Thursday, 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 07:13PMTuesday, 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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-…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 ...
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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.…
SOURCE: 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?
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMWednesday, June 20, 2018
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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:03PMThursday, June 14, 2018
Trust the kids. It's their story. Get out of the way and let them tell it.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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,
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PM 
