4,063 stories from theaterlife
By Alix Cohen
February 4, 2026: When Frenchwoman Margot Sergent appeared at the doors of Berklee School of Music 12 years ago, she had a classical harp background. When she left, the vocali…
By Alix Cohen
February 1, 2026. Peter Calo has worked with such diverse artists as Dionne Warwick, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Leonard Bernstein, Lesley Gore, and The …
By David Sheward
January 31, 2026: The innovative theater collective Elevator Repair Service has tackled such literary giants as Fitzgerald (Gatz, its day-long version of The Great Gatsby),…
IMAGINE featuring Elise Remender on view at The White Room Gallery through March 1, 2026.
January 27, 2026: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, in the village of East Hampton will pr…
By Isa Goldberg
January 27, 2026: On a recent Saturday night at the POWERHOUSE Arena, an independent bookstore in DUMBO, I fell into my first adventure with the playwright Ed Schmidt.Â
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By Iris Wiener
January 26, 2026: The Broadway production of Marjorie Prime unfolds in a near future where artificial intelligence has become intimate enough to share a living room. Written …
By David Sheward
January 26, 2026: Matthew Libby's Data could have easily become like one of those made-for-streaming spy thrillers in which attractive young techies steal vital software an…
By Alix Cohen
January 26, 2026: Christopher Domig was an increasingly self-produced actor when asked to become artistic director of The Firebone Theater Company in Manhattan. He'd fostered …
By Iris Wiener
January 26, 2026: In a Broadway season often defined by scale and spectacle, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) is a reminder of the power of simplicity. Now playing…
By Alix Cohen
January 25, 2026: Protest songs proliferated in the 1960s. Writer/adapters like Pete Seeger made way for original songwriters. Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs Buffy St. Marie and Nina Si…
By David Sheward
January 22, 2025: Billed as a "new play with mixed reality," Simon Stephens' An Ark begs the questions "Is it theater?" and "Does the technology make up for a lack of confl…
THE RESPITE
By Alix Cohen
January 17 2017: Fifty-something Carey (Janet Zaresh) has always had unerring instinct for what someone should read. There's a kind of justice to her owning a boo…
By Samuel L. Leiter
January 27, 2026: As the first-rate actress Carrie Coon (The White Lotus) can testify, theatre can be dangerous. Coon is currently starring as Agnes White in the Broadway…
By David Sheward
January 16, 2026: People who make movies and write novels are terrible at relationships. What's more they don't give a hoot about the environment or climate change unless t…
By Alix Cohen
January 12, 2026: Genre-defying Happenstance Theater offers an arsenal influences, inventiveness, and subtlety. Collectively devised, the company landscapes a stage with fine…
By David Sheward
January 8, 2026: Since its London premiere in 1996, Tracey Letts' riveting psycho-thriller Bug has become more relevant and therefore even scarier. Currently revived in a fo…
By Paulanne Simmons
January 7, 2025: Many of us have been to or participated in open mics at bars, cafés or clubs. But how many have ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes? Falling O…
By Paulanne Simmons
January 6, 2025: In his excellent tribute to Tom Lehrer, Thank You Tom Lehrer, actor/comedian Bobby Underwood, quotes The New York Times, saying, "Mr. Lehrer is unfettere…
"Nonsense wakes up the brain cells…If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack." - Dr. Seuss
By Alix Cohen
January 3, 2026: Tom Lehrer (1928"2025) was…
A VAUDEVILLE
By Alix Cohen
December 22, 2025: Imagination, theatrical skill and physical puppet craft has had a home at HERE Arts Center's Dream Music Puppetry program since 1999. Endowed …
A PICK ME UP FOR A WEARY SOUL.
By Alix Cohen
December 17, 2025: For those of you sadly unfamiliar, throwback Bryce Edwards plays and sings 1920s/30s songs as they would've been performed …
By Isa Goldberg
December 16, 2025: Although not a memory play, memory itself plays a big role in Marjorie Prime, so does the ability to create a memorable experience, and in that way, strive…
By David Sheward
December 16, 2025: When Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2015, the play was hailed as a complex, compassionate rumination …
By Ellis Nassour
December 15: You can add to NYC's long list of anticipated Christmas traditions -- the giant Rock Center tree, the Rockettes' high kicks and wooden soldiers, holiday wi…
By Alix Cohen
December 10, 2025: Sammy Davis Jr. (1925"1990) was a trailblazing entertainer whose career spanned singing, dancing, and acting. Rising from vaudeville as a child prodigy, he …
