4,063 stories from theaterlife
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…
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…
By 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 emotional p…
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…
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 Clarke, script by Be…
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 sense of …
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 play writt…
By Isa Goldberg
March 5, 2026: Brain health. It's much more than a contemporary idea, and it triumphs here, in Jake Brasch's The Reservoir at The Atlantic Theater. Â
One might think br…
By Paulanne Simmons
March 5, 2026: Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is a legendary apelike creature that has its origins in the Indigenous folklore of the Pacific Northwest. But he didn't …
YOUR KIND OF CAMP?
By Alix Cohen
March 2, 2026. Camp (idiomatic/aesthetic sense) refers to a style or sensibility that embraces exaggeration, theatricality, artificiality, and deliberate …
UNITED AGAINST BIAS, DIVIDED BY POWER
By Alix Cohen
February 27, 2026: Prejudice against Chinese women in corporate America often operates at the intersection of race and gender, where st…
By Ellis Nassour
February 24, 2026: Grammy winner and a seven-time Grammy nominee Debby Boone, quite celebrated as a multiple cross-over artist with Top 10 successes in pop, contemporary, a…
By Samuel L. Leiter
February 23, 2026: Mother Russia, Lauren Yee's satiric fantasia in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, arrives at Signature Theatre with an ambition that is at…
By Samuel L. Leiter
February 21, 2026: Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters, a Manhattan Theatre Club production at NY City Center Stage II, is one of those rare evenings in the theater when you fe…
Wild Things featuring Markus Klinko, Stephen Hall, and Mital Patel on view at The White Room Gallery March 6 - April 12, 2026.
February 20, 2026: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, …
By Ellis Nassour
February 19, 2026: Step inside 148th edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's next iteration of The Greatest Show On Earth and, though it may not hit or shock yo…
By David Sheward
February 17, 2026: Jacob Perkins' The Dinosaurs at Playwrights Horizons starts out like a straightforward depiction of a weekly support group modeled on Alcoholics Anonymou…
By Samuel L Leiter
February 16, 2026: Jacob Perkins's The Dinosaurs, now receiving its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, belongs to the category we might call the "group therapy play.…
By Paulanne Simmons
February 16, 2026: If you like plays with a lot of physical action, easy humor and obvious pathos, don't miss The Monsters, a two-hander written and directed by Ngozi An…
By Alix Cohen
February 14, 2026: Jeff Harnar's last two shows/CDs set an extraordinarily high bar. Tonight, with the recreation of his first 1987 appearance at Don't Tell Mama, he and colla…
By Isa Goldberg
February 12, 2026: It's Intriguing to me to read women writers on boxing and wrestling -- sports so demonstrably masculine, they would seem out of reach. However, a writer k…
By David Sheward
February 12, 2026: The two-actor cast of Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters at the intimate Stage II at City Center in a Manhattan Theater Club production, go through quite a wor…
By Ellis NassourÂ
February 11, 2026: Tony, Emmy, and Grammy nominee and former Miss America Vanessa Williams, fresh from her West End debut in the dazzling musical The Devil Wears Pr…
By David Sheward
February 7, 2026: In a program interview, director-choreographer Danny Mefford reveals he never saw The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee before taking on its first-ev…
By Samuel L. Leiter
February 5, 2026: Erika Schmidt's disappointing The Disappear, now at Off Broadway's Minetta Lane Theatre, is a drawing-room comedy of manners whose surface polish invit…
