Thursday, May 5, 2016
We follow them from week one, when they are reading the script for the first time and devising backstories for their characters; to week two, when they start acting with each other, scripts …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2015
His way into the story is through an elderly Cockette, Juju (played by Ansloan), reminiscing to a young student (Bryan Andrew Lambe) who is doing research on the group. The student then take…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
... if almost all of what we call our "culture" were suddenly lost to us, how would we create it anew? This is the premise of Anne Washburn's ingenious and sort of brilliant play Mr. Burns, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
The title James Cady's Hamlet might sound pretentious or vainglorious, but Jim Cady, the director, really does deserve his name on the marquee for this show. The words are Shakespeare's, but…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2014
But nobody cares about the plot. It's just the scaffolding for a manic run of gags and physical comedy and song and dance and a little audience participation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2014
LaBute has the best ear for colloquial conversation—in a certain stratum of society, at least: office workers, city dwellers, factory guys, not too rich, not too poor.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Here, they have rescued the musical version of My Favorite Year from the brink of oblivion.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:31PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2014
When Rooster talks to his son or to his son's mother or to an abusive stepfather, you see how good a writer Butterworth can be.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
In today's post-Edward Snowden America, if a man from the government showed up at your door and asked for your help in conducting surveillance on your best friends, you'd probably tell him t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
The more I think about Man of La Mancha, the more impressed I am by the achievement of Wasserman, Leigh, and Darion. And of Paul Ford (an Albuquerque legend, directing his first musical) and…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Director Amelia Ampuero and her excellent cast have roasted this old chestnut into something quite flavorful.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 28, 2013
This production is very good in almost all respects. As I have come to expect from the Adobe Theater, the set (by Brian Hansen and Antonia Cardella), the props (Nina Dorrance), and the costu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2013
Despite the fact that all four major Chekhov plays are alluded to, it is not a pastiche or a parody of Chekhov, but resolutely contemporary and American and even somewhat touching. V
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 1, 2013
If all you know is the movie (and isn't that all that anyone knows now?), I think you will be surprised by the play, and you'll have the fun seeing live theater too.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 24, 2013
The new version by the Irish playwright Brian Friel feels not like he's dusting off some fusty old thing, but like a contemporary play.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2013
I don't know if there's a way to get the younger generation interested in musicals like The Pajama Game, but I'll try: See this show, no matter what your age. You'll have a good time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:40PM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2013
And you should see it, for the high production values and so you can be singing "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone" for the next week. Myself, I can't get the "Carousel Waltz" out…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:46AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
In his 1972 book Memoirs, Tennessee Williams says that when people ask him which among his plays is his favorite, "I either say to them, 'Always the latest' or I succumb to my instinct for t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13AM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2013
It's a New York City play, but it could be anywhere in America. Jackie has just gotten out of prison after a two year stint upstate, is visiting his cokehead girlfriend Veronica back in the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 23, 2013
Should you give up this crazy idea of being an artist and go for the money instead? Isn't it time to settle down, or will you keep plugging away at a career in which the odds are not in your…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
Chekhov subtitled it a comedy, but should we take him at his word, or was he being ironic?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 28, 2012
You can't tell from the title, but the play is about Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the month of October 1866.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:35PM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2012
I thought I was going to hate this show, David Mamet's November, but I ended up having one of the most laugh-out-loud enjoyable nights at the theater in recent memory.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The play is directed by the author, and she has brought together a good cast and crew to actualize, I presume, her vision of what she had written.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
I thought I knew just about everything there is to know of the Greek myths until I saw this production of Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2012
I know next to nothing about Catherine Butterfield, but based on this script, I wonder why her work is not produced more often. The Sleeper is a comedic take on the paranoia that gripped the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Angel Street, a 1938 play by British writer Patrick Hamilton, is one of those plays that likely would be forgotten by now if it had not been made into a movie.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:04AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2012
What "A Shot Away" teaches us about is MST. Don't know what MST is? Neither did I. Military Sexual Trauma.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2011
As the title makes plain, this "Cat" is a comedic amalgamation of several of the canonical Williams plays.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2011
A lot of credit should go to Vernon Poitras, the director (and, in effect, the Enchanted Rose Theater personified), for assembling a very capable cast and crew, for putting on a good show, a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Does it have a plot? Hardly. Does it leave questions unanswered? Yes. Is the dialogue derivative? Yes. Is there any hope for the characters? Not really. Is the play therefore depressing? Not…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:49PM[SHARE] 
