Friday, November 22, 2019
... Will Eno's strange and wonderful new play currently running at Second Stage Theater ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
How much do biographers really know about the individuals they research?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMFriday, February 15, 2019
In State of the Union, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning play currently being revived by Metropolitan Playhouse, a presidential hopeful agrees to go on the pre-c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMTuesday, January 22, 2019
One thing that Americans can all agree on is that Americans cannot all agree on anything.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMMonday, January 21, 2019
In Awake, the estimable Barrow Group's current production, K. Lorrel Manning tackles a host of divisive and contemporary hot-button issues. Racism, sexism, Islamophobia, religious hypocrisy,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Two years ago Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit Red Rabbit was an Off-Broadway hit and ran an impressive forty-two weeks. (It played Monday nights only at the Westside Theatre.)
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
"Can I be honest with you?" These are the first words uttered by Undine Barnes Calles, a high-powered New York City publicist and the central character in Lynn Nottage's sweeping and satiric…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:57AMSunday, December 2, 2018
When The Tricky Part, Martin Morans lacerating solo show about child sex abuse, debuted in 2003, the nation was still reeling from The Boston Globes Roman Catholic church exposé publish…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMSunday, October 14, 2018
When silent film star Greta Garbo transitioned to talking movies with her performance of Anna Christie in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning-play of the same name, the marketing campaig…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:11PMMonday, September 10, 2018
It can't be easy being the last remaining dragon on earth, a planet which humans do not even inhabit anymore.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Time is of the essence in Beloved, Lisa Lengseth's one-person show currently playing at the Lion Theatre in Theatre Row.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:06PMThursday, August 2, 2018
The central image of Mike Birbiglia's dazzling new solo show, aptly and simply named The New One, is a couch.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PMFriday, July 13, 2018
Austin Pendelton draws fine comic performances from his cast of nine with ANDRUS NICHOLS in the title role; her indomitable spirt balancing a perfect mix of kookiness and pathos as "Margery."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:05AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Morality and domesticity are so fourteenth century. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Karl Marx is in the house, and he has some things he needs to get off his chest.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMFriday, April 27, 2018
Quick: Who wrote, "By the pricking of my thumbs,/ Something wicked this way comes"?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:18PMSaturday, April 14, 2018
According to a program note, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was inspired to write his first play, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, after leading a reading group on The Odyssey.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMMonday, March 26, 2018
The experience of watching A Walk in the Woods, Lee Blessing's 1988 play in its current revival by the Barrow Group, is both simultaneously comforting and disconcerting.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMSunday, March 25, 2018
Babette's Feast, currently playing at the Theatre at St. Clement's, demonstrates the power of art, grace, and selfless generosity to unite a community riven by petty differences, personal sl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:29PMMonday, March 12, 2018
At the beginning of Sean Christopher Lewis's harrowing solo play Dogs of Rwanda, now playing at Urban Stages, David (Dan Hodge) describes a particular custom in Rwanda: Individuals guilty of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:42PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Harvey Milk often began his political speeches with the declaration, "My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMSaturday, February 17, 2018
Throughout the 1980s there was a slew of plays that can be best described as unlovable-losers dramas. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMMonday, January 22, 2018
As social commentary and cultural exposé, The Thing with Feathers, Scott Organ's play receiving its world premiere by the Barrow Group, is timely and important.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMMonday, January 8, 2018
Robert O'Hara's Mankind, now playing at Playwrights Horizons, begins with a bang.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14PMSunday, November 26, 2017
Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows were huge circus-like extravaganzas and ostentatious spectacles of American exceptionalism.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:37AMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Even before the first guest has arrived and the monkfish stew is ready to be served, the audience watching Muswell Hill, Torbin Betts's 2012 British play receiving its New York premiere, can…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:55PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
Opening just days after the mass shooting in a church near San Antonio, Texas, Julia Cho's Office Hour couldn't be more timely.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMThursday, October 19, 2017
In an uneasy world and during anxious times, maps offer a sense of orderliness and manageability.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26PMFriday, September 15, 2017
History has not been kind to American playwright Clyde Fitch.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20PMMonday, August 7, 2017
Now that Dolly is back where she belongs, on Broadway and assayed by Bette Midler, it seems fitting to honor Jerry Herman, the composer and lyricist responsible for the show's enduring appea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:38PMThursday, July 6, 2017
As an overlooked piece of theatre history, Victoria Benedictsson's semi-autobiographical The Enchantment, currently receiving its US premiere in a production by Ducdame Ensemble, is a fascin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:40PM 
