Monday, November 5, 2018
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[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
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[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
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[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
An unfamiliar sight greets audiences filing into Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater:
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 15, 2018
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[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
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[SHARE]Saturday, August 25, 2018
Monday, June 25, 2018
Log Cabin is so stuffed with ideas, it feels foolish to try to unpack them all here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 09:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 10:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 07:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 07:05PM[SHARE]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: at 06:50PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 07:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Vulnerability doesn't come easily to Eve Ensler. Neither does holding back.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 06:21PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 07:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2017
Tuesday, 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 07:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 07:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
Sherlock Holmes hasn't had an easy time of it on the musical stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:15PM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
It's called Building the Wall, and yes, the wall referred to is That Wall.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:18AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 05:58PM[SHARE]The 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 05:58PM[SHARE]Vince 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[SHARE] 
