Monday, 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…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:08PMAs the American public-at-large begins (hopefully) at long last to understand the embedded and pervasive racism that is a part of the warp and woof of the fabric of our history, past and pre…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:03PMThursday, June 14, 2018
Trust the kids. It's their story. Get out of the way and let them tell it.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMFrance's iconic chanteuse, the famous "little sparrow" Édith Piaf, was renowned for facing a life beset with endless blows and challenges with a determined proclamation of defiance: "Non, J…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMThursday, May 31, 2018
The big question hovering over the 50th anniversary production of Mart Crowley's groundbreaking play The Boys in the Band, opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, is whether it will seem terri…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMIf you are familiar with Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, you will already know that in nineteenth century Russia they wrote letters.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMWednesday, May 23, 2018
It is both significant and problematic that Lily Thorne was a documentary film producer for many years before penning Peace for Mary Frances, her debut play having its premiere in a producti…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Tremor, an hour-long two-character play by Brad Birch, opening tonight as part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, starts off promisingly with an air of mystery and tension…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:59PMTuesday, May 15, 2018
"Bang, Bang, Turn, Brush." These are the sounds of the close-knit coordination and cooperation that are absolutely necessary when you are part of a team tasked at shaping hellishly hot metal…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Dominique Morisseau's Paradise Blue, which opened tonight at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is a dazzling fireworks display of a play about an African American neighborhood in a corne…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn is the sort of guy you might well expect to whip through a Rubik's Cube in under a minute, hand it back to you, smile and say "here you go," and then run off to per…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:12PMSunday, April 29, 2018
W, the intense yet moving character played by Nicola Wren in her one-woman show Replay, opening today at 59E59 Theaters, is an ambitious policewoman vying to be the youngest sergeant in her …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 03:15PMFriday, April 27, 2018
Think of the Public Mobile Unit production of William Shakespeare's Henry V, opening tonight at the Public's intimate Shiva Theater, as a mini-excursion to the summertime Shakespeare in the …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:20PMThursday, April 26, 2018
The sun won't come out tomorrow, not for the denizens of Harry Hope's Saloon in The Iceman Cometh,
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:19PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, first staged in 1923 just three years after the Maid of Orléans was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, remains an endlessly fascinating study of faith…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Tom Stoppard's 1974 play Travesties, opening tonight in a bouncy, bubbly, vertiginous revival at the Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre, is a reminder of a time when the playwright's lov…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:54PMMonday, April 23, 2018
LaChanze, the Tony-winning star of the original Broadway production of The Color Purple, truly works hard for the money. So hard for it, honey, that it's a shame she is stuck in Summer: The …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMSunday, April 22, 2018
Any hapless muggles who wander unprepared into Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, opening tonight at the beautifully redesigned Lyric Theatre, are likely to find themselves perplexed by much…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:11PMThursday, April 19, 2018
Familiarity may not always breed contempt, but it generally does lead to an expectation of predictability.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMThursday, April 12, 2018
There is one perfect segment during the revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's sublime and challenging musical Carousel, opening tonight at the Imperial Theatre.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Beyond the exquisite portrayals of the two complicated characters at its center, there is a great deal more to commend about the smartly reconceptualized revival of Mark Medoff's Children of…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:50PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Could there be a better time for a new work about the plight of undocumented immigrants, along the lines of the musical Miss You Like Hell opening tonight at the Public Theater?
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:49PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw, a brilliant design team, and a most exuberant cast have pulled out all the stops to shape Mean Girls, the new musical opening tonight at the August Wil…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMTuesday, April 3, 2018
Everyone likes heartwarming stories about a prodigal son or daughter who leaves home after a falling-out, then later repents and returns to find forgiveness and welcoming arms at every turn.…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMThursday, March 29, 2018
No other playwright has been able to capture the pulsating anxiety, the gallows humor, and even the embracing allure of death the way Edward Albee has done through so many of his works.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMSunday, March 25, 2018
Much has changed, but not nearly as much as you might have thought or hoped, since Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes appeared 25 years ago to near universal…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:34PMThursday, March 22, 2018
I am quite happy, from time to time, to indulge my inner child with lightweight family fare.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:54PMSunday, March 18, 2018
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, opening today at 59E59 Theaters, is a poignant tale of Jews who fled to Canada from the pogroms they were subjected to in their native Romania at the turn of…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:07PMThursday, March 15, 2018
Today's Quiz: How do you see yourself on vacation? (A) Carnival Cruise or (B) Crystal Cruise? (A) Flip flops or (B) Tory Burch sandals? (A) Beach shack or (B) Luxury beachfront villa?
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:48PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
A long-married, long-suffering couple entering late middle age have pushed each other's buttons so often that they threaten to "bicker each other to death," as one of them puts it in Max Bak…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMMonday, March 12, 2018
One of the more ironic benefits of membership in the socio-economic cocoon known as "white privilege" is the luxury of being able to criticize the unfair advantages its status confers withou…
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