Thursday, May 8, 2014
“Write what you know” is an axiom that is hammered into every writer’s head.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMMonday, May 5, 2014
Long, long ago, way back in the 1960s, in the days before Twitter and Facebook and Skype, people used to carry on long-distance relationships through the now nearly lost medium of letter wri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMPlaywright Tom Stoppard has long had an interest in examining the impact and consequences of the iron-fisted rule by the Communist Party in his native Czechoslovakia.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:46PMThursday, May 1, 2014
Imagine yourself going to a concert by a gifted pianist, only to discover that the entire evening is devoted to a series of études.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSaturday, April 26, 2014
Here’s a bit of free advice to Robb Nanus, producer of Ryann Weir’s comedy Debutante, now on view at the Bernie Wohl Center. Seek corporate sponsorship from a fitness club ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
And then, of course, there are the theater troupes readying themselves for summer’s fringe festivals. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMSunday, April 20, 2014
Best brush up on your Bible stories and make sure you are well rested before heading out to the Flea Theater and director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar’s breathtaking and boldly conceived productio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:31PMMonday, March 17, 2014
Imagine a show that features music, tap dancing, adorable turtle puppets, a kind-hearted dolphin, and a couple of playful frogs named Pad and Lily. Sounds like something for the kids, right?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMSartre may have been right when he famously declared that hell is “other people,” but, frankly, most of us seem to be perfectly capable of creating our own hell without anyone else’s a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
As Tina Turner famously sang in the 1985 cult classic movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, “We don’t need another hero.”
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSunday, February 23, 2014
Revivals of two one-act plays about the collateral damage of war (especially on the ones who are left behind to deal with the consequences) make for a deeply compelling and richly provocativ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:33PMFriday, February 21, 2014
There is not a gimmick to be found in the WorkShop Theater Company’s smart, engaging, and emotionally rewarding production of Shakespeare’s late romance and so-called “problem play,”…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PMThursday, February 20, 2014
Meet the Jenkins-Laurences, the world’s most in-control, self-affirming family, as they tumble down the rabbit hole in Erin Mallon’s new absurdist comedy, Branched, a production of InVio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMFriday, February 7, 2014
A vein of existential angst runs through Organic Shrapnel, the new drama by Charles Cissel having its world premiere at Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSaturday, January 25, 2014
Playwright Brian Watkins has found success through productions of his work mostly at small Off Off Broadway and fringe venues, but it would be unfair to refer to him as a “rising young voi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMSunday, January 19, 2014
. . . either a hopeful tale about emotional healing in the wake of tragedy, or a haunted gothic tale in which all hope is lost. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMFriday, January 17, 2014
Vladimir Zelevinsky is a playwright who also happens to be a computer scientist. He has been quoted as saying that he uses “art … as a laboratory.”
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMSaturday, December 7, 2013
As we transition from Thanksgiving and Black Friday to the heady days of Yuletide, what guilty pleasure do you look forward to?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34PMMonday, November 18, 2013
You would probably expect a play with the title Mary-Kate Olsen Is In Love to be a pretty silly affair — at least if you are familiar with the celebrity Olsen Twins.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
Three decades before the venerable daytime TV drama General Hospital hit the scene, a play appeared on Broadway that dealt with many of the issues that would later become the mainstay of the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSunday, November 10, 2013
"splendidly merges New Orleans pizzazz with a Greenwich Village downtown vibe. . . ."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMThursday, November 7, 2013
One of the defining theatrical images of the enduring love between sisters is that of Celie and Nettie playing their hand-clapping game in the film adaptation and, later, in the musical vers…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PMThursday, October 31, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Take our your pencils, everyone. We’ve having a pop quiz. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSunday, October 6, 2013
If you ever plan to do some time traveling, it would be a good idea to familiarize yourself with Ray Bradbury’s short story, “A Sound of Thunder,” in which the science fiction/fantasy …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Painful memories permeate the lives of the characters inhabiting I Came To Look For You On Tuesday....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMSaturday, July 27, 2013
BEND IN THE ROAD gives us the most polished of the productions I’ve seen at this year’s New York Music Theatre Festival (NYMF).
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