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 06:36PM[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 07:03PMA 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 05:36AMThe 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 04:06AMIn 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 03:35PMGood 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 08:34AMIn 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 06:07PMTime and space have become glitchy and bafflingly fluid for the young woman protagonist in HOUND DOG, Melis Aker's new play with music in a co-production by Ars Nova and PlayCo. One minute s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:33PMThe revitalized Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. has reemerged in the last few years as a training ground for up-and-coming Black artists, who are confronted with new and lingering concerns asso…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:20AMThe Fall, Albert Camus's 1956 novel, is written as a series of confessions in which the narrator grapples with the absurdity of life. True enlightenment, the novel suggests, can only come wh…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:20AMWeightless, the indie-rock musical by The Kilbanes and produced by the Women's Project, is described as a "theatrical concept album." The company of six musicians and singers present a tunef…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMThis Beautiful Future defies cogent description, and it needs to be experienced to understand how the strange, disturbing, and life-affirming elements all fit perfectly together under Jack S…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:53AMUnder Ken Rus Schmoll's spot-on direction and Link's simple but effective lighting, the actor inexplicably becomes one with the words. Every utterance is imparted with the utmost conviction,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55AMMacDermott addresses important issues about parenting, and there are some affecting moments among all of the conflicted characters. Ultimately, however, the play is unsatisfying as it hints …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53PMThe two characters that populate Los Otros, the affecting and intimate new musical by Ellen Fitzhugh and Michael John LaChiusa, appear to be from different worlds entirely. One is a twice-di…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMAs portrayed in Johnny G. Lloyd's Patience, now playing as part of Second Stage's Uptown Season at the McGinn/ Cazale Theater, professional Solitaire is a highly competitive, cut-throat, and…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:59AMWithin the first few minutes of Between the Lines, currently running at the Tony Kiser Theater, audiences may have the feeling they are watching what one might call a "genre musical" of sort…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:19AMThe title refers to the percentage of white women that voted Republican in the 2016 presidential election, and the play presents a snapshot of the red and blue, gender and racial divide that…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:21PMThe centerpiece of Romello Huins's set design for Lambs to Slaughter, Khalil Kain's new play presented by the Negro Ensemble Company at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is a large, circular wall clo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMLessons in Survival: 1971 re-creates a television talk show from more than fifty years ago, but the evening throbs with intellectual intensity, political urgency, and striking theatricality.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PMAs audience members take their seats at A.R.T./New York for Stephen Kaliski's The Refugees, they are invited to write a haiku inspired by the statement: "You didn't do enough." The play, pre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:37PMThe evening combines stand-up, humorous guidelines for Jewish rituals, and pointed jabs at cultural stereotypes, but the most powerful moments occur when Takiff addresses his personal religi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55AM, Oh God feels necessary and urgent in a way that it would not have, say, two weeks ago. Now, that's impeccable timing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37PMDon't be misled by the title: A Case for the Existence of God, Samuel D. Hunter's gorgeous and heartbreaking new play now running at Signature Theatre, is anything but a theoretical religiou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:57AMTo My Girls comprises stock figures recognizable from plays like The Boys in the Band, Torch Song Trilogy, Jeffrey, and Angels in America.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:07AMMore than a decade after he first performed the piece, and once again directed by Cummings, Greenspan remains a force of nature. Until he climbs off of the stage after eighty breathless minu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01PMThe New Group's exhilarating new musical adaptation retains the novel's relevance, and it is the rare show that appeals to the intellect, the heart, and the soul.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:18PMWhile Will Pomerantz and Nancy Harrow's adaptation may not necessarily raise Turgenev's literary stature, it makes for a lovely and bittersweet night at the theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14PM... one of the most exhilarating, reassuring, and life-affirming performances you may experience this year.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMIn the end, though, the play, overstuffed with ideas and theatricality, does not pack the emotional wallop one might expect.
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