Sunday, November 20, 2011
"You’ll be giddy in the moment, but wracked with shame afterward."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:30PMSaturday, November 19, 2011
"Who cares if Thanksgiving hasn't happened yet? (Besides turkeys and cranberries, that is.) In the ways that matter most, the holiday season in New York kicks off, both figuratively and lite…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:55PMThursday, November 17, 2011
"Chemistry is difficult to explain, but you know the best reactions when you see them. In this Private Lives, you see them burn brightly — and, more important, you see them burn often."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMMonday, November 14, 2011
"It's impossible to tell whether this is the most daring effort The New Group has ever undertaken, the most absurd, or both at once."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMSunday, November 13, 2011
"If there’s anything surprising about Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, the anthology evening that just opened at the Minetta Lane, it’s that it took so long to arrive."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:00PMThursday, November 10, 2011
"What's immediately and consistently clear is that Jackman, Vaccariello, and director-choreographer Warren Carlyle care only about putting on, as they used to say, a hell of a show."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
"... it automatically qualifies as one of the season’s most electrifying and unmissable musicals."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:24PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
"If you ever despair that the theatre can no longer create stars as it once did — or that you have a knack for missing the one-in-a-million show in which that actually happens — start pl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PM"Because King Lear turns on the dissolution of humanity in the face of the natural order, it's crucial that it be human to begin with."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PMMonday, November 7, 2011
"Is working at the peak of your ability life's highest goal? Fitting in with those around you? Being different from them? Doing what you love? Doing what fulfills you spiritually? What about…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:06PM"... one of the strongest feel-good experiences you're likely to have in the New York theatre this fall."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:28PMSunday, November 6, 2011
"... one of the most fascinating new musicals New York has seen in several seasons."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:59PMThursday, November 3, 2011
"Whether it's oppressive because it's arid and blistering or because it's cold and barren, a desert is a desert and it doesn't change much. The same thing is true of Jon Robin Baitz's play …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:44PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
"Once this show, which just opened at the Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, gets going, you're going to give yourself over to it completely, and you'll…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
"Heavy-handed is as heavy-handed does, and boy does it do a number on Milk Like Sugar. . . ."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMMonday, October 31, 2011
"The four men at the heart of William Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost may be under the delusion that they can sequester themselves with their studies for three years, but life — and the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58PMSunday, October 30, 2011
"The classic artist's axiom "Write what you know" is only effective when you actually know something. . . ."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMThursday, October 27, 2011
"Hate surtitles? Who can blame you? Usually the last thing you want to deal with on a night out is being forced to compensate for your inability to follow the words just because they're in a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PM"The closest that Jesse Eisenberg's new comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre, which is being presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, comes to actual depth is with its title."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, October 24, 2011
"Its devotion to social detail is not enough to convince you that this story needs to be told in just this way, especially at the expense of heart."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:59PMSunday, October 23, 2011
"Don't believe the horrific medical rumors you've heard: Longrunitis is not a terminal condition . . ."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:26AMThursday, October 20, 2011
"They're not trying to bust up glitzy taboos, but embrace them, take them home to mom, and then try to convince them to put out afterward. And at that, they mostly succeed."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:08PM"... the most curious, involving, and ultimately beautiful plays of the year."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:05PMMonday, October 17, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
"Rare indeed is the musical in the New York Musical Theatre Festival that completely defies genre, but Tut, which ends its run today at the Theatre at St. Clement’s, manages it."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:29AMThursday, October 13, 2011
"Few performers can truly make a bad play good, but great actors can always elevate a passable evening to the status of special event."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
"Secrets aren't everything in Zoe Kazan's new play We Live Here, which just opened at Manhattan Theatre Club: They're the only thing."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PM"... impossible to dislike entirely ..."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:26PMMonday, October 10, 2011
"... awash in haunting images, sounds, and concepts that linger in your mind long after the performance has concluded."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:50AMSunday, October 9, 2011
"There's a genuine tragic patina to all this, even if you spend a solid two and a quarter hours watching the fall and don't see much of the pride that goes before it, and that's always compe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58PMSaturday, October 8, 2011
