Saturday, August 16, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
August 16, 2025: Late in her life, Ava Gardner decided to write an autobiography. She didn’t so much want to tell her story as raise money. She was low on funds and a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:10PMThursday, August 14, 2025
CHARMING AND ENTERTAINING
By Alix Cohen
August 14, 2025: “Every story begins with a spark of imagination…” Jamie Allan was eight when his parents bought him a Fisher Price magic set.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:22PMBy Paulanne Simmons
August 14, 2025: When theater star and Nashville recording artist Rachel Potter turned forty, she was living in Nashville doing corporate real estate. After many years…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:03AMTuesday, August 12, 2025
By David Sheward
August 12, 2025: Bubba Weiler’s new play Well, I’ll Let You Go at the Space at Irondale in Brooklyn breaks a few rules and doesn’t seem to have much going for it at …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:01PMMonday, August 11, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
August 11, 2025: Oddly, Bubba Weiler’s new play at the Irondale Brooklyn, Well, I’ll Let You Go, begins where the story ends …after Marv’s death. Being iconoclastic…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:04AMFriday, August 8, 2025
By David Sheward
August 7, 2025: “The story you are about to see is true…except for the parts that aren’t.” So reads a disclaimer flashed on the curtain before the start of Ava: Th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:53AMThursday, August 7, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
August 7, 2025: In 1988, former screen star Ava Gardner, famed much more for her sultry glamor (“the world’s most beautiful animal”) than her thespian artistry (a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:30PMSaturday, August 2, 2025
By David Sheward
August 1, 2025: Joy, subtitled a New True Musical, Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels, is a serviceable enough product to entertain intermittently for two hours, but it’s ba…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:16PMTuesday, July 29, 2025
The White Room Gallery hosted an opening reception for RED CARPET, which will be on view through August 17, 2025.
July 28, 2025: The White Room Gallery, 2 Railroad Avenue in East Hampton, …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:44PMMonday, July 28, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
July 28, 2025: Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner were only married five years. Even though he was thirteen years older, she was married to SNL guitarist and bandleader G.E.…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:11PMUplifting!
By Alix Cohen
July 27, 2025: We live in an Instagram, Tick-Tock driven society that makes successes of Influencers. Had Joy Mangano come up with her product a little later, she…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:42AMFriday, July 25, 2025
By Alix Cohen
July 25, 2025: Having noticed “a couple of blank squares” on his calendar, Sean Harkness shares his inner troubadour with an evening of instrumentals, songs and stories. T…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:08PMBy Samuel Leiter
July 25, 2025: The Vietnam war and the theatre have not exactly been strangers, although nowhere near as many shows, especially good ones, have taken their cue from it as …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:59PMThursday, July 24, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
July 24, 2025: Rolling Thunder was the name of a Bob Dylan concert tour that also featured performers such as Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. And …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PMBy David Sheward
July 24, 2025: The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY celebrates its 50th anniversary season with departures from traditional operatic fare. In addition to Stephen S…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:48PMBy Iris Wiener
July 24, 2025: John Krasinski is not Angry Alan, despite what one might believe from the title of this (mostly) solo play; instead, Krasinski is Roger, a suburban, disillusi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:31PMMonday, July 21, 2025
By David Sheward
July 21, 2025: Musical styles are mixed to maximum emotional effect in unusual productions in one new outdoor venue in Manhattan and at the 50th anniversary season of a lo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:21PMWednesday, July 16, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
July 16, 2025: It has been said, with a good deal of truth, that short stories make the best screenplays. This is certainly the case with the film, The Man Who Shot Lib…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:40PMBy David Sheward
July 16, 2025: Unconventional storytelling methods are on display in two Off-Broadway productions, offering brave theatergoers unusual and exciting experiences. John Krasi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:23AMSunday, July 13, 2025
A 1938 Radio Writers Room, as much refuge as employment
By Alix Cohen
July 13, 2025: Howard Edison (Dylan Smith) is new to a radio writers’ room where personnel have been confederates f…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:32PMSaturday, July 12, 2025
The Price of Popularity
By Alix Cohen
July 12, 2025: A splashy satire that bakes bullying, teenage suicide, and sexual assault in dark, subversive humor. Heathers has been around since th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:50PMFriday, July 11, 2025
By David Sheward
July 11, 2025: Heathers the Musical (Off-Broadway at New World Stages) is one of many recent teen-angst tuners. Others of this new genre include Tony-winning Best Musicals …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:27AMThursday, July 10, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
July 10, 2025: Eleven years ago, in 2014, I reviewed a show called Heathers: The Musical at New World Stages. So it wasn’t very fresh in my mind when I visited its …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:00PMTuesday, July 8, 2025
By Alix Cohen
July 8, 2025: On the fifth anniversary of Charles Kirsch’s Backstage Babble, the young uber- fan/interviewer (250 and counting) again takes to the stage at 54Below to prese…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:17PMMonday, July 7, 2025
By David Sheward
July 7, 2025: When Prince Harry of England married Meghan Markle, an African-American actress, in 2018, I was teaching high school. On the Monday morning after their royal…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:12PMThursday, July 3, 2025
By David Sheward
July 3, 2025: In a program note for her play Trophy Boys (at MCC Theater), Emmanuelle Mattana observes, “Gender is a scam but it is also a gift. Drag is radical joy and l…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30AMMonday, June 30, 2025
Behind every child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed first.
By Alix Cohen
June 30, 2025: Lorelei Edwards comes from a musical family. “I’m Irish/Italian. Everybody …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:29AMSaturday, June 28, 2025
By Alix Cohen
June 28, 2025: Canada 2025 Duke, a successful, American rap artist, is questioned by an interviewer about a visit to Kabul, Afghanistan. At the insistence of his record comp…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:49PMBy David Sheward
June 28, 2025: Two unconventional plays about odd romantic pairings recently opened Off-Broadway. Both attempt to tackle significant topics outside of the “boy-meets-gir…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:40PMSaturday, June 21, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
June 21, 2025: During gay pride one should experience at least one gay happening – it’s a stereotypical thing to do. Such an event, Beau the Musical, performed on nat…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:58PMFriday, June 20, 2025
By David Sheward
June 20, 2025: Moliere is having a modern moment. Two adaptations of the 17th century French playwright’s comedies are now on display Off-Broadway. Both employ contempor…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:46PM 
