In the end, though, the play, overstuffed with ideas and theatricality, does not pack the emotional wallop one might expect.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AM... an ambitious musical, but sadly, its appeal is as lasting as a one-night stand.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMRomeo and Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, does not nearly reach the very high bar that Amas has set in its first half century.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PM... the play raises complex questions about the desire to assign blame in the wake of a senseless and tragic massacre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:50PMWith direction by Michael Wilson, the cast is uniformly strong, and they keep the audience guessing about the uncomfortable truths.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:24AM... Will Eno's strange and wonderful new play currently running at Second Stage Theater ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50AMHow much do biographers really know about the individuals they research?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMIn 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 07:15PMOne thing that Americans can all agree on is that Americans cannot all agree on anything.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMIn 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 07:10PMTwo 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 08:38PM"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 04:57AMWhen 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 09:09PMWhen 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 04:11PMIt can't be easy being the last remaining dragon on earth, a planet which humans do not even inhabit anymore.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMTime is of the essence in Beloved, Lisa Lengseth's one-person show currently playing at the Lion Theatre in Theatre Row.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:06PMThe central image of Mike Birbiglia's dazzling new solo show, aptly and simply named The New One, is a couch.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PMAustin 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 11:05AMMorality and domesticity are so fourteenth century. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PMKarl Marx is in the house, and he has some things he needs to get off his chest.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMQuick: Who wrote, "By the pricking of my thumbs,/ Something wicked this way comes"?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:18PMAccording 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 07:03PMThe 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 07:03PMBabette'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 06:29PMAt 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 07:42PMHarvey Milk often began his political speeches with the declaration, "My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMThroughout the 1980s there was a slew of plays that can be best described as unlovable-losers dramas. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMAs 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 07:12PMRobert O'Hara's Mankind, now playing at Playwrights Horizons, begins with a bang.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14PMBuffalo Bill's Wild West shows were huge circus-like extravaganzas and ostentatious spectacles of American exceptionalism.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:37AMEven 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…
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