Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The Public Theater in New York City regularly makes it a point to respectfully acknowledge that the land on which it stands is the original homeland of the Lenape people. How fitting it is, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
Addressing the audience, the title character in Michael John LaChiusa's charming if evanescent musical The Gardens of Anuncia, describes the setting as one in which "flowers float, tomatoes …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:09AMMonday, November 20, 2023
New York City in the 1990s was just beginning to emerge from a low point in its history, at least so far as the 20th century goes, a period marked by violent lawlessness, a rocketing plague …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:48AMThursday, November 16, 2023
And now for something completely different. Or maybe it's pretty much the same. Anyway, they're back! And not a moment too soon, those wild and crazy characters whose wacky ways are somehow …
SOURCE: www.temptalkinbroadway.com at 08:14PMPlaywright Doug Wright has carved out a highly successful niche for himself by creating for the stage, with sympathy and affection, works about actual people whose uncommon behavior and/or m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PMAfter many years of being on the theatrical down-low, stories of gay Black men (if not women) are starting to show up with some regularity on and off Broadway. In A Strange Loop, Fat Ham, an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PMHave you ever thought of being a hairdresser in a brothel? No? Well, that's merely one of the stops along the way in the life of professional female impersonator Kenneth "Mr. Madam" Marlowe,…
SOURCE: www.temptalkinbroadway.com at 12:48PMA couple of years back, Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh led the post-pandemic reopening of the Delacorte Theater in New York's Central Park with a delightful retelling of Shakespea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
"And your punishment is to remember everything!!" With these words unleashed on a rapt audience late in the evening, we are engulfed by the burden felt every day of his life by Josef Roman C…
SOURCE: www.temptalkinbroadway.com at 06:03AMFriday, November 3, 2023
Imagine you are the proud owner of four lovely die cut jigsaw puzzles. Each puzzle consists of pieces that have been shaped using the same pattern. Carefully assembled, you will wind up with…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:55PMTheresa Rebeck's new play I Need That, opening tonight at the American Airlines Theatre, was created specifically as a vehicle for actor/comedian Danny DeVito and his daughter Lucy DeVito. N…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:45AMSaturday, October 28, 2023
Ask yourself, what would you do? What would you do if, like Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret, you were "one frightened voice" trying just to get by in the face of the rising tide of Naziism in …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:11PMFriday, October 27, 2023
Gingold Theatrical Group's production of George Bernard Shaw's 1894 comedy Arms and the Man, opening tonight at Theatre Row, is light as a feather and delectable as a piece of chocolate crea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06AMTuesday, October 24, 2023
A thrum of fear and dread saturates playwright Renae Simone Jarrett's cryptic new play Daphne, opening tonight at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater. Indeed, the play could be said to be al…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:41AMFriday, October 20, 2023
Playwright Michel Wallerstein's Chasing Happy, a production of Pulse Theatre opening tonight at Theatre Row, is a well-acted if wobbly plotted comedy about a love triangle among three gay me…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:58AMFriday, October 13, 2023
Silly meets heart-warming affection in Gutenberg! The Musical!, opening tonight at the James Earl Jones Theatre. It stars Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, real-life pals ever since they worked …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:11AMFriday, September 29, 2023
There's no telling how many fans of the raspy-voiced, label-defying, pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock/indie-rock singer Melissa Etheridge are flocking to the Circle in the Square Theatre, whe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:22AMThursday, September 28, 2023
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Ossie Davis's 1961 satirical play about Jim Crow racism, opens tonight at the Music Box Theatre in a long-overdue first-ev…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:28AMWednesday, September 13, 2023
Playwright Annie Baker is the ultimate eavesdropper, a seeming fly on the wall, able to capture with meticulousness the voices of ordinary people, examine them under a microscope, and distil…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:19AMWednesday, August 30, 2023
There are few theatergoing pleasures that can compare with the joy of attending a performance at the Public Theater's open-air Delacorte Theater in New York's Central Park. It's especially t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMThursday, August 10, 2023
"We want Bruce! We want Bruce! We want Bruce!" So shouted the audience-in-my-head at frequent intervals during the 95-minute talking version of a tribute band that is The Shark Is Broken, op…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:09PMThursday, August 3, 2023
No question but that the musical adaptation of Back to the Future, opening tonight at the Winter Garden Theatre and directed to a turn by John Rando, is a genuine star-studded extravaganza t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMMonday, July 31, 2023
Zarina Shea's Let's Call Her Patty, opening tonight at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, is a thin wisp of a play, a miscellany of memories about a woman, the narrator's aunt, who es…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:38PMMonday, July 24, 2023
Sandy Rustin's The Cottage, opening tonight at the Hayes Theater, is a farcical take on a Noöl Coward drawing-room comedy, but one that seemingly has been paired with party games like Truth…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:10PMSaturday, July 22, 2023
Will blood turn out to be thicker than the waters that lap along a valuable Long Island beachfront property? That's the question raised in Charles White's Unentitled, a Negro Ensemble Compan…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06PMThursday, July 20, 2023
It's been a decade since the disco/pop musical Here Lies Love, based on the rise and fall of former Philippines politico Imelda Marcos, made its highly successful New York debut at the Publi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PMThere's a lot of talk about basketball in Candrice Jones' Flex, opening tonight at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. If you are not well versed in the specifics of the sport, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PM59E59 Theaters is having a bit of a Jane Austen season this summer. A few weeks ago, it played host to the solo show Being Mr. Wickham about a ne'er-do-well character from "Pride and Prejudi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMThursday, June 29, 2023
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." OK. Wrong play, but right playwright, and very applicable to the Kenny Leon-helmed Public Theater production of Shakespeare's…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03AMMonday, June 26, 2023
If you read the "Author's Note" in the Playbill for comic Alex Edelman's solo show Just for Us, opening tonight at the Hudson Theatre, you will see in writing some of what you will see on st…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:06PMThursday, June 22, 2023
Behold a recipe for Broadway Surprise Cake. Start with a distillation of Into the Woods. Incorporate two heaping tablespoons of Six. Add a generous dash of & Juliet and another of Wicked. Bl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:17PM 
