Tuesday, June 20, 2023
"Great American–not great president." This is how a poll of 75 historians damningly characterized Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1962, not even two years after he left office. Richard Hellesen's …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15PMMonday, June 5, 2023
The narrator and main character of Tori Sampson's This Land Was Made, now running at the Vineyard Theatre, identifies herself as a griot. Simultaneously storytellers, poets, and living archi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:11AMWednesday, May 24, 2023
In lieu of a playbill or the increasingly more ubiquitous fliers containing a digital QR code, audiences attending Bernarda's Daughters, Diane Exavier's elegiac play currently running at the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:19AMFriday, May 19, 2023
Construction noise, profanity-shouting pedestrians, non-stop emergency-vehicle sirens, and the booming music of pedicabs can certainly pose an obstacle for individuals hoping to find quiet s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:59AMMonday, May 15, 2023
"For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." Thus concludes one of Shakespeare's best-known and most-performed plays. In the boisterous, gag-filled production pres…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:48AMMonday, May 8, 2023
"You think things are one way, but they can be another way." This reversal of expectations is a recurring theme throughout Michael Cruz Kayne's Sorry for Your Loss, the new one-person show p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMSunday, May 7, 2023
There have been numerous hit Hollywood animated family films that include serious or dramatic content and some that even feature death. In the Walt Disney classic Bambi, the young deer must …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:30AMFriday, May 5, 2023
The press materials for Erika Dickerson-Despenza's new play at the Public Theater request that the title, shadow/land, be documented using lowercase letters. In the first thirty minutes or s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:18AMMonday, April 24, 2023
As modernist playwrights such as Ibsen and Shaw demonstrated, theatre has the power to rattle the cultural consciousness and shine the spotlight on pressing contemporary social and political…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58AMTuesday, April 11, 2023
In his Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson skewered the predominantly white theatre industry through the main character's effort to create a "big…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:48AMSunday, March 19, 2023
In September 1986, Lily Tomlin took Broadway by storm in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Jane Wagner's play that explored, among other topics, women's issues and se…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PMThursday, March 16, 2023
In adapting Arden of Faversham, the anonymously written domestic tragedy from 1592, Jeffrey Hatcher and Kathryn Walat explain in a program note that they intended to merge the tragic and far…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:21PMSaturday, March 11, 2023
I Love My Family, But..., the amiable new revue at the Huron Club at SoHo Playhouse, is composed of sixteen musical snapshots focused on a presumably typical family in, as the script states,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:44PMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Eric Bogosian's 1 + 1, now in a production by The Black Box at SoHo Playhouse, appears in the long tradition of plays about Hollywood. Kaufman and Hart's Once in a Lifetime, David Mamet's Sp…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
The most successful adaptations of classic works allow audiences to see familiar texts in a new light. For instance, black odyssey, which opened this week, affords a spirited journey through…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMDon't let the subtitle fool you: Sarah Ruhl's Letters from Max, a ritual is very much a play. The production currently at New York's Signature Theatre centers around two sharply drawn charac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:32AMSunday, February 26, 2023
There is something magical happening on East 13th Street in Manhattan. Marcus Gardley's black odyssey, now playing at Classic Stage Company, is an adaptation of Homer's epic poem, but audien…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:30PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Perhaps my favorite play of the last year is Samuel D. Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God, an exquisite drama that plumbs the depths of a friendship between two men in Twin Falls, Idah…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:31PMMonday, February 6, 2023
Lucy, Erica Schmidt's new play, now in its world premiere production by Audible Theater at the Minetta Lane, begins with a mother of a six-year-old girl (and a baby on the way) interviewing …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMSunday, January 22, 2023
... it was quite illuminating to learn the full backstory behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through Livian Yeh's Memorial, which is currently playing at A.R.T New York Theatres in a produ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:29PMThursday, January 19, 2023
Stand-up comic and television writer Sam Morrison knows comedy. He has performed on "The Drew Barrymore Show" and has written for Bravo's reality television program "Blind Date." He also is …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PMMonday, December 12, 2022
It hasn't even been four years since the last professional revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along. Roundabout Theatre Company presented Fiasco's pared-down prod…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMThursday, December 8, 2022
Adapted and directed by Charlotte Moore, the musical pageant includes a cast of six immensely appealing performers who give life to a host of Welsh denizens, including a group of mischievous…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41PMSunday, November 27, 2022
It's part backstage musical, part jukebox-bio show, part multimedia extravaganza, and a large part arena-concert spectacle. The components do not cohere nearly as effortlessly as they do in …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:36PMSunday, November 20, 2022
[David]Cale's newest solo play, Sandra, currently running at the Vineyard Theatre, stars Marjan Neshat as a forty-something-year-old woman caught in a web of international intrigue, mysterio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMThursday, November 17, 2022
A palpable feeling of dread pervades Evanston, Illinois. Individuals sense an invisible hostile being when they walk into a room. A ghost of a dead grandmother appears unexpectedly on street…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:36AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
The slogan, "Work sets you free," greeted new arrivals to many Nazi concentration camps. Although not explicitly stated, this is a guiding principle in Bess Wohl's Camp Siegfried, currently …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06AMSaturday, November 12, 2022
In adapting the screenplay for the stage, Crowe has expanded the narrative frame to such a degree that the story, the characters, and the very heart of the piece get lost in the muddle. Addi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:35PMMonday, November 7, 2022
Good Enemy, Audible Theater's new production at the Minetta Lane Theatre, is one-part political thriller, one-part father-daughter reconciliation drama, and one-part sentimental road-trip co…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38AMIn My Broken Language, Quiara Alegría Hudes's autobiographical play produced by the Signature Theatre in New York, the author expresses a desire for a museum that would house the memories, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:34AMSunday, October 30, 2022
In the current Classic Stage Company revival of the 2002 musical A Man of No Importance, Doyle applies the tactic sparingly–there are on-stage musicians as well as a handful of ensemble me…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:07PM 
