Sunday, April 19, 2026
By Alix Cohen
April 19, 2026: Since 2018, Stephen Hanks, at various times editor, writer, publisher, reviewer, publicity agent, vocalist; always a dedicated political activist, has produced…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:43PMSaturday, April 18, 2026
By David Sheward
April 18, 2026: The fear of the number 13 is triskaidekaphobia. But you wouldn’t learn that from Lindsey Ferrentino’s play The Fear of 13 now at the James Ear…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:11PMFriday, April 17, 2026
By Isa Goldberg
April 17, 2026: New York City 1975, oh what a time! The city was bankrupt, federal aid and social services were dismantled, crime stepped up, and so did despair. Accordingly…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:51AMWednesday, April 15, 2026
By Paulanne Simmons
April 13, 2026: Billie Dawson’s mamma has died, and she’s headed back home to close up the house where she was born and raised. Memories surround her, but …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:52PMTuesday, April 14, 2026
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 14, 2026: Congratulations to the New Group on its move to a permanent home at the Theatre at St. Clements. Its first production there, however, director Scott Elli…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:15PMBy Alix Cohen
April 14, 2026: Charlotte Moore and Ciarán O’Reilly concocted Irish Repertory Theatre picturesquely chatting at a kitchen table, rather like Judy Garland and Mickey …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:15AMBy David Sheward
April 14, 2026: “This is where the story gets kooky crazy,†announces Marla Mindelle as a kooky crazy version of Canadian songstress and power-ballad queen Celi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:04AMMonday, April 13, 2026
By Isa Goldberg
April 13, 2026: A spectacle of and about our time, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, sets an exciting new bar in theatrical artistry. Its subject -- people who fashion themselves, cr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:00AMSunday, April 12, 2026
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 12, 2026: Four years ago, when I saw Titanique in an intimate, subterranean, club-like theatre in Chelsea, it reminded me of an earlier show, 2013’s magnifi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:25PMBy Alix Cohen
April 12, 2026: Donna McKechnie explodes onto the stage, arms shooting out like fireworks. “Everything’s Coming Up Roses†(Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim), usu…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:19PMJESSE TYLER FERGUSON STARS IN A MISGUIDED REVIVAL OF TRU, JAY PRESSON ALLEN’S CHARACTER STUDY OF TRUMAN CAPOTE AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN HIS LIFE.
By Patrick Christiano    …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:01PMFriday, April 10, 2026
By: Ellis NassourÂ
April 9, 2021: Cats: The Jellicle Ball, the rip-roaring reimagination of Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot’s classic score, inspired by the latter’s …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:13PMBy David Sheward
April 10, 2026: The most fascinating element of Joe Mantello’s innovative and powerful production of Death of a Salesman, is the deceptively simple set by Chloe Lamf…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:50PMThursday, April 9, 2026
By Paulanne Simmons
April 8, 2026: The latest offering in Kaufman Music Center’s Artist as Curator series put together choreographer and former New York City Ballet principal balleri…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:45AMWednesday, April 8, 2026
Shake It Up featuring David Bender, Suzanne Metz, Paul D. Fuentes, Kat O'Neill, and Kasia G on view at The White Room Gallery April 10 – May 10, 2026.
April 8, 2026: The White Room G…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:13PMSunday, April 5, 2026
By Alix Cohen
April 5, 2026: Based on a botched 1972 Brooklyn robbery and its subsequent film depiction, this iteration of Dog Day Afternoon has lost its axis. That the playwright was event…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:54PMSaturday, April 4, 2026
By Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2026: Like a quintessential Broadway magician, a Houdini in fact, Daniel Radcliffe breaks the shackles of constraint in Every Brilliant Thing.
In this interact…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:54AMThursday, April 2, 2026
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 2, 2026: Stage 42, a 499-seat Off-Broadway theatre, would classify as Broadway if it had one more seat. Gotta Dance!, its engaging new tenant, is a bit shy of Broa…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:52AMWednesday, April 1, 2026
By David Sheward
April 1, 2026: Two new Broadway plays are set in the last decades of the 20th century and based on real events. Both are startlingly relevant, foretelling fissures and frac…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:22AMBy Paulanne Simmons
April 1, 2026: We all know (or should know) that children’s author Roald Dahl was an antisemite. But before seeing Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant, recently transf…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:12AMSaturday, March 28, 2026
By David Sheward
March 27, 2026: Though Julissa Reynoso and Michael J. Chepiga’s Public Charge (fittingly at the Public Theater) takes place only a few years ago, this fast-paced doc…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:34AMTuesday, March 24, 2026
By David Sheward
March 24, 2026: Wallace Shawn continues to explore themes of morality and familial influence with his latest work What We Did Before Our Moth Days, a series of interrelated…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:03PMBy Iris Wiener
March 24, 2026: The lights dim, the music kicks in, and suddenly you’re not just watching a show—you’re rooting for a group of ordinary people finding co…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:54PMSaturday, March 21, 2026
By David Sheward
March 21, 2026: That distinctly weird, transitional decade, the 1980s, provides the time frame for two wildly funny Off-Broadway productions. This was a time when America w…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:49AMWednesday, March 18, 2026
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 18, 2026: In December 2014, a little more than eleven years ago, I saw the Off-Broadway production of the solo play Every Brilliant Thing at the Barrow Street Thea…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 04:33PMMonday, March 16, 2026
By David Sheward
March 16, 2026: The Daniel Radcliffe vehicle Every Brilliant Thing, currently at the Hudson after a transfer from London, is ostensibly a solo show. The former Harry Potter…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 03:00PMBy Alix CohenÂ
March 16,2026: The work of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire is a masterclass in wit, melody, and storytelling. Maltby’s lyrics sparkle with intelligence and emot…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 02:40PMFriday, March 13, 2026
By David Sheward
March 12, 2026: There have been numerous attempts at updating Greek tragedy. This season alone the tale of Oedipus has seen a new modern version from Robert Icke and a revi…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:27AMThursday, March 12, 2026
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 12, 2026: You can’t say that Bughouse, a mostly solo play (there are offstage voices) about an “outsider†artist, with direction by Martha C…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 01:25AMMonday, March 9, 2026
By Iris Wiener
March 9, 2026: New York City Center’s Bigfoot! is a delightfully quirky theatrical experience that embraces its offbeat premise with humor, heart, and an infectious se…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:33PMSunday, March 8, 2026
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 8, 2026: The Mint Theatre has once again reached into the candy jar of forgotten or neglected plays, often from the UK. This time it’s plucked a British pla…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:00PM 
