Sunday, 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 08:02PMThursday, March 14, 2013
Disaffection is rarely as affecting, or as funny, as it is in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Like heaven and hell, purgatory can look like many things. But who would have expected it to so closely resemble a movie theater?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMHad Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson collaborated on a play, the resulting work might have looked a lot like Detroit '67.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMMonday, March 11, 2013
For all the fretting about emotional clarity it contains, one can’t help but wish that Neva contained a bit more of it....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMSunday, March 10, 2013
Cognitive dissonance overcomes you early on, and with an enveloping embrace, at Hit the Wall....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29PMThursday, March 7, 2013
Who says that making history is always exciting?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:31PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Promise is not always everything it's cracked up to be....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Could it be the real problem with the world is a lack of danger?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Time has been considerably kinder to Bill Irwin and David Shiner than it has to vaudeville....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:48PMSunday, March 3, 2013
“Impossible things are happening every day” sing two women deep in the first act of Cinderella, which just opened at the Broadway — and they have no idea how correct they are....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04PMThursday, February 28, 2013
When a show’s presentation is completely at odds with its title, something is desperately wrong. Such is the case with the Classic Stage Company’s fiercely frigid revival of Passion....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PMIn case you’ve forgotten about the physics-defying ability great stars have for imposing weight on the weightless, Jesse Eisenberg’s new play at the Cherry Lane Theatre, The Revisionist,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
In most plays, the words "I've worked very hard to get here" would not resonate with wrenching emotional force....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMMonday, February 25, 2013
The confluence of art and practicality is on display in the Signature Theatre Company’s revival of The Dance and the Railroad before a single word is spoken.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
The title of the 1961 musical Donnybrook! may be lyrical, but it doesn’t refer to a person or place magical enough to croon about. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Despair, if you must, about the state of discourse in all aspects of contemporary society. But rest assured that language, in all its brilliant and bloody glory, is the focus of passionate a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMMonday, February 11, 2013
Think you know the whos, whats, and whys of American race relations in the north in the 1950s? Think again.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThursday, January 31, 2013
A revival of a revival typically faces the “copy of a copy” problem; after all, maintaining robust detail across generations of imitations is not easy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Barry Manilow unquestionably had many reasons to begin his new concert at the St. James, appropriately titled Manilow on Broadway, with his 1975 hit "It's a Miracle."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMIf it accomplishes nothing else, Martin Moran's new one-man show All the Rage addresses an issue that's been burning in the hearts and minds of intrepid confessional theatregoers for nearly …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
The rags-to-riches-to-rags inspirational sports flick finds wry theatrical form in The Jammer, Rolin Jones's new play at the Atlantic Theater Company's Atlantic Stage 2 space.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:26PMThursday, January 17, 2013
It's one thing for a play to need most of its running time to reveal all its secrets, but quite another if it waits almost as long to make even a scintilla of sense. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMSunday, January 13, 2013
Can it be possible — a blizzard on Labor Day, in Kansas?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMThursday, January 10, 2013
. . . as terrifying an indictment of the tenuous nature of reality as it is an enveloping reminder that there is always more and there is always hope. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Families, in nearly infinite classifications and configurations, being dissolved and recreated are the central focus of Water by the Spoonful, the play by Quiara Alegría Hudes that just ope…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:34PMWednesday, December 19, 2012
Top talent is the most thrilling theatrical present there is, and given how much of it they display in their show at the York Theatre Company, Happy Merry Hanu-Mas, Jeffry Denman and Marc Ku…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMTuesday, December 18, 2012
Memory, both comforting and crucifying, is the driving force behind Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan, which just opened at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Disconnection runs rampant throughout What Rhymes with America, the new play by Melissa James Gibson that just opened at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PM 
