Friday, 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 11:33AMSaturday, July 13, 2013
Understatement: Tom Stoppard's "Hapgood," on Williamstown Theatre Festival's Nikos Stage through July 21st, is not all that easy to follow�especially during its first hour.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
ritten by Steven Sater and featuring music by Duncan Sheik, the team which brought the world Tony Award winning Spring Awakening, this is a work which is still evolving. It is contemporary, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Written by Gerald Sibleyras and translated by Tom Stoppard, the play features three of the company's seasoned actors. Jonathan Epstein is Gustave, Malcolm Ingram plays Philippe, and Robert L…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:59PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Building to a number of crescendo moments during its one hour and twenty minute transfixing performance by actor Juri Henley-Cohn, the provocative, thoughtful drama offers many plot and them…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:27PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Eric Ting directs a superb ensemble of actors in a new production which continues at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre through June 2nd.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
The play is clever and tart�a satire on white Anglo Saxon Protestant society. Gurney is a Connecticut resident who writes about people who might very well be living in or near Westport.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:31PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Stefanie Powers sits so sublimely within Tallulah Bankhead's persona that, at times, she actually seems to be Bankhead. Such is the quality of star performance within Looped, at the Bushnell…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:28PMFriday, May 3, 2013
Set in 1927 and boasting music and lyrics by Ray Henderson, B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown, the production showcases this landmark theater as it begins its 50th anniversary season. It continues …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:54PMSunday, April 14, 2013
The Mountaintop, continuing at Hartford's TheaterWorks through May 5th, clicks early on and maintains its spirited hold throughout hte 95-minute performance.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:56AMA story of women who are hoping for love and wondering about life's potential, the plot draws rapid focus on abrasive realities of the time. Henley has chosen the final forty years or so of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:56AMSunday, March 3, 2013
The world premiere staging of two Anton Chekhov short stories is adapted and directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar of Big Dance Theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:32AMFriday, February 8, 2013
A two person piece written by Marie Jones in 1996, it features exceptionally versatile actors Fred Arsenault and Euan Morton, each of whom succeeds with many roles.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:41PMMonday, February 4, 2013
Almost, Maine, in performance at Hartford's TheaterWorks through March 3rd, is: lyrical, lively�what a sweet Valentine's Day gift.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:45AMSunday, January 20, 2013
By mixing vocal music with storytelling, the director and his actors quickly befriend a welcoming audience.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:08PMSaturday, January 5, 2013
Nearly twenty years ago at the age of 31, Rob Ruggiero, shortly after completing graduate school at Rutgers, arrived in Hartford to direct at TheaterWorks for the first time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:36PMSunday, December 16, 2012
Kathleen Turner, effective and headstrong as a prototypical bulldog figure, stars as June Buckridge in Long Wharf Theatre's The Killing of Sister George which continues through December 23rd.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21PMMonday, December 10, 2012
The award winning playwright, Sarah Ruhl, sculpts a fascinating play from letters poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop wrote to one another during their evolving friendship from 1947 unt…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:03PMMonday, November 12, 2012
Contemporary language and ear-splitting blasts distinguish David Adjmi's brisk script. Taking place during the latter part of the eighteenth century, the time of the French Revolution, the p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:02PMSaturday, November 3, 2012
TheaterWorks of Hartford's production of Venus in Fur completely transfixes on a number of levels.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:46PMFriday, October 19, 2012
Hartford Stage brings a skillfully executed, wacky world premiere musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, to anyone who desires an evening of raucous laughter.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Satchmo at the Waldorf stars the versatile, disciplined, knowing actor John Douglas Thompson, in an excellent one-man portrayal which delves deeply into Louis Armstrong's opinions and life.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:21PMSunday, September 30, 2012
Yale Repertory Theatre begins its season with clever, blazing, outrageous satire, as a Mexican immigrant dozes off while he crams for his United States citizenship exam.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:44PMSunday, September 16, 2012
The striking production values distinguish the show, which immediately snares one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to muster the least bit of sympathy for the coldly neurotic …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:23PMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Harbor, making its world premiere at Westport Country Playhouse, boasts inventive comedy, including a number of one-liners, as it explores relationship possibilities among four individuals w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48AMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Director Joe Brancato worked with actors Andrea Maulella and Mark Shanahan on previous productions of Karoline Leach's taut and thrilling play. The performers remain remarkably fresh. The ra…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:13AMMonday, August 20, 2012
Homestead Crossing, in world premiere at Berkshire Theatre Group's Unicorn stage in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is thoughtful, understated and cleanly delineated.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:34PMMonday, August 13, 2012
The Tempest, continuing at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, through August 19th, finds Prospera (Olympia Dukakis) on an island with her daughter Miranda (Merritt Janson).
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:16PMThursday, August 9, 2012
Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of A Month in the Country, continuing on the main stage through August 19th, works well for those observers who have some idea of the work of its p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMSunday, July 29, 2012
Still searing and ever pertinent, Arthur Miller's All My Sons, written in 1947, clutches with intensity and does not relinquish its hold.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:55AMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Dorothy Thompson's journalistic voice was nothing short of heroic, and Tod Randolph's courageous/shining performance in Shakespeare & Company's Cassandra Speaks fully honors the twentieth ce…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:07PM 
