Wednesday, August 26, 2015
A 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 06:50AMMonday, June 29, 2015
This production shows us that Happy Days is most decidedly a play for our time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Who would have thought you could mine gold from not playing the role of King Lear, itself that most golden of roles for Shakespearean actors of a certain age and stature?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMMonday, June 15, 2015
“This is a play about time,” insists the heart-sore and regretful Peter, who longs to reverse the past two decades of his life in The Barrow Group’s production of Craig Wright’s The …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMFriday, June 12, 2015
You probably know someone like Gordy, the title character in playwright Sam Byron’s Gordy Crashes, the inaugural production of Ricochet Collective now on view at IRT Theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
The inability of fathers and sons to connect with one another is not exactly a breakthrough theatrical concept
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMHow fortunate, should you happen to be a vampire, to have a human protector, one who is sworn to keep you safe from the killing sunlight and stakes to the heart, who is even willing to let y…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28AMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Playwright Robert Askins has followed up his Tony-nominated Hand to God by taking another poke at Southern Fried Christianity in his latest work, Permission, an uneven mix of sketch comedy, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Love is a many-splendored thing in Fiasco Theater’s giddy production of William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, a presentation of Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Sh…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMThursday, April 23, 2015
The “Troubles” of Northern Ireland in the mid-1980s bring out the troubles faced by the residents of Belfast in the Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of Nate Rufus Edelman’s The B…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMSunday, April 19, 2015
As World War II ripped its way across Europe from 1939-1945, it left countless victims in its wake. And when the dust settled at war’s end, many of those who survived its ugly claws left t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:34PMSaturday, April 18, 2015
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is frequently associated with war-torn military personnel or victims of terrorism, but it can lay equal devastation to those who only bear witness.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:08AMMonday, April 13, 2015
What is it like to seek redemption from a traumatic past as well as from our own destructive choices in life? Is redemption even possible, or, as the psychologists say, is past behavior the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Theater companies attempting the plays of the great absurdist Eugène Ionesco invariably run into the perplexing problem of how to handle some of the lengthy, rambling, and arguably tedious …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14AMSaturday, April 11, 2015
The quarry is hungry and must be fed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:17PMThursday, April 9, 2015
Do you find it impossible to walk by a pet store without stopping to ooh and aah at the puppies in the window? Do you look forward to Broadway Barks more to hang out with the dogs that are u…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMFriday, April 3, 2015
The battle of the sexes is in full combat mode in playwright Max Baker’s offbeat and disturbing, if uneven, dark comedy Live From The Surface Of The Moon, a production of Stable Cable Lab …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
If the names Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, the Weavers, and other heroes of the golden age of folk music strike a resonant chord in your heart, then I can guarantee you will have a truly joyou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:00PMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Beware. C.O.A.L. (Confessions of a Liar), playwright David Brian Colbert’s tale of a charming young man for whom falsehoods have become a way of life, is a trap whose light tone about smal…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMThursday, March 5, 2015
Welcome to the world of abstract surrealism, as embodied in the Lost & Found Project’s Knock: A Journey to a Strange Country, now on view in a complexly crafted and intensely acted product…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:23PMSaturday, February 28, 2015
Farce, slapstick, and general tomfoolery blend beautifully together in Delirium’s Daughters, playwright Nicholas Korn’s new comic and heartfelt romp that lovingly captures the spirit of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThursday, February 19, 2015
Time has a way of helping us put things into perspective.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Meet the Malones, Bob and Karen, a couple going through a patch of marital discord.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PM 
