Tuesday, May 22, 2012
"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 08:02PMSunday, May 20, 2012
Universality takes on a vicious double meaning in Title and Deed, the new play by Will Eno that just opened at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Signature Center.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51PMThursday, May 17, 2012
And it’s tough to think of another recent play that has handled the subject as completely, as nakedly, or as rip-roaringly theatrically as this one. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21PMSaturday, May 12, 2012
For the last several years, the Astoria Performing Arts Center has given its audiences an annual spring treat: a surprisingly large production of a surprisingly large-scale musical, all done…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:17PMFriday, May 11, 2012
Temperature words in show titles can be dangerous if the evening’s content can’t live up to them.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:47PMThursday, May 10, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
As a number of Broadway shows learned this past season, working from behind a framing device or other concept is dramatically dangerous—and challenging for writers to get right.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:04AMThursday, May 3, 2012
"... makes you want to insert one or two more quarters to have a more satisfying experience ..."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMMonday, April 30, 2012
Is it a good or a bad thing when those awash in the waves of history seem to be drowning?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMSunday, April 29, 2012
"... the opening scenes of Tony Speciale's new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Classic Stage Company look like a raging downer."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMThe Drama Desk Awards decided to drop its traditional Best Orchestration category this year—and Broadway's orchestrators, musicians, and composers are fighting back.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:52AMThursday, April 26, 2012
With all the references to revivals scattered throughout Leap of Faith, you may be excused for temporarily forgetting the people onstage are talking about religious meetings instead of theat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMIn the gallery of lightning-fast costume changes this season (and the last few seasons, too), none stands out as strongly as the one that occurs just before intermission in Don't Dress for D…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
The Columnist ... is many things, but above all it's an escape drama.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMWalking into Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening for the one-night-only concert performance of The Sound of Music there, I was more than a little skeptical about what I was going to see. Though…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:33AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Everything you need to know about Nice Work If You Can Get It, the musical that just opened at the Imperial, may be gleaned from, of all things, its show curtain.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMMonday, April 23, 2012
Given its firm reliance on violence, treachery, sex, and jazz, you'd expect the new musical The City Club, which just opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre, to be smoldering almost nonstop.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34PMThink you know everything possible about the endlessly kvetching Jewish mother? Think again.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:54PMSunday, April 22, 2012
The crafters of fully realized and successful artistic works in any medium have one very simple and inarguable reason for neglecting no detail in their pursuit of truth: because everything m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:30PMThursday, April 19, 2012
Clybourne Park continues to work because its underlying assumptions about who the most accepting are, and just how seriously they take their tolerance, always seem to be correct.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:15PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
"... this comedy is as intense — and funny — as it gets."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMNinth and Joanie is — in this staging, at any rate — the rare play that gets everything wrong.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMTuesday, April 17, 2012
For theatre lovers, NBC's Smash should be one of the most exciting TV series in decades. So why isn't it?
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:00PMMonday, April 16, 2012
From the moment you enter the upstairs theater at the Culture Project, where the world premiere production of Tennessee Williams's final play In Masks Outrageous and Austere just opened, you…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMSunday, April 15, 2012
Despite a pedigree that would seem to make it a must-see ... this show is an intricately carved catastrophe.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:00PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
For the six actors in Magic/Bird, the new play by Robert Simonson that just opened at the Longacre, the first scene must provide a head-to-toe thrill.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMTuesday, April 10, 2012
Why did the recent Off-Broadway revival of Carrie fail? Easy: Lack of blood.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:14AMThursday, April 5, 2012
The lesson of Eva Perón, who spent her short life walking the line between beloved and infamous, is that even unnoticeable people can accomplish great things.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:34PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
A single figure, separated from its compatriots by barriers of time and necessity, and forced to exist without being able to fully embrace its purpose, is the primary focus of Willy Holtzman…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PM 
