4,063 stories from theaterlife
By Alix Cohen
April 19, 2026: Since 2018, Stephen Hanks, at various times editor, writer, publisher, reviewer, publicity agent, vocalist; always a dedicated political activist, has produced…
By David Sheward
April 18, 2026: The fear of the number 13 is triskaidekaphobia. But you wouldn't learn that from Lindsey Ferrentino's play The Fear of 13 now at the James Earl Jones after …
By Isa Goldberg
April 17, 2026: New York City 1975, oh what a time! The city was bankrupt, federal aid and social services were dismantled, crime stepped up, and so did despair. Accordingly…
By Paulanne Simmons
April 13, 2026: Billie Dawson's mamma has died, and she's headed back home to close up the house where she was born and raised. Memories surround her, but it isn't until…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 14, 2026: Congratulations to the New Group on its move to a permanent home at the Theatre at St. Clements. Its first production there, however, director Scott Elli…
By Alix Cohen
April 14, 2026: Charlotte Moore and Ciarán O'Reilly concocted Irish Repertory Theatre picturesquely chatting at a kitchen table, rather like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney,…
By David Sheward
April 14, 2026: "This is where the story gets kooky crazy," announces Marla Mindelle as a kooky crazy version of Canadian songstress and power-ballad queen Celine Dion half…
By Isa Goldberg
April 13, 2026: A spectacle of and about our time, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, sets an exciting new bar in theatrical artistry. Its subject -- people who fashion themselves, cr…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 12, 2026: Four years ago, when I saw Titanique in an intimate, subterranean, club-like theatre in Chelsea, it reminded me of an earlier show, 2013's magnificently …
By Alix Cohen
April 12, 2026: Donna McKechnie explodes onto the stage, arms shooting out like fireworks. "Everything's Coming Up Roses" (Jule Styne/Stephen Sondheim), usually a finale, is h…
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON STARS IN A MISGUIDED REVIVAL OF TRU, JAY PRESSON ALLEN'S CHARACTER STUDY OF TRUMAN CAPOTE AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN HIS LIFE.
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April 9, 2021:Â Cats: The Jellicle Ball, the rip-roaring reimagination of Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot's classic score, inspired by the latter's Old Possum's B…
By David Sheward
April 10, 2026: The most fascinating element of Joe Mantello's innovative and powerful production of Death of a Salesman, is the deceptively simple set by Chloe Lamford. Wh…
By Paulanne Simmons
April 8, 2026: The latest offering in Kaufman Music Center's Artist as Curator series put together choreographer and former New York City Ballet principal ballerina Laur…
Shake It Up featuring David Bender, Suzanne Metz, Paul D. Fuentes, Kat O'Neill, and Kasia G on view at The White Room Gallery April 10 " May 10, 2026.
April 8, 2026: The White Room Gallery,…
By Alix Cohen
April 5, 2026: Based on a botched 1972 Brooklyn robbery and its subsequent film depiction, this iteration of Dog Day Afternoon has lost its axis. That the playwright was event…
By Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2026: Like a quintessential Broadway magician, a Houdini in fact, Daniel Radcliffe breaks the shackles of constraint in Every Brilliant Thing.
In this interact…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 2, 2026: Stage 42, a 499-seat Off-Broadway theatre, would classify as Broadway if it had one more seat. Gotta Dance!, its engaging new tenant, is a bit shy of Broa…
By David Sheward
April 1, 2026: Two new Broadway plays are set in the last decades of the 20th century and based on real events. Both are startlingly relevant, foretelling fissures and frac…
By Paulanne Simmons
April 1, 2026: We all know (or should know) that children's author Roald Dahl was an antisemite. But before seeing Mark Rosenblatt's Giant, recently transferred to Broad…
By David Sheward
March 27, 2026: Though Julissa Reynoso and Michael J. Chepiga's Public Charge (fittingly at the Public Theater) takes place only a few years ago, this fast-paced docu-play …
By Jesse Ayala
March 24, 2026: Since 1997, the Jonathan Larson Grants have been awarded to promising musical theater composers, lyricists, librettists, and writing teams, continuing Jonath…
By David Sheward
March 24, 2026: Wallace Shawn continues to explore themes of morality and familial influence with his latest work What We Did Before Our Moth Days, a series of interrelated…
By Iris Wiener
March 24, 2026: The lights dim, the music kicks in, and suddenly you're not just watching a show"you're rooting for a group of ordinary people finding courage in the most une…
By David Sheward
March 21, 2026: That distinctly weird, transitional decade, the 1980s, provides the time frame for two wildly funny Off-Broadway productions. This was a time when America w…
