Sunday, August 3, 2014
There is not anything easy about The Visit. One senses despair and decay even entering the theater and glancing upward toward Pask's ominous structure.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PMWednesday, July 30, 2014
[Cariani] has been rehearsing the two person Dancing Lessons with Paige Davis for two weeks. Playwright Mark St. Germain has been in the hall for virtually all rehearsals.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:47AMThursday, July 24, 2014
Joe DiPietro and director Kathleen Marshall collaborated to present Nice Work If You Can Get It on Broadway. Now, they pair once again by working from Garson Kanin's script for Peccadillo an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:23PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Benefactors, a Berkshire Theatre Group presentation at its Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is an exceptionally well-written play which continues through July 26th. Precision i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:52PMSunday, July 13, 2014
Leslie Uggams brings presence, charisma and dignity to the stage as she embodies Rose in Connecticut Repertory Theatre's production of Gypsy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:57PMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Running on the boards at Tina Packer Playhouse through August 30th, Simotes' vision of this Shakespeare brings everyone to late 1920s/early 1930s New Orleans, an age of jazz and blues.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55AMSunday, June 8, 2014
Featuring six top of the line performers, the unique and fascinating show has been developed by music director Wayne Barker, playwright Deborah Grace Winer, and the production's director, Ma…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:30AMMonday, June 2, 2014
[John Cariani], whose lovely Almost, Maine has charmed many regional and community theater patrons, now brings us 10 catchy relationship stories�all occurring on Friday evenings. This is con…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:23PMSunday, May 18, 2014
Jason Robert Brown's two-hander is bittersweet, sincere, and perceptive.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:43PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Goodspeed Musicals throws a sweet change-up with Joe DiPietro's adapted book rendering of usually recognizable Damn Yankees.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:41PMSaturday, May 3, 2014
... this is a full, heartfelt, and inspirational evening of theater. Real and spiritual worlds are combined so that the theatergoer will contemplate beyond the final curtain.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Somewhere is, on a certain level, a wistful drama about those who dream on while reality forcibly threatens them.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:56AMSaturday, April 5, 2014
Long Wharf Theatre, in New Haven, presents Fugard along with either Aidan or Dermot McMillan (identical twins who alternate) in this world premiere through April 27th.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:43AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Performed with feeling, vivacity, and great discipline and showcasing songs by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, it is a multi-dimensional hit. Director Jackson Gay should be afforded…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:30PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
The play is set in a posh hotel in Switzerland and the leading man, Hugo Latymer is played by veteran actor Brian Murray. Murray has a distinctive presence, but his words, from time to time,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:32AMMonday, February 24, 2014
Private Lives is, to an extent, highly comedic and amusing fare perfect for a chilly evening in mid or late winter, complete with elegance, charm, and high society manners. On another level,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:09PMMonday, February 17, 2014
This is anything but a tame, graceful one hour and forty minute journey. Instead, it jolts one's sensibilities.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36AMMonday, January 27, 2014
Heidi Schreck's The Consultant, a world premiere at Long Wharf Theatre's Stage II through February 9th, is catchy, snappy, even edgy for almost its 88 minute entirety.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:10PMSunday, December 15, 2013
Ruggiero enlisted/challenged seven playwrights to find a young character from a known Christmas story and imagine/script the persona into grown-up status, complete with anecdote and predicam…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:20PMSunday, November 3, 2013
An indictment of those who carry capitalism to an extreme, the script remains relevant to the present day. Dark in tone and more darkly comedic, Owners challenges theatergoers to find sympat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMThursday, October 17, 2013
Thought of as an out-and-out farce and famous, perhaps, through the Marx Brothers movie, the current production strikes me as more thoughtful than outrageously funny.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMSaturday, October 12, 2013
The physical affects linger, might become preludes for nightmares for those attending. That said, Hartford Stage's realization of this Scottish Play, exciting and enduring, is memorable.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:49PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
It is a British murder mystery but is it really? The first act seems almost humdrum if quite humorous for a while and, true confession: I am unable to speak of the final hour.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:08PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Hartford Stage begins its season with a transfixing rendering of Marivaux's La Dispute, which continues through November 10th.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:09AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Once again, playwright Mark St. Germain brings an imagined and compelling conversation, this time between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, to this inviting space.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:13PMMonday, September 2, 2013
The Beauty Queen of Leenane is such a heart-wrenching, difficult play; all credit, then, to a quartet of actors who manage, at times, to find rays of humanity within Shakespeare & Company's …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:30PMMonday, August 26, 2013
Oblivion has staying power. Parents and a mid-teen daughter in conflict? The subject matter is, to say the least, recognizable. This telling and showing, though, is brisk and welcome.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49AMThursday, August 1, 2013
Barrington Stage Company Musical Theatre Lab's beautiful and provocative production of Southern Comfort is performed with care, precision, and musical dexterity.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:47PMCorinna May (as Doris) and her real-life husband David Adkins (George) provide most professional and commendable performances.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:02PMMonday, July 22, 2013
"None But the Lonely Heart: The Strange Story of Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meck," is a lovely presentation which integrates chamber music, theater and dance.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:21PMFriday, July 19, 2013
The piercing opening scene of an indelible production of Extremities, at The Unicorn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as part of Berkshire Theatre Group's current season, is singularly shockin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:33AM 
