Tuesday, November 18, 2025
"Can you explain simply please: what it is that makes a person a white person?" The question of who can claim whiteness is at the heart of Talene Monahon's thought-provoking new play, Meet t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:06AMMonday, November 17, 2025
In 2005, when The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opened Off-Broadway, the celestial bodies of the theatre world seemed to be in flawless alignment, and the production garnered rave r…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMWednesday, November 12, 2025
You'd never know that things are amiss in the tiny village of Concorde in Provence, France. The denizens cheerfully toss metal balls in games of pétanque, rehash old grudges, and enjoy leis…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:10AMSunday, November 9, 2025
Billy Collins's "Introduction to Poetry" describes an instructor's efforts to encourage students to engage with a poem both intuitively and emotionally. Instead, "All they want to do," the s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:24PMWednesday, October 29, 2025
Gloria Steinem famously stated, "We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach." As an academic who often leads courses in gender and sexuality s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:00AMFriday, October 17, 2025
Missing the Ars Nova production of Oratorio for Living Things is one of my great theatre disappointments of the last several years. The production had performed only twice in 2019 before bei…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:12AMThursday, October 9, 2025
1937 was a very good year for new shows in the West End. In addition to the smash hit Me and My Girl, London also saw premieres of Ivor Novello's The Crest of the Wave, the frothy musical co…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMThursday, September 18, 2025
At the top of Mexodus, the new, two-person musical produced by Audible Theater, audiences are given permission–indeed, are encouraged–to "yell, dance, and shake your asses." Typically, I…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PMSunday, June 22, 2025
Breaking, pioneered by African American and Puerto Rican youth, emerged in the Bronx in the early 1970s. Some fifty years later, the urban dance form is a worldwide phenomenon and was includ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15PMWednesday, June 11, 2025
Welcome to the manosphere! The philosophy behind this realm is best summed up by 21 Studios, a prominent anti-feminist and Men's Rights Activist (MRA) organization, which succinctly instruct…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PMWednesday, June 4, 2025
In his 2000 Pulitzer-Prize winning drama Dinner with Friends, Donald Margulies dissected the institution of marriage and revealed the quotidian struggles, shifting affinities, and existentia…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:31AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
When I first saw Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at Second Stage Theater in 2007, I found the play mawkish and pretentious. What's more, its retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice seemed at the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58AMMonday, May 19, 2025
Swedish playwright August Strindberg's early plays explore fluctuating power dynamics, depicting relationships as volatile arenas where characters skillfully employ psychological manipulatio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:18PMSunday, May 18, 2025
In his poem about the loneliness of a schoolteacher, playwright William Inge wrote, "Funny but being alone in a room full of people is more lonely somehow than/ Being left to your own device…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PMWednesday, May 14, 2025
Emblazoned on a November 2006 cover of the New York Post was a photo of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears in the front seat of a fancy car. The trio, dubbed "3 Bimbos of the Ap…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:21AMSunday, April 6, 2025
Since it first appeared, Jason Robert Brown's song-cycle musical The Last Five Years seems to be in a continual loop. The short-lived Off-Broadway original in 2002 spawned countless regional…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMTuesday, March 25, 2025
When Tommy Marie, a character in Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness (now playing at Classic Stage Company's Lynn F. Angelson Theater), first appears, she draws laughs. Her ill-fitting …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:48AMWednesday, February 26, 2025
Curse of the Starving Class, which was first produced in New York in 1978, is the second play in what playwright Sam Shepard called his Family Trilogy. Along with Buried Child and True West,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:05AMMonday, February 24, 2025
Samuel D. Hunter's stunning and deeply affecting Grangeville, currently running at New York's Signature Center, begins in complete darkness. The disembodied phone voices of two men discussin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMSunday, February 23, 2025
Conversations with Mother, Matthew Lombardo's semi-autobiographical comedy currently running at Theater 555, is a crowd-pleasing show that traces the relationship of a mother and son over fi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:42PMThursday, February 20, 2025
British playwright Harold Brighouse's legacy rests largely on Hobson's Choice, his well-crafted comedy from 1915 that satirizes class hypocrisies and gender roles. Though best known for its …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
Charlie Chaplin's appreciation for Japanese culture has been well documented. He visited Japan several times, and he had a deep admiration for the physicality of both Kabuki and kengeki (sam…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMFriday, January 24, 2025
George Bernard Shaw famously dubbed Shakespeare's Cymbeline "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order." Appalled by the ludicrous coincidences and tangled plot lines, Shaw rewrote the l…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:36AMThursday, December 12, 2024
The past and present collide in Anthony M. Laura's Duality, currently running at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at The A.R.T./New York Theatres. Primarily, the play explores the lasting…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:11AMMonday, November 25, 2024
Former stand-up comic Sam Kissajukian states matter-of-factly at the beginning of his one-person show, "I'm not from the theatre. I'm from Australia." In 300 Paintings, currently playing at …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01AMWednesday, November 20, 2024
Stereophonic, this year's Tony Award winner for Best Play, is set in the 1970s and depicts rampant toxic masculinity in the recording industry. The New Group's current production, Babe by Je…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMMonday, November 11, 2024
First dates are generally awkward, sometimes cringeworthy, and occasionally hopeful. In Miriam Battye's Strategic Love Play, Audible Theater's current production, these familiar qualities ar…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz's Another Shot, now running at New York's Signature Center (but is not a Signature production), is set in an addiction rehab facility. The title slyly hints …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:20PMWednesday, July 31, 2024
How long is it appropriate to grieve one's personal loss? Are some losses worthier of sympathy than others? Is there a proper way to grieve? These are just some of the questions pondered, de…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author caused a cultural firestorm when it opened in Rome in 1921. Reportedly, after the show's premiere the playwright had to leave through…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:49AMMonday, July 15, 2024
Following in the nimble footsteps of Twyla Tharp and most recently Justin Peck, choreographer and dancer Jakob Karr has turned to the music of a contemporary singer/songwriter to create a na…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:20PM 
