Friday, 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 08:26PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Eddie and the Palaceades, the self-proclaimed “corny and square” musical now on view at the June Havoc Theatre as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival, taps into the yearni…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:56PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Gertrude – The Cry, Howard Barker’s 2002 cerebral/visceral take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, opens with an eye-searing bang....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMSometimes playwrights just have a lot to say, and they insist on saying it all in a single work.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSaturday, July 12, 2014
If you are looking to introduce your preschooler to musical theater, one surefire option is Rescue Rue, a sweet little show about a pup’s journey from abandonment to finding her “furever…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AMCloned!, one of the entries in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, is a rollicking musical comedy filled with screwball characters ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Friday, June 20, 2014
What is your favored anxiety-driven end-of-world scenario?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PMThursday, June 19, 2014
There may come a time when The Laramie Project, the widely-produced docudrama about the events surrounding the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard 15 years ago, will seem dated and irrelevant.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:29PMSunday, June 8, 2014
With messages about corporate greed, the plight of the working poor, the unequal treatment of women in the workplace, and the often mutually exclusive concepts of “the law” and “justic…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:55PMSaturday, May 31, 2014
Mein Uncle, the impressive first full-length (90 minutes) production by 3 Voices Theatre, penned and directed by one of the company’s founding members Aliza Shane, bills itself as an “ab…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:58PMThursday, May 29, 2014
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s more challenging plays to parse or to present.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Newcomer playwright Albert J. Repicci’s Honor Bound, now on view at St. Luke's Theatre, raises important ideas about trust, friendship, and — of course — honor, but it does tend to los…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMMonday, May 12, 2014
A whisper of Tennessee Williams floats through the Peccadillo Theater Company’s polished revival of A Loss of Roses, one of playwright William Inge’s lesser known works, now on view at t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMThere certainly has been a bumper crop of King Lear performances this year, with two major productions behind us (one starring Frank Langella, the second with Michael Pennington), and anothe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34PMThursday, May 8, 2014
“Write what you know” is an axiom that is hammered into every writer’s head.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMMonday, May 5, 2014
Long, long ago, way back in the 1960s, in the days before Twitter and Facebook and Skype, people used to carry on long-distance relationships through the now nearly lost medium of letter wri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMPlaywright Tom Stoppard has long had an interest in examining the impact and consequences of the iron-fisted rule by the Communist Party in his native Czechoslovakia.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:46PMThursday, May 1, 2014
Imagine yourself going to a concert by a gifted pianist, only to discover that the entire evening is devoted to a series of études.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSaturday, April 26, 2014
Here’s a bit of free advice to Robb Nanus, producer of Ryann Weir’s comedy Debutante, now on view at the Bernie Wohl Center. Seek corporate sponsorship from a fitness club ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
And then, of course, there are the theater troupes readying themselves for summer’s fringe festivals. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMSunday, April 20, 2014
Best brush up on your Bible stories and make sure you are well rested before heading out to the Flea Theater and director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar’s breathtaking and boldly conceived productio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:31PMMonday, March 17, 2014
Imagine a show that features music, tap dancing, adorable turtle puppets, a kind-hearted dolphin, and a couple of playful frogs named Pad and Lily. Sounds like something for the kids, right?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMSartre may have been right when he famously declared that hell is “other people,” but, frankly, most of us seem to be perfectly capable of creating our own hell without anyone else’s a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
As Tina Turner famously sang in the 1985 cult classic movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, “We don’t need another hero.”
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSunday, February 23, 2014
Revivals of two one-act plays about the collateral damage of war (especially on the ones who are left behind to deal with the consequences) make for a deeply compelling and richly provocativ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:33PMFriday, February 21, 2014
There is not a gimmick to be found in the WorkShop Theater Company’s smart, engaging, and emotionally rewarding production of Shakespeare’s late romance and so-called “problem play,”…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PMThursday, February 20, 2014
Meet the Jenkins-Laurences, the world’s most in-control, self-affirming family, as they tumble down the rabbit hole in Erin Mallon’s new absurdist comedy, Branched, a production of InVio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMFriday, February 7, 2014
A vein of existential angst runs through Organic Shrapnel, the new drama by Charles Cissel having its world premiere at Theatre 54 at Shetler Studios. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMSaturday, January 25, 2014
Playwright Brian Watkins has found success through productions of his work mostly at small Off Off Broadway and fringe venues, but it would be unfair to refer to him as a “rising young voi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMSunday, January 19, 2014
. . . either a hopeful tale about emotional healing in the wake of tragedy, or a haunted gothic tale in which all hope is lost. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PM 
