The American experience is not (and never has been) exclusively white, even if so many of the narrative genres - and their associated films - linked to it frequently are.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:25PMThe kind of group prayer you see when the lights go up on Samuel D. Hunter's new play The Harvest, which just opened at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater in an LCT3 production, is like non…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMOveranalyzing life is easy, but living it is hard.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMIt pains me, but I must start this review with words any standup comedian, such as Monica Piper, would probably not want to hear: Piper's new one-woman comedy at New World Stages, Not That J…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:05AMHer insanity may be unforgivable, but it's at least understandable.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMThe Internet may be adept at killing newspapers (or at least putting them on life support), but there's no way it can ever kill The Front Page.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21AMThe sound, whether it's audible or technically silent, is deafening throughout the 90 blissful minutes that constitute the Keen Company revival of tick, tick...BOOM! that just opened at the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMPuffs, the wacky new romp by Matt Cox that just opened at the Elektra Theatre, answered a question I didn't realize I had while reading J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series: What of the fourth…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PM"All you need is love."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMTo watch Sarah Jones work is to be in awe of her.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMStephen Karam has written a moving, surprising, and painfully relatable play about a family on the brink of crisis in a society devastated by social and economic uncertainly.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26PMIn musicals, where every lyric, note, and dance step can (and should) have a precisely articulated and energized purpose, it's not easy to capture stasis in an exciting way.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17PMYou don't need to know anything about science to understand the issues at the heart of Heisenberg, the play by Simon Stephens that just opened at the Samuel J. Friedman in a Manhattan Theatr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMLet's get a few things straight right off the bat. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who wrote and are starring in Oh, Hello on Broadway, which just opened at the Lyceum, are utterly unconvincing…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMIt's tricky for a Broadway musical to be innovative, tough when the show is a comedy, and virtually impossible when it's constituted exclusively of pre-existing songs.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PM"Home" is a word that may have many definitions depending on the speaker, but in The Road to Home, it doesn't even qualify as a genuine destination.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMIf you have any doubts of the grip a particular 1980s sitcom about four post-menopausal women sharing a house in Miami still has on the culture....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00AMThey're so close, you could reach out and touch them: that old couple at the next table, at once unknown and familiar.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PMWho says Big Broadway is dead? As far as any regular theatregoer is concerned, it's alive and well and living at the John Golden.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:16PMForget laws of logic—what happened to the laws of physics?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33AMFew of those documenting the ever-raging battle of the sexes in the theatre are quite as experienced as Neil LaBute, who's made it some part of practically every play he's written.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMIt's a sad comment on both human nature and American nature that we never seem to learn our lessons properly the first time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMHamlet is William Shakespeare's best-known (and most-quoted) play for a reason.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMLooking for a foolproof curative for our current contentious (some might say unbearable) election season? Who can blame you?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:51PMLike waves crashing against the rocks on a beach, the force assaulting the Gabriel family of Rhinebeck, New York, is oppressive but gentle, and slowly but surely eroding everything they are.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:38PMLate in the first act of Fiorello!, the titular hero does something unheard of in politics in the implosive days through which we're presently living: He strives to unite.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15AM"You give me everything you got." That commandment, handed down from one goddess to another during the electrifying course of Marie and Rosetta, may as well be the theme statement of Georg…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMForget medicine and forget magic - the greatest healing power known to mankind exists within food.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMImmortality just isn't enough for some people. Take, for example, Leonard Bernstein, or at least the version of him that appears front and center in Hershey Felder's play Maestro, which just…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:54PMJust because you're a phenomenon doesn't mean you're bulletproof.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMTwelfth Night, which is playing at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park through tomorrow night, is the best of the three Public Works productions I've seen ...
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