Thursday, June 19, 2014
Tired of overly slick, sanitized, and synthetic musicals that don't deliver feelings when "feelings" will do?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
Maybe the sweeping societal changes of the 1960s helped matters, but women have never had it easy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMMonday, June 16, 2014
Benedick and Beatrice, the constantly bickering almost-and-eventual lovers at the center of Much Ado About Nothing, are adept at using their tart tongues for an unexpected kind of foreplay.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWhen it comes to stories about major religious figures, which is truer, the fact or the fiction?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, June 11, 2014
Charm, properly applied, can lighten the gloomiest evening.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMTuesday, June 10, 2014
“Why, you ask, was I bound and chained in this cold and dismal place? / Not for any mortal sin, but the wickedness of my abhorrent face.” . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMWondering what the most suspenseful moment is in New York theatre right now?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMThe clang of a pipe, the zing of a chain spinning too fast, the unmistakable moaning from a pornographic video approaching its, uh, climax.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
Music hall is in no danger of dying out as long as Jim Dale is still around.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMThursday, May 29, 2014
If you like — or can learn to like — silver bodysuits, then you’ll have one solid reason to see The Anthem, the new musical that just opened at the Lynn Redgrave Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMWednesday, May 28, 2014
Forbidden Broadway, Gerard Alessandrini’s enduring and acidic tribute to the Great White Way and its inhabitants, has never been one for pulling its punches.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:22PMThursday, May 22, 2014
I'm not sure even Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill could wring much drama from a fast-food sandwich shop running out of ingredients.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMSunday, May 18, 2014
With her arms arched high above her head and the blood red, dangling-with-spangles dress she’s wearing draping off her body like a waterfall, Audrey Langham at first glimpse resembles a se…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
As last season’s Broadway production of Shakespeare’s Globe’s Twelfth Night reminded everyone lucky enough to see it, it’s not impossible for one of The Bard’s works to be silly an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:46PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
If Encores! was going to now and forever abandon its former tagline — one might even say mission statement — of “Great American Musicals in Concert,” it couldn’t have picked a more…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:25AMThursday, May 1, 2014
Of the characteristics that musicals and nightclubs share, perhaps the most enticing — and the most frustrating — is their tendency to be there one moment and gone the next.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMSunday, April 27, 2014
Heat can come by way of strong bursts or a long, slow, steady smolder, and which you prefer for your theatrical consumption is what’s likely to determine your reaction to the new revival o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMWhat makes the theatre both addictive and maddening are charisma and talent: qualities that exist only in the now, and that, at their best, can’t be fully captured on video.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMThursday, April 24, 2014
A great night of clubbing never looks quite the same when viewed without beer goggles.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThe burden pressing down truly is wearying: the accumulated weight of countless people, bearing — and creating — untold tons of indifference which, contrary to their almost-certain inten…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
"Passing undetected is our zenith," one character tells another early in Casa Valentina, the new play by Harvey Fierstein that just opened at the Samuel J. Friedman in a Manhattan Theatre Cl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:47PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Dress it up with all the denim, fake fur, fishnets, and sequins you like, a second-rate talent shouldn't fit easily into a first-rate house.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:46PMThe sprawling mountain vistas lurking just at the limits of your vision loom large over Annapurna, the play by Sharr White that just opened at the Acorn Theatre in a production of The New Gr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22AMMonday, April 21, 2014
Given the amorous activities suggested by the play's title, it's probably a good thing that Kirk Lynn's Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra is not significantly about anyone's parents havin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMOne of Anton Chekhov's most widely cited rules about writing concerns waste: If you're going to show a rifle when the curtain goes up, you'd better have fired it by the time the curtain come…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PMSunday, April 20, 2014
Special effects don’t get much more special than in Violet, the Brian Crawley–Jeanine Tesori musical that just opened at the American Airlines in a scintillating Roundabout Theatre Compa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMCan you ever believe your ears? In the Michael Grandage Company production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, which just opened at the Cort following a London run last year, the answer would seem …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:01PMThursday, April 17, 2014
If Ridiculous has begun seeming less ridiculous in recent years, that doesn't mean it still can't be incredibly funny.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMIt's a tale tested (and honored, and wrinkled) by time: a bright-eyed youngster falls in love with art, pursues it to no avail, gets discouraged, plans to quit, and then, at the last possibl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:46PMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Dreams can be magical, uplifting, portentous, or oppressive — or, sometimes, all four at once.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:16PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Facts, John Adams wrote, are stubborn things — if not always as trustworthy as we may like.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PM 
