Monday, September 21, 2015
If you are unfamiliar with the confrontational plays of Thomas Bradshaw, be advised that he is known for happily jumping without a parachute into graphic depictions of sex and violence.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMSunday, September 13, 2015
A word to the wise: Take a good look at the girl in the photo that accompanies this review. Should you see her approaching on her My Little Pony bicycle, you would be well advised to turn ar…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:52PMFriday, September 11, 2015
It’s spy vs. spy vs. spy in Victor Lesniewski’s riveting Civil War drama Couriers and Contrabands at TBG Theatre, where friend cannot be distinguished from foe, and where the outcome of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:23PMThursday, September 10, 2015
To enter into the world of playwright Richard Maxwell is to forego any expectation of straightforward clarity, richly realized characterizations, or emotional connection.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMSome artists are so original, so unique, that anyone attempting to use their work as a model for their own runs the risk of producing a cheap imitation or of falling into unintended parody.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
The time-honored art of theatrical storytelling is in excellent hands in the Fishamble: The New Play Company production of Little Thing, Big Thing, part of the 1st Irish Festival at 59E59 Th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
The Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda have been so thoroughly, so carefully taught to hate and fear each other that in a 100 day-period in 1994, some 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in a genoc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMA small plaque at the entrance to the Bethnal Green underground station in London commemorates the event: “Site of the worst civilian disaster of the Second World War.”
SOURCE: upstage-downstage.blogspot.com at 11:53AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Playwright Lisa Lewis’s Schooled, one of the entries in the New York International Fringe Festival, takes on the cutthroat world of filmdom with caustic wit and a genuine feel for the live…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:41AMSunday, August 9, 2015
Imagine Our Town as seen through the eyes of Stephen King, and you’ll have a pretty good picture of what to expect from Canadian playwright Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918), having its U.S. pre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMSaturday, August 1, 2015
A man who feels trapped in a life without meaning, a sexual encounter between an ex-teacher and her former high school student/lover, and a young writer who is the pen pal of the late North …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:54PMSunday, July 26, 2015
Howard Miller takes a look at Summer Shorts 2015, Series A
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:04PMMonday, July 20, 2015
When it comes to the battle of the sexes, forget the Mars/Venus analogy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:36PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
There is much that could be said about the risks inherent in the casual drug use and unbridled sex that fill the days and nights of the disaffected students at the Upper East Side prep schoo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMThursday, July 16, 2015
When you have just directed a play that features a murderess attempting to have sex with a man she has just decapitated, what do you do for an encore? . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:47PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Death, lust, violence, and power are not exactly the typical fare of summer theater, but you’ll find all of these in great abundance in the double bill of one-acts being offered up by PTP/…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:50AMMonday, June 29, 2015
This production shows us that Happy Days is most decidedly a play for our time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Who would have thought you could mine gold from not playing the role of King Lear, itself that most golden of roles for Shakespearean actors of a certain age and stature?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMMonday, June 15, 2015
“This is a play about time,” insists the heart-sore and regretful Peter, who longs to reverse the past two decades of his life in The Barrow Group’s production of Craig Wright’s The …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMFriday, June 12, 2015
You probably know someone like Gordy, the title character in playwright Sam Byron’s Gordy Crashes, the inaugural production of Ricochet Collective now on view at IRT Theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
The inability of fathers and sons to connect with one another is not exactly a breakthrough theatrical concept
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMHow fortunate, should you happen to be a vampire, to have a human protector, one who is sworn to keep you safe from the killing sunlight and stakes to the heart, who is even willing to let y…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28AMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Playwright Robert Askins has followed up his Tony-nominated Hand to God by taking another poke at Southern Fried Christianity in his latest work, Permission, an uneven mix of sketch comedy, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Love is a many-splendored thing in Fiasco Theater’s giddy production of William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, a presentation of Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Sh…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMThursday, April 23, 2015
The “Troubles” of Northern Ireland in the mid-1980s bring out the troubles faced by the residents of Belfast in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of Nate Rufus Edelman’s The B…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMSunday, April 19, 2015
As World War II ripped its way across Europe from 1939-1945, it left countless victims in its wake. And when the dust settled at war’s end, many of those who survived its ugly claws left t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:34PMSaturday, April 18, 2015
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is frequently associated with war-torn military personnel or victims of terrorism, but it can lay equal devastation to those who only bear witness.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:08AMMonday, April 13, 2015
What is it like to seek redemption from a traumatic past as well as from our own destructive choices in life? Is redemption even possible, or, as the psychologists say, is past behavior the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Theater companies attempting the plays of the great absurdist Eugène Ionesco invariably run into the perplexing problem of how to handle some of the lengthy, rambling, and arguably tedious …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14AMSaturday, April 11, 2015
The quarry is hungry and must be fed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:17PMThursday, April 9, 2015
Do you find it impossible to walk by a pet store without stopping to ooh and aah at the puppies in the window? Do you look forward to Broadway Barks more to hang out with the dogs that are u…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PM 
