Sunday, 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 07:17PMFriday, April 3, 2015
The battle of the sexes is in full combat mode in playwright Max Baker’s offbeat and disturbing, if uneven, dark comedy Live From The Surface Of The Moon, a production of Stable Cable Lab …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
If the names Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, the Weavers, and other heroes of the golden age of folk music strike a resonant chord in your heart, then I can guarantee you will have a truly joyou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:00PMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Beware. C.O.A.L. (Confessions of a Liar), playwright David Brian Colbert’s tale of a charming young man for whom falsehoods have become a way of life, is a trap whose light tone about smal…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMThursday, March 5, 2015
Welcome to the world of abstract surrealism, as embodied in the Lost & Found Project’s Knock: A Journey to a Strange Country, now on view in a complexly crafted and intensely acted product…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:23PMSaturday, February 28, 2015
Farce, slapstick, and general tomfoolery blend beautifully together in Delirium’s Daughters, playwright Nicholas Korn’s new comic and heartfelt romp that lovingly captures the spirit of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThursday, February 19, 2015
Time has a way of helping us put things into perspective.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Meet the Malones, Bob and Karen, a couple going through a patch of marital discord.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMMonday, February 16, 2015
As long as there has been a spotlight, there have been individuals who have found a way to bask in its warm and public glow, regardless of their questionable talents ....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Dijla Wal Furat: Between the Tigris and the Euphrates, playwright Maurice Decaul’s examination of the early stages of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, serves as a potent reminder that war i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSunday, February 8, 2015
The world of physics is suddenly a very popular place to visit both on and off Broadway these days.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:03PMFriday, January 30, 2015
The year is 1939. The place: London. The shadow of what is about to explode into World War II is looming ever closer, and American expats are being pressed to join the exodus back to the U. …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMMonday, January 26, 2015
Long before Sweeney Todd set up shop on Fleet Street, William Shakespeare gave the world a pair of revenge-driven monsters in Titus Andronicus, a play overflowing with murder, rape, cannibal…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMFriday, January 23, 2015
If the words “beautiful downtown Burbank” or “and now for something completely different” resonate with you, then you are the perfect audience for the madcap lunacy of Parallel Exit�…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:32PMSaturday, January 10, 2015
One part of the story of this nation that you won’t find discussed much, if at all, in U. S. public schools is the history of gay men and lesbians. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:49PMTuesday, January 6, 2015
How competitive are you with your friends? How forthcoming? How judgmental?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMSunday, December 21, 2014
During the decade between 1938 and 1948, one nightclub stood out as a daring alternative to New York’s racially divided hotspots where you would typically find black performers entertainin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMSaturday, December 13, 2014
Last year, director James Rutherford and his company, M-34, brought us a compelling production called The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway, a mashup of the writings of Oscar Wilde and He…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:32PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Oh, what trouble 12-year-old girls can get into when left casually unsupervised. Such is the case in playwright Jenny Rachel Weiner’s Horse Girls, a slight, dark(ish) sketch comedy about a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMFriday, December 5, 2014
Anyone looking to sprinkle the holiday season with a hefty dose of silly need look no further than the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row and the zany production of Todd Michael’s The Asphalt Chr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMMonday, November 17, 2014
If you ever need an example to illustrate the adage “absolute power corrupts absolutely,” take heed of Tamburlaine, the destructive juggernaut who is at the center of Christopher Marlow�…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:13PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Playwright Dan Kitrosser is never one to say no to a joke or a gag, as the often funny, often head-spinningly out of control joke-and-gag-filled Dead Special Crabs opening tonight at TBG The…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWednesday, November 5, 2014
Once upon a time, Nick Luckenbaugh, a songwriter with a penchant for folk and folk rock music, put together a collection of theatrical songs based on the inner lives of 13 fairy tale princes…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Anyone who mentions the poet Sylvia Plath and the word “oven” in the same sentence is generally not talking about her cooking skills.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThursday, October 16, 2014
It takes more than a willing suspension of disbelief to fully engage with Powwow Highway, William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.’s adaption of the novel of the same title by David Seals.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMSunday, October 12, 2014
Enter into the theater at the Soho Rep these days and you will find yourself surrounded by music and engulfed in love, loss, and heartbreak in debbie tucker green’s generations, a compact …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PM 
