Sunday, September 10, 2017
It is awfully difficult to pull off a satire about sexual assault without underplaying or overplaying your hand.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMThursday, August 31, 2017
Truly, you haven't lived until you've heard a lusty French Charolais heifer mooningly mooing a rendition of "La Vie En Rose" while daydreaming about breeding with a "bull of excellent pedigr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMThursday, August 17, 2017
How to categorize the Ensemble for the Romantic Century's new production, Van Gogh's Ear, which opened today at the Pershing Square Signature Center?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMSunday, August 6, 2017
It's too bad that the New York International Fringe Festival is on hiatus this year, because that would be a perfect venue for Stephen Kaplan's compelling and ambitious satire-with-a-heart, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29PMWould you risk your job to champion a controversial stance on behalf of someone you like and respect but don't fully agree with?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:13PMThursday, August 3, 2017
"Nostalgia" is not the first word that comes to mind when thinking about children's theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:07PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
Bruce Norris's intriguing and darkly comic science fiction-inspired play, A Parallelogram, has been around for a while, ever since its debut at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2010.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMMonday, July 31, 2017
To co-opt a line of lyric from Stephen Sondheim, "anything can happen in the woods."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:22PMSunday, July 30, 2017
Attending an evening of short plays is rather like opening Forrest Gump's famous box of chocolate; you never know what you're going to get.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:47PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
The 19 talented actors, singers, and musicians who gather onstage at the Pershing Square Signature Center's Linney Theatre kick up such a rip-roaring, rafter-shaking rumpus, they could wake …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:21PMMonday, July 10, 2017
Black lives matter very much to playwright Dominique Morisseau, not just in terms of surviving the mean streets of America, but, far more deeply, with respect to the quality of lives relentl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:10PMThursday, July 6, 2017
Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen's adaptation of Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham's sprawling 1915 coming-of-age novel, may accentuate the melodramatic nature of the plot, but the acti…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
As things stand in the U. S. right now, the primary focus on immigrants seems to be on keeping them out of the country altogether.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMTuesday, June 27, 2017
Meghan Kennedy's immigrant family drama Napoli, Brooklyn, opening tonight at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, contains a number of emotionally-charged and dramatically explosive moments …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
So, here's a question for you: How does the son of a middle class mother and a father/ Reared, though luckily not lost in a forgotten burb of Boston/ By providence blessed with a recessive…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:15PMMonday, June 19, 2017
Some two decades ago, I committed to playing a graphic adventure video game called "Myst."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14PMSunday, June 18, 2017
New York subway regulars will undoubtedly empathize with the couple who are stuck on a broken-down train in London's Underground at the end of a pleasant/awkward first date, in Isla van Tric…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:48PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Invincible, Torben Betts's darkly comic play about the class divide in Britain, places its audience in the company of two very annoying couples, neither of whom we would probably want to spe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:27PMMonday, June 12, 2017
William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which opened tonight at the Public Theater's Delacorte Theater in Central Park, has been given a contemporary makeover by the Public's artistic director …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMThursday, June 1, 2017
A couple of sparkling performances and the assuring presence of five-time Tony nominated Patricia Birch serving as director and choreographer are not enough to prevent the new musical Sweete…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:03PMThe Government Inspector, Nikolai Gogol's 1836 satiric play about public corruption in Tsarist Russia, opening tonight at The Duke, has been given the full "Marxist" treatment by Red Bull Th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMFriday, May 26, 2017
A production of Abram Hill's On Strivers Row, opening today at the Metropolitan Playhouse, offers a rare opportunity to see the kind of work that was a specialty of the American Negro Theate…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:08PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
In Jon Brittain's play, Rotterdam, opening today as part of the Brits Off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theaters, Alice (Alice McCarthy) has finally worked up the courage to come out as gay, vi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:16PMSunday, May 21, 2017
Questions of blame, shame, and culpability lie just beneath the surface as estranged family members, friends, repentant drug dealers, and casual acquaintances gather to say their last goodby…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:46PMFriday, May 19, 2017
If you think of “the troubles” in Ireland and the nationalistic, ethnic, and religious strife that rocked that part of the world as strictly a late twentieth century phenomenon, you may …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13AMMany years before Joseph "the Elephant Man" Merrick was hauled around London to be gawked at as the "freak du jour," a young black South African woman named Saartjie Baartman was lured from …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13AM“Imagination + Structure = Art.” With these words scrawled on a whiteboard, an instructor kicks off the first session of a writing workshop in the premiere production of Lawrence Dial’…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13AMWhen we first encounter the tough-as-nails Effie in Gary Owen's sizzling monologue of a play, Iphigenia In Splott, she is scrunched over in a chair, half-buried in a hoodie.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13AMSunday, May 7, 2017
An exhausted and out-of-work 40-something single mother of an infant son finds her strength and courage in the spirited, romantic, and altogether charming pop and rock musical Ernest Shackle…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
Anyone entering the universe of Paul Zindel's bitterly dark comedy, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, would do well do heed the famous quote uttered by Bette Davis in the film All About Eve:…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20PM 
