Tuesday, January 6, 2015
How competitive are you with your friends? How forthcoming? How judgmental?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMSunday, December 21, 2014
During the decade between 1938 and 1948, one nightclub stood out as a daring alternative to New York’s racially divided hotspots where you would typically find black performers entertainin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMSaturday, December 13, 2014
Last year, director James Rutherford and his company, M-34, brought us a compelling production called The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway, a mashup of the writings of Oscar Wilde and He…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:32PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Oh, what trouble 12-year-old girls can get into when left casually unsupervised. Such is the case in playwright Jenny Rachel Weiner’s Horse Girls, a slight, dark(ish) sketch comedy about a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMFriday, December 5, 2014
Anyone looking to sprinkle the holiday season with a hefty dose of silly need look no further than the Lion Theatre at Theatre Row and the zany production of Todd Michael’s The Asphalt Chr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMMonday, November 17, 2014
If you ever need an example to illustrate the adage “absolute power corrupts absolutely,” take heed of Tamburlaine, the destructive juggernaut who is at the center of Christopher Marlow�…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:13PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Playwright Dan Kitrosser is never one to say no to a joke or a gag, as the often funny, often head-spinningly out of control joke-and-gag-filled Dead Special Crabs opening tonight at TBG The…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWednesday, November 5, 2014
Once upon a time, Nick Luckenbaugh, a songwriter with a penchant for folk and folk rock music, put together a collection of theatrical songs based on the inner lives of 13 fairy tale princes…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Anyone who mentions the poet Sylvia Plath and the word “oven” in the same sentence is generally not talking about her cooking skills.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThursday, October 16, 2014
It takes more than a willing suspension of disbelief to fully engage with Powwow Highway, William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.’s adaption of the novel of the same title by David Seals.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMSunday, October 12, 2014
Enter into the theater at the Soho Rep these days and you will find yourself surrounded by music and engulfed in love, loss, and heartbreak in debbie tucker green’s generations, a compact …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
Believe everything she says. Believe nothing she says. Got it? Good.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMFriday, October 10, 2014
Global climate change is not the only unpredictable variable in Cori Thomas’s When January Feels Like Summer, newly returned to the Ensemble Studio Theatre after an earlier run in June.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:52PMThursday, October 2, 2014
After a brief run earlier this year at St. Luke’s Theatre, Billy Hayes—the hero of his own well-burnished story—is now ensconced at the Barrow Street Theatre with Riding the Midnight E…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMSunday, September 28, 2014
Ah, New York. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But what if, despite all of your talent and all of your efforts, you can’t seem to make it here?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMFriday, September 26, 2014
A trio of sour middle-aged siblings gathers in the parlor of the family homestead in northern Maine like “carrion crows around a sick cow in a pasture,” awaiting the death of their equal…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMTuesday, September 23, 2014
It is a tricky business to try to pull off an absurdist comedy like Sari Caine�s often outlandish yet surprisingly touching and excellently acted Mr. Landing Takes A Fall, a production of th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:35PMSaturday, September 20, 2014
The Twelfth Labor, a new play written by Leegrid Stevens and directed by Matt Torney at the Gene Frankel Theatre, is a head spinning trove of ideas, images, time shifts, mythological analogi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:27PMFriday, September 19, 2014
The Valley of Astonishment, the opening production as the Theatre For A New Audience enters its second season at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, starts off like a fairy tale.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:05PMMonday, September 15, 2014
Solitary Light, the haunting and haunted musical production at the Axis Theatre, is a powerful evocation of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, September 8, 2014
A group of seventh grade boys enter a bar and act their age. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMSunday, September 7, 2014
The term “safe sex” takes on new shades of meaning when knives join condoms as part of the package in Smoke, a new play by Kim Davies, now on view at The Flea Theater. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMNo one should go into an evening of German expressionist plays expecting a light and airy time of it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:02PMFriday, September 5, 2014
Anything can happen on a midsummer’s night. Shakespeare knew it, of course, and used the occasion to launch a timeless comedy. August Strindberg knew it as well, but his take on midsummer …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, September 1, 2014
Daughter of the Waves, Eileen Connolly’s richly layered and moving play about a ragtag band of circus acrobats, storytellers, singers and dancers set against the backdrop of World War II, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:57PMMonday, August 25, 2014
Two teenage girls — one black, one white — meet while serving time in prison and immediately become one another’s kindred soulmate in Naomi Wallace’s intimate yet expansive And I And…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMWednesday, August 20, 2014
A pair of red boxing gloves may hold the key for solidifying Kari Floren’s sketchy play Voices of Swords, a work still struggling to find a clear voice in that hazy netherworld that lies s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, August 13, 2014
One of the most difficult things for a playwright to do successfully is to adapt a work of fiction so that it remains faithful to the original while becoming a satisfying theatrical experien…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Amidst the continuing battle over reproductive rights, the fight for equal pay and respect for women in the workplace, and Rush Limbaugh’s diatribes against “feminazis,” it is pretty e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSaturday, July 26, 2014
Fans of classic romantic screwball comedy films like Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve are well advised to make their way to The Flea Theater for the Attic Theater Company’s first-rate revi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMFriday, July 25, 2014
The one good reason to see Propaganda! The Musical, an entry in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, is to catch the rising star performance by Dale Sampson as a befuddled young man who fi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PM 
