
By Alix Cohen
January 25, 2026: Protest songs proliferated in the 1960s. Writer/adapters like Pete Seeger made way for original songwriters. Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs Buffy St. Marie and Nina Si…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:09PMThursday, January 22, 2026
By David Sheward
January 22, 2025: Billed as a “new play with mixed reality,” Simon Stephens’ An Ark begs the questions “Is it theater?” and “Does the technology make up for a l…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:22PMSaturday, January 17, 2026
THE RESPITE
By Alix Cohen
January 17 2017: Fifty-something Carey (Janet Zaresh) has always had unerring instinct for what someone should read. There’s a kind of justice to her owning a b…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:36AMBy Samuel L. Leiter
January 27, 2026: As the first-rate actress Carrie Coon (The White Lotus) can testify, theatre can be dangerous. Coon is currently starring as Agnes White in the Broadway…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:22AMFriday, January 16, 2026
By David Sheward
January 16, 2026: People who make movies and write novels are terrible at relationships. What’s more they don’t give a hoot about the environment or climate change unle…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:07PMMonday, January 12, 2026
By Alix Cohen
January 12, 2026: Genre-defying Happenstance Theater offers an arsenal influences, inventiveness, and subtlety. Collectively devised, the company landscapes a stage with fine…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:30AMThursday, January 8, 2026
By David Sheward
January 8, 2026: Since its London premiere in 1996, Tracey Letts’ riveting psycho-thriller Bug has become more relevant and therefore even scarier. Currently revived in a …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:48PMBy Paulanne Simmons
January 7, 2025: Many of us have been to or participated in open mics at bars, cafés or clubs. But how many have ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes? Falling O…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:53AMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:38AMMonday, December 22, 2025
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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:53AMTuesday, December 16, 2025
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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:37PMMonday, December 1, 2025
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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:38AMWednesday, November 26, 2025
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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:42AMSunday, November 23, 2025
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…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:29PM 
