No one knows you quite the way a sibling does.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:58AMIn the grand roster of significant eternal warfare, “man versus woman” surely must be at the top of the list. But likely not too far behind is “Arab versus Jew,” which encapsulates o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:16PMYouthful fantasies may be a vital part of growing up, but just as with the influence of teachers, parents, and friends, their effects can linger — and do considerable damage — once you'v…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:50PMTo dwell too much, too quickly, on the many, many things wrong with the musical titled Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter, which just opened at the Minetta Lane Th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:28PMYou've heard of seduction in a bar, but... an abortion clinic?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMFor a god, he's certainly not in control, is he?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMFor a man burdened with so many crippling problems, Walter Washington certainly is easygoing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMIs there much point in discussing the content of Laura Eason's play Sex With Strangers, which just opened at Second Stage?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:31PMWomen who are trapped in loveless marriages because of the financial security their husbands provide may no longer seem like a scintillating, or even relevant, topic for a play.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMFor a generation now, Les Misérables has been providing young women (especially belters) with choice material, but it wouldn't really be correct to say it's a woman's show.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:30PMThough they based their New York Musical Theatre Festival entry on a profound idea, Frank Ceruzzi, Blake J. Harris, and Trent Jeffords for some reason want you to think WikiMusical is shallo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14PMIf you need a charismatic leading lady who’s at once lovable and caustic, seeming as prone to beat you senseless as to give you her life savings, why wouldn’t you cast Lynne Winterstelle…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMNo one would ever confuse Jessy Brouillard’s musical Deployed, which is playing through Tuesday as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, with Les Misérables.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMOnce upon a time, jukebox and songwriter-showcase musicals didn’t pretend to be much more than they are.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44PMThere’s more to music — and to life — than sounding perfect.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:13PMRachel Dunham may not look much like Oprah Winfrey, but from the instant she opens her mouth at the start of the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Orpahfication, she sure sound…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:07PMSubtlety is not typically a feature of Germany-in-World-War-II properties; when Cabaret (the original, thank you, not the Sam Mendes rethink) is about as close as you can get in terms of the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:06PMDisney’s animated movie musical Frozen had barely begun its white-hot life when The Snow Queen, based on exactly the same Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, opened at San Jose Repertory T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26AMFluffy is not always a bad thing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:38PMLove at first sight is as cliché and useless as storytelling can get, right? Maybe.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:26PMThe beauty and magic of both the Yucatán and the wild possibilities of romance charge the impressively conceived musical The Mapmaker's Opera, which plays its final performance today as par…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:07PMWho was the last famous Miss America? When's the last time you even watched the telecast?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMYou think you know the depths to which men and women will sink to get what they want from each other? Think again.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMIt was, perhaps, the most important achievement in scientific history: when, for the first time, the line between humanity and deity was blurred beyond recognition.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMThere are as many stories about the exact instant at which children become adults as there are adults.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02AMIt can’t be easy to write a musical about poverty and hopelessness that doesn’t leave you wanting to slit your wrists on the way out of the theater, but with Somewhere With You, playing …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:24AMThe rat race is looking pretty well run at Wayra, the new spectacular from the creators of De La Guarda and Fuerza Bruta that just opened at the Daryl Roth Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMMaybe the devil should be in the details rather than sitting at the keyboard?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:41PMMusic's ability to articulate the world around us is well documented, but it can be easy to forget the deeper potential it carries.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMWhere’s the ticking?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:57PMTired of overly slick, sanitized, and synthetic musicals that don't deliver feelings when "feelings" will do?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PM