Thursday, 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 07:40PMSunday, January 17, 2016
A new work by Neil LaBute does not put in an appearance until the very end of the evening of six short pieces that constitute the LaBute New Theater Festival at 59E59 Theaters . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:54PMSunday, December 20, 2015
How Alfo Learned to Love, Vincent Amelio’s breezy family play centering on the world of an Italian bakery, is in the process of evolving from an earlier incarnation as a Fellini-inspired t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:23PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Young adolescents, 11, 12, 13 years old, are terribly vulnerable to the sudden physical, emotional, and social upheaval that marks their lives at this stage of development, a time when self-…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:15PMMonday, December 7, 2015
If you are seeking a fun and creepy evening of Grand Guignol theater filled with blood and horror, you need look no further than The Seeing Place’s revival of Martin McDonagh’s darker-th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:52PMSunday, December 6, 2015
Too bad John Patrick Shanley already had laid claim to the title Doubt by the time Evan Smith got around to penning his own take on matters of faith in 2009.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:43PMTuesday, November 10, 2015
The title characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard’s masterwork of existentialism, are often thought of as resembling the protagonists of Samuel Beckett’s Waitin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:24AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
He’s no Tony Soprano, this Salvy, a mobster and professional hit man who shows up unexpectedly at his cousin’s Hoboken apartment in the subdued production of Mark Borkowski’s The Head …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:14AMThursday, October 29, 2015
When Lanford Wilson’s Obie and Drama Critics Circle Award-winning Hot L Baltimore began its three-year Off Broadway run in 1973, the homeless population across the United States was on a s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMWednesday, October 28, 2015
Anton Chekhov is transported to Tennessee in Songbird, the talent-filled if uneven new musical at 59E59 Theaters that draws its plot from The Seagull while shifting things from 19th Century …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:11PMThursday, October 15, 2015
There is nothing less calming for a seaman than to be trapped aboard a becalmed sailing vessel.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
“Everything is subject to interpretation,” says one of the characters in Oren Safdie’s Unseamly at Urban Stages, a play that is as hot as the headlines about last week’s bankruptcy f…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMSaturday, October 10, 2015
Gender-bending productions of Shakespeare are neither new nor gasp-inducing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMSunday, September 27, 2015
Halloween is a month away, but if you are itching for a bit of that spooky, scary stuff now, you would do well to spend an evening with Pipeline Theatre Company’s production of Andrew Farm…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:46PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Among American playwrights, you’d hardly call Arthur Richman (1886-1944) a household name. But even if his name doesn’t strike a bell, a certain level of immortality has definitely attac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:50PMMonday, September 21, 2015
If you are unfamiliar with the confrontational plays of Thomas Bradshaw, be advised that he is known for happily jumping without a parachute into graphic depictions of sex and violence.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMSunday, September 13, 2015
A word to the wise: Take a good look at the girl in the photo that accompanies this review. Should you see her approaching on her My Little Pony bicycle, you would be well advised to turn ar…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:52PMFriday, September 11, 2015
It’s spy vs. spy vs. spy in Victor Lesniewski’s riveting Civil War drama Couriers and Contrabands at TBG Theatre, where friend cannot be distinguished from foe, and where the outcome of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:23PMThursday, September 10, 2015
To enter into the world of playwright Richard Maxwell is to forego any expectation of straightforward clarity, richly realized characterizations, or emotional connection.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMSome artists are so original, so unique, that anyone attempting to use their work as a model for their own runs the risk of producing a cheap imitation or of falling into unintended parody.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
The time-honored art of theatrical storytelling is in excellent hands in the Fishamble: The New Play Company production of Little Thing, Big Thing, part of the 1st Irish Festival at 59E59 Th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
The Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda have been so thoroughly, so carefully taught to hate and fear each other that in a 100 day-period in 1994, some 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in a genoc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMA small plaque at the entrance to the Bethnal Green underground station in London commemorates the event: “Site of the worst civilian disaster of the Second World War.”
SOURCE: upstage-downstage.blogspot.com at 11:53AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Playwright Lisa Lewis’s Schooled, one of the entries in the New York International Fringe Festival, takes on the cutthroat world of filmdom with caustic wit and a genuine feel for the live…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:41AMSunday, August 9, 2015
Imagine Our Town as seen through the eyes of Stephen King, and you’ll have a pretty good picture of what to expect from Canadian playwright Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918), having its U.S. pre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMSaturday, August 1, 2015
A man who feels trapped in a life without meaning, a sexual encounter between an ex-teacher and her former high school student/lover, and a young writer who is the pen pal of the late North …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:54PMSunday, July 26, 2015
Howard Miller takes a look at Summer Shorts 2015, Series A
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:04PMMonday, July 20, 2015
When it comes to the battle of the sexes, forget the Mars/Venus analogy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:36PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
There is much that could be said about the risks inherent in the casual drug use and unbridled sex that fill the days and nights of the disaffected students at the Upper East Side prep schoo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMThursday, July 16, 2015
When you have just directed a play that features a murderess attempting to have sex with a man she has just decapitated, what do you do for an encore? . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:47PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Death, lust, violence, and power are not exactly the typical fare of summer theater, but you’ll find all of these in great abundance in the double bill of one-acts being offered up by PTP/…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:50AM 
