Wednesday, April 22, 2026
How do you retain the feeling of rapport inherent in an intimate small theater setting when you move things to a much larger Broadway house? How do you manage to create a feeling of spontane…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PMSunday, April 19, 2026
Is "ripsnortin'" still a thing? In any event, the first Broadway revival in seventy years of Noël Coward's 1925 comedy Fallen Angels, opening tonight at the Todd Haimes Theatre, is a rips…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:24PMFriday, April 17, 2026
Calculus is "intuitively obvious." At least that's what they told me when I enrolled in a college calc course a gazillion years ago. In my case, it turned out not to be so true. But mathemat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02AMThursday, April 16, 2026
It is said that the wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Fortunately, few of us can claim to have had first-hand experience in testing this adage, especially the "slowl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:07AMTuesday, April 14, 2026
Hi there, all you ignominious peons stuck in dead-end, soul-sucking jobs that you'd give anything to chuck yet are worried about losing to mechanization or AI or robots. You think this is a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44PMThursday, April 9, 2026
When Arthur Miller's seminal work Death of a Salesman was first produced in 1949, and indeed for some time after, it was viewed as an indictment of the evanescent nature of the "American Dre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMWednesday, April 8, 2026
Full disclosure: I am a dog guy. If T. S. Eliot had come up with a book of poems about highly impractical dogs instead of one about "highly practical cats," I'd have been first in line to se…
SOURCE: talkinbroadway.com at 03:34AMTuesday, April 7, 2026
Here's a bit of wisdom to cross-stitch on a throw pillow: "There are times when lying is the most humane thing you can do." Well, maybe. But in the case of Second Stage's glistening revival …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:23AMWednesday, April 1, 2026
"The best things happen while you're dancing." So wrote Irving Berlin for the classic 1954 film White Christmas. Musical theatre fans might amend it slightly to "the best things happen while…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:51AMTuesday, March 31, 2026
"We come in peace!" Comforting to know when the person who declaims these words is holding you at gunpoint during a poorly planned and even more poorly executed bank robbery that kickstarts …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20AMWednesday, March 25, 2026
Once upon a time, towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century, there was a Black man who served as U.S. President and a woman who served as his Secretary of State. Barriers were …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10PMTuesday, March 24, 2026
Genuinely disturbing or tempest in a teapot? That's the prompt for post-performance discussion after seeing Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier Award-winning play Giant, which opened tonight at the Mu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AMThursday, March 19, 2026
Gin. Skin. Sin. Put them all together, and you're in for the hedonistic ride of your life in the flawlessly performed, few-holds-barred Encores! production of Michael John LaChiusa and Georg…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:54PMSunday, March 15, 2026
Primary Stages' production of Libby Carr's coming-of-age play Calf Scramble, opening today at 59E59 Theaters, offers up an intriguing premise and a well-executed series of set pieces about a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:28PMWednesday, March 11, 2026
The title of Anna Ziegler's explosive new play, having its world premiere at the Public Theater, is Antigone (This Play I Read In High School). It's catchy, and it may lead you to expect a v…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:42PMMonday, January 26, 2026
Early on in Elevator Repair Service's Ulysses, which opened tonight at the Public Theater in a co-production with the Under the Radar Festival, we are reminded by co-director and dramaturg S…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:39AMWednesday, December 24, 2025
The "meaning" of Samuel Beckett's 1953 absurdist masterwork Waiting for Godot will be parsed forever and will never be fully discerned. Some theatregoers will be enthralled by the experience…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PMMany prize the state of Idaho as a go-to destination for outdoor recreational opportunities, white water rapids, hot springs, and majestic mountains. But playwright Samuel D. Hunter has a wa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PMTuesday, December 9, 2025
What does it mean to be human? And will our current and relatively unfettered deep dive into artificial intelligence help to clarify things, or will it further muddy the waters? These are th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:59AMThursday, November 20, 2025
With the right word of mouth, the goofy, touching, and winningly performed rom-com musical Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), opening tonight at the Longacre Theatre, may just fin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:22PMMonday, November 17, 2025
In the world of Broadway musicals, here's a question to ponder. When is a concept no longer just a concept but a full-out and successful marriage between book and music? Applied to the reviv…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:45AMFriday, November 14, 2025
The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock described the art of suspense as providing the audience with foreknowledge of some terrible event that is about to unfold on unsuspecting characters. We …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:43AMThe Seat of our Pants, opening tonight at the Public Theater and blessed with a first-rate cast of theatre stalwarts, is a new version of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Skin of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:43AMMonday, November 10, 2025
Shakespeare's play Richard II is not a comedy. Nor was it meant to be. Yet you wouldn't know it judging from the random outbursts of titters and even the occasional guffaw from among audienc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMHow can you sell your soul if you don't have one to begin with? That's just one of the many confounding aspects inherent in the flavorless new musical The Queen of Versailles that opened ton…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:04AMFriday, October 31, 2025
Bat Boy: The Musical, with a story and book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe (who, along with Kevin Murphy, also did the honors for Heathers: The …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:17PMFriday, October 17, 2025
Wow! That's the interjection of the day and the singular way to describe the powerful and emotionally stirring revival of Ragtime that opened tonight at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Thea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:12AMMonday, September 29, 2025
Accept if you can, even if you can't forgive. Forgive if you can, even if you can't forget. That's the idea behind restorative justice, a systematic supportive approach to seeking healing fo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PMThursday, September 25, 2025
As a playwright and performer, John Leguizamo is best known for offering up sharp-eyed and thought-provoking takes on Latino identity and culture. Given the current state of affairs with res…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
When Yasmina Reza's Art kicked off its initial Broadway run in 1998, New York Times critic Ben Brantley gave it a genial pat on the head, calling it a "sleek, pleasant comedy of manners." No…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01AMThursday, August 21, 2025
Unbridled joy has returned to a special corner of Manhattan with the unveiling and reopening of the newly refurbished Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where the Public Theater is serving u…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:28PM 
