Wednesday, 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 08:01PMSunday, December 9, 2012
Whether in the theatre or in real life, youthful energy is not a myth...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:27PMWhen you think of — or encounter — real estate hucksters, “nice” is probably not the first word to come to mind. It’s certainly not a theme with which one would associate Glengarry…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:56AMThursday, December 6, 2012
Of the Clifford Odets plays that anchored the fleet but fiery run of the Group Theatre in the 1930s, Golden Boy might be the most significant....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Cross as many centuries as you like, an artist's problems apparently don't change that much. No one respects him, no one understands him, no one sees what he sees in the way he sees it...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSunday, December 2, 2012
Contrition and forgiveness are usually seen as positive qualities that elevate their bearers. But in David Mamet’s new play at the John Golden, The Anarchist, they’re instead weapons tha…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:31PMThursday, November 29, 2012
In Dead Accounts, the new Theresa Rebeck play that just opened at the Music Box, the symbolism is... well, not exactly cutting....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMMonday, November 19, 2012
Can a holiday musical be too entertaining?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03PMSunday, November 18, 2012
Although he died more than seven years ago, playwright August Wilson lives on through the verbal music he kindled as part of his Century Cycle of ten plays chronicling the African-American e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMStrained relations between men and women have tilted at the cores of countless musicals since the form's inception.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PMDeep into Elf, the overloaded sugar cookie of a holiday movie adaptation in the midst of its return engagement at the Al Hirschfeld, you can feel a wave of discomfort ripple through the hous…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:58PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
About a quarter of the way into this year’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Santa Claus ... strides to the center of the enormous Radio City Music Hall stage to crow about the Rockettes…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:33PMThursday, November 15, 2012
For all the fuss that's made during it about endless tracts of earth unfolding beneath infinite horizons, Giant . . . is strangely cramped and cluttered ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMWhatever else there is to say about Murder Ballad, at least it lives up to its title....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMA charismatic leader of any sort can convince you to abandon your thoughts and senses and follow along anyway just because it seems like the right thing to do....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Fans of Cheyenne Jackson, or at least his physique, will adore the opening minutes of The Performers...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Roundabout Theatre Company's sparkling new revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMThe swirl of history, as perceived through the lenses of both kin and country, is the atmosphere that pervades the new revival ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMMonday, November 12, 2012
For many contemporary theatregoers, a little Chekov goes a long way....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMThursday, November 8, 2012
There are several ways to approach a production of the Martin Charnin–Thomas Meehan–Charles Strouse musical Annie.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:12PMWednesday, November 7, 2012
At Tuesday’s opening-night performance of Sorry, Richard Nelson’s new play at The Public Theater, you could feel a palpable chill pass through the Anspacher Theater late in the evening.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:19AMMonday, November 5, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
It’s always a pleasure when a well-made play receives a well-made mounting, and the new revival of The Heiress that just opened at the Walter Kerr largely qualifies.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMTuesday, October 30, 2012
Go ahead, try to hate her. She certainly makes it easy enough for you....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:14PMThursday, October 25, 2012
Sometimes mood can be everything. It is, for example, absolutely crucial to Jon Fosse's play A Summer Day, which just opened at the Cherry Lane Theatre in a Rattlestick Playwrights Theater p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Why does it sometimes take so long to find yourself?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMMonday, October 22, 2012
Four Americans — one of Pakistani descent, one of Jewish decent, one African-American, and one just plain-old white — sit at a table and munch on fennel salad. The Pakistani says to the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThursday, October 18, 2012
With South Park and Team America: World Police, Trey Parker and Matt Stone proved long ago that jihad can indeed be a laughing matter. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, October 15, 2012
At first blush, Falling, the new play by Deanna Jent that just opened at the Minetta Lane, would seem to be all about bodies. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:15PMBrian Friel wrote The Freedom of the City nearly four decades before the Occupy movement ignited (and fizzled), but watching the show in 2012 it's nearly impossible to tell.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMThe premise of Stephen Belber's new play Don't Go Gentle, which just opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in an MCC Theater production, is one loaded with dazzling promise.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PM 
