Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Facts, John Adams wrote, are stubborn things — if not always as trustworthy as we may like.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMSunday, April 13, 2014
Is she the dream, or is it you? It's impossible not to wonder this once the titular star appears in the opening moments of the revival of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, which just opened…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMThursday, April 10, 2014
Has the high price of theatre tickets got you down? Concerned that you don't get enough bang for your buck? Tired of having to pick just one type of show when you may want something more lay…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, April 7, 2014
Life is a musical-comedy cabaret, old chum, in the Atlantic Theater Company's new revival of The Threepenny Opera at the Linda Gross Theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMSunday, April 6, 2014
Humans have long recognized the relationship between laughter and health: “laugh through the pain,” “I laughed so much, it hurt,” and so on.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:30PMThursday, April 3, 2014
The odor of dust permeates the air at the Ethel Barrymore well before the action begins in the new revival of A Raisin in the Sun that just opened there.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:51PMLate in Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella, the title character, Tony, a Napa Valley grape farmer, hears the true first name of his beloved for the first time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:52PMMonday, March 31, 2014
When you take away the black from a black-comedy movie that's being adapted for the stage, you generally end up draining the comedy as well.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:31PMSunday, March 30, 2014
It’s no great secret that, of the many choices we encounter during our everyday lives, some are monumental, some are miniscule, and it’s often all but impossible to tell which are which.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03PMThere’s a reason most musicals that tell a love story — which, let’s face it, is most musicals — are structured around external conflicts...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02PMThursday, March 27, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Sure, you've heard the phrase "loud enough to wake the dead," but have you ever seen it musicalized?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMMonday, March 24, 2014
That the deepest grief never entirely abates, but rather is internalized and transformed into something less definable (and usually more debilitating), is central to Terrence McNally's Mothe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSunday, March 23, 2014
One anticipates some assimilation from those who move to the United States, though one would expect it perhaps a bit before the 27th anniversary of arriving in this country.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02PMThursday, March 20, 2014
Fifty-two minutes into Aladdin, Disney's new stage adaptation of its popular 1992 film, the New Amsterdam explodes with magic.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Those who lack them may consider possessions to be effective insulation from life's tragedies, but that's not always the case.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:57PMSunday, March 16, 2014
Forget chit-chat about black, white, and grey. It’s long been established that nothing is as simple as it appears, and discussions to the contrary are usually academic.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThursday, March 13, 2014
When, toward the end of the new musical Rocky, at the Winter Garden, a television announcer describes what we've just witnessed as "the greatest exhibition of stamina and guts ever seen," it…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMWednesday, March 12, 2014
It's rare in a world of "Not Another [Insert Genre Here] Movie" movies, but it does happen: A parody of something that's basically a parody itself can be funny on its own terms.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMMonday, March 10, 2014
It's said that the devil's greatest trick is convincing people he doesn't exist.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMFriday, March 7, 2014
In The Happiest Song Plays Last, the final play in Quiara Alegría Hudes's "Elliot" trilogy that just opened at Second Stage, borders and barricades of both the geographic and emotional pers…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01PMThursday, March 6, 2014
If you like your meat pies with a side of anarchy, then you'll love the New York Philharmonic concert of Sweeney Todd that's now being presented at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Who cares about the setting when the soul is what's at stake?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMMonday, March 3, 2014
Ever since hitting the scene in 2005, Will Eno has been asking one question with his plays: Does anyone belong anywhere?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSunday, March 2, 2014
"I'm not a rain person, I'm a sun person," sings Sara Jane, the young woman at the center of Victor Lodato and Polly Pen's musical Arlington, and that declaration could not be more true.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMCreativity has never been a problem for Sarah Ruhl, but boy, concision sure has been.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMThursday, February 27, 2014
To explain why Craig Lucas's new traumatic comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre bears the title Ode to Joy would give away the whole game.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, February 24, 2014
Why all the dancing, you may wonder, ornamenting an otherwise earthbound story about the king of cinematic martial arts?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMThursday, February 20, 2014
It's a time-honored theatrical tactic ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWednesday, February 19, 2014
Love and Information more than lives up to its title.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PM 
