Friday, June 13, 2025
By David Sheward
June 13, 2025: Even though there is much that is familiar in Call Me Izzy, Jamie Wax’s new solo play at Studio 54, its star Jean Smart gives it a unique individual life.…
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By Samuel L. Leiter
(Note: Taylor Mac uses “judy” as a pronoun, but I’ve used conventional pronouns here.)
June 12, 2025: Molière, Molière, he’s everywhere. Well, not quite, but…
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By David Sheward
June 10, 2025: Donald Margulies’ tender and moving new play Lunar Eclipse from Second Stage at the Signature Theater Center, is a simple, direct depiction of a long marr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:44AMSunday, June 8, 2025
Potent and Beautifully Produced
By Alix Cohen
June 8, 2025: I’d be tempted to call this a perfect production were it not for the haunting Leonard Cohen quote, “There’s a crack in ev…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 06:48PMWednesday, June 4, 2025
Photos from the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards
June 1, 2024: The 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards held at the NYC Skirball Center on Sunday, June 1 hosted by Tituss Burgess and Debra Messing.
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:00PMMonday, June 2, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
June 2, 2025: It’s a bitter irony that, only days after the passing of Barry Gordin, Theater Life’s beloved editor-in-chief, the first two shows I’m reviewing for…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:01PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
June 2, 2025: Molière’s 1673 farce, The Imaginary Invalid, has had perhaps half a dozen professional New York revivals over the past century, most of short duration,…
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Purpose and Maybe Happy Ending win Outstanding Play and Outstanding Musical Awards. Maybe Happy Ending leads with 6 total wins across all categories.
June 3, 2025: The 69th Annual Drama De…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:00PMBy Isa Goldberg
June 1, 2025: Among the worst nightmares is the one where you’re watching a play, and the conversation on stage feels so deadly, the atmosphere so stifling, and the propo…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:46AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
May 28, 2025: Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole, the new jukebox musical by Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor, is very different from other shows in its genre. In the …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:25PMTuesday, May 27, 2025
By Isa Goldberg
May 27, 2025: A playful revival of William Inge’s 1955 play, Bus Stop, at Classic Stage Company makes for a cheerful confection.
Watching the classic film starring Maril…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:42PMMonday, May 26, 2025
By David Sheward
May 26, 2025: There are several thrilling elements in Goddess, the new musical at the Public Theater, and in Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, the new play with music at th…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:49PMSunday, May 25, 2025
By Alix Cohen
May 25, 2025: Ogresse is a musical fable billed as “both a biomythography (weaving myth, history, and biography in epic narrative) and an homage to Erzulie”, the Haitian …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:49AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
May 14, 2025. There’s something deliciously anarchistic about Fat Cat Killers, Adam Szymkowicz’s new play now at the Gene Frankel Theatre, under the direction of And…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:46PMBy David Sheward
May 14, 2025. The impact of our celebrity-obsessed digital culture is explored in the intimate and funny new musical The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse from The New Group at …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:38AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
By Paulanne Simmons
May 6, 2025. If you thought all Irish plays are dark and depressing, think again. Irishtown, by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth may be one of the funniest plays of the season. It�…
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By Samuel L. Leiter
May 2, 2025. In a season low on original musicals that spotlight underrepresented voices (The Buena Vista Social Club excepted), Real Women Have Curves: The Musical arri…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:53AMBy Paulanne Simmons
May 2, 2025. Abby Stein was born Srully Abraham Stein to a Hassidic family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She grew up speaking Yiddish and Hebrew. She attended an all…
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By Samuel L. Leiter
May 1, 2025. As its new title suggests, the Roundabout Theatre Company’s sparkling, New Orleans jazz-inspired revival of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1879 comic opera, The…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 08:33AMMonday, April 28, 2025
By David Sheward
April 28, 2025. If you’ve been waiting for the must-see production of the Broadway season to justify plunking down your hard-earned bucks, wait no more. Stranger Things: …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:13PMSunday, April 27, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 27, 2025. Before seeing Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow, originally produced on London’s West End in 2023, and now at the Marquis Theatre, I thoug…
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By Paulanne Simmons
April 25, 2025. In recent years, Broadway audiences have seen several reinterpretations of classic musicals. But no one has reinvented a classic with the perfect mix of …
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:01PMThursday, April 24, 2025
By David Sheward
April 24, 2025. The beloved, whimsical operettas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, composed between 1871 and 1896, have had their share of updating and transpositions. T…
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The White Room Gallery presents "STRIPPED: Music that Changed the World" on view April 23 - May 11, 2025.
April 22, 2025. Award-winning photographer and mixed-media artist Steve Joester will…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:35PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
By David Sheward
April 22, 2025. Two dramas on teen torment recently opened on and Off-Broadway, approaching their subjects through different lenses and both achieving dynamic theatrical re…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:02PMBy Samuel L. Leiter
April 22, 2025. Two current plays, one on Broadway and one Off, seem designed to attract younger audiences with their granular depiction of teenage angst, lingo, and beh…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 09:01PMVeteran Actress Victoria Rowell Pens Sizzling Tell-All and Is Onstage This Weekend in Jason’s Lyric, based on the Cult Film, at Brooklyn’s Historic Kings Theatre
By Elis Nassour
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:53PMSunday, April 20, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 20, 2025. As we exited the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre after seeing Sondheim’s Old Friends, producer-devisor Cameron Macintosh’s revue of around 40 songs by Ste…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:11PMSaturday, April 19, 2025
By Iris Wiener
April 19, 2025. There’s nothing better than a musical that explores unchartered territory. Operation Mincemeat’s originality is startlingly refreshing, if scarily relevan…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 07:34PMBy David Sheward
April 19, 2025. You never know what you’re going to get with a Caryl Churchill play, but it’s sure to be something unique, thought-provoking, and convention-breaking. A…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:26PMFriday, April 18, 2025
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 18, 2025. Twelve years ago, there was a TV series called“Smash,” whose showrunner was playwright Theresa Rebeck. It was largely a backstage look at the creatio…
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