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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Stardust Road" - 12/1/22 by Marc Miller

Wedging some 40 songs into a little over 90 minutes, Stardust Road is filled with Great American Songbook treasures, well-known and otherwise. And it mostly sounds terrific, thanks to Lawren…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17PM
Thursday, November 17, 2022

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Jack Was Kind" - 11/17/22 by Marc Miller

Mary, though we don't find out until the very last moment that that's her name, is recording a monologue on her phone, which she's set up on a tripod, and the mechanics baffle her. Media-sav…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:17PM
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Downstate" - 11/15/22 by Marc Miller

A tough one, this. Bruce Norris's Downstate, now playing at Playwrights Horizons, plunks us down into a repellent environment, one we'd never choose to find ourselves in, and shakes our assu…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06AM
Monday, November 7, 2022

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "You Will Get Sick" - 11/6/22 by Marc Miller

Given the human suffering we are made to witness in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of You Will Get Sick–the main character's terrifying and mysterious physical deterioration, ev…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38AM
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Chester Bailey" - 10/19/22 by Marc Miller

Chester Bailey. A prosaic title, and the play at Irish Rep, by Joseph Dougherty, doesn't overflow with poetry, either. It's a straightforward little two-hander, one with perhaps too many tan…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PM
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "american (tele}visions" - 9/29/22 by Marc Miller

american (tele)visions, Victor I. Cazares's new play, in a premiere production at New York Theatre Workshop, is a kaleidoscope, an ever-shifting dazzlement of colors, patterns, shapes, multi…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:30PM
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Corsicana" - 6/22/22 by Marc Miller

Will Arbery is an outlier. His previous play at Playwrights Horizons, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, introduced us New York sophisticates to a subculture we'd probably never met, and hoped we…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02AM
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Golden Shield" - 5/17/22 by Marc Miller

Golden Shield has a lot on its mind–too much, perhaps. Anchuli Felicia King's new drama at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 1 concerns itself with, on the one hand, the unholy alliances of c…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:40AM
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "72 Miles to Go..." - 3/10/20 by Marc Miller

Hilary Bettis's new play, 72 Miles to Go..., kind of sneaks up on you. It begins in a Tucson church in 2016, where the pastor, Billy (Triney Sandoval), is giving what evidently is his farewe…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03AM
Monday, March 9, 2020

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Unknown Soldier" - 3/9/20 by Marc Miller

[Friedman's] writing in many styles, from pastiche to operatic to sorta-Sondheim, and he melds them well to tell an affecting story.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44PM
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Perplexed" - 3/3/20 by Marc Miller

These debonair individuals aren't easy for us schlubs to identify with, and their problems are neither that acute nor that compelling.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PM
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation" - 1/20/20 by Marc Miller

A New York with a Forbidden Broadway in it is always a happier place. And the franchise's latest incarnation, Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, currently occupying the York, is a pip.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:57AM
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Harry Townsend's Last Stand" - 12/4/19 by Marc Miller

... well-produced, humorous, and occasionally moving. Still, Eastman's trudging down a well-traveled path.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:19PM
Monday, November 18, 2019

Talkin' Broadway Review: "The Inheritance" 11/17/19 by Marc Miller

Lopez's mammoth depiction of the last 30-odd years of gay American male-hood is a unique meditation.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:44AM
Friday, March 29, 2019

Smart Blonde at 59 E 59 by Marc Miller

“There are some who think Judy Holliday was the greatest comic actress of all time, and some who think she was simply the greatest comic actress of the century.” That’s David Shipman i…

SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:46PM
Saturday, March 23, 2019

“Kiss Me Kate” at Studio 54 by Marc Miller

There’s only one other full-size Broadway musical revival in town right now, that thing uptown about Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, so fans of golden age musicals had better hie themse…

SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:20PM
Sunday, January 27, 2019

CARMELINA - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

But there must be something about Carmelina, because York Theatre Company's Musicals in Mufti has just brought it back for its third airing, the first title to score such a trifecta.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:43PM
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

CHOIR BOY - Talkin Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

A stageful of characters you don't often encounter in Broadway houses populates Choir Boy, Tarell Alvin McCraney's two-thirds-drama, one-third-concert, a Manhattan Theatre Club production at…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PM
Thursday, December 13, 2018

CHRISTMAS IN HELL - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

One walks into Christmas in Hell, at the York, wanting to like it.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PM
Monday, December 10, 2018

NOURA - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

Noura burns on a low flame.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PM
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

THE THANKSGIVING PLAY - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

Tricky business, political correctness.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:33AM
Monday, November 5, 2018

AMERICAN SON - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

Though we never actually meet him, Jamal, the title character of Christopher Demos-Brown's American Son, sounds like a wonderful kid.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09AM
Friday, November 2, 2018

TORCH SONG - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

It's been a lot of years.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:56AM
Thursday, October 25, 2018

THE NICETIES - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

So once upon a time, kids, there was this play called Oleanna. Mid-career David Mamet, it opened off-Broadway in 1992 and immediately caused a ruckus, both on its own merits and in light of …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PM
Thursday, October 11, 2018

MIDNIGHT AT THE NEVER GET - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

There's a famous, oft-exhibited photo of Julius, the still-there predominantly gay bar in the Village, from 1966.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:52PM
Thursday, September 27, 2018

THE NAP - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

"You wanna play snooker? Well, chalk up your cue."

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PM
Monday, September 24, 2018

I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

An unfamiliar sight greets audiences filing into Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater:

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PM
Saturday, September 15, 2018

YOU AND I - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

The story of the writing of You and I turns out to be more compelling than You and I itself. Philip Barry, fatherless from infancy and raised in a modest Irish-Catholic household, was to inh…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:43PM
Monday, August 27, 2018

WORSE THAN TIGERS - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

It's just a guess, but I'll hazard that Mark Chrisler has a Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fixation.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PM
Saturday, August 25, 2018

HENRY VI PARTS 1 AND 2 - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

Henry VI doesn't get a lot of stagings . . .

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:36PM
Monday, June 25, 2018

LOG CABIN - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Marc Miller

Log Cabin is so stuffed with ideas, it feels foolish to try to unpack them all here.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards