Wednesday, October 15, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
October 15, 2025: Four of the greatest female jazz vocalists are Lena Horne, Sarah Vaugn, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. If you like jazz, they are probably high …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00AMSunday, October 12, 2025
By David Sheward
October 12, 2025: “I didn’t think it made any sense to build an oral history of a three-way conflict that only spoke to two of the sides,” says Emily, an American of …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:26PMThursday, October 9, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
October 9, 2025: The 2025 republication of Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s1934 novel predicting the rise of Nazism, is a literary event of some significance, especially in o…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:31PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
October 9, 2025: Early this year, Jonathan Bank, artistic director of the Mint Theatre—famous for reviving forgotten plays—learned of Crooked Cross, a 1934novel by …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:30PMTuesday, October 7, 2025
By David Sheward
October 7, 2025: Preston Max Allen’s perceptive, keenly observant, and ultimately moving play Caroline begins ordinarily enough. A mother and daughter are ordering mac an…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:42PMBy Paulanne Simmons
October 7, 2025: Murdoch: The Final Interview begins with William Butler Yeats’s poem, “The Second Coming” and ends with references to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstei…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:32PMMonday, October 6, 2025
"EVERYDAY THE CHOICE IS YOURS"
By Alix Cohen
October 6, 2025: The near? future. Population growth is bleeding earth’s resources. With AI rampant, employment is an issue. People haven’…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:18PMBy Alix Cohen
October 6, 2025: Every play does not have to be life changing. A One Act with limited production budget can offer as much value as theater with publicity and stars.
Lost and…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:44PMThursday, October 2, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
October 2, 2025: A small rash of serious playwrights better known as star actors has broken out recently in New York, with the recent openings of John Leguizamo’s The …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:53PMTuesday, September 30, 2025
By David Sheward
September 30, 2025: It’s going to be very difficult to resist the obvious praise for Punch, James Graham’s hard-hitting British import presented by Manhattan Theater C…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:19PMBy Isa Goldberg
September 30, 2025: Justice is not about revenge. Therein lies the ontological premise of Punch, an action-packed docudrama set in The Meadows, a social rented housing comp…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:10PMMonday, September 29, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
September 28, 2025: It’s been a long time since I’ve sat in a Broadway theatre—or a theatre anywhere—and felt my eyes and nose swell with so much moisture I had…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:30PMSunday, September 28, 2025
By David Sheward
September 28, 2025: The biggest box-office hit of the new, startlingly sparse Broadway fall season is, surprisingly, a revival of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s clas…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMThursday, September 25, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
September 25, 2025: John Leguizamo, popular standup comic, monologist, movie star, filmmaker, and, among many other accomplishments, leading advocate for Latino America…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMWednesday, September 24, 2025
By David Sheward
September 24, 2025: While it feels a bit like an Afterschool TV Special, Saturday Church, the new Off-Broadway musical celebrating LGBTQ youth, is fun, infectious, and liv…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:10PMSaturday, September 20, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
September 20, 2025: Saturday Church, a raucously upbeat new musical, with a score by pop star Sia, celebrates life in the LGBTQ community. Based by writers Damon Cardas…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:49AMFriday, September 19, 2025
By Alix Cohen
September 19, 2025: Mira (Tora Nogami Alexander), a biracial, Korean American, classical violinist, and her boyfriend Beckett (Morgan Morse) are in South Carolina on a trip t…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:38PMBy David Sheward
September 19, 2025: On our way out of the Music Box Theater where the revival of Yasmina Reza’s Art is currently playing, my female theatergoing companion remarked, “I…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:15PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
By David Sheward
September 17, 2025. The worlds of camp and opera collide deliriously in the revival of Charles Ludlam’s 1983 Galas in a spectacularly silly outdoor production at Little I…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:01PMA METRPOLITIAN OPERA PREVIEW
By Alix Cohen
September 17, 2025: Tonight’s glimpse into The Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay fea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:50PMMonday, September 15, 2025
By David Sheward
September 15, 2025: The Wild Duck (1884) is the red-headed step-child among Henrik Ibsen’s classic plays. It seems every time a high-powered actress best known for her fi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:18PMSunday, September 14, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
September 14, 2025: Revivals of Henrik Ibsen are common enough, though A Doll’s House tends to dominate. Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People appear regul…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:00PMMonday, September 8, 2025
DELIGHTFUL!
By Alix Cohen
September 8, 2025: Without other similarity to the character Baby June from Gypsy, Rachel Matz Hunter might be called “a five foot two bundle of dynamite.” D…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:50PMBy Isa Goldberg
September 8, 2025: A scream alert bursts your ears -- stabbing the subconscious, evoking fear, and demons that become real -- more than mere apparitions. Exorcistic: The Ro…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:38PMThursday, September 4, 2025
By Alix Cohen
September 4, 2025: An instrumental “After You’ve Gone” (Turner Layton/Henry Creamer) sashays in. Trombone surges, cornet and clarinet shimmy, sax kicks up. Tonight’s …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:45AMTuesday, September 2, 2025
Jaime Lozano and performers. Photo Credit: Rebecca J. Michaelson
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:03PMSunday, August 31, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 31, 2025: Magic, as Jamie Allan, the appealing British magician now holding forth at one of the venues in Off-Broadway’s New World Stages, explains, goes back…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:50AMBy David Sheward
August 31, 2025: You might expect a lot more snark from comedian Jeff Ross in his one-man show Take a Banana for the Ride at the Nederlander. After all, he is nicknamed th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:42AMWednesday, August 27, 2025
By Alix Cohen
August 27, 2025: With this 11” x 17” book, you too can put a Hirschfeld on your wall or gift an uber-fan. There are 58 pages, 50 drawings and 25 glossy, thick, ready to f…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:13PMThursday, August 21, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 21, 2025: At last! The Delacorte Theatre, home of Free Shakespeare in Central Park has reopened, after a two-year renovation costing a reported $85 million, with…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMMonday, August 18, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 18, 2025: In our currently niche-dominated entertainment world, including the infinitesimal number of choices on cable, streaming, and broadcast TV, it’s easy…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PM 
