Thursday, October 3, 2013
Even monsters can be irresistible. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThursday, September 26, 2013
Is memory friend or foe? Helpful or horrifying? Edifying or debilitating? The answer, as with so many things, depends on context.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:42PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Hate legalese? Not sure lawyers ever say what they mean? Don't trust courts to get the most basic things right?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMThursday, September 19, 2013
"For never was a tale of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." I beg to differ. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMMonday, September 16, 2013
The only original thing about Ethan Coen’s new play, Women or Nothing, which just opened at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, is how unoriginal it is.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMTuesday, August 20, 2013
Matthew Murray takes a look at Strange Rain, part of the New York International Fringe Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:57PMThursday, August 15, 2013
The fusion of Jewish and African-American influences in that melting pot of melting pots, New York City, is in no small part responsible for the unique artistic explosion of musical theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMMonday, August 12, 2013
Love's Labour's Lost is one of the most unabashedly entertaining musicals top open yet this year. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMThursday, August 8, 2013
In the new musical First Date, which just opened at the Longacre, Zachary Levi makes his Broadway debut by delivering the kind of sparkling star turn most enjoyable but unremarkable outings …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Channel surfing can lead you to strange places if you don't know the entertainment waters you're navigating.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMTuesday, July 30, 2013
No prisoners are taken, no shots are fired, and no bombs are detonated.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:55PMFriday, July 26, 2013
Matthew Murray takes a look at Castle Walk and Homo: The Musical at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:02PMThursday, July 25, 2013
It can be easy to forget that 40 wasn't always the new 20 ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
For those who were alive and of proper age when The Beatles were in vogue, it's quite likely that no tribute to the groundbreaking band will ever be enough.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMMatthew Murray takes a look at Standby and Crossing Swords at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32AMSunday, July 21, 2013
Matthew Murray takes a look at Marry Harry and Boys Will Be Boys at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:52AMSaturday, July 20, 2013
The Pirates of Finance and Legacy Falls at the New York Musical Theatre Festival
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:59AMThursday, July 18, 2013
Those who've despaired in recent years about musicals trending away from genuine emotions and into more superficial realms will not be heartened by Nobody Loves You — even though it purpor…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:32PMSunday, July 14, 2013
If not for that initial jolt of air conditioning you experience, you wouldn't be able to easily tell the difference between the atmospheres outside and inside the Walter Kerr Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:31PMFriday, July 12, 2013
Matthew Murray takes a look at Life Could Be a Dream and The Swiss Family Robinson at The 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:17PMThursday, July 11, 2013
Is The Cradle Will Rock better history than it is a musical?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:28PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Have you ever known someone who's tone deaf? No, not someone who's merely not a good (or even decent) singer, but a person who is literally incapable of discerning or matching a pitch?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:36PMThursday, June 27, 2013
Step into The Duke on 42nd Street and it won't be long until you feel a crushing burden being spirited from you.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMIf a rising tide does indeed lift all boats, there's no question what happens when the water level falls.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, June 24, 2013
Latching onto the ancient axiom that fact is stranger than fiction, Jonathan Tolins based his play Buyer & Cellar on the bizarrely true (and truly bizarre) reality that Barbra Streisand has …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:38PMThursday, June 20, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
If ever William Shakespeare wrote a romp, The Comedy of Errors is it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Something amazing appears during the penultimate scene of A Kid Like Jake, Daniel Pearle's new play at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center: genuine conflict.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMThursday, June 13, 2013
Revolutionary musicals don't come along too often, so it's more than a little surprising that The Public Theater is now giving New York audiences a second within less than two months.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:14PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Reasons to Be Happy is full of more than its fair share of reasons to be disappointed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PM 
