Friday, February 12, 2016
It's here at last: The ultimate battle between Heaven and Hell.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:35AMThursday, February 11, 2016
Have you "got to be carefully taught," as Oscar Hammerstein II posited in South Pacific some 67 years ago? Or, as Avenue Q musicalmeisters Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez first mused in 2003, is …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:16PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
The glow of memory is at once crystalline and cloudy in Prodigal Son, John Patrick Shanley's curiously cursory new play at City Center for Manhattan Theatre Club.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20PMSilence, precisely enough articulated, can indeed speak volumes. And it does, time and time again, in The Woodsman, the haunting, lovely, and unforgettable puppet–fairy-tale extravaganza t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:00AMThursday, February 4, 2016
William Shakespeare's plays are an obvious fit within the musical theatre idiom, their sprawling themes and natural lyricism giving way so easily to song that it's no surprise they've been a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:54PMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Loss compounds several times over, and with stinging consequences, in Nick Gandiello's new play The Wedge Horse, which just opened at the IATI Theater Mainstage in a Fault Line Theatre produ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:17PMFriday, January 29, 2016
Finding yourself is difficult enough without other people getting in the way.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:08AMSunday, January 24, 2016
For all we so often claim we can learn about the past, we genetically tend toward blotting out the parts of it we don't agree with and pretending that what remains is all there is.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:49PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Love and history collide on planes both personal and global in Our Mother's Brief Affair, the curious and frequently flavorless confection by Richard Greenberg that just opened at the Samuel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:52PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
If the two are inextricably tied together, what happens to your soul when your job goes away?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:08PMThe iconic image of Mother Courage hitching herself to her wagon and dragging it on through impossible odds could not be more apropos than it is when it's performed by Kecia Lewis in Classic…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PMThursday, January 14, 2016
Until recently, I never had much of a taste for sardines. But that all changed after seeing Lloyd Dallas's intense new touring production of Nothing On.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMMonday, January 11, 2016
Maurice Hines is not afraid to pay credit where credit is due. With his new quasi-bio, quasi-concert evening that just opened at New World Stages, Tappin' Thru Life, he's always willing to s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMAll the world's a madhouse--or at least the basement of one--in Jesse Berger's new revival of The Changeling for Red Bull Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:24AMSunday, December 20, 2015
Yes, the holidays should be big, bold, colorful, and exciting, but you don't want to lose the intimacy and the quiet meaning of it all within the rush. That balance might be one of my favori…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMEven the darkest, most tragic musicals needn't be dour.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:22PMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Stepping into the Kings Theatre in Flatbush is like being catapulted back 80 years. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:48AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Go to the theatre often enough, and it becomes hard to shake the feeling that there are more spins on Shakespeare plays than there actually are Shakespeare plays — they just seem to have t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:17PMMonday, December 14, 2015
Sunday, December 13, 2015
Children (and parents) seeking more inspiring, realistic role models than those usually found in fairy tales (or today's movies and films, but I repeat myself) should be first in line for th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:38PMThursday, December 10, 2015
Who would have guessed that, in addition to being the crossword editor for the New York Times, Will Shortz also moonlights as Cupid?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12PMA vast landscape of brown may well have its charms, but vibrancy is not likely to be among them—especially when John Doyle is your tour guide.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Walter Tevis's 1963 novel The Man Who Fell to Earth and the various film versions that have been made from it (including one from 1976 that starred David Bowie) are about a humanlike alien w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMSunday, December 6, 2015
Any theatregoer who's seen a play with child actors has seen bad child actors.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:45PMChristmas classics come in all shapes and flavors: big, small, flashy, simple, sweeping, homespun, electric, candlelight.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:43PMThursday, December 3, 2015
The fiercest battle of the fall theater season is being waged at the Gerald Schoenfeld, where David Mamet's play China Doll just opened.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:36PMSlimming down is not always the wisest course of action.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMWednesday, December 2, 2015
Great theatre moves and changes you by its ability to unlock thoughts and emotions buried well beyond the reach of everyday life. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PMSunday, November 29, 2015
Her eyes bore right through you, but the impression she gives is not one of anger, determination, or even base intensity—but of fear.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMTuesday, November 24, 2015
Fear not, terminally unstylish: You don't need to know the difference between a trilby and a homburg to have a good time at Nick Jones's new play at City Center Stage II for Manhattan Theatr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AM 
