Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Economy, with respect to both money and morality, is the driving force behind John Pollono's play Small Engine Repair, which just opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in an MCC Theater produ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Taking Care of Baby ain’t The Laramie Project, that’s for sure.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMSunday, November 17, 2013
Many actors would, if you’ll pardon the expression, kill for a great death scene. In A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, the new musical at the Walter Kerr, Jefferson Mays doesn’t ha…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:47PMThursday, November 14, 2013
If there’s a lesson to be gained from A Bed and a Chair — and that’s a skyscraping if — it’s that too many people muddle desire with mere sex.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:50PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
The attraction remains, shall we say, clear as Crystal.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
Take your pick: morality play, anti-morality play, or morality anti-play. Any one of these monikers describes, at various points, the waterlogged mess that is Marlane Meyer's The Patron Sain…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:40PMSunday, November 10, 2013
Four hundred years old and not a speck of dust?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMThursday, November 7, 2013
Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Dreams, Spiegelworld... When you've seen one circus show, you've seen them all, right?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
You've heard the phrase "Let's call a spade a spade"? You'll never hear it again once word gets out about Nothing to Hide, which just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMMonday, November 4, 2013
If a political scandal has ever made you want to scream things like "I don't believe you!", "Why don't you think about your family?", or "Would you please just shut up?", then Bruce Norris s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMThink Airplane! was the last word on 1970s disaster flicks? Well, er, it sort of was — at least on the big screen.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMSunday, November 3, 2013
Fluff doesn’t get flashier than After Midnight, the swank jazz revue that just opened at the Brooks Atkinson.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:31PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
For all true seekers, or even those who merely fancy themselves as such, the quest for goodness and against evil transcends time and space.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMSunday, October 27, 2013
Try to forget about the millennia of cultural conditioning to the contrary: Adultery isn’t really such a serious thing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:31PMThursday, October 24, 2013
Why should existential angst be confined to the Russians?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, October 23, 2013
An unmistakable melancholy has crept into John Kander's work over recent years, gently elbowing out the razzle-dazzle cynicism that defined the music he wrote for many of his career-defining…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
"He said, she said" is bad enough when it's just between ordinary men and women — but what if another layer of power is involved?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PMNo one embodies the concept of “survivor” quite the way Juno Boyle does.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09AMSunday, October 20, 2013
Racial tensions, courtroom intrigue, the little guy battling helplessly against the leviathan of the State... John Grisham’s 1989 legal thriller has it all.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:01PMThursday, October 17, 2013
If the last couple of weeks have proven anything in the United States, it’s that you can indeed fight city hall — or the government, as the case may be.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
Verona just got a lot more swank. Well, maybe it's Verona. It could be anywhere, actually — it's kind of hard to tell.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMTuesday, October 15, 2013
How annoyed are you willing to make yourself if you're guaranteed a spectacular payoff?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:59PMThursday, October 10, 2013
Maybe they should have called it Janis and Friends? . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:34PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
If your family is the squabbling type, you might not cherish big holiday dinners.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:03PMSo triumphant is the sensory-deprivation nature of Anthem ... the tiniest of changes land with the most breath-robbing force. A single, unexpected lighting cue sends your imagination soaring.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26AMSunday, October 6, 2013
There can be a big difference between “fantastical” and “fantastic.”
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PMThursday, October 3, 2013
Even if watching a slow-motion train wreck makes future accidents less likely, it hardly matters in the horror of the moment. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMEven monsters can be irresistible. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PM 
