Thursday, December 6, 2018
Network, 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, …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMMonday, December 3, 2018
Please excuse the feeling of foreboding that flooded my bloodstream as I waited to enter the Neil Simon Theatre, where The Cher Show opened tonight.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMMonday, November 19, 2018
Getting 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. …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMThursday, November 15, 2018
The Prom, the new musical opening tonight at the Longacre Theatre, is a bonbon of the highest order.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:44PMThursday, November 8, 2018
OK. 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…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:59PMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Playwright 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 …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 11:01PMMonday, November 5, 2018
How does anyone become a trailblazer?
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:09AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Magic and music, domesticity and revolution saturate Jez Butterworth's gloriously hyperkinetic The Ferryman, opening today at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:54PMThursday, October 18, 2018
The Lifespan of a Fact, a funny, thought-provoking, and exceedingly well performed "comedy of conflict" opening tonight at Studio 54 . . . .
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:23PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
No one will ever love you like your mom, not even if you are a saint-in-training.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:53PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Let us heap accolades upon Stockard Channing, who finds a pulse and thrillingly breathes life into Alexi Kaye Campbell's Apologia, a somewhat squishy play opening tonight at the Laura Pels T…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMThursday, October 11, 2018
There is definitely no honor among thieves in J. C. Ernst's Goodbody, a pitch dark comedy about a quartet of double-crossing thugs opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:19PMMonday, October 1, 2018
Pay close attention as Mare Winningham sings Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" at the end of Act I of the bleak and stunning Girl from the North Country, opening tonight at the Public Theat…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:58PMThursday, September 27, 2018
Emily Dickinson, the near-reclusive nineteenth century American poet, is the focus of Because I Could Not Stop, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century's latest and, to my mind, the most effec…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Janet McTeer is luminous as Sarah Bernhardt, the reigning queen of 19th century French theater, in Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet, opening tonight at the American Airlines Theatre.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:22PMThursday, September 20, 2018
Playwright Sharr White's The True, opening tonight at the Pershing Square Signature Center in a production by The New Group, is an old-fashioned political potboiler that manages to rise abov…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMThursday, September 13, 2018
Until recently, playwright Catya McMullen's biggest claim to fame was winning the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in 2012 for her two-character work Missed Connections.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMSunday, September 9, 2018
The septic wound of legally sanctioned racial segregation in the U.S. remains very much a living memory for anyone who was around prior to its painfully slow dissolution starting in the mid-…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 04:33PMWednesday, September 5, 2018
Pianist, composer, and theatrical storyteller Hershey Felder has carved out a specialized niche for himself with his staged presentations about musical masters, from classicists Frédéric C…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMThursday, August 16, 2018
Imagine for a moment what some adventurous and creative theater team might come up with based on a story idea about a sex worker and a very wealthy man who upend one another's lives.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:59PMMonday, August 13, 2018
You know what might be fun? How about a Broadway Battle of the Bands pitting the kids from School of Rock against the hapless middle-aged suburban Jersey guys in Gettin' the Band Back Togeth…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMThursday, July 26, 2018
For good or for ill, we may just be witnessing the next phase in the evolution of the American musical ...
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:52PMLove and courage, pride and hope suffuse the stellar Encores! Off-Center production of Micki Grant's Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope at New York City Center.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:41PMMonday, July 23, 2018
Shh. Listen. Pay attention to everything, from the exceedingly loud rap music that permeates the theater as you enter and take your seat, to the two seemingly peripheral characters known as …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMMonday, July 16, 2018
A promise to a dying parent and an unfortunate propensity for latching onto other peoples dreams has led a woman down a series of blind alleys in search of her own lifes passion.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMThursday, July 12, 2018
Playwright Tracy Letts's Mary Page Marlowe, opening tonight at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater, caroms every which way through and around the course of the lifetime of its title character.…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:08PMThursday, June 28, 2018
A musical with no plot? No dialog? No actual characters? With only a thread of a theme to hold things together? Really?
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:22PMMonday, June 25, 2018
If ever a play should come with a heads-up trigger warning for potential audiences, it is David Ireland's devastating Cypress Avenue, opening tonight in a gut-wrenching presentation at the P…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMWednesday, June 20, 2018
Is it better to be loved or feared?
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMMonday, June 18, 2018
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson brings some of our current understandings regarding race and gender to the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Othello at the Delacorte Theater in Cen…
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