Tuesday, August 9, 2011
... , it shows that real life, even when filtered through circus specialties, is the most thrilling experience theatre can offer.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53PMThursday, August 4, 2011
For Brian Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan, discovering the real heart of The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown was almost as complicated as that musical's heroine's learning to disco…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:00AMMonday, August 1, 2011
Are schools supposed to be about exploring ideas, or to shelter their students from the realities of culture and history that shape everyday life in America? David Snead, the superintendent …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMTwo years ago, I wrote a column in this space called "Line of the Year", which detailed what I thought was the most memorable single line of dialogue of 2008. I didn't do a similar column la…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:54AMSaturday, July 30, 2011
Children of God may not be the sharpest or most intricate musical to hit the stages this summer (or this year at all), but for that reason alone, it may be the most positive and uplifting.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMAs Stephen Sondheim, Michael John LaChiusa, and many others have proven over the last four decades, a concept musical absolutely must have a concept.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMThursday, July 28, 2011
Chances are that all your assumptions — about its level of humor, about its effectiveness, about its shock value (or lack thereof) — are precisely correct.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:22PMWednesday, July 27, 2011
Certainly, this isn't your grandmother's Oz adaptation, though given
its spiritual resemblance to The Wiz, maybe it's your aunt's.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:39PMTuesday, July 26, 2011
Allen's plotting and foundational concepts are so strong that you can't help but feel that time and additional testing will help bend Sex Curve's benefit curve even more sharply upward.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMMonday, July 25, 2011
Hanky Panky and Surviving Love, part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:20PMBeauty and purpose can be found anywhere. There's certainly plenty of both to be found in All New People.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:18PMSunday, July 24, 2011
Gated and The Dickening, part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53PMIt’s possible — if exceedingly unlikely — that when a woman enters within the first moments of Susan Charlotte’s play The Shoemaker, which just opened at the Acorn Theatre, and says,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:25PMWhat theatre has always possessed — and what continues to distinguish it from film, television, and so many other art forms — is a rigorous devotion to imagination.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:23PMThursday, July 21, 2011
But when Death Takes a Holiday speaks, and especially sings, from its heart, as it does with increasing regularity and urgency as the evening unfolds, it gives you almost everything you coul…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMIt puts a taut and fascinating, if sometimes off-handed, spin on a tale so familiar it often seems to have no additional facets to explore.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26AMTuesday, July 19, 2011
A Strange and Separate People, which just opened at the Theatre Row Studio Theatre, concerns how gay men participate in perhaps an even more exclusionary community: that of Orthodox Jews on …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:10PMMonday, July 18, 2011
". . . at least you can definitively say upon leaving it that you’ve never seen or heard anything like it before."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:35PMCivil Rights, Vietnam, Woodstock — whatever you may think of the Baby Boomer era, there’s no denying its inhabitants made some major history and represented an individuality and ambition…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:28PMThursday, July 14, 2011
If anything could be the subject of wall-shattering comedy, it’s American energy policy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
Some theatrical phenomena are merely difficult to understand; others are downright impossible.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMTuesday, July 12, 2011
The societal indignities suffered by women and the exploitation of blacks at white hands are such powerful subjects to the American psyche that’s it not surprising they keep turning up as …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:56PMSaturday, July 9, 2011
"Fine drama and comedy never go out of style, but parody has a much shorter shelf life."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMThursday, July 7, 2011
It’s difficult to learn much from a teacher you can’t trust.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMThursday, June 30, 2011
"... unquestionably among the very worst professional productions of Shakespeare I have ever seen. (We’re talking bottom five here — at best.)"
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMWednesday, June 29, 2011
This is head-to-toe environmental theatre of the kind that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark aimed for but never quite achieved.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMSunday, June 26, 2011
All's Well That Ends Well has been deemed one of the "problem plays" for the same reason that Sullivan and his excellent company, led by Annie Parisse and André Holland, make it seem so rig…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04PMWednesday, June 22, 2011
If you think weddings are nerve-wracking enough as they are, imagine trying to plan one while you're constantly being tormented with mental pictures of your parents having sex!
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:06PMMonday, June 20, 2011
... this is a play that's confused by the dead-end opportunities it keeps presenting itself, ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:47PMWednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
