Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Reasons to Be Happy is full of more than its fair share of reasons to be disappointed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PMWith his new play that just opened at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, 3 Kinds of Exile, John Guare is proving twice over that he should not give up his day job. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Relationships, like plays, thrive on chemistry: They can be amazing when they have it, and stultifying when they don't.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:30PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
How original can a play be when it depends on a shopworn premise?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMSunday, June 2, 2013
The beauty of illusions and the heartbreak one incurs when they begin to fade is both the subject of the new musical Far From Heaven and its chief stumbling block.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
When your ticket to the theatre includes a five-course meal and you walk away forgetting the food, something is very right with the show.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03PMBecause I consider myself pretty well versed in the United States Constitution, I did not expect Colin Quinn's new solo show at the Barrow Street Theatre, Unconstitutional, to teach me much.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02PMThursday, May 9, 2013
It’s not a twinkle in the night sky — it’s a supernova.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:02PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
If the leads' singing and acting ability, raw stage presence, and intense chemistry with each other were all any musical needed, then The Memory Show would be the runaway success of the year.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:00PMThursday, April 25, 2013
An amazing thing happens deep in the first act of the American Repertory Theater revival of Pippin that just opened at the Music Box: A spark of humanity ignites.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
You may think she's sitting on a couch, but it's really a throne.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Lighting rarely receives its full due in the theater when you're referring strictly to the electrical fixtures hanging high above the stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:43PMAny regular showgoer knows that, due to the emotions or intensity involved, theatre can be exhausting, but rarely is that more true than with the new musical at The Public Theater, Here Lies…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:43PMMonday, April 22, 2013
More than anything else, you feel the pain.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:31PMSunday, April 21, 2013
Roles in William Shakespeare’s plays — particularly his Big Tragedies — are often realms in which grandstanding and brilliance can occur in roughly equal measure.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:01PMThursday, April 18, 2013
The opening images of the revival of Orphans, which just opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld, are all about animals.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:31PMThose who have long found the Frank Wildhorn–Leslie Bricusse musical Jekyll & Hyde incomprehensible will not have their minds changed by the bewildering new revival of it that just opened …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:16PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
A reminder for all those lost of soul and bereft of spirit: Finding yourself is not an instantaneous process.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Success did not come easily to either Clifford Odets or many of the characters he created for his plays, and rarely is that made more clear than in The Big Knife.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMMonday, April 15, 2013
Romance isn't dead after all — at least not on Broadway this season.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:29PMSunday, April 14, 2013
Those expecting only to laugh at (rather than with) Motown: The Musical, which just opened at the Lunt-Fontanne, will find their guffaws — temporarily — silenced the instant the curtain …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMA collision of race, class, sexuality, abuse, and adoption, all occurring between the ticks and tocks of a biological clock about to strike midnight?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMThursday, April 11, 2013
Is there much point in complaining when bad is so deliciously good?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMThursday, April 4, 2013
It’s late in the first act of Kinky Boots, the new musical that just opened at the Al Hirschfeld, and all is hopeless....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
"You are the story I should write," sings Jamie Wellerstein, wunderkind author extraordinaire, near the beginning of Jason Robert Brown's song-cycle musical The Last Five Years.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMMonday, April 1, 2013
Who says the good guy can't have an edge? Making his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy — the late Nora Ephron's final play, which just opened at the Broadhurst — Tom Hanks proves that he can a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMThursday, March 21, 2013
Intrepid theatregoers, fret not: Even if you think you've seen it all, musicals remain capable of surprising you....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMIn recent years it’s become easier to forget that superhero musicals didn’t begin (and end) with Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Where’s Merrick when you need him? . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSunday, March 17, 2013
In The Mound Builders, the 1975 Lanford Wilson play that Signature Theatre Company is now presenting, a team of archaeologists race against time to sift through ancient piles of earthen refu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PM 
