Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Theatergoers expect big relationship comedy from Simon, comedy that plays out in "the long game"�not the hit-and-run, ambiguous Russian format we see here, with dour twist-endings.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:07PMMonday, September 16, 2013
I went into this show thinking the biggest shock would be the casting of a black actor (Nathan Lee Graham) as Kander & Ebb's "Emcee," who gleefully guides us down a rabbit hole and into the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:58PMMs. Brumley as Eliza is the true joy and sorrow of the piece, lifted (as everyone knows) from selling flowers on the street to passing as a duchess at an embassy ball.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:57PMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Lavonne Byers is wonderfully dim and needy and lascivious as Kath, presented with the opportunity to take in a handsome young lodger (the playful and mysterious Paul Cereghino).
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02AMThe overall effect in this local premiere is one of great love and beauty and playfulness, carefully braided together with the worst ugliness of the human soul.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01AMTuesday, August 27, 2013
Here's an excellent production of a dark comedy, but one that also left the opening night audience gasping in astonishment again and again: at the outrageous (and hilarious) relationships of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:37PMWednesday, August 14, 2013
An outstanding production of Cormac McCarthy's 90-minute play marks the arrival of a new theater group in town. And its Sunset Limited is full of the kind of smarts and self-possession a lot…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:10AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
I still find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that Mr. Callahan can be both utterly obnoxious and completely charming all at the same time. But yes he can, and yes he is.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:13PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
[T]he whole thing is a very nice surprise, if you're like me and thought you already knew everything you really needed to know about William Shakespeare.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:34AMIt may be the end of the world, but there's a delightful sense of reassurance from the minute the show starts, in this Ashman and Menken pop classic, based on a Roger Corman B-movie from 196…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33AMThursday, June 13, 2013
... this time, I am only filled with admiration and delight, as Jacqueline Petroccia essays the role of Patsy Cline, the great country & western singer.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:35PM... an excellent production, filled with humor and fine performances�and an exceptionally lithe and delightful turn by Sarajane Alverson as the wife of a wealthy art dealer in Manhattan.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:34PMMonday, June 3, 2013
Hilarious and wise Zachary Allen Farmer stars as the stoic Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the nihilist writer who's the focus of this riotous dark mess, and directed by the too-young-to-be-ve…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:45PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
The nice thing is that the invisible culture of, well, culture itself, is laid bare, and turned on its head in this comedy, as an eager young student proceeds to have his way with all that E…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45PMJerry Vogel, as virtually every principle in the Trojan War, makes it very clear what real vengeance, and real violence, and real guts and glory and remorse are all about in An Iliad, the ps…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45PMMonday, May 20, 2013
Some of the most interesting performers in town are pressed into the service of Arnold Weinstein and Hankus Netsy's musical version of Isaac Bashevis Singer's play
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13AMMonday, May 6, 2013
When "the good old days" become a religion all their own, can the eager rebellion of modern minds be very far behind?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:33PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
A hard-boiled style, bitter as the smell of gunpowder, is merely the delicious disguise this genuine thriller wears�and you'll be surprised how the laughs change about midway through: no mor…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMMonday, March 11, 2013
It's spring, the time of year when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of maniacal (but entertaining) lust for pain and degradation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:21PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Kimi Short walks a very fine line here, in a splendid performance as a woman who can't let go of the past, even though it threatens to destroy her marriage, her family, and her mind.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53PMThursday, February 14, 2013
Lia Romeo was commissioned to write a script about social networking back in 2011, and now her play Connected is enjoying its very funny maiden voyage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:42PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
First impressions, as any fan of Jane Austen will tell you, can be deceiving.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:13PMMonday, February 11, 2013
With all the rhythms of a bunch of circus aerialists, David Mamet's debut on the New Jewish Theatre stage starts their 2013 season off with a bang, as director Tim Ocel sends his actors swin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:39PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Amy Herzog's play still manages to do everything you want it to do: the characters come to life, and drive one another to difficult, unexpected places, and us along with them.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:49PMTuesday, January 15, 2013
Ken Page's new play, set in a wartime club in France, takes us to a place that seems familiar, but�perhaps with a little extra help from some great old songs and Upstream Theatre's curiously…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:29PMFriday, January 11, 2013
One hundred and fifty-two years ago, Charles Dickens began the publication of "Great Expectations." And now another great storyteller, David Lindsay-Abaire, takes up the opposite theme in a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:18AMFriday, December 14, 2012
Romance may never get more personal than this, as two splendid actors reason out their future on a dreamy riverbank, under a clear-eyed moon.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:56PMMonday, December 10, 2012
Nothing says "the holidays" more than dark secrets coming vividly to life. Or Byzantine riddles that add a dash of mystery to the hum-drum rituals of the winter solstice�before we finally fi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:13PMFriday, November 2, 2012
Because, for better or worse, the play still rises or falls on whether or not you were ever awe-struck by the 1939 movie, as Moonlight and Magnolias is totally devoted to knocking the whole …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PMWednesday, October 31, 2012
This is an extremely funny play, in spite of the implicit subject matter: suburban racism (in 1959) and even a non-violent version of ethnic cleansing (when the same neighborhood gentrifies …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:32PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
By the director of Les Miserables and Nicholas Nickleby, and the creators of Jane Eyre, this two-person play still manages to twinkle like a lovely little gem.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PM 
