Tuesday, 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 08:00PMMonday, April 2, 2012
For a crystalline study of how two actors can triumph amid surroundings that don’t, one needs look no further than 4000 Miles.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMDo you prefer your bioplays to be more bio or play? Either way, you’re likely to find something amiss about End of the Rainbow, which just opened at the Belasco.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMSunday, April 1, 2012
Because personality is the driving force behind theatre and politics, it only makes sense that overtly political plays be full of it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMThursday, March 29, 2012
A theatre critic knows when he's beat. Nothing is going to stop Newsies.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMIn "All Kinds of People," the first song in Pipe Dream, Doc, a marine biologist, succinctly lays out the unintentionally guiding philosophy of this 1955 Richard Rodgers–Oscar Hammerstein m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:23AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
"We're taking you with us on our quest for more life," explains Hunter Bell near the start of the new musical Now. Here. This., which just opened at the Vineyard Theatre. That statement is …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMTuesday, March 27, 2012
There are six good plays within Regrets, the new drama by British playwright Matt Charman that just opened at City Center in a Manhattan Theatre Club production.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMThursday, March 22, 2012
Can the Greatest Story Ever Told also be the greatest love story ever told?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Can a play be both wonderfully ambitious and not ambitious at all?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMSunday, March 18, 2012
Broadway frequently gives way to fairy tales, but they don’t all end with a “happily ever after.”
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMThursday, March 15, 2012
The air of nostalgia hangs heavy at the Ethel Barrymore, where Mike Nichols’s revival of Death of a Salesman just opened.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMEavesdropping on the “underlings” takes on a new meaning in the Red Bull Theater revival of The Maids that just opened at the Theatre at St. Clement’s.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:34PMSunday, March 11, 2012
The musical by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan continues to run, and in some ways run better than it used to, with its lead role of Huey Calhoun now being played by Adam Pascal.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:01PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
"... there are two pieces of good news about An Iliad: One, it doesn’t matter which you see; two, the drama isn’t meaty enough to demand double viewings for all but the most incessant O…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMMonday, March 5, 2012
Is it fitting that a play about the fleeting nature and certainty of identity is confused about its own?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMSunday, March 4, 2012
Raine fuels her gripping drama ... almost exclusively with surprises. And as directed by David Cromer ... each one of them comes across as effortlessly smart and affecting—as, for that mat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMThursday, March 1, 2012
Is this Carrie better than the original? In strict, black-and-white terms, probably. Is it anywhere near as interesting? Not a chance.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
"... try as it might (and boy, does it try), the show is only about as funny as it is original — which is to say, not very."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
You think human workers can be dedicated? You don't know the meaning of the phrase "burning the candle at both ends"
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMMonday, February 27, 2012
"The word “Africa” is not uttered until deep in the second act of Hurt Village, but the continent hangs like a specter over Katori Hall’s new play..."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMThursday, February 23, 2012
"Walking into the Classic Stage Company these days is a lot like drifting through space. . . ."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMThursday, February 16, 2012
"... those taking in Shatner's World will undoubtedly have an excellent idea of what to expect upon entering the theater."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:05PMEven if it's frequently obscured, history is always lurking around the Signature Theatre's production of Blood Knot.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
"It's many things — informative, well directed (by David Leveaux), well designed, and reasonably well acted — but exciting it is not."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMMonday, February 13, 2012
"Sometimes to tell a secret, you first have to teach a lesson."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMThursday, February 9, 2012
"The George Furth–Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along is known today for many things"
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26AMTuesday, February 7, 2012
With the possible exception of exorbitant prices, prescription medication and theatre don’t share many salient qualities
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:19PM"... good intentions and disappointing results... "
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:18PMIf the 1960s had never ended, perhaps Frank Strausser’s new comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Psycho Therapy, would seem fresh, relevant, and even daring.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:16PM 
