Monday, October 15, 2012
The 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 07:09PMSunday, October 14, 2012
Is it wrong that the games look like so much fun?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMThursday, October 11, 2012
At what point does panache become so subtle that it vanishes altogether?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
A woman who's spiritually, psychologically, and emotionally downtrodden should not also be luminous. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:58PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Melancholy clearly runs in the Foote family. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThursday, October 4, 2012
If you feel like time is either standing still or moving backwards, you're not alone. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
For all actors worry about with regards to "process," it's a remarkably complex thing to quantify. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:20PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Stephen Sondheim is revered as one of the musical theatre's preeminent composer-lyricists in no small part because of his tendency to deal in the factual world rather than the fantastical on…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44PMThursday, September 27, 2012
The public's shortsightedness and the willing capitulation of leaders to the people's ignorance should be a topic universal enough to give anyone chills at any time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMThursday, September 20, 2012
Given how prominently global warming factors into If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, which Roundabout just opened at its Laura Pels Theatre, it's a bit surprising that Nick Payne's play lea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
Detroit, which just opened at Playwrights Horizons, does not necessarily take place in that once renowned, now sadly infamous Michigan city—nor, for that matter, is it ever mentioned in th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, September 10, 2012
There's nothing quite like watching someone create an iconic figure before your eyes.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMSunday, September 9, 2012
The Train Driver comes across as little more than a compelling idea that never makes the best possible case for itself.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMThursday, September 6, 2012
"It's so nice to have you back where you belong!"
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:54PMMonday, August 20, 2012
Matthew Murray takes a look at The List and Redlight, part of FringeNYC.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:14PMSaturday, August 18, 2012
Matthew Murray takes a look at Non-Equity The Musical! and Right on Target, part of FringeNYC.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:31PMTuesday, August 14, 2012
One of the most enduring stereotypes about tiny communities is that everyone knows everyone else.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMSunday, August 12, 2012
Matthew Murray takes a look at Quest for the West: Adventures on the Oregon Trail! and The Hills Are Alive!, part of FringeNYC.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:44AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
You may have walked around New York, but have you ever walked on a York? Or had your heel scrape a Lancaster?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMMatthew Murray takes a look at Tail! Spin! and What I Learned From Porn, part of FringeNYC.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:19PMThursday, August 9, 2012
I'd love to say it lost me at the cunnilingus. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:47PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
When a director is more successful distracting the audience from the playwright's work than he is in staging it, you know you're in trouble.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:57PMSunday, August 5, 2012
Matthew Murray revisits The Best Man.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMThursday, August 2, 2012
Is it good or bad when the only memorable thing about a musical is its message?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:53PMWednesday, August 1, 2012
I know what you're thinking, because I thought it myself.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMSaturday, July 28, 2012
Matthew Murray takes a look at Zapata! and Shelter at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:24AMFriday, July 27, 2012
Matthew Murray takes a look at Le Cabaret Grimm and The Groove Factory at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMMatthew Murray takes a look at A Letter to Harvey Milk and Living with Henry at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMThursday, July 26, 2012
Few regard the show as a classic — its one-year run hints at assimilation problems even at the time — and there have been few calls for revivals, whether at Encores! or anywhere else. . …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Matthew Murray takes a look at Foreverman at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMMatthew Murray takes a look at Prison Dancer at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PM 
