Thursday, February 12, 2026
By Isa Goldberg
February 12, 2026: It’s Intriguing to me to read women writers on boxing and wrestling -- sports so demonstrably masculine, they would seem out of reach. However, a writer…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:42PMBy David Sheward
February 12, 2026: The two-actor cast of Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters at the intimate Stage II at City Center in a Manhattan Theater Club production, go through quite a w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:33PMWednesday, February 11, 2026
By Ellis Nassour
February 11, 2026: Tony, Emmy, and Grammy nominee and former Miss America Vanessa Williams, fresh from her West End debut in the dazzling musical The Devil Wears Prada,…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:48PMSaturday, February 7, 2026
By David Sheward
February 7, 2026: In a program interview, director-choreographer Danny Mefford reveals he never saw The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee before taking on its first-ev…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:19AMThursday, February 5, 2026
By Samuel L. Leiter
February 5, 2026: Erika Schmidt’s disappointing The Disappear, now at Off Broadway’s Minetta Lane Theatre, is a drawing-room comedy of manners whose surface polish i…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:57PMWednesday, February 4, 2026
By Alix Cohen
February 4, 2026: When Frenchwoman Margot Sergent appeared at the doors of Berklee School of Music 12 years ago, she had a classical harp background. When she left, the vocali…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:03PMSunday, February 1, 2026
By Alix Cohen
February 1, 2026. Peter Calo has worked with such diverse artists as Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Bernstein, Lesley Gore, and The …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:48AMSaturday, January 31, 2026
By David Sheward
January 31, 2026: The innovative theater collective Elevator Repair Service has tackled such literary giants as Fitzgerald (Gatz, its day-long version of The Great Gatsby),…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:10AMTuesday, 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 09:15AM 
