Sunday, September 4, 2016
Twelfth Night, which is playing at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park through tomorrow night, is the best of the three Public Works productions I've seen ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:42PMFriday, September 2, 2016
With The Producers more than a decade ago, Broadway's biggest head honchos learned the hard way about the dangers of putting on a musical with genuine star-casting requirements in an environ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:52AMThursday, August 25, 2016
When it comes to exploring the darkest regions of the human soul in search of the reasons we behave in the devastating ways we do, few playwrights are more experienced or gifted than Leslye …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMWednesday, August 24, 2016
There's a closer relationship between the erosion of the land and the erosion of human souls than you may initially assume. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
In one corner: the corrupt government, which uses its chosen arm of force (given that its agents wear black Kevlar and wield powerful pistols, apparently the FBI) to impose its will via stif…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMThursday, August 4, 2016
Fantasy and fact collide in modern romantic-comedy terms in Engagements, the amusing but flighty play by Lucy Teitler than just opened at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre as part of the Second Stag…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:22PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
There are lots of reasons that jukebox musicals irritate hardcore theatre fans ....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52AMMonday, August 1, 2016
Masculinity gets a thorough dunking - almost a drowning - in Men on Boats, the Jaclyn Backhaus play that just opened at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29PMSunday, July 31, 2016
Now that the show has just opened at the Neil Simon in a largely faithful revival, I will come clean and admit publicly: I like Cats.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44PMDespite the infinite swath of possibilities the theatre offers, there are some hard limits on just how adventurous your show should be.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:58AMPlunging you into the mind of a troubled soul is not easy for the theatre under the best of circumstances, but musicals make it more challenging still: A demented psychology and a damaged mi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:58AMThursday, July 28, 2016
Beer, ball (football that is, or soccer if you live on this side of the pond), and brawling: Are there more quintessential examples of Irish mindset - or at least the Irish theatrical mindse…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMThe world will never know for sure what it lost when Howard Ashman died of complications of AIDS in 1991.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:50PM"Outsider in our midst" stories can be excellent fodder for musicals - The King and I, The Music Man, and on and on - but that theme alone does not make an ordinary play sing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:54AMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Some mysteries are better left unexplained.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00AMA strange thing about theatre: The louder it screams "fun," the less fun it actually generates. ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00AMSunday, July 24, 2016
Edgar Allan Poe's unique brand of macabre absurdism crackles on the page, but doesn't always translate perfectly to human voices and emotions.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:18PMSaturday, July 23, 2016
Icon at The New York Musical Festival
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:53PMChildren of Salt at The New York Musical Festival
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:53PMNormativity at The New York Musical Festival
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52PMFriday, July 22, 2016
The old magic, once gone, is difficult to get back.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56AMWednesday, July 20, 2016
The First Church of Mary, the Repentant Prostitute's FIFTH ANNUAL!!! Benefit Concert, Revival, and Pot Luck Dinner at The New York Musical Festival
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36AMMonday, July 18, 2016
Think ticket prices for Hamilton are scary?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26PMMonday, July 11, 2016
The art of writing may be inherently undramatic, but that doesn't mean it contains no possibility of vitality....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMThursday, July 7, 2016
Few theatre companies capture the in-the-trenches zeitgeist in their musicals the way The Public Theater does....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:17AMMonday, July 4, 2016
One glance at the Statue of Liberty and you instantly understand everything that she, and ostensibly the United States, stands for.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:14PMThursday, June 23, 2016
For a play that contains absolutely no blood or gore, Stet, which was written by Kim Davies and is now receiving its world premiere at the Abingdon Theatre Company's June Havoc Theatre, cont…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMThe Healing, the new play by Samuel D. Hunter that just opened at the Clurman Theatre, could - on the surface, anyway - not be a better match for the company producing it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:46AMFriday, June 10, 2016
Not all ghost stories are created equal.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
Young love needn't always be confined to adolescents....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:56PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
If laughter really is the best medicine, the afflicted looking for the next, best miracle cure are well advised to stay away from the Lucille Lortel Theatre. ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:18PM 
