Sunday, 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 07:14PMThursday, January 11, 2018
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
The Ensemble for the Romantic Century is an exceptionally ambitious company, bent on creating theatrical works that combine live performances of classical music, dance, acting, artistic imag…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:34PMSunday, December 17, 2017
Harry Houdini was not only a gifted stage magician and escape artist; he was a master showman who knew how to pull off attention-grabbing stunts that ensured both a lucrative career while he…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:14PM"Musick has charms to sooth a savage breast," wrote William Congreve in 1697. That aphorism is put to the test in Claire van Kampen's Farinelli and the King, opening tonight at the Belasco T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:14PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
The Children, Lucy Kirkwood's all too believable play about the aftermath of a nuclear accident, is much more than a cautionary dystopian tale.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMMonday, December 4, 2017
If nautical nonsense be something you wish, you can either (a) drop on the deck and flop like a fish, or (b) head on out to the Palace Theatre where mayhem reigns supreme with the opening of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:50PMSunday, December 3, 2017
Michael Arden showed us all what it looks like to breathe new life into a revived musical when he brought Spring Awakening back to Broadway in 2015 just six years after its original and high…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PMIf you are going to push the envelope in theater, you really ought to make sure there is enough inside that envelope that makes it worth pushing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:38PMThursday, November 30, 2017
"In the land of sinners, the whore is Queen," observes an experienced political hand in Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman, an old-fashioned melodrama about the interplay of sex, power, and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Somewhere around the middle of the supremely silly and not-entirely comprehensible comedy Meteor Shower, opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, one of the show's four characters whips out a p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMSunday, November 26, 2017
Should someone ask where you were when you first heard the shocking news "on the day of," what pops immediately into your head?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Home for the Holidays, "the Broadway concert celebration" that opened tonight at the August Wilson Theatre, would best be enjoyed by fans of TV's "American Idol," "The Voice," and "America's…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:57PMMonday, November 20, 2017
Writing recently about another play, I made the point that the day-to-day lives of teenagers can be terribly dramatic, at least to them. While that particular work failed to make a convincin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:09PMThursday, November 16, 2017
There are assuredly many engrossing musicals about adolescent angst, from West Side Story to Spring Awakening to Dear Evan Hansen. Even the day-to-day lives of teenagers can be terribly dram…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PMJust to be absolutely clear on this, the "morons" John Leguizamo is referring to in his frenzied, funny, and surprisingly tender-hearted one-man show Latin History for Morons at Studio 54, i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:59AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Watching Toys, the "dark fairy tale" by Saviana Stanescu that opened tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is like attending an exhibit of abstract expressionism and trying to make heads or tails out o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMThursday, November 2, 2017
It seems that Halloween has not quite ended, what with all the scary stuff that takes place in Ayad Akhtar's new play Junk, which opened tonight at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Cen…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:11PMSunday, October 29, 2017
Though playwright David Harrower hails from Scotland, his compelling if occasionally opaque 1995 play Knives in Hens, opening today at 59E59 Theaters in a production by The Shop, has the fee…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Bringing one of the classic Greek myths to life for a modern audience is a tricky venture.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:10PMBadda bing, badda boom! That, in a nutshell, is what you get with playwright John Patrick Shanley's latest work, The Portuguese Kid, a joke-filled but decidedly saggy sex comedy that opened …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:10PMFriday, October 20, 2017
Zingy jokes, bits of shtick, and sight gags fly fast and furious during Torch Song, a trimmed-down revival of Harvey Fierstein's 1983 Tony Award-winning Torch Song Trilogy, which opened toni…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:42AMThursday, October 5, 2017
Too Heavy For Your Pocket, opening tonight at the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center, provides a truly auspicious introduction of playwright Jiréh Breo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:36PMWednesday, October 4, 2017
Playwright William Donnelly's No Wake, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, begins just after a memorial service for a young woman who has committed suicide, the long-estranged daughter of a d…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMMonday, October 2, 2017
It's not exactly a case of fake news, but there is an unshakable artificiality to the presumably true stories that are being aired in Tiny Beautiful Things, which opened tonight in a return …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:07PMSunday, October 1, 2017
Scott Carter's The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, a play that attempts to merge religious argument and personal confessionals with outl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:10PMTuesday, September 19, 2017
Some very good acting, a couple of emotionally touching speeches, and an evocative set are not enough to cover up the numerous plot holes and overall sudsy narrative of The Violin, a slow-pa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:57PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Forget Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose novel "The Scarlet Letter" is credited with being the inspiration for the pair of works by Suzan-Lori Parks being presented at the Pershing Square Signature…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:25AMSunday, September 17, 2017
You've heard, of course, of the comic teams of Abbott and Costello, and Laurel and Hardy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20PMMonday, September 11, 2017
Suzan-Lori Parks' dystopian play Fucking A, a work from 2000 opening tonight at the Pershing Square Signature Center, takes its inspiration from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter but …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28PMSunday, September 10, 2017
It is awfully difficult to pull off a satire about sexual assault without underplaying or overplaying your hand.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PM 
