Monday, September 12, 2016
A ballerina without a spine, a lonely and very forgetful man, his perfectionist wife, and an auto mechanic go round and round and round, swapping partners, playing endless games of Charades,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSunday, September 11, 2016
Bears in Space, the production by Collapsing Horse that is something of a cult hit in Ireland, Scotland, and England, has entered into orbit at 59E59 Theaters as part of Origin’s 1st Irish…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:30PMMonday, September 5, 2016
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PMFriday, September 2, 2016
What’s a hedonistic gay guy to do when he’s turning 40 and the rituals of pleasure have become numbing habit, and the booze, drugs, and sex are no longer doing their job of keeping the w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:43PMMonday, August 29, 2016
Who is Medea? What is it about this tragic figure from Greek mythology that has continued to speak to us in an unrelentingly visceral way through so many stage translations for close to 2,50…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:20PMWednesday, August 24, 2016
“Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.”
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMSunday, August 7, 2016
Two young women, new college students, are unpacking a few personal belongings in their shared dorm room....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMSunday, July 31, 2016
The process of creating short form plays, running under 30 minutes, is as difficult to master as the short story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44PMThursday, July 28, 2016
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
At the start of Richard Strand’s glittering seriocomic play Butler, opening tonight at 59E59, you may think you are watching one of those comedies about the foibles of the upper class, the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22PMSunday, July 17, 2016
A quest for justice among the members of a barely functional family makes for a disconcerting evening of theater in The Shelter’s overwrought production of Morgan McGuire’s decidedly fre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:11PMThursday, July 14, 2016
Given the extensive global anxiety about terrorism, it should come as no surprise that a number of playwrights have attempted to shed light on the disturbing issue of hostage-taking by terro…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Artists are very dangerous people, declares Bela Veracek (Alex Draper), the acerbic political cartoonist at the center of Howard Barkers equally acerbic 1981 drama No End of Blame: Scene…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMWith the nationalistic fervor and anti-immigrant rhetoric that seems to be sweeping like an ill wind through much of the world these days, PTP/NYC (the Potomac Theatre Project) has been most…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMThursday, May 19, 2016
As a pick-up line in a bar, Gabe’s invitation to “come watch me bowl” isn’t the best way to garner Annie’s interest, even if the bar happens to be in a bowling alley....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:46PMSunday, May 1, 2016
Is there such a thing as white lung disease?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:25PMMonday, April 25, 2016
The game is afoot as the famed English consulting detective Sherlock Holmes locks horns with the French “gentleman thief” Arsène Lupin in a mashup play based on stories by the creators …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:21PMSunday, April 24, 2016
The parallel stories of two teenage girls living 175 years apart take them leaping from the tepid frying pan of their stultifying lives into an all-consuming fire in Echoes, Henry Naylor’s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:48PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Pity the poor guy (Daniel Abeles) who appears to have wandered by accident into a world that embodies all of the rage, defiance, disgust, self-empowerment, and self-loathing of generations o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:54PMThursday, April 14, 2016
Hoarding is the least of the problems faced by Naomi (Kim Krane), the young woman at the center of Keep, Francesca Pazniokas’s play about a space-challenged apartment dweller and her well-…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMSunday, April 3, 2016
Who better to expound on Bad Quarto’s highly energized seat-of-the-pants production of The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke than William Shakespeare himself: “Though this …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:52PMSaturday, March 26, 2016
Aficionados of experimental theater, the kind that simultaneously enlightens, amuses and confounds, are hereby directed to the Abrons Arts Center and the Irish company Pan Pan’s production…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
Conspiracy theories abound and occasionally run amok in Ideation, Aaron Loeb's darkly comic play at 59E59 Theaters, about a corporate brainstorming session that conjures up images of the Hol…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:26PMFriday, February 26, 2016
A white cop with a history of anger issues chases a young black teenager into a deserted warehouse. The teen plunges four stories from a window. Did he fall? Was he pushed? And does it make …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:37PMMonday, February 22, 2016
“Ambitious” seems such a tame adjective to apply to Speakeasy (or, to be more precise, Speakeasy: John And Jane’s Adventures In The Wonderland), the new musical at the Theater for the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:57PMSunday, February 21, 2016
A pair of late career one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, one of which is receiving its world premiere, reflect the master playwright in his most experimental absurdist mode in the Playhous…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Safe sex has taken on a whole new meaning in the dystopian world inhabited by the characters in Emilie Collyer’s darkly comic science fiction play, The Good Girl, opening tonight at 59E59 …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
It’s the music, first and foremost, that carries the bio-play Rock And Roll Refugee, based on the hard times and rebellious life of Genya Ravan.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PMMonday, February 1, 2016
Details that pile up in real time paint a distressingly convincing portrait of a physically and emotionally drained East Texas woman for whom the American dream is as elusive as a unicorn, i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
With Lauren Gunderson’s I And You at 59E59 Theaters, you will be called upon to suspend your disbelief more than once, as a pair of teenagers work together on a presentation for their Amer…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMThursday, January 21, 2016
Playwright Brendan Gall calls his intense drama Wide Awake Hearts, now on view at 59E59 Theaters, a "nightmare with no intermission."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:40PM 
