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Friday, June 10, 2022

FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE (Lantern): A funny play with a serious agenda by Toby Zinman

Lynn Nottage knows how to “sustain the complexity” so that this funny play with a serious agenda works The post FABULATION, OR THE RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE (Lantern): A funny play with a s…

SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:56AM
Friday, May 13, 2022

REVERIE (Azuka Theatre): Aiming for a high bar by Toby Zinman

What with James Ijames winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (bravo!) two days ago, the bar was set very high for his newest play The post REVERIE (Azuka Theatre): Aiming for a high bar appea…

SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:45PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

RIGOLETTO (Opera Philadelphia): A Dilettante at Large reviews by Toby Zinman

Dilettante at Large (Toby Zinman) has awakened from her long pandemic slumber, and is once again writing about stuff she knows little about but enjoys, unlike theater which she knows quite a…

SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:43PM
Saturday, April 23, 2022

WHERE WE BELONG (PTC): A young woman’s earnest and confused identity crisis by Toby Zinman

An impressively credentialed show from The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with the Folger Shakespeare Library is launching its national tour in Philadelphia. The post WHERE WE…

SOURCE: phindie.com at 06:47AM
Thursday, March 17, 2022

Lantern Theater’s Brave Return to Stage: A Man For All Seasons by Toby Zinman

What a brave return to live theater this production is!  Lantern Theater Company gives us old-time drama and powerful theater, full of big ideas and complex language, rather than a bit of f…

SOURCE: phindie.com at 02:24PM
Sunday, March 1, 2020

THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM (IRT): What went wrong? by Toby Zinman

Sebastian Barry, author of The Steward of Christendom, is a major Irish playwright. I am a major fan of Irish drama. Irish Heritage Theatre, whose production of Steward just opened...

SOURCE: phindie.com at 12:46PM
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

[nyc] CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND (Signature Theatre): Rocking Off-Broadway by Toby Zinman

Playwright Lauren Yee’s script is really two shows: an old-fashioned rock concert uncomfortably yoked to a somber history drama.

SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:12PM
Sunday, February 23, 2020

HELLO DOLLY! (touring): 60-second review by Toby Zinman

They sure don’t write them like this anymore. 

SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:37AM
Monday, February 10, 2020

FOOL FOR LOVE (EgoPo): Secrets, raw passion, and danger by Toby Zinman

Sam Shepard can set up a world like nobody else

SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:14AM
Saturday, February 8, 2020

A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW (Inis Nua): 60-second review by Toby Zinman

This solo show is performed by Satchel Williams, who can best be described as adorbs. 

SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:48AM
Thursday, January 30, 2020

[nyc] MEDEA (BAM): Euripides should sue by Toby Zinman

British auteur-director Simon Stone has rewritten the ancient Greek tragedy, Medea,  to fit the contours of the contemporary world 

SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:31PM

MAN OF GOD (InterAct): Worthy of praise by Toby Zinman

Anna Moench's new, short, fascinating play is not to be missed.

SOURCE: phindie.com at 04:12PM
Friday, January 24, 2020

MY GENERAL TUBMAN (Arden): Ancestors calling by Toby Zinman

Time travel as spiritual reality and a throbbing moral obligation

SOURCE: phindie.com at 01:10PM
Friday, January 17, 2020

THURGOOD (Walnut Street): A supreme life by Toby Zinman

Johnnie Hobbs Jr. stars in a biographical play about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall

SOURCE: phindie.com at 02:47PM
Thursday, January 16, 2020

THE VERTICAL HOUR (Lantern): Still means something by Toby Zinman

David Hare has the uncanny knack of being able to talk out of both sides of his mouth.

SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:05PM
Monday, January 13, 2020

CHESS: THE MUSICAL (11th Hour): Cold War on the board by Toby Zinman

The precision and sense of drama makes you almost forget this is a concert and not a fully staged production.

SOURCE: phindie.com at 03:56PM
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

THE BAND’S VISIT (National tour at Academy of Music): Lost in transit by Toby Zinman

The musicians are terrific and there are some sweet moments, but too much is lost

SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:48AM
Monday, November 25, 2019

AN ILIAD (Arden): Rage returns to Ilium by Toby Zinman

A bold, visceral performance giving the strong script its due.

SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:38AM

[nyc] YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA (Signature Theatre): Times change by Toby Zinman

The style—despite a major cast—might be best described as wooden realism

SOURCE: phindie.com at 11:20AM

[nyc] PUMPGIRL (Irish Repertory Theatre): Things are fine in Irish drama by Toby Zinman

Everywhere you turn, there’s another Irish play, and each seems better than the last.

SOURCE: phindie.com at 10:53AM
Thursday, November 14, 2019

SHREK THE MUSICAL (Walnut Street): 60-second review by Toby Zinman

A witty as well as funny musical that brought the happy house game.

SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:31PM
Monday, November 11, 2019

SUNSET BABY (Azuka): A shining lead performance by Toby Zinman

Victoria Aaliyah Goins shines in a new play by a hot young playwright

SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:29PM
Thursday, October 31, 2019

EUREKA DAY (InterAct): An infectious satire by Toby Zinman

No easy answers, no good guys/bad guys; it’s life as we cope with it, only funnier.

SOURCE: phindie.com at 09:23AM
Friday, November 9, 2018

'Apologia' at the Roundabout Theatre: Talky, unpersuasive, annoying by Toby Zinman

Stockard Channing and Hugh Dancy star in this abrasive family drama, an intellectual soap opera aspiring to tragedy.

SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:24PM

"King Kong" comes to Broadway, and it -- Kong, that is -- is a knockout by Toby Zinman

"King Kong" has arrived on Broadway. The show manages, while not being the greatest musical per se, to be immense and immensely entertaining. The star of the show, the star of the night, is …

SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:18PM

"King Kong" comes to Broadway, and it -- Kong, that is -- is a knockout by Toby Zinman

"King Kong" has arrived on Broadway. The show manages, while not being the greatest musical per se, to be immense and immensely entertaining. The star of the show, the star of the night, is …

SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:06PM
Friday, November 2, 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
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