Wednesday, 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…
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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 …
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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 09:00PMSaturday, 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, …
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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.…
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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 09:40PM 
