Saturday, January 14, 2023
Parallel midlife crises fueled by booze and an assortment of other superego suppressants feed the literate, comic, poignant, splendidly performed and altogether engaging series of alternatin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:15PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
Ah, the art of making art! That, in a nutshell, is the theme of Anthony McCarten's The Collaboration, a well-acted if thinly developed play, whose scheduled opening tonight at the Samuel J. …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:38AMTuesday, December 20, 2022
Few can devise dialog as grippingly authentic as playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis is able to do. It's as though he somehow breathes life into a set of characters, places them in some challeng…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:53AMSunday, December 11, 2022
You'd think the very idea of men dressing as women for comic effect had rather passed its "sell by" date, as the recent wobbly musical adaptations of the films of Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:23PMMonday, December 5, 2022
If you have seen Suh's earlier play, The Chinese Lady, you may come to The Far Country expecting an evening in which history comes wrapped in witty satire and the interplay between its intri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12PMSunday, December 4, 2022
Fans of the inordinately successful pop superstar Neil Diamond will find much to celebrate in A Beautiful Noise, the jukebox musical opening tonight at the Broadhurst Theatre, starting with …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44PMQuirky is as quirky does in Sarah Ruhl's Becky Nurse of Salem, opening tonight at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. It is a play that covers a lot of bases: straight-up comedy…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41PMSaturday, December 3, 2022
By any measure, Ain't No Mo' is an audacious, no-holds-barred satirical stabbing jolt about race and race relations in America. It's also loud and unrelentingly manic in its pacing and deliv…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:49AMTuesday, November 22, 2022
What is the opposite of "Bah! Humbug!"? "Hurrah! Veracity!" maybe? Well, perhaps not. But whatever it is, it needs to be applied to A Christmas Carol, opening tonight at the Nederlander Thea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:43AMThursday, November 17, 2022
What do you call a jukebox musical with the self-awareness and sense of humor to place an actual jukebox onstage preshow and to put a gumball machine on display as its cast performs tunes th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PMSunday, November 13, 2022
How to describe what it's like to be in the company of the irrepressible storyteller Mike Birbiglia, whose latest Broadway offering, The Old Man & the Pool, has landed with a resoundingly en…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMFriday, November 11, 2022
Let me tell you about this show opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, a musical starring an actress in her 60s who plays a teenage girl nearing the end of her life. It also features the girl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:11AMThursday, November 10, 2022
In an intriguing solo piece titled Where We Belong, opening tonight at the Public Theater in a production by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, playwright and performer Madeline Sayet brings to…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:51AMThursday, October 27, 2022
Solo acts, especially those of the memoir variety, are tricky to pull off without seeming to be either displays of narcissism ("of course, you'll want to fork out the big bucks to hear me ta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:21PMThe Civilians' production of Marin Gazzaniga's The Unbelieving, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is a paradigm of the company's signature form of "investigative theater." In the 65-minute …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:21PMWednesday, October 26, 2022
The New Light Theater Project's production of Andrew Rincón's I Wanna F*ck Like Romeo and Juliet, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is a sweet, funny, heartwarming, bilingual, gay, romanti…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:23PMThe extraordinary revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun opening tonight at the Public Theater is one for the books. Anyone who imagines this iconic 1959 play about the struggle…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:53AMFriday, October 21, 2022
Few writers manage with such consistent skill the variety of works Parks has produced about Black lives and experiences, ranging in content from historic to biographic to literary to contemp…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:36AMThursday, October 13, 2022
The revival of Wilson's The Piano Lesson, opening tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, incorporates all of these in generous portions. It also marks the Broadway directorial debut of LaTa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:41PMSunday, October 9, 2022
What I love about this production, apart from the all-around exceptionally fine performances under Miranda Cromwell's sharp-as-a-well-stropped-razor direction, is the ease with which all of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:41PMFriday, October 7, 2022
If you go into the American Airlines Theatre expecting to see a revival of the Peter Stone/Sherman Edwards musical 1776, you are in for a surprise, not to say shock. Because this version, du…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13AMThursday, October 6, 2022
Whatever playwright Gracie Gardner intends by the title of her play I'm Revolting, opening tonight at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, multiple meanings are there for inte…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
The New Light Theater Project's production of Erin E. Adams' Ink'dWell, opening tonight at 59E59 Theatres, is an intense, deeply moving play about death, mourning, and, thankfully, the possi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:29PMMonday, October 3, 2022
"The shit that happens is not to be understood." That's the first line from Martyna Majok's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cost of Living, making its Broadway debut at the Samuel J. Friedm…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:33PMIf playwright Tom Stoppard stays true to his word and Leopoldstadt turns out to be the last play he writes, it would be a fitting and worthy way to bookend a long and illustrious career dati…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:30AMSaturday, September 17, 2022
It's spy vs spy vs spy in Mark Wilding's spoofy Our Man in Santiago, a loose-knit political farce that draws its inspiration from Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana," a novel that pokes fun …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:25AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Dale is there to do nothing less than to help keep the other three alive in a society where you are deemed worthy of continuing to exist only until your mind starts to slip. And beware, beca…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:14AMThursday, September 8, 2022
Is Schrödinger's cat alive or dead? How certain are we of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle? Does God indeed play dice with the universe? And how many physicists does it take to screw in a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:13PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
The 90-minute play is divided into a series of scenes that take us from the 1930s and the Japanese occupation of Korea through World War II, before crossing the Pacific to Los Angeles just i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMIf you are finding joy to be in short supply these days, do yourself a favor and get yourself over to the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where joy has been uncorked and set loose in the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:54AMMonday, August 1, 2022
The Butcher Boy, the darkly comic musical opening tonight at Irish Repertory Theatre, where it was previously workshopped, is still a bit rough around the edges. But it has all the earmarks …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PM 
