Thursday, June 28, 2018
Unless you happened to have seen the original Broadway production or one of two relatively recent London mountings, odds are you haven't seen Carmen Jones on stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08AMThursday, June 14, 2018
The Laurie Beechman Theatre in the West Bank Cafe June 13, 2018 Music Direction & Accompaniment by Alex Rybeck Bass – Jered Egan Drums – Dan Gross You only have to glance at cabaret …
SOURCE: New York Arts Review at 09:58AMWednesday, May 23, 2018
As she did with John Weidman in Contact at Lincoln Center in 2000, director and choreographer Susan Stroman is breaking the musical theatre form again with The Beast in the Jungle at The Vin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMFriday, May 4, 2018
"The tables have turned with a vengeance," says Alma Winemiller in the penultimate scene of Summer and Smoke, Tennessee Williams' gothic potboiler now on view at Classic Stage Company courte…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04AMMonday, April 23, 2018
The academic stakes couldn't be higher in MCC Theater's new drama . . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMWednesday, April 18, 2018
Though spring is still struggling to arrive, and Christmas is still eight long months away, the Irish Repertory Theatre is giving us an early gift in the form of its terrific new revival of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Jordan Harrison has written some wacky plays over the last few years, including his 2015 Pulitzer finalist Marjorie Prime, Doris to Darlene, Amazons and Their Men, Act a Lady, as well as the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52PMFresh off an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University, Hammaad Chaudry is making his professional debut with An Ordinary Muslim, an uneven drama at New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW).
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:40AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
After winning four Golden Globes, three SAG Awards and seven Oscar nominations for his emotionally charged revenge film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh is unquest…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29AMThursday, February 1, 2018
After sitting through Terrence McNally's dismal Fire and Air at Classic Stage Company, a play about ballet that contains no actual dancing, I remembered McNally is also the playwright who ga…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMMonday, January 22, 2018
Presented last summer in a workshop by New York Stage and Film & Vassar at the Powerhouse Theater, Ngozi Anyanwu's The Homecoming Queen is now receiving its world premiere production at the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMWednesday, January 10, 2018
It's always a red flag when the first page inside your theatre program is a note from the director explaining the play you're about to see.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53AMSaturday, January 6, 2018
December Songs Produced by Randy Crafton for Chlo-Rita Productions Executive Produced by Stearns Matthews for Chlo-Rita Productions CD Design and Packaging by Michael Hetrick Markus Grae-Hau…
SOURCE: New York Arts Review at 12:17PMFriday, December 29, 2017
Pangea October 30, November 30, December 15 & 27, 2017 Music Direction & Accompaniment by Tex Arnold No one likes being late to a party, but that’s how I felt recently watching the…
SOURCE: New York Arts Review at 06:35AMFriday, December 15, 2017
The Fiasco Theater's rollicking, new production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will is the perfect way to spend a cold, winter night.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:39AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Pulitzer-nominee Rajiv Joseph's new play at The Atlantic, Describe the Night, is a sweeping, political potboiler spanning 90 years of history and intertwining the lives of seven characters o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:20PMMonday, December 4, 2017
There will undoubtedly be people who enjoy and connect with Hundred Days, an eclectic "concert musical" written by and starring real-life married couple Abigail and Shaun Bengson currently o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
After seeing Harry Clarke, the mesmerizing and frequently creepy new play by David Cale at The Vineyard, you'll start making a list of superlatives in your head to describe the tour de force…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:54PMThursday, November 16, 2017
In a recent profile in The New York Times, actress and playwright Jocelyn Bioh said it was her mission "to tell stories about African and African-American characters that buck expectation an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51PMFriday, September 29, 2017
As the first production of Classic Stage Company's 50th anniversary season, John Doyle's new staging of William Shakespeare's As You Like It is a frustrating amalgam of beautiful visual imag…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:54AMMonday, September 25, 2017
Mary Jane, a beautiful new play written by Amy Herzog and directed with naturalism by Anne Kauffman (A Life) opening tonight at New York Theatre Workshop, will only burnish Herzog's stature …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Attention all Tom Stoppard fans! Rising out of the theatrical mist comes an engaging, new staging of Arcadia, Stoppard's time-traveling meditation on art, science and love courtesy of PTP/NY…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
For their 31st repertory season, and their 11th consecutive season in New York City, it should come as no surprise PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project) has included a play by iconoclastic, Brit…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMMonday, June 19, 2017
Long before playwright Martin McDonagh put the spotlight on the Aran Islands in a trilogy of plays . . .the islands held a fascination for another Irish playwright, Edmund John Millington Sy…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PMTuesday, June 6, 2017
Primarily a British theatre director, Clare Lizzimore is also a budding playwright.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMMonday, June 5, 2017
The clash between "art" and "commerce" has rarely been on the kind of painful display it is now at the Lucille Lortel in the form of MCC Theater's eye-rolling production of Matthew Perry's T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51PMThursday, May 25, 2017
Proving once again that inspired ideas for new musicals often come from the most unexpected places, Tim Rosser (music) and Charlie Sohne's (book and lyrics) The Boy Who Danced On Air at the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMTuesday, May 23, 2017
Choosing a title for a show can be fraught with danger, especially when that title poses a question.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMMonday, March 27, 2017
John Leguizamo in “Latin History for Morons” (photo: Joan Marcus) The Public Theater February 24, 2017 thru April 23, 2017 Opened March 27, 2017 Written and Performed by John Leguizamo D…
SOURCE: New York Arts Review at 07:00PMSunday, March 26, 2017
Michelle Wilson & Johanna Day in “Sweat” (photo: Joan Marcus) Roundabout – Studio 54 March 4, 2017 thru (open ended) Opened March 26, 2017 Written by Lynn Notage Directed by Kate W…
SOURCE: New York Arts Review at 07:00PMHeather MacRae & Joseph Kolinsky in “Come Back, Little Sheba” (photo: Carol Rosegg) Transport Group Theatre Company Gym at Judson February 23, 2017 thru April 23, 2017 Opened March 2…
SOURCE: New York Arts Review at 07:00PM 
