Thursday, February 23, 2017
If the names Bobby Seale, the Berrigan brothers, the Catonsville Nine, the Chicago Seven, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin stir up memories and make your heart thump just a little faster, then…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28PMFriday, February 17, 2017
A xenophobic assault on immigrants and a forbidden inter-religious love story make the Metropolitan Playhouse’s revival of Augustin Daly’s 19th century melodrama Leah, the Forsaken as ti…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:26PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
It can be quite disconcerting to view a work by the experimental playwright/director Richard Maxwell, so before heading out to see the revival of his 2004 play Good Samaritans at the Abrons …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMIf you are a devotee of William Shakespeare and are interested in what was being written by his contemporaries, you are sure to be intrigued by the rare opportunity to see what is a thorough…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:55AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
It is understandable that everyone in Sarah Levine Simon and Mihai Grunfeld’s touching new play The Dressmaker’s Secret, having its premiere production at 59E59 Theaters, would hold thei…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMWednesday, February 8, 2017
The plays of Robert Holman are not widely produced outside his native England, but at home he is known as a prolific creator of quirky and enigmatic works about quirky and enigmatic characte…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMThursday, February 2, 2017
The experimental acting company Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble is paying homage to its late co-founder Barbara Vann with a ramshackle revival of Bound to Rise, a satiric "rags-to-riches" mus…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMSunday, December 4, 2016
When is it appropriate for our government officials to hide information from the public?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMIf President-elect Trump is still interested in "draining the swamp," he might want to start with that particular part of the Florida Everglades that is the setting for Hilary Bettis's gutpu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMThursday, November 17, 2016
“Thank you for your service” can be an honest expression of gratitude for members of the military.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:39PMWednesday, November 16, 2016
If you are going to adapt a well-known book or movie for a theatrical production, there are a couple of ways to go about it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22PMMonday, November 14, 2016
A Southern Gothic breeze wafts gently through playwright Cyndi Williams’s haunted family saga, A Name For A Ghost To Mutter, a production of Theatre East having its New York premiere at Ur…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14PMThursday, November 10, 2016
From Christopher Marlowe’s late sixteenth century play about a pair of lovers who both happen to be men, writer/composer Erik Ransom has drawn inspiration for an ambitious, sprawling, and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PMMonday, November 7, 2016
With the historically strange election day of 2016 looming over us, it would not be difficult to imagine a new play depicting a populist uprising by disgruntled citizens, disgusted with the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:01PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Once the deed is done, once the line is crossed, how can there be any turning back? That’s the question being raised and also the underlying problem with the unrelentingly creepy productio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMSunday, October 30, 2016
War may be hell, but in Red Bull Theater’s fierce and fiery production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, it is politics that is the ultimate destroyer of lives and souls, especially for the m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:50PMSunday, October 23, 2016
The trenchant tale of an underestimated two-bit crook who becomes one of the world’s most notorious criminals is brought vividly to life in the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s production of B…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44PMThursday, September 22, 2016
The Huffington Post reports that close to 200 African Americans have been shot and killed by the police thus far in 2016. This is a sobering thought by any reckoning. It also serves as the u…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Playwright Penny Jackson may be the queen of the cautionary tale, especially when she is writing about disaffected upper class private school students and the trouble they can get into when …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:37PMThursday, September 15, 2016
That’s our Mary Shanley, impeccably dressed in the latest fashions, toting her stylish white purse, and hefting the police revolver that earned her the nickname that is the title of the bi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:52PMMonday, September 12, 2016
A ballerina without a spine, a lonely and very forgetful man, his perfectionist wife, and an auto mechanic go round and round and round, swapping partners, playing endless games of Charades,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSunday, September 11, 2016
Bears in Space, the production by Collapsing Horse that is something of a cult hit in Ireland, Scotland, and England, has entered into orbit at 59E59 Theaters as part of Origin’s 1st Irish…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:30PMMonday, September 5, 2016
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PMFriday, September 2, 2016
What’s a hedonistic gay guy to do when he’s turning 40 and the rituals of pleasure have become numbing habit, and the booze, drugs, and sex are no longer doing their job of keeping the w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:43PMMonday, August 29, 2016
Who is Medea? What is it about this tragic figure from Greek mythology that has continued to speak to us in an unrelentingly visceral way through so many stage translations for close to 2,50…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:20PMWednesday, August 24, 2016
“Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.”
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMSunday, August 7, 2016
Two young women, new college students, are unpacking a few personal belongings in their shared dorm room....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMSunday, July 31, 2016
The process of creating short form plays, running under 30 minutes, is as difficult to master as the short story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44PMThursday, July 28, 2016
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
At the start of Richard Strand’s glittering seriocomic play Butler, opening tonight at 59E59, you may think you are watching one of those comedies about the foibles of the upper class, the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22PMSunday, July 17, 2016
A quest for justice among the members of a barely functional family makes for a disconcerting evening of theater in The Shelter’s overwrought production of Morgan McGuire’s decidedly fre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:11PM 
