Saturday, August 25, 2018
Henry VI doesn't get a lot of stagings . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:36PMMonday, June 25, 2018
Log Cabin is so stuffed with ideas, it feels foolish to try to unpack them all here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Upstage center in Donja R. Love's Sugar in Our Wounds is, as the Playbill says, "a tall, tall tree."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
When did you last see a new play where at the end of Act One you thought, hmm, I'm not sure, then at the end of Act Two you thought, Wow?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The theatrical tradition of grownups playing kids, and bringing fresh nuance to adolescent angst, is long and honorable: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, of course, and then there's that "P…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMThursday, May 3, 2018
Unexpected Joy has a cast of four women and possesses a chick-flick plot that, while original, might have been lifted from a Lifetime Movie of the Week. Wait, wait, don't go away.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMUnexpected Joy has a cast of four women and possesses a chick-flick plot that, while original, might have been lifted from a Lifetime Movie of the Week. Wait, wait, don't go away.
SOURCE: at 06:50PMMonday, April 9, 2018
Plays don't come timelier than Lindsey Ferrentino's This Flat Earth, premiering at Playwrights Horizons, and sadly, this one will probably stay timely for some good while.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
A.R. Gurney is back in town; town is a more civilized place.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Vulnerability doesn't come easily to Eve Ensler. Neither does holding back.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27PMSunday, February 4, 2018
The Connelly Theater, on East Fourth, is an elegant old-style off-Broadway house, with gilded proscenium arch, dramatic red curtain, and ample wing space to store enormous set changes.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:21PMMonday, January 22, 2018
The more you like being in a crowded teachers' lounge in the middle of Ohio, the more you'll like Miles for Mary.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMSunday, October 1, 2017
Something's happened to Peter Kellogg. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:17PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Filial guilt may seem a slender thread on which to hang a whole evening. And it turns out, with The Treasurer, that it is. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Sarah Ruhl, who's usually so eager to provoke and bend rules and tease her audience, has gone mostly naturalistic and presentational with her latest.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
Sherlock Holmes hasn't had an easy time of it on the musical stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:15PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
The sad outweighs the funny in Fulfillment Center, at City Center Stage II at Manhattan Theatre Club, but my gosh, there's plenty of both.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:15PMMonday, June 12, 2017
Bella: An American Tall Tale wore me down.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMThursday, May 25, 2017
It's called Building the Wall, and yes, the wall referred to is That Wall.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:18AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Myriad are the pop-culture references in "Shine: A Burlesque Musical." How do you make them hold together? You don't.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe downsizing of the workforce is one of the timeliest subjects around, but it's only given a light dusting over in "P.O.," Scott Klavan's two-hander about a pair of average-Joe postal work…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMVince Santoro's one-man show plays like its raison d'être is that the author had a lot to get off his chest, and this was cheaper than therapy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM"I like you." "Why?" Not a deathless exchange, yet as rendered with multileveled subtext in Gregory Crafts' "Friends Like These," it pierces and resonates.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMPlaywright Tom MacLachlan knows stagecraft and has imagination, but he hasn't organized them into a coherent theatrical statement.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAnton Chekhov famously referred to his stage works as comedies, a characterization that may puzzle anyone who has ever sat through an uncut "Uncle Vanya."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis 90-minute show involving a time-altering drug feels twice as long. Kudos to Broadway vet Liz McCartney for bringing a note of reality to the fantasy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM1950s sensibilities clash with 2010 realities in a weird throwback to backstage musicals, but the three-person cast enchants.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis musical version of the fabled Horatio Algers books is hopelessly old-fashioned—but in a good way.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDespite some juicy roles and histrionic scenes, this trio of interrelated one-acts fails to evoke any big emotions.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMApple Core Theatre Company's production of William M. Hoffman's 1985 play about the AIDS crisis may not be ideal, but it mostly hits the right notes and is genuinely moving.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
