Tuesday, October 25, 2016
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 10:25PMMonday, October 24, 2016
The 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 09:05AMSunday, October 23, 2016
Her insanity may be unforgivable, but it's at least understandable.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMFriday, October 21, 2016
The 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 07:21AMThursday, October 20, 2016
The 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 07:12PMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
To watch Sarah Jones work is to be in awe of her.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMSunday, October 16, 2016
Stephen 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 07:26PMThursday, October 13, 2016
In 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 07:10PMMonday, October 10, 2016
Let'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 07:12PMThursday, October 6, 2016
It'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 07:35PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
"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 09:00AMSunday, October 2, 2016
They'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 06:58PMThursday, September 29, 2016
Who 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 07:33AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Few 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 07:15PMMonday, September 26, 2016
It'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 07:03PMThursday, September 22, 2016
Hamlet is William Shakespeare's best-known (and most-quoted) play for a reason.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMSunday, September 18, 2016
Looking for a foolproof curative for our current contentious (some might say unbearable) election season? Who can blame you?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:51PMSaturday, September 17, 2016
Like 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 02:38PMFriday, September 16, 2016
Late 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 09:15AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
"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 07:08PMMonday, September 12, 2016
Forget medicine and forget magic - the greatest healing power known to mankind exists within food.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMSunday, September 11, 2016
Immortality 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 07:54PMThursday, September 8, 2016
Just because you're a phenomenon doesn't mean you're bulletproof.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMSunday, September 4, 2016
Twelfth 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 ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:42PM 
