Monday, September 8, 2025
By 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…
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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.…
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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, go…
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, re…
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, itâ€�…
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 …
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 Pric…
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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 yea…
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 g…
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.…
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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…
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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 animalâ€) than her thespia…
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 itâ€�…
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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 SNLÂ guitarist and bandleader G.…
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 st…
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.…
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 confedera…
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. LeiterÂ
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 visit…
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