Tuesday, 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 10:18PMMonday, June 6, 2016
Lovers of literature rightly treasure the works of James Joyce ....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28PMSix thousand years is a pretty long run, so who can blame the Powers That Be for calling in a replacement? Wait, sorry, He is the Powers That Be, so... Oh, forget it....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28PMHis (superb) Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist from last year, Gloria, notwithstanding, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's works are among the most compelling that new playwrights are producing about …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
David Huntington has a problem: He doesn't know when he is.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
It's an unusual—but wonderful—conceit of the theatre that a blatant falsehood often leads to a deeper truth....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:51PMFriday, May 27, 2016
East-West relations have just improved a lot on Broadway.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:48AMThursday, May 26, 2016
The title of Friend Art, the play by Sofia Alvarez that just opened at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre as part of the Second Stage Theatre Uptown series, refers in large part to the type of work y…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
In Passing Strange, the 2007 Off-Broadway musical (that moved to Broadway the following year), Stew, who coauthored the show with Heidi Rodewald, told the story of a young black man several …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMOn paper, Paramour sounds like a billion-dollar idea.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMTuesday, May 24, 2016
At one time or another, we've all had our minds play tricks on us. But how often does someone else's mind play tricks on us?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMMonday, May 23, 2016
You're looking down in judgment. You're joined by a couple of hundred other tut-tutters whose opinions are just as set in stone as yours are, but without whom you can't make the decision....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMWhat's the best way to celebrate a milestone birthday? Why, with a show packed with loss, decay, and death, of course! Party down!
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07AMSunday, May 1, 2016
The title character of Dear Evan Hansen, the gorgeous, affecting, and wayward new musical that just opened at Second Stage, is caught in a predicament that that would vex someone much older …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:13PMThursday, April 28, 2016
Theatrical history does not come alive in Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed - and that's a good thing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
When theatre folk want to mock either the explosion of off-color language in the theatre or those "puritanical" souls who fret about such things, their lead go-to guy for the past few decade…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMEven a small storm can be devastating.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:38PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Where do you stand in the ongoing battle between "timely" and "timeless"?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:30PMMonday, April 25, 2016
It's been a heavy season of Broadway plays: Blackbird, The Crucible, Eclipsed, The Father, The Humans, and Long Day's Journey Into Night - and those are just the ones that are currently runn…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:44PMSunday, April 24, 2016
As much as we'd all love to believe we're above petty gossip, that we've moved beyond the world where every social faux pas rates a clucking tongue and agitated whispers from our neighbors, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51PMSensory and emotional overload - to say nothing of mere engagement - are rare occurrences these days at the Brooks Atkinson, where the new musical Waitress just opened, but when they hit, th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:58PMThursday, April 21, 2016
Can a theatre piece be too true to life? That's the implicit question beneath Cate Ryan's new work, In the Secret Sea, which just opened at the Beckett Theatre. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PMThe energy is unmistakable. It's genuine electricity, not the faux stuff, of the kind only a succinct, unique work of art can create.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMMonday, April 18, 2016
Although the Scottish seashore is the setting for Sharman Macdonald's When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, it's waves of another kind other than salt water that most clearly inform …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMSaturday, April 16, 2016
The walls are decrepit. The cinder-block walls look ancient. The flickering fluorescent lighting doesn't really illuminate anything - at least not anything worth looking at.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:04PMFriday, April 15, 2016
These days, it's more common to see William Shakespeare plays in modern dress than to see them done traditionally; it's easier, cheaper, and (sigh) more relatable.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMThursday, April 14, 2016
Darkness encroaches softly but surely in The Father, which just opened at the Samuel J. Friedman in a Manhattan Theatre Club production.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00PMWednesday, April 13, 2016
A Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian walk into Jerusalem and... Wow, that really does sound like some sort of corny joke, doesn't it?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMSaturday, April 9, 2016
What's it like living in the shadow of genius?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:24PMMonday, April 4, 2016
Kids want to grow up to be free of boundaries and restrictions; adults who want to be kids again typically desire that because they've learned what the boundaries and restrictions are and no…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMSunday, April 3, 2016
You may think that piano chords are giving way to human voices. Or that the dusty mechanics of the past are making way for the innovations of the future.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PM 
