Thursday, April 25, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Mother Play" 4/25/24 by Howard Miller

Playwright Paula Vogel's brother Carl, who died of AIDS in 1988 and whose story she related in her partly autobiographical 1992 play The Baltimore Waltz, is back on stage, one of the trio of…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40PM
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Mary Jane" 4/24/24 by Howard Miller

How do we categorize Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov's play about family life on an estate and working farm in late nineteenth century rural Russia? Is it a comedy, a melodrama, an excursion into…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Mary Jane" 4/24/24 by Howard Miller

Don't cry for Mary Jane. Not in front of her, anyway. She hasn't the time for your pity or to feel sorry for herself, as she single-mindedly pours everything she's got into the care of her c…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:26AM
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Milwaukee - "From Here to Eternity: The Musical" - 4/23/24 by John Olson

... a newly revised musical version of From Here to Eternity by Sir Tim Rice, lyricist of many of the most successful musicals of the past 50 years, along with composer Stuart Brayson, and b…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:25AM
Monday, April 22, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Heart of Rock and Roll" 4/22/24 by Kimberly Ramírez

Yet another musical has arrived on Broadway that's ready to transport audiences "Back in Time." The Heart of Rock and Roll is still beating after its recent run at San Diego's Old Globe. Now…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Patriots" 4/22/24 by Howard Miller

It's the Fiery Oligarch vs. the Icy Dictator in Peter Morgan's Patriots, opening tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Only one of them can survive, though in the end you may come away fee…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:35PM
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Cabaret" 4/21/24 by Howard Miller

Listen up. Time to put down the knitting, the book, and the broom and hie on over to the imaginatively staged, directed, and performed multiple Olivier Award-winning revival of Kander & Ebb …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Orlando" - 4/21/24 by James Wilson

Midway through Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, "Orlando: A Biography," the protagonist awakes after a long sleep as a different gender. "It is enough for us to state the simple fact," the narra…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Hell's Kitchen" 4/20/24 by James Wilson

It is very common for audiences at Broadway musicals to clap and hoot at the entrance of a star or in appreciation of impressive scenic design. In Hell's Kitchen, which concluded an Off-Broa…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:56AM
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Do Re Mi" - 4/20/24 by Rob Lester

There's a place for a glib, undemanding, unpretentious old-school musical comedy that seeks to entertain and just wants to make someone happy. "Make Someone Happy" was the big song that came…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PM
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Suffs" 4/18/24 by Howard Miller

There is a certain subgroup of musicals whose aim it is to set the record straight, or at least enlighten us on some aspect of history, even if they do occasionally stray from the actual fac…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:59PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Still" - 4/18/24 by Marc Miller

With Brooklyn Laundry having recently ended its merry run at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York now has a new, not-dissimilar mini-romance to celebrate. Lia Romeo's Still, from Colt Coeur at D…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Wiz" 4/17/24 by James Wilson

Although it won a slew of Tony Awards in 1975, The Wiz has never really been considered a great musical. In the right hands, however, it is a thoroughly enjoyable one, and its buoyant pleasu…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:10AM
Friday, April 12, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Outsiders" 4/11/24 by James Wilson

In his scathing review of The Outsiders, Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S.E. Hinton's best-selling novel, New York Times critic Vincent Canby described the movie as "a melodramatic kid…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:05AM
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Las Vegas - "Ted Chapin adds another credit to his Follies r�sum�" - 4/11/24 by Robert Sokol

Interview with Ted Chapin as "Follies" starts in Las Vegas.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PM
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Who's Tommy" 3/28/24 by Howard Miller

The thing about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is that before you can get to the "post" part, you are going to have to endure the trauma part. And there is trauma aplenty in the first half o…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02PM
Monday, March 25, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" - 3/24/24 by Marc Miller

Philadelphia, Here I Come! was Brian Friel's first major success, and the new revival at Irish Repertory Theatre, part of its Friel Project retrospective, offers ample evidence why. It's a s…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:42AM
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Teeth" - 3/23/24 by Marc Miller

You've probably heard about it as "the musical about the penis-eating vagina." Yes, but Teeth aims to be something more–a horror musical that also takes in repression, misogyny, violence, …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:11PM
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Water for Elephants" 3/21/24 by Howard Miller

Ladies and gentlemen!!! Children of all ages!!! Feast your eyes on the center (and only) ring, where you will witness feats of wonder the likes of which have never been seen before!!! Welcom…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:32PM
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Corruption" - 3/16/24 by Marc Miller

Rupert Murdoch is a scourge, a reckless power monger whose pursuit of material gain has irrevocably changed and devalued the journalistic universe. On that much many of us will probably agre…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:45PM
Friday, March 15, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Notebook" 3/14/24 by Howard Miller

Love at first sight. Love everlasting. 'Til death do us part. That, in a nutshell, is a description of The Notebook, the heartfelt musical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' best-selling 1996 no…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40AM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Ibsen's Ghost" - 3/14/24 by Howard Miller

Anyone who thought plays featuring men in drag were on the way out (Pick your poison: Insulting to women? Exploiting transgender stereotypes? Too old hat for words?) should cast their eyes o…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40AM
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Slow Dance" - 3/14/24 by Howard Miller

Neurosis meets whimsey in Lisi DeHaas's The Slow Dance, opening last night at 59E59 Theaters, a play about a whiny, immature, and insecure middle-aged man who, over the course of 75 minutes,…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AM
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Review: TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's QUEEN directed by Miriam A. Laube nothing short of highly entertaining & enjoyable by Eddie Reynolds

In the hands of director Miriam A. Laube, Madhuri Shekar's play showing the threatened unravelling of years of dedicated research occurs with the pace, profundity & power that makes "Queen" …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:20AM
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Dead Outlaw" - 3/10/24 by James Wilson

If you appreciate macabre stories, here's one you might enjoy: In 1976, a teamster working on an episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" made a gruesome discovery. One of the dummies hanging…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PM
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Doubt: A Parable" 3/7/24 by Howard Miller

Never underestimate Sister Aloysius Beauvier, principal of St. Nicholas Elementary School. It's easy enough to peg her as a stereotype, a tough-minded old-fashioned conservative nun who, whe…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38PM
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Brooklyn Laundry" - 2/28/24 by Marc Miller

The New York Times beat me to it yesterday in saying so, but gosh, this is some season John Patrick Shanley is having. First a well-received revival of his early play, Danny and the Deep Blu…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Ally" - 2/27/24 by Howard Miller

"The meaning of a performance depends most of all on who is in the audience." So says one of the characters in Itamar Moses's scorching new play, The Ally, opening tonight at the Public Thea…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:37AM
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Pericles" - 2/26/24 by James Wilson

For Shakespearian scholars, Pericles, Prince of Tyre remains a profoundly enigmatic work. While some historians have attributed sole authorship to Shakespeare, most now agree that he wrote a…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:15AM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Seven Year Disappear" - 2/26/24 by James Wilson

With its use of deliberately over-amplified and disembodied voices, video close-ups, and shiny, modernist design, The New Group's production of the The Seven Year Disappear would seem to be …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:15AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards