Friday, September 26, 2014
A trio of sour middle-aged siblings gathers in the parlor of the family homestead in northern Maine like “carrion crows around a sick cow in a pasture,” awaiting the death of their equal…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMTuesday, September 23, 2014
It is a tricky business to try to pull off an absurdist comedy like Sari Caine�s often outlandish yet surprisingly touching and excellently acted Mr. Landing Takes A Fall, a production of th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:35PMSaturday, September 20, 2014
The Twelfth Labor, a new play written by Leegrid Stevens and directed by Matt Torney at the Gene Frankel Theatre, is a head spinning trove of ideas, images, time shifts, mythological analogi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:27PMFriday, September 19, 2014
The Valley of Astonishment, the opening production as the Theatre For A New Audience enters its second season at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, starts off like a fairy tale.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:05PMMonday, September 15, 2014
Solitary Light, the haunting and haunted musical production at the Axis Theatre, is a powerful evocation of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, September 8, 2014
A group of seventh grade boys enter a bar and act their age. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMSunday, September 7, 2014
The term “safe sex” takes on new shades of meaning when knives join condoms as part of the package in Smoke, a new play by Kim Davies, now on view at The Flea Theater. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMNo one should go into an evening of German expressionist plays expecting a light and airy time of it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:02PMFriday, September 5, 2014
Anything can happen on a midsummer’s night. Shakespeare knew it, of course, and used the occasion to launch a timeless comedy. August Strindberg knew it as well, but his take on midsummer …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, September 1, 2014
Daughter of the Waves, Eileen Connolly’s richly layered and moving play about a ragtag band of circus acrobats, storytellers, singers and dancers set against the backdrop of World War II, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:57PMMonday, August 25, 2014
Two teenage girls — one black, one white — meet while serving time in prison and immediately become one another’s kindred soulmate in Naomi Wallace’s intimate yet expansive And I And…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMWednesday, August 20, 2014
A pair of red boxing gloves may hold the key for solidifying Kari Floren’s sketchy play Voices of Swords, a work still struggling to find a clear voice in that hazy netherworld that lies s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, August 13, 2014
One of the most difficult things for a playwright to do successfully is to adapt a work of fiction so that it remains faithful to the original while becoming a satisfying theatrical experien…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Amidst the continuing battle over reproductive rights, the fight for equal pay and respect for women in the workplace, and Rush Limbaugh’s diatribes against “feminazis,” it is pretty e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSaturday, July 26, 2014
Fans of classic romantic screwball comedy films like Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve are well advised to make their way to The Flea Theater for the Attic Theater Company’s first-rate revi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMFriday, July 25, 2014
The one good reason to see Propaganda! The Musical, an entry in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, is to catch the rising star performance by Dale Sampson as a befuddled young man who fi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Eddie and the Palaceades, the self-proclaimed “corny and square” musical now on view at the June Havoc Theatre as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival, taps into the yearni…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:56PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Gertrude – The Cry, Howard Barker’s 2002 cerebral/visceral take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, opens with an eye-searing bang....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMSometimes playwrights just have a lot to say, and they insist on saying it all in a single work.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSaturday, July 12, 2014
If you are looking to introduce your preschooler to musical theater, one surefire option is Rescue Rue, a sweet little show about a pup’s journey from abandonment to finding her “furever…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AMCloned!, one of the entries in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, is a rollicking musical comedy filled with screwball characters ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Friday, June 20, 2014
What is your favored anxiety-driven end-of-world scenario?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PMThursday, June 19, 2014
There may come a time when The Laramie Project, the widely-produced docudrama about the events surrounding the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard 15 years ago, will seem dated and irrelevant.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:29PMSunday, June 8, 2014
With messages about corporate greed, the plight of the working poor, the unequal treatment of women in the workplace, and the often mutually exclusive concepts of “the law” and “justic…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:55PMSaturday, May 31, 2014
Mein Uncle, the impressive first full-length (90 minutes) production by 3 Voices Theatre, penned and directed by one of the company’s founding members Aliza Shane, bills itself as an “ab…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:58PMThursday, May 29, 2014
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s more challenging plays to parse or to present.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Newcomer playwright Albert J. Repicci’s Honor Bound, now on view at St. Luke's Theatre, raises important ideas about trust, friendship, and — of course — honor, but it does tend to los…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, May 12, 2014
A whisper of Tennessee Williams floats through the Peccadillo Theater Company’s polished revival of A Loss of Roses, one of playwright William Inge’s lesser known works, now on view at t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThere certainly has been a bumper crop of King Lear performances this year, with two major productions behind us (one starring Frank Langella, the second with Michael Pennington), and anothe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34PMThursday, May 8, 2014
“Write what you know” is an axiom that is hammered into every writer’s head.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PM 
