Wednesday, 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 06:58PMSunday, October 14, 2012
Here, in Neil Simon's wonderfully touching comedy set in 1942, everything the two teenage boys go through seems to come down to us like a conglomeration of old movies: The Petrified Forest, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Beyond the writing, the credit goes to Christopher Harris as Yank, a ship's stoker, and also to Upstream Theatre for its grasp of something as thin as the air, the atmosphere itself, that gi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:10PMMonday, October 8, 2012
By rights, this show should be unbelievably grim, and we should all weep for America. But it's not, and, well, we don't.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:04AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
This is the most romantic "Dream" I've ever seen, although it's also the most surprising clash of costuming visions, too.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:48AMSunday, September 16, 2012
Perfectly cast, excellent in its visual conception, and charming beyond all reason, My One And Only will make you forget all about political attack ads, and probably everything else, for ove…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:01PMI like everything about this play, except that it took me almost exactly as long to get ready before the show and then drive over early to get a parking spot in the theater district (and the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:00PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Believe it or not, this is the very first Neil Simon play the Rep has ever done, in its 46 year history. And I feel strangely terrible about the whole thing, because it's taken me all these …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:57PMThursday, August 30, 2012
These are some great young actors to watch, while your ears exult in the equally great writing of Richard Greenberg's 2003 play.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:46PMMonday, August 6, 2012
Not that this is a "bad" show: it has a lot of good musical numbers, a few really good ones, and a very accomplished cast and crew, too. But the jokes, at the expense of "white trash" Americ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51PMMonday, July 16, 2012
Most theater people are at least vaguely familiar with Noises Off, the farce with eight doors (sixteen if you count the backstage action in the second act) but if you've never seen it with a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:45PMWednesday, July 11, 2012
You can't blame anyone for producing a Ken Ludwig farce-take his fine stage adaptation of the old movie, Twentieth Century, or his greatest achievement, Lend Me A Tenor. I mean, Ken Ludwig k…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:41PMThis would be a good show to take a gang of four-to-six year old girls to: with big colorful dance numbers; and a gargantuan pile of incredibly lame wokka-wokka-wokka-style jokes from three …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:40PMThursday, June 28, 2012
I can't remember a Muny show that ever looked as polished and fearsome on opening night as this one, directed and choreographed by Denis Jones.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:53PMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Director Michael Hamilton pulls one rabbit out of his hat after another, for the first 2/3rds of this nightclub-style revue, on a sleek art deco stage by James Wolk.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMTuesday, June 5, 2012
This version, adapted by Giles Havergal and directed with outrageous truthfulness and straight-faced perjury by Emily Jones, is a brilliant psychological farce (in terms of its effect and im…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:25PMWednesday, May 16, 2012
When you put up a "Sensitive, New-Age Guy" against a "Tough, No-Nonsense Guy," you don't always end up with a presidential campaign. Sometimes, you get a great comedy like Rounding Third, wh…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:55PMIt's mostly a series of monologs, based on older sketches, with Stellie Siteman and Alan Knoll bravely carrying the banner of Mr. Rudnick into battle against the usual glare of stage-lights …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMMonday, May 7, 2012
So, be warned. Maybe you'll take it too seriously, like the comic book guys; or maybe just dismiss it off-handedly, like my critic friends. Or maybe, like me, you grew up giggling at all the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:11PMThis is my new favorite farce. And I didn't even know it was a farce until I counted up all the doors on the set, with its three tiny dressing rooms.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:10PMThursday, April 19, 2012
This is a maddening play, and not in a good way, either.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:01PMConversations with an Executioner, adapted by Philip Boehm, continues through April 29, 2012, at the Kranzberg Center's black box theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:01PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
From the opening chords, which (of course) sound like some 1950s movie about teen rebels, we know we're in for a counter-cultural extravaganza.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
Stylish and sly, Jean Genet's comedy of two maids features Brooke Edwards and Emily Baker writhing operatically under the excesses of their employer, as the plans for their revenge wobble ho…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:49PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
You get a lot of good, clean fun, thanks to co-directors Justin Been and Gary F. Bell, and a delirious cast that delivers 110 percent.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:42PMMonday, January 30, 2012
In Juan Mayorga's bizarre fictionalized account, a German commandant struggles (with the precision of Seurat's own pointillism) to paint an idyllic, living picture of Jewish deportation in W…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:40PMThursday, January 19, 2012
First Run Theatre closes its ninth season of nurturing unrecognized playwrights with a pair of 90-minute crime stories by Richard LaViolette.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:36AMWednesday, January 11, 2012
So, go see "The Seafarer," the grotesque, outstanding new show at West End Players Guild, then tell everyone you know. And find out who your real friends are.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:29AMThursday, December 8, 2011
It's a mixed bag, this story of one family's business and romance problems, solved by convict laborers at Christmas, 1910.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:22PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Somehow, with Christmas exploding in the stores all the way back around Halloween, it only seems right that Frank Capra's classic 1946 movie should be boiled down to a lively 75-minute on-st…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51AMMonday, November 14, 2011
... look out, Mormons: Trey Parker's 1993 movie "Cannibal! The Musical" has been adapted for the stage, and it's finger-licking good.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PM 
