Thursday, March 27, 2025
You know what they say about marriage: the first 150 years are the hardest. OK, while none of us will ever see that sort of longevity, wait until you meet Susan Cooper and her husband Samuel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:52PMThursday, March 20, 2025
It's bizarre. It's disgusting. It's borderline psychopathic. That's how one of the characters describes an actual who-could-possibly-believe-it scheme of World War II British Intelligence in…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMMuchas gracias to everyone who brought the gift of the Buena Vista Social Club to Broadway, where it opened tonight at the Schoenfeld Theatre in a perfect blend of music, dance and story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:43AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
Sharpsburg, Maryland, a small town of well under 1,000 souls, is best known as the site of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam (or, if you are a Confederacy devotee, the Battle of Sharpsburg)…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:25PMThe Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' sharp-as-a-tack new play, Purpose, brilliantly directed by Phylicia Rashad and opening tonight on Broadway at the Helen …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:32AMFriday, February 14, 2025
Idina Menzel, Wicked's original Elphaba, is back on Broadway, and once again she is defying gravity. No, she hasn't returned to the Gershwin Theatre and the land of Oz. Instead, she is starr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:58AMThursday, February 6, 2025
When Urinetown opened on Broadway back in 2001, by way of the New York International Fringe Festival and a follow-up Off Broadway run, it was a decided hit, picking up ten Tony nominations a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:33PMMonday, January 27, 2025
A beach house in a state of disrepair, not unlike its primary inhabitant, is the setting for Gregg Ostrin's Kowalski, a tangle of truth, truthiness, and fanciful speculation opening tonight …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:48PMFriday, January 24, 2025
True story: I once attempted to show off my linguistic prowess at a French restaurant by ordering a salad with Roquefort dressing. I wound up with a dish of horseradish ("raifort") instead. …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:36AMFriday, December 20, 2024
Does doing monstrous things make you a monster? That is the question being addressed in the newest and sixth Broadway production of Gypsy, opening tonight at the Majestic Theatre and starrin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
Jonathan Spector's satirical dramedy Eureka Day, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is a perfect reflection of our divisive times as it lays bare wha…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:27AMThursday, December 12, 2024
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SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMThursday, November 21, 2024
Sometimes family ties are held together by a thread. In the case of playwright Katori Hall's The Blood Quilt, opening tonight at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, the thread i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:18PMDeath Becomes Her, the musical adaptation of Robert Zemeckis's 1992 offbeat comic movie of the same title, opening tonight at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, is a super-fun grudge match between t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:29PMWednesday, November 20, 2024
"The great tragedy of the sea." That's what a grizzled old sea captain calls it when describing life aboard a whaler like the one he's commanding in the closing years of the 19th century in …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:09AMSunday, November 17, 2024
Do you believe in Santa Claus? Even a little bit? No? All right, then. Let me sweeten the pot. What do you think about the idea of Samwise Gamgee of The Lord of the Rings fame appearing as S…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMPlaywright Kate Hamill is best known as an adaptor of classic novels like Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, asking us to recon…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:43PMThursday, November 14, 2024
Sometimes it's difficult to understand the underlying intent of a theatrical production, which, perhaps, is the underlying problem with Tammy Faye, the intermittently rewarding musical that …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:18PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Thanks to some very cleverly arranged design elements, Maybe Happy Ending, the quirky/charming futuristic musical opening today at the Belasco Theatre, is the theatrical equivalent of what c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:13PMMonday, November 11, 2024
"When You're Smiling," a song written just ahead of the Great Depression, was not conceived by its composers with Louis Armstrong in mind. Yet while it is just one song among 30 that are per…
SOURCE: talkinbroadway.com at 09:02PMMonday, November 4, 2024
George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple is a melodrama. Or, wait, it's a comedy. No, it's an antiwar satire with political overtones. Anyway, you get my drift. It is difficult to pin down…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04AMFriday, November 1, 2024
To misquote Norma Desmond, "Broadway is big. It's the musicals that got small." Though not in 1997-1998. That was a banner time for big musicals with big companies. The Lion King, Titanic, a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:49PMMonday, October 28, 2024
There is an expression among Caribbean islanders that goes something like this: "Come see me is not the same as come live with me." That is a pretty good description of the situation that se…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:30PMThursday, October 24, 2024
Director Sam Gold and William Shakespeare. Always expect the unexpected when these two pair up. For instance, when Gold, in his most avant-garde mode, tackled Hamlet in 2017 and, five years …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:26PMTruth may be stranger than fiction, but it does not necessarily make for a compelling theatrical experience. And when the truth that is being depicted is based on autobiography, the biggest …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:32AMMonday, October 21, 2024
Ach du lieber!!! Holy Moly!!! Or even WTF!!! Feel free to quote me once you exit (or stagger out of) the St. James Theatre, where director/mad scientist Jamie Lloyd has unleashed his latest …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40AMThursday, October 17, 2024
A psychoanalyst would surely have a field day with Clarence McCrane, known to all the world as megastar country and western singer and movie actor Strings McCrane, the irresistibly appealing…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:20AMSaturday, October 12, 2024
Sump'n Like Wings, now on stage at Theatre Row, is the latest entry from the always intriguing Mint Theater Company, whose aim it is to uncover, dust off, and produce lost or forgotten plays…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17AMThursday, October 10, 2024
Thornton Wilder's Our Town is one American play that feels as though it belongs to everyone. It is regularly read and performed in high schools and mounted by amateur theatre groups across t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:05PM"It's the end of the world as we know it." You may recall these lyrics to a jaunty song by the rock band R.E.M. from back in 1987. And while Deep History, opening tonight at the Public Theat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMThursday, October 3, 2024
"We are falling off the shoulders of our ancestors." These demoralizing words declaimed by an elder of the Blackfeet tribe comes late in the new musical Distant Thunder, opening tonight for …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PM 
