Monday, February 17, 2020
Pulling off Animal Farm with four actors is just the kind of dare Seeing Place would gravitate towards.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55PMMonday, February 10, 2020
... 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 07:34PMThursday, January 23, 2020
The 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 10:23PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
A 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 10:13PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
... as it stands, the production seems like a staged book-on-tape.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26PMSunday, January 12, 2020
... what emerges is a quirky yet moving story about the vulnerability of the human heart and the universal need for connection.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:21PMFriday, December 6, 2019
... 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 09:18AMThursday, December 5, 2019
... 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 02:19PMFriday, November 22, 2019
,,, the venturesome chamber musical Einstein's Dreams, now on view at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50AMThursday, November 21, 2019
Thorne'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 09:12AMMonday, November 4, 2019
... a haunting duet that briefly brings together a world that is shaped by words with another that is shaped by music.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:23AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Misogyny, 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 09:05PMThursday, February 14, 2019
"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 09:58PMSunday, February 10, 2019
Televangelist 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 07:12PMThursday, January 24, 2019
Ethan 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 09:05PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Friendship sometimes comes in the most unexpected of packages.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:19PMThursday, 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, …
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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. …
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01PMMonday, November 5, 2018
How does anyone become a trailblazer?
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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 . . . .
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PM 
