Thursday, June 22, 2023
Behold a recipe for Broadway Surprise Cake. Start with a distillation of Into the Woods. Incorporate two heaping tablespoons of Six. Add a generous dash of & Juliet and another of Wicked. Bl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:17PMComposer/lyricist Adam Guettel is not exactly known for writing hum-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mable melodies, but that doesn't mean he doesn't write beautiful, emotionally gripping musical numbers t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PMMonday, June 5, 2023
A dream of "sammen i himmelen" (together in heaven) turns into "sammen i helvete" (together in hell) for two alcoholics who bring out the best and the worst in each other in Days of Wine and…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:05PMThursday, June 1, 2023
There are lots of appropriate adjectives to describe Levi Holloway's ghostly play Grey House, opening tonight at the Lyceum Theatre. Among these are "eerie," "mysterious," and sometimes even…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12PMThursday, May 25, 2023
As a playwright, Charles Cissel is an experimentalist, more concerned with digging deeply into what lies underneath the surface than with using conventional storytelling techniques. He is li…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PMFriday, May 5, 2023
An offhand wisecrack reference to filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's movie Rashomon in Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window might serve well to explain the many different possib…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:47AMTuesday, April 25, 2023
Playwright David Auburn's narrative two-hander Summer, 1976, opening tonight at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, boasts a pair of supremely gifted actresses who are quite adroit at getting us…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PMSaturday, April 22, 2023
The 2023 Brits Off Broadway Festival kicks off at 59E59 Theaters with the Theatre Royal Plymouth production of Breathless, playwright Laura Horton's tale of compulsion and anxiety that shine…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35PMFriday, April 21, 2023
Who owns history? Or more precisely, who gets to decide which aspects of history are moved to the front of the line and plastered with the title of "TRUTH"? A serious question that is taken …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:30AMThursday, April 20, 2023
What tickles your funny bone? Is it an evening of witty repartee and bon mots being tossed about with debonair aplomb? A bit of Noël Coward, perhaps, or the carefully structured comedy styl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04AMFriday, April 14, 2023
Camelot, the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical that is near and dear to the hearts of aficionados of Broadway's "Golden Age," has always been loved for its songs. This remains true to this day, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:48AMThursday, April 13, 2023
Fat Ham, James Ijames' fanciful Pulitzer Prize-winning riff on Hamlet that opened tonight at the American Airlines Theatre, takes a sad tale about bloody vengeance and reconfigures it into a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:18AMFriday, March 31, 2023
Transforming a best-selling novel from page to stage is a risky affair. It takes a great deal of talent, imagination, and theatrical acumen to pull it off without getting bogged down in weig…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03AMSunday, March 26, 2023
I've got to confess that it is hard to erase the memory of a tuba-playing Patti LuPone from the stripped-down 2006 Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. But …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMFriday, March 24, 2023
How best to describe Bad Cinderella, the new musical with a score by über-successful theatre composer and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber that officially opened tonight at the Imperial Theat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03AMSunday, March 19, 2023
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SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMThursday, March 16, 2023
What a difference four months makes! Back in November, the Alfred Uhry/Jason Robert Brown powerhouse 1998 musical Parade, about the kangaroo court trial and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14PMHello, Encores! Well, hello, Encores! It's so nice to have you back where you belong. Back to your original mission, that is, somewhat lost in recent years, of producing brief runs of quickl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:27PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
The Harder They Come, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' adaptation of the reggae-infused 1972 Jamaican film of the same title, is rocking the Public Theater these days with its top-notch cast, an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53PMMonday, March 13, 2023
While watching playwright Keith Bunin's The Coast Starlight, opening tonight at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, I kept coming up with alternate titles: Strangers on a Train, Ship…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PMThursday, March 9, 2023
Doubtless, there never were a lot of chuckles to be found in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. But this latest Broadway production, opening tonight at the Hudson Theatre in an adaptation by pla…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33PMTuesday, March 7, 2023
Let us time travel, back nearly three decades to the year 1995. A 30-year-old native Brooklynite playwright who would later go on to win not one, but two Pulitzer Prizes, a MacArthur "Genius…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21PMSunday, March 5, 2023
"Mann tracht, un Gott lacht," or so goes the Yiddish proverb. Man plans, and God laughs. That is the crux of Sophie Weisskoff's Brainsmash, a production of The Hearth opening today at 59E59 …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46PMMonday, February 27, 2023
Elyria, a new play by Deepa Purohit opening tonight at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, is a sweeping and ambitious work, packed with enough ideas to fuel at least three d…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Sometimes it happens that you attend a play or musical and find that it suffers from a rickety script or uninspired score. Still, if you are lucky, there will be something about it that draw…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMThursday, February 9, 2023
Playwright Sharr White's Pictures From Home, opening tonight at Studio 54, is a masterful translation to the stage from Larry Sultan's photo memoir of the same title. It is funny when it nee…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58PMTuesday, February 7, 2023
Patience is a virtue while attending a performance of Shedding Load, a Varsity Theatre Company production opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters. Written by Varsity's founder Jessica Owens, the 7…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMMonday, January 23, 2023
Colin Quinn is as mellow a stand-up comic as they come, a more genial, less cranky version of, say, Jerry Seinfeld, who directed Quinn's The New York Story at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2015…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:47PMWednesday, January 18, 2023
The visual theater company known as Wakka Wakka prides itself on "pushing the bounds of the imagination" through the creation of works that are "bold, unique, and unpredictable." The Immorta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Frankenstein's Monster is Drunk and the Sheep Have all Jumped the Fences, a production of Big Telly Theatre Company opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters as part of Origin Theatre's 1st Irish Fe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMSaturday, January 14, 2023
Parallel midlife crises fueled by booze and an assortment of other superego suppressants feed the literate, comic, poignant, splendidly performed and altogether engaging series of alternatin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:15PM 
