Tuesday, October 11, 2011
If anyone knew the legendary chaos and aggravation of opening a new show on the road in preparation for Broadway, it was Moss Hart.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Richard Dresser certainly knows how to engage our emotions and tickle our funny bones. With "The Last Days of Mickey and Jean," he has come up with a witty and compact little comedy which is…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Disney's "Newsies The Musical" has roared into the Paper Mill Playhouse in a sharp, snazzy, complex production which thrillingly integrates book, music and lyrics, choreography, scenery and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2011
Andrea Gallo is a talented, vivacious and charming actress. This certainly comes through as she employs her charms to try to bring life to the world premiere of Ian August's overly contrived…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48PM[SHARE]Director Buntrock's view of the play has led him to tone down the level of exuberance and farcicality usually seen in productions of "Much Ado." The comedy is still amusing, but it never is …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2011
The man sits down at the piano and plays some notes from "Blue Moon" as five women, identified in the program as Miss Jones One through Five, appear at the top of the staircase and descend s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 17, 2011
It is the clear and thoughtful approach that director Bonnie J. Monte has taken to the exposition leading up to "Othello"'s grand climaxes that distinguish the production at hand.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2011
annah Senesh was a young Jewish woman who fled from Hungarian anti-Semitism and emigrated to Palestine in 1939. There, she first joined the Haganah, and, thereafter, she enlisted in the Brit…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:23PM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2011
Very few of the pro-Communist, anti-American plays of the Vietnam War area that were particularly popular among young people were sufficiently artful or insightful to be successfully produce…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2011
"Follow Me to Nellie's" is the new play by Dominique Morisseau now playing in a developmental production at Premiere Stages. Although not the freshest or best constructed of such efforts, it…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 24, 2011
"The Judy Holliday Story," enthusiastically received at last summer's FringeNYC is receiving its official world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre ... The Theater Project informs u…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2011
When word gets out that the play is back in such fine fettle, I expect that grateful and appreciate New Jersey families will be flocking in droves to see the thoroughly entertaining, artisti…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:48PM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2011
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey returns to the stage in fine fettle with the opening production of its 2011 season, The Misanthrope, Molière's witty and insightful seventeenth century…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2011
Yasmina Reza has a great gift for sophisticated, semi-absurdist dialogue which hilariously skewers the self-satisfied, self-aggrandizing, (until recently) rapidly expanding very upper middle…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:35PM[SHARE]Even as it now stands, Sleeping Beauty Wakes is a most intelligent and entertaining musical which is well worth a destination trip to Princeton. However, it would be a shame if the creative …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The Theatre Project (in its last production at Union County College) is presenting a heartfelt production of The African Company Presents Richard III, an imaginative recounting by Carlyle Br…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45AM[SHARE]The less that you know about Night Train before you board the better that you will enjoy it. Even telling you how or why it works, or even the genres which it encompasses, will reduce your p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2011
Paul Rudnick's 1991 Broadway comedy I Hate Hamlet is a pleasant, gracefully written, gently humorous, old-fashioned comedy. Rudnick has written sharper and better plays, including at least f…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 5, 2011
As with Paper Mill's lavish 2007 production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Curtains is a co-production with Houston's Theatre Under the Stars. The benefits of such collaborations will b…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:41PM[SHARE]Is it possible to contain the monumental story of the more than decade long struggle to build the World Trade Center in a conventional two act play? This is a difficult question to answer. H…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Bald Soprano is currently being revived, sort of, by Teaneck's Garage Theatre. Director Michael Bias has written a new translation and adaptation which moves the setting from a mid twent…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:05PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
reasons to be pretty is not the most theatrical or dramatically lacerating of the Neil LaBute trilogy (with The Shape of Things and Fat Pig) on immature and hurtful behaviors among romantica…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Enchanted April seems to be a property for all seasons. It began its life as a 1922 English novel by Elizabeth von Arnin which was exceptionally popular in England and the United States. It …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
For much of the evening, this reincarnation of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize winning play is not as engaging and buoyant as it might have been.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:42PM[SHARE] 
