Tuesday, May 24, 2011
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The Astoria Performing Arts Center is putting on an exuberant and engaging production of Galt MacDermot and William Dumaresq's rarely seen 1983 musical, The Human Comedy.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:22PMTuesday, April 26, 2011
In the category of contemporary plays better known by their revivals than by their original productions, John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves is a sapphire-encrusted headliner. Though the 1…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02AMSunday, April 24, 2011
Nina Arianda's performance as Billie Dawn, the deceptive ditz who's the driving force of Garson Kanin's comedy Born Yesterday, is not notable for being this young actress's stunning New York…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37PMFriday, April 22, 2011
With the possible exception of Satan, the Seven Deadly Sins have no more passionate champion than Johnny "Rooster" Byron. The buoyant free spirit at the center of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:49AMThursday, April 21, 2011
What if your big break came and you blew it? That's one of the more unsettling questions at the center of Christopher Shinn's new play, Picked, which just opened at the Vineyard Theatre, as …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12AMWednesday, April 20, 2011
When a stage adaptation of a pre-existing work fizzles, it's typically because it hasn't adequately captured the spirit or the necessity of its source. Whether or not it's otherwise faithful…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:21PMTuesday, April 19, 2011
In High, Matthew Lombardo's new play at the Booth, everyone is addicted to something. But perhaps none of those addictions is more pervasive � or, simultaneously, more destructive and more e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:40PMSunday, April 17, 2011
Thank goodness for John Tenniel. The drawings of the veteran illustrator, which video and projection designer Sven Ortel has adopted and adapted for Wonderland's house curtain at the Marriot…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:08PMThursday, April 14, 2011
Forging a transformative emotional connection with a character in a play is one of the most exciting and seldom-experienced events that can happen at the theatre. Rarer still is doing so whe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:23PMWednesday, April 13, 2011
Call the play weird if you want — and you probably should — but that doesn't stop it from being sensible, funny, and legitimately moving.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50AMMonday, April 11, 2011
“One man’s facts are another man’s fabrications,” says a character early in Mona Mansour’s new play Urge for Going, which has just opened at The Public Theater as part of its Publi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:13AMSunday, April 10, 2011
Sixties camp may have soared in the 2002 Broadway musical Hairspray, but that�s not why it ran over six years.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:03PMFriday, April 8, 2011
“You know what the pulse of the city is?” “A busy signal?” This exchange, between uptight free spirit Marta and confirmed bachelor Robert, perfectly encapsulates the experience that …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51AMYou appreciate Porter’s artistry all the more because of how little is evident elsewhere whenever the songs recede.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:39AMWednesday, April 6, 2011
When Tomei and Whaley are left alone to portray opposite poles in the eternal quest for meaning in a meaningless world, their pain becomes yours. When they're not, their existence becomes pa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56AMMonday, April 4, 2011
The trouble with invoking ghosts is that you can't always control whom they haunt. With his new musical-theatre bio-show, One Night with Fanny Brice, which just opened at St. Luke's Theatre,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:28AMSaturday, April 2, 2011
It doesn’t say anything new, and it doesn’t say much in ways you’ve never heard before. But it also doesn’t absorb cynicism or complaints. It’s a show so gentle, so nice, and so en…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42AMWith the help of Mantello, Metcalf, and everyone else involved, The Other Place takes you to another place: that transcendent level you can only reach in the theatre when the heart, mind, ne…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40AMThe charm and theatricality of neither the work nor this mounting have been amplified, and as headed by Fierstein and Christopher Sieber, respectively in the roles of Albin and Georges, the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40AMBut like his first show, Sleepwalk with Me, which opened Off-Broadway in 2008, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend is most concerned with showing off this outstanding comic to the best of his consider…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39AMSunday, March 27, 2011
Radcliffe may not be a natural song-and-dance man, but he delivers the goods with a flair that catapults him past many of his more experienced cast mates.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34PMThat it isn’t as good as Parker and Stone are capable of isn’t merely a missed opportunity — it’s a colossal letdown.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:21PMTuesday, March 22, 2011
Who says you can't pick your family? The ten characters in Bathsheba Doran's marvelous new play Kin, which just opened at Playwrights Horizons, prove that everyone does exactly that.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55AMMonday, March 21, 2011
In rethinking it, especially for the new revival that just opened at the Theatre at St. Clement’s, all director Wackerman and his collaborators have managed to do is break it in new and us…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:07AMUnfortunately, even if your eyes are in perfect working order, you’ll have to deal with the far-more-distressing fact that, in the most important way, Priscilla has no color at all.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04AMSex has been vital to musicals for as long as musicals have existed, but few shows have embraced it as openly and as daringly as Hello Again.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03AMFriday, March 18, 2011
The evening is ultimately hampered by the score which, despite outstanding orchestrations from Ted Royal, Hans Spialek, and Philip J. Lang, and an energetic performance from conductor Rob Be…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:37PMColorful and compelling without being confusing, it's a rare modern masterwork, if one that is notoriously difficult to get right in production. This is unfortunately being proven by the new…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04AMFriday, December 31, 2010
Of the 200 or so shows I saw in 2010, which were the ones I considered the best? Well, in alphabetical order... Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Off-Broadway): Note, very clearly, the words &qu…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:02PMSunday, December 12, 2010
It's become downright fashionable to blame audiences for the failure of any serious show these days—after all, haven't people become so stupid and sheeplike that if things aren't f…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:48AM 
