Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Fiasco Theater company under the aegis of the McCarter Theatre has "reimagined" the remarkable Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical Into the Woods in a production which restores improvisati…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41AMFriday, May 10, 2013
It is not a stretch to recommend the excellent production that is on stage at the George Street Playhouse for providing New Jersey audiences the opportunity to savor it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:47PMFriday, May 3, 2013
When The 2.5 Minute Ride, Ms. Kron's second play, was produced in 1999, it instantly established the actress-comedienne as an outstanding playwright/monologist.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMSaturday, April 27, 2013
While the Bickford Theatre revival of Neil Simon's 1968 Plaza Suite is as nicely done and entertaining as one could have hoped, unexpectedly, it offers more than a bit of rewarding and revel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17AMThe Electric Baby is a richly theatrical new play that makes its own rules. It is receiving a richly imaginative, impressively expansive production in Two River's small black box "second sta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04AMFriday, April 26, 2013
The setting is the dilapidated, modest Connecticut farmhouse of tenant farmer Phil Hogan during a fateful eighteen hours between early afternoon of one day in early September, 1923, and sunr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:27AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
For pure and delightfully old fashioned musical comedy fun, it would be very difficult to find anything better than the expertly staged, high-spirited Paper Mill Playhouse production of the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:03PMMonday, April 15, 2013
Stan Werse's Noir is an affectionate, inherently satiric, pleasingly respectful take on the "grade B" seventy-five minute or so long film noir policiers turned out quickly on tiny budgets by…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33PMSunday, April 14, 2013
Thanks to the solid premise and an excellent, comically adept, hard working cast, for a time all of this is pleasant and amusing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:53PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Director Rebecca Taichman has fearlessly pared down the play by eliminating supporting roles, and making elisions in the text which include the rendering of key scenes through brief narratio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:49PMSunday, March 24, 2013
Updating The Heiress to the present with smart writing and clever detail, Stewart closely hews to the plot structure of her source.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:40PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan abounds with contradictions and abrupt swings in mood and circumstance.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:56PMThursday, February 28, 2013
The central, worthy of debate and consideration, proposition of Ants is that the demands and pressures that a competitive, capitalist society places on its people are destructive to individu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:00PMThursday, February 21, 2013
The principal action of Carnaval, the new, sophomore play by Obie Award winning Nikkole Salter recounts a 1996 "sex tourist" trip to Rio de Janero made by three young black men.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:44PMFrom the start, Ken Ludwig entertains and amuses us with a panoply of outlandish comic characters indulging in foolish, self-indulgent, pompous and overbearing behaviors.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:43PMSunday, February 10, 2013
Nothing is as it seems in this extremely twisty mystery play featuring murder, perversity and mayhem in two acts and ten scenes.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:52AMGeorge Street Artistic Director/Director David Saint has found the heart and rhythm of Lindsay-Abaire's creation and given us a revelatory new production of Good People.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:51AMSunday, February 3, 2013
It just doesn't get any better than this.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
Clever, intelligent and intellectually ambitious, Julie Cho's The Language Archive offers much to admire as it meanders along a long and twisting road through events of emotional turmoil whi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMFriday, December 21, 2012
The Two River Theatre Company, true to its tradition of producing a show suitable for all ages at this holiday season, is currently presenting on its main stage a brand new musical comedy A …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56AMSunday, December 16, 2012
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's love letter to the English theatre, Trelawny of the Wells, seems to be in danger of becoming unknown to American audiences more than a century after it made its debu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41PMSaturday, December 8, 2012
Set in Durham, North Carolina, in 1971, The Best of Enemies, a new play by Mark St. Germain, depicts the true life relationship between Ann Atwater, a mother of two who is a strong-willed bl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:04AMMonday, December 3, 2012
Centenary Stage Company is presenting the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1987 stage adaptation of the classic MGM movie musical The Wizard of Oz as its 3rd annual holiday season community celeb…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06PMSunday, December 2, 2012
Surely and deservedly, it will be right up there with "warm woolen mittens" as one of the favorite things of New Jersey theatergoers and their families from now through to the New Year.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:37PMSaturday, November 10, 2012
Aside from the public record as to Madoff's position in the financial and investment community, and the fiduciary crimes that he committed, playwright Deb Margolin has not based her "imagini…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:23PMWednesday, October 31, 2012
Without making any major revisions in the music or text, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and director Bonnie J. Monte have given us a dramatically compelling, deeply moving, and satisf…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:06PMSunday, October 28, 2012
The Marion Huber Black Box Theatre at the Two River Theatre in Red Bank has been transformed into a very comfortable cabaret for the presentation of playwright-songwriter-bandleader-singer E…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:50PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
ailbait evenly and compassionately illustrates the emotional land mines faced by today's adolescences who have to deal with pressure from peers who expect them to be active sexually before t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMSunday, October 21, 2012
Annapurna is the interrupted love story of the alcoholic Ulysses, a truly gifted American poet, and Emma, an ambitious Barnard girl with artistic ambitions of her own.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:28PMThursday, October 18, 2012
One Slight Hitch is a silly, mildly farcical comedy by popular comedian Lewis Black. Lacking originality, substance and believability, it is a parade of mostly stale jokes framed by a stock …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:47PMMonday, October 15, 2012
The idea of an epistolary play telling this story in Vita and Virginia's own literate and passionate words is a very enticing one, indeed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47AM 
