Wednesday, 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 10:04PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:11PMThursday, April 19, 2018
Familiarity may not always breed contempt, but it generally does lead to an expectation of predictability.
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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?
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34PMThursday, March 22, 2018
I am quite happy, from time to time, to indulge my inner child with lightweight family fare.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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?
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMThursday, March 8, 2018
"Fortune favors the brave!" is the way one hopeful character puts it in David Rabe's Good for Otto, a masterwork about the care and treatment of mental illness, written by a playwright at th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Anyone who spends time contemplating the end of human civilization might take a modicum of comfort in knowing that a record of our existence may very well outlast us somewhere in the vastnes…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMThursday, March 1, 2018
Lindsey Ferrentino's Amy and the Orphans, opening tonight at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, is a smart and perceptive blend of a laugh-out-loud 'road trip' comedy and a serious examination…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMMonday, February 26, 2018
Third time's the charm as the York Theatre Company closes out its three-show Musicals in Mufti tribute to composer Jule Styne with an effervescent production of Subways Are For Sleeping.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PMFriday, February 23, 2018
We are fortunate in New York to have a couple of theater companies that specialize in presenting older plays that generally have been confined to dusty shelves and haven't seen the light of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Remember The Book of Mormon, the musical that The New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley called "blasphemous, scurrilous and more foul-mouthed than David Mamet on a blue streak?"
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Director Lila Neugebauer has a flair for finding a clear path through abstract works.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Playwright Sarah Burgess has shown a real interest in the intersection of wealth and power.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMThursday, February 15, 2018
Carl Jung meets Jurassic Park in Alexander V. Thompson's Pete Rex, an unpolished yet intriguing new play about one man's personal journey through psychological darkness, opening tonight at 5…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Playwright Greg Pierce's Cardinal, which opened tonight at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater, is a sketchbook of a play ostensibly about the impact of urban renewal, population shifts, and t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Balls, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is a rollicking, three-ring circus of a play that retells the story of the ultra-hyped man-vs-woman tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26PMMonday, January 22, 2018
There is no doubt that the big draw for audiences at Party Face, Isobel Mahon's wobbly comic drama opening tonight at City Center Stage II, is the headline presence of Hayley Mills among the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
If you are ever in need of a psychopomp, someone to guide you on your journey to the afterlife, I recommend you consider hiring Lydia.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:47PMSunday, January 14, 2018
Fans of playwright Neil LaBute, a specialist in works about men and women behaving badly within the intersection of sex and power (among them, Fat Pig, reasons to be pretty, and All The Ways…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14PM 
