Sunday, April 21, 2024
Midway through Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, "Orlando: A Biography," the protagonist awakes after a long sleep as a different gender. "It is enough for us to state the simple fact," the narra…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53PMIt is very common for audiences at Broadway musicals to clap and hoot at the entrance of a star or in appreciation of impressive scenic design. In Hell's Kitchen, which concluded an Off-Broa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:56AMThursday, April 18, 2024
Although it won a slew of Tony Awards in 1975, The Wiz has never really been considered a great musical. In the right hands, however, it is a thoroughly enjoyable one, and its buoyant pleasu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:10AMFriday, April 12, 2024
In his scathing review of The Outsiders, Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S.E. Hinton's best-selling novel, New York Times critic Vincent Canby described the movie as "a melodramatic kid…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:05AMSunday, March 10, 2024
If you appreciate macabre stories, here's one you might enjoy: In 1976, a teamster working on an episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" made a gruesome discovery. One of the dummies hanging…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
For Shakespearian scholars, Pericles, Prince of Tyre remains a profoundly enigmatic work. While some historians have attributed sole authorship to Shakespeare, most now agree that he wrote a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:15AMWith its use of deliberately over-amplified and disembodied voices, video close-ups, and shiny, modernist design, The New Group's production of the The Seven Year Disappear would seem to be …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:15AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Singer and songwriter Nina Simone was a clarion voice of the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In songs like "Mississippi Goddam" and "Old Jim Crow," Simone's words and music prov…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:26AMWednesday, February 14, 2024
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms," the classic 14th century Chinese novel attributed to author Luo Guanzhong, is a sprawling epic that merges history, fiction and mythology. The book comprises…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21PMFriday, February 9, 2024
The subtitle of Sarah Gancher's Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy, currently running at the Vineyard Theatre (and in association with Geva Theatre Center), calls to mind a host of sitco…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:57AMFriday, December 1, 2023
The classic 1937 film, The Spanish Earth, is a fascinating marriage of art and propaganda. Filmed during the Spanish Civil War, the documentary captures scenes from actual battles and shows …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:16AMThursday, November 16, 2023
Last fall, the Museum of Broadway opened in Midtown Manhattan. For a hefty admission fee, individuals can meander through a series of interactive exhibits that creatively and wistfully evoke…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PMThe set-up is almost as old as Hollywood itself: A woman announces to her family that she is abandoning her stultifying home life and is heading to California to be a glamorous and world-fam…
SOURCE: www.temptalkinbroadway.com at 12:48PMTuesday, November 14, 2023
According to recent statistics, less than one percent of all Americans actively serve in the military. This means that most people living in the United States do not have any personal contac…
SOURCE: www.temptalkinbroadway.com at 09:16PMFriday, November 3, 2023
Philip Roth's 1995 novel "Sabbath's Theater" is a sprawling, ambitious work that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Award. Arguably, it is also one of Roth's most…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:45AMTuesday, October 31, 2023
The American musical theatre pantheon is teeming with cads, grifters and swindlers. Pal Joey's Joey Evans, Music Man's's Harold Hill, How to Succeed's J. Pierrepont Finch, and The Producers'…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:25AMThursday, October 26, 2023
"Things are not as they seem." This is both the subtitle and guiding mantra of Emergence, Patrick Olson's strangely captivating new show currently playing at Manhattan's Signature Center. (E…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:35AMFriday, October 20, 2023
Last year, New York's invaluable Mint Theater Company presented Chains, Elizabeth Baker's trenchant drama from 1909 about the apparent impossibility of having both a happy marriage and a ful…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:58AMFriday, October 13, 2023
Near the end of South, Florencia Iriondo's autobiographical show, the Argentina-born writer and performer explains, "That constant sense of nostalgia defines me more than any address can." N…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:24PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
"Pay the Writer" could be this summer's rallying cry for the striking members of the Writer's Guild of America, but it is also the name of Tawni O'Dell's new play about a celebrated writer's…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:31AMWednesday, August 2, 2023
Although Toros, Danny Tejera's play currently running at Second Stage's McGinn/Cazale Theater, takes place in a posh suburb in Madrid, the twenty-something characters are metaphorically at s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:07AMMonday, July 31, 2023
For basketball aficionados, the all-time great players–LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and others on the deified short list of the NBA pantheon–are not mere mortals. They ar…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMThursday, June 22, 2023
Although largely forgotten today, disc jockey and performance promoter Alan Freed is an important figure in popular music history. He is credited with standardizing the term "rock and roll,"…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:09AMTuesday, June 20, 2023
"Great American–not great president." This is how a poll of 75 historians damningly characterized Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1962, not even two years after he left office. Richard Hellesen's …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15PMMonday, June 5, 2023
The narrator and main character of Tori Sampson's This Land Was Made, now running at the Vineyard Theatre, identifies herself as a griot. Simultaneously storytellers, poets, and living archi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:11AMWednesday, May 24, 2023
In lieu of a playbill or the increasingly more ubiquitous fliers containing a digital QR code, audiences attending Bernarda's Daughters, Diane Exavier's elegiac play currently running at the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:19AMFriday, May 19, 2023
Construction noise, profanity-shouting pedestrians, non-stop emergency-vehicle sirens, and the booming music of pedicabs can certainly pose an obstacle for individuals hoping to find quiet s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:59AMMonday, May 15, 2023
"For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." Thus concludes one of Shakespeare's best-known and most-performed plays. In the boisterous, gag-filled production pres…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:48AMMonday, May 8, 2023
"You think things are one way, but they can be another way." This reversal of expectations is a recurring theme throughout Michael Cruz Kayne's Sorry for Your Loss, the new one-person show p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMSunday, May 7, 2023
There have been numerous hit Hollywood animated family films that include serious or dramatic content and some that even feature death. In the Walt Disney classic Bambi, the young deer must …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:30AMFriday, May 5, 2023
The press materials for Erika Dickerson-Despenza's new play at the Public Theater request that the title, shadow/land, be documented using lowercase letters. In the first thirty minutes or s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:18AM 
