"Family is a loaded word," to quote one of the characters in Douglas Lyons' Chicken & Biscuits, a mashup of broad comedy and domestic drama opening tonight at Circle in the Square. If the pa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:25PM... a perplexing amalgam of thin-as-a-reed storytelling and powerhouse performances of reimagined tunes from the vast songbook of America's Nobel Prize-winning troubadour, Bob Dylan.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:50AMCoal Country, then, is the forum through which their voices are finally allowed to be heard. And we are there to listen in fellowship to their disquieting recollections.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PM,,, an inventive mix of gradually darkening humor, family drama, and the vicissitudes of memory,
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AM... t for anyone willing to separate the wheat from the chaff, there is a great deal of enjoyment to be found by focusing on the performances on the stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:30PM... Encores! at New York City Center is back on top, doing what it does best with a beautifully rendered Mack & Mabel...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03PMPulling off Animal Farm with four actors is just the kind of dare Seeing Place would gravitate towards.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55PM... a partial success for the Mint. If nothing else, Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories offers the opportunity to view these rarely seen works based on stories by two giants of Russian literatur…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMThe play is often quite funny in the way that a well-written sitcom can be, but a thick layer of jokes and punchlines cannot cover up the fact that there is little of credible substance here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:23PMA rock solid cast and a spit-shine production make for a gripping and altogether outstanding revival of Charles Fuller's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PM... as it stands, the production seems like a staged book-on-tape.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26PM... what emerges is a quirky yet moving story about the vulnerability of the human heart and the universal need for connection.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:21PM... damn if it doesn't set a new aspirational standard for the subgenre referred to mostly in scoffing terms as the "jukebox musical."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AM... having a strong idea for a play is a far cry from being able to translate it into compelling dramaturgy and authentic-seeming dialog. And that is definitely the problem here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:19PM,,, the venturesome chamber musical Einstein's Dreams, now on view at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50AMThorne's interpretation, under Matthew Warchus's direction, is darker, more analytical and psychologically probing than we have become accustomed to. As a result, it is also less emotionally…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12AM... a haunting duet that briefly brings together a world that is shaped by words with another that is shaped by music.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:23AMMisogyny, thou art hereby banished from Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate!, opening tonight in a snappy, scintillating, and decidedly woke new production at Studio 54 and featuring an altogether s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:05PM"If this can happen, anything can happen," warns Alex, a man striving to stay afloat in the wake of a tragic and sudden loss he can hardly begin to grasp, in the first of the pair of monolog…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58PMTelevangelist Thomas Isaac Rehan has scored quite a programming coup, with a very very very special guest scheduled to appear on the broadcast from his sprawling megachurch and compound in a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMEthan Hawke and Paul Dano burn up the stage as a lock-horn duo of estranged brothers in the rip-roaring revival of True West, playwright Sam Shepard's offbeat salute to sibling rivalry and b…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:05PMFriendship sometimes comes in the most unexpected of packages.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:19PMNetwork, director Ivo van Hove's razzle dazzle staging of Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 film of the same title, transmogrifies the Belasco Theatre into one gigantic hyperkinetic television studio, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMPlease excuse the feeling of foreboding that flooded my bloodstream as I waited to enter the Neil Simon Theatre, where The Cher Show opened tonight.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMGetting your head around playwright Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem, opening tonight at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, is a bit like trying to pin down one of artist M. C. …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMThe Prom, the new musical opening tonight at the Longacre Theatre, is a bonbon of the highest order.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:44PMOK. There's really only one thing anyone wants to know about King Kong, the new musical opening tonight at the Broadway Theatre. So let's get right to it. The answer is, yes. The great ape i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:59PMPlaywright Patricia Ione Lloyd stands on the shoulders of giants to bring us a sizzling and darkly comic new work, Eve's Song, opening tonight at the Public Theater in a riveting production …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01PMHow does anyone become a trailblazer?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09AMMagic and music, domesticity and revolution saturate Jez Butterworth's gloriously hyperkinetic The Ferryman, opening today at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
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