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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

PRISON DANCER - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray takes a look at Prison Dancer at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PM
Monday, July 23, 2012

NEW - WARRIOR CLASS - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Any American who pays attention to the machinations of the government, whether at the local, state, or Federal level, knows that politics is, at its best, a blood sport.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:59PM
Sunday, July 22, 2012

CENTRAL AVENUE BREAKDOWN & SWING STATE - Talkin' Broadway's Reviews by Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray takes a look at Central Avenue Breakdown and Swing State at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:42AM
Thursday, July 19, 2012

RE-ANIMATOR THE MUSICAL - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray takes a look at Re-Animator the Musical at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44PM
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

BABY CASE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray takes a look at Baby Case at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:37PM
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

TROUBLE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray takes a look at Trouble at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:20PM

HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN? & ARNIE THE DOUGHNUT - Talkin' Broadway's Reviews by Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray takes a look at How Deep Is the Ocean? and Arnie the Doughnut at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PM
Monday, July 16, 2012

DOGFIGHT - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

How's this for a moral: "Beauty is not always found where you expect."

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PM
Sunday, July 15, 2012

STUCK - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray takes a look at Stuck at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:47AM
Saturday, July 14, 2012

RIO - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray takes a look at Rio at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:02PM
Friday, July 13, 2012

FLAMBE DREAMS and HIMSELF AND NORA - Talkin' Broadway's Reviews by Matthew Murray

Matthew Murray takes a look at Flambé Dreams and Himself and Nora at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PM
Thursday, July 12, 2012

FELA! - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

It may be unfair to judge the whole of a years-long revolution by the behavior of its earliest proponents, but sometimes evolution’s roiling waves make it impossible ignore a long-standing…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PM
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

HE'S NOT HIMSELF - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

What is there to say about a new musical that borrows so heavily from an ancient one that just watching it unfold is enough to trigger body-wracking déjà vu?

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PM
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Put Broadway's Vocal Coach in Your Pocket With Liz Caplan Mobile Apps by Matthew Murray

Liz Caplan is the voice teacher to the stars, with students such as Neil Patrick Harris, Allison Janney, Megan Hilty, and Cheyenne Jackson.

SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PM
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Tiltpod Gives You a Tripod Anywhere by Matthew Murray

Any video you make of yourself has to look good. One thing that can help: Gomite's Tiltpod.

SOURCE: Backstage at 11:20AM
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

TRIASSIC PARQ - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

"... Triassic Parq: The Musical, is a snoozer."

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49PM
Monday, June 25, 2012

Learn Your Lines With Scene Partner Mobile App by Matthew Murray

Scene Partner 2.0 has the capacity to help you get off book, but it's neither perfect nor as inexpensive as its “free” price might suggest.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:00AM
Sunday, June 24, 2012

7TH MONARCH - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Loss, with its full potential for derailing our minds and lives (in that order), is the chief concern of Jim Henry’s new play 7th Monarch, at the Acorn Theatre.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:59PM
Thursday, June 21, 2012

AS YOU LIKE IT - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

"Pastoral" is not the first word that comes to mind when considering the forest of Arden in Daniel Sullivan's handsome production of As You Like It at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PM
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

CLOSER THAN EVER - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Those who lament the Broadway musical's continual slide into juvenilia should at least partially rejoice in the York Theatre Company's revival of Closer Than Ever.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PM
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

SLOWGIRL - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Whatever criticisms may be made of Slowgirl, the new play by Greg Pierce with which LCT3 is inaugurating its Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, its being overly subtle is not one of them.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:22AM
Thursday, June 14, 2012

HARVEY - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Despite its reputation as a charming little character comedy, Mary Chase’s 1944 Harvey is a surprisingly dark take on the difficult subject of grief.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PM
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

"Were the play not acted and staged with the unshakable conviction it is here, it would border on the unbearable."

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:32PM
Monday, June 11, 2012

STOREFRONT CHURCH - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

If it takes most believers a while to construct the foundation of their faith and a lifetime to reinforce it, it stands to reason that much the same will be true about plays concerning that …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PM
Monday, June 4, 2012

THE BAD GUYS - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

If the writer doesn't care enough to go the extra mile, why should we?

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PM
Sunday, June 3, 2012

CHIMICHANGAS AND ZOLOFT - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Given the importance of unintended consequences to its plot, Fernanda Coppel's new play Chimichangas and Zoloft is well named.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PM

POTTED POTTER - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

The quaffle flies through the air with the greatest of ease in Potted Potter, the "unauthorized Harry Potter experience" that just opened at the Little Shubert Theatre....

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PM
Thursday, May 31, 2012

SPIEGELWORLD: EMPIRE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Sometimes just by moving uptown you can cross an ocean.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PM
Thursday, May 24, 2012

THE COMMON PRUSUIT - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Rather than The New York Review of Books, it should be a little more like, well, Vogue.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PM

MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

My Children! My Africa! may not be the tautest and tightest of Athol Fugard's plays about apartheid-crippled South Africa, but good luck discerning that from the new Signature Theatre reviva…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PM
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

FEBRUARY HOUSE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

"But even if you adore every single person they depict, enduring this much concentrated non-action is not easy. Neither is staying awake."

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PM