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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.
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 it ar…
By 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, a…
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…
By 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 propose…
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 firs…
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 Marilyn…
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 the Ne…
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 Afri…
By Samuel L. Leiter May 23, 2025: The Public Theater's latest musical, Goddess, on the same stage that introduced A Chorus Line and Hamilton,bursts onto the stage with an electrifying energy…
By David Sheward May 18, 2025: When you walk into the Vineyard Theater for Nazareth Hassan's Bowl EP, a co-production between Vineyard and the National Black Theatre in association with The …
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 Andrew …
By 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 …
LA FEMME at The White Room Gallery featuring the works of Terry O'Neill, Elise Remender, Sabrina Cabada, Rob Brinson and more on view at The White Room Gallery on view through June 16, 2025.…
By Samuel L. Leiter May 13, 2025: In an era where, as they say, nostalgia is currency and irony king, The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse arrives at the Pershing Square Signature Center with as…
By Alix Cohen
May 12, 2025. "Anything inanimate that you animate is a puppet." Basil Twist
How does a program like HERE's Dream Music Puppetry (producer of Puppetopia) get started in a coun…
MAYBE HAPPY ENDING wins 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best New Broadway Musical and JOHN PPROCTOR IS THE VILLIAN won Best new Broadway Play
May 12, 2025: The Outer Critics Circle…
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'…
By David Sheward May 5, 2025: The 2024-25 Broadway season closes out with a pair of wildly divergent musicals featuring stunning star turns by two of the musical theater's brightest stars. J…
By Paulanne Simmons
The main artifice of Justin in Time, the new jukebox musical about Bobby Darin, is that it's all artifice. The first thing Jonathon Groff says as he strides onto Derek…
By Samuel L. Leiter
May 3, 2025: In recent seasons, Jonathan Groff, now 40 but still boyishly handsome, has become Broadway's definition of a modern musical matinee idol, masculine yet g…
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…
By 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…
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 Pir…
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: Th…
