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Director SuzAnne Barabas has matched author Richard Strand in deftly concealing and delivering the clever and satisfying surprises that are in store for the viewer ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:27AMFriday, April 24, 2015
Your Blues Ain't Sweet Like Mine, by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, in a world premiere production at Two River Theater manages the neat trick of directly confronting the issue of talking about race…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:06PMThursday, March 19, 2015
By something akin to alchemy, book author Peter Parnell and director Scott Schwartz have transformed the earnest but ultimately bland and timid 1996 Disney animated movie The Hunchback of No…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:07AMMonday, March 9, 2015
By all means, come to see Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, come for the sexuality, and come for the laughs, but be sure to stay for the healing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:34PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Hawking and her author make us admire and delight in a woman whose materialism and extravagance under other circumstances would be found deplorable.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27AMFriday, December 5, 2014
David Lee and the Two River Theater have produced an innovative, sensual, intellectually and emotionally satisfying new Camelot. Most importantly, it is time to acknowledge the fact that Art…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:37AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
The Understudy is a bit of a trifle in her considerable oeuvre, but it ultimately emerges in this production as a heartfelt, moving and rapturous paean to the theatre and those moments of jo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29PMSunday, October 12, 2014
With a little help from many talented friends, Cole Porter and Abe Burrows' Can-Can is back in town, providing the kind of melodious, light-hearted, audience-pleasing entertainment that sadl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:33AMTuesday, September 23, 2014
It has taken six years (since its 2008 world premiere at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company) for David Davalos' totally accessible, delightfully literate comedy Wittenberg to cross the Del…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38PMWednesday, August 20, 2014
It has been said the road to you know where is paved with good intentions. Sadly, the brilliant and indefatigable Bonnie J. Monte has come a cropper with her production of her own new adapta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:03PMMonday, August 18, 2014
Sara Fine is Queen of the Jinxed. The lightbulbs which she installs in her apartment have little more life expectancy than a lightning bug. Her cat has been run over, and her fish bowl is me…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:47PMMonday, July 14, 2014
Melodrama, adventure, romance and comic wit await you at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's robust and delightful production of George Bernard Shaw's not very often performed The Devil'…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:00PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
... once it gets rolling, it becomes a clever, full-blown comedy which could become widely popular.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:48PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Employing relationships and situations that have long been employed in sentimental musicals and comedies, along with traditionally styled music, the authors of Marry Harry have created a dis…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:30PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
It is set on the stage of a Broadway theatre during rehearsals for the opening of an anti-lynching Broadway play (Chaos in Belleville).
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:44PM"Lift" is set in an elevator in a large building which is owned and occupied by a large corporation which encompasses varied businesses and financial institutions.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:43PMSunday, April 20, 2014
The Marriage of Figaro is the finest production of any play that I have seen in New Jersey this entire season.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44AMEverything has come up all aces for the Paper Mill Playhouse and its fresh as a daisy new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26AMMonday, April 14, 2014
On stage at the McCarter in a felicitous translation/adaptation of the latter 18th century French commedia dell'arte The Barber of Seville. Originally conceived of as a comic opera, the play…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:33AMSaturday, March 29, 2014
Not much happens in the solo show I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti which Jacques Lamarre has adapted from the memoir by Giulia Melucci. Still, it is sweet and likeable, and Antoinette LaVec…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:41PMSaturday, March 22, 2014
Serendipity has struck at New Jersey's Women's Theatre where the Women's Theater Company's production of Working, Stephen Schwartz' 1978 musical adaptation of Studs Terkel's 1974 book based …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:29AMSaturday, March 1, 2014
Although Centenary Stage Company is not in top form this time out, its production ofThe Liar is certainly lively and robust.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49AMWednesday, February 26, 2014
The charming and delightfully funny The Other Josh Cohen, which has been musically inspired by the oeuvre of Neil Diamond, may be the most successful pop rock musical to date in its ability …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:23PMFriday, February 21, 2014
... props for gently addressing the important issue as to whether a number of newly labeled psychological disorders which are widely and casually chemically treated with powerful and dangero…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:22AMSunday, February 16, 2014
Director Reginald L. Douglas has captured Fugard's richly nuanced details in the interactions among Sam, Willie and Hally so as to present Fugard's profoundly personal Master Harold to us wi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:03AM 
