Thursday, November 17, 2022
A palpable feeling of dread pervades Evanston, Illinois. Individuals sense an invisible hostile being when they walk into a room. A ghost of a dead grandmother appears unexpectedly on street…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:36AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
The slogan, "Work sets you free," greeted new arrivals to many Nazi concentration camps. Although not explicitly stated, this is a guiding principle in Bess Wohl's Camp Siegfried, currently …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06AMSaturday, November 12, 2022
In adapting the screenplay for the stage, Crowe has expanded the narrative frame to such a degree that the story, the characters, and the very heart of the piece get lost in the muddle. Addi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:35PMMonday, November 7, 2022
Good Enemy, Audible Theater's new production at the Minetta Lane Theatre, is one-part political thriller, one-part father-daughter reconciliation drama, and one-part sentimental road-trip co…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38AMIn My Broken Language, Quiara Alegría Hudes's autobiographical play produced by the Signature Theatre in New York, the author expresses a desire for a museum that would house the memories, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:34AMSunday, October 30, 2022
In the current Classic Stage Company revival of the 2002 musical A Man of No Importance, Doyle applies the tactic sparingly–there are on-stage musicians as well as a handful of ensemble me…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:07PMMonday, October 24, 2022
Time and space have become glitchy and bafflingly fluid for the young woman protagonist in HOUND DOG, Melis Aker's new play with music in a co-production by Ars Nova and PlayCo. One minute s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:33PMSunday, October 23, 2022
The revitalized Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. has reemerged in the last few years as a training ground for up-and-coming Black artists, who are confronted with new and lingering concerns asso…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:20AMThursday, October 20, 2022
The Fall, Albert Camus's 1956 novel, is written as a series of confessions in which the narrator grapples with the absurdity of life. True enlightenment, the novel suggests, can only come wh…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:20AMThursday, September 29, 2022
Weightless, the indie-rock musical by The Kilbanes and produced by the Women's Project, is described as a "theatrical concept album." The company of six musicians and singers present a tunef…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
This Beautiful Future defies cogent description, and it needs to be experienced to understand how the strange, disturbing, and life-affirming elements all fit perfectly together under Jack S…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:53AMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Under Ken Rus Schmoll's spot-on direction and Link's simple but effective lighting, the actor inexplicably becomes one with the words. Every utterance is imparted with the utmost conviction,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
MacDermott addresses important issues about parenting, and there are some affecting moments among all of the conflicted characters. Ultimately, however, the play is unsatisfying as it hints …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
The two characters that populate Los Otros, the affecting and intimate new musical by Ellen Fitzhugh and Michael John LaChiusa, appear to be from different worlds entirely. One is a twice-di…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMThursday, August 18, 2022
As portrayed in Johnny G. Lloyd's Patience, now playing as part of Second Stage's Uptown Season at the McGinn/ Cazale Theater, professional Solitaire is a highly competitive, cut-throat, and…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:59AMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Within the first few minutes of Between the Lines, currently running at the Tony Kiser Theater, audiences may have the feeling they are watching what one might call a "genre musical" of sort…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:19AMTuesday, June 28, 2022
The title refers to the percentage of white women that voted Republican in the 2016 presidential election, and the play presents a snapshot of the red and blue, gender and racial divide that…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:21PMSunday, June 19, 2022
The centerpiece of Romello Huins's set design for Lambs to Slaughter, Khalil Kain's new play presented by the Negro Ensemble Company at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is a large, circular wall clo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMThursday, June 9, 2022
Lessons in Survival: 1971 re-creates a television talk show from more than fifty years ago, but the evening throbs with intellectual intensity, political urgency, and striking theatricality.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PMAs audience members take their seats at A.R.T./New York for Stephen Kaliski's The Refugees, they are invited to write a haiku inspired by the statement: "You didn't do enough." The play, pre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:37PMSunday, May 22, 2022
The evening combines stand-up, humorous guidelines for Jewish rituals, and pointed jabs at cultural stereotypes, but the most powerful moments occur when Takiff addresses his personal religi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55AMMonday, May 9, 2022
, Oh God feels necessary and urgent in a way that it would not have, say, two weeks ago. Now, that's impeccable timing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
Don't be misled by the title: A Case for the Existence of God, Samuel D. Hunter's gorgeous and heartbreaking new play now running at Signature Theatre, is anything but a theoretical religiou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:57AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
To My Girls comprises stock figures recognizable from plays like The Boys in the Band, Torch Song Trilogy, Jeffrey, and Angels in America.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:07AMSunday, April 10, 2022
More than a decade after he first performed the piece, and once again directed by Cummings, Greenspan remains a force of nature. Until he climbs off of the stage after eighty breathless minu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
The New Group's exhilarating new musical adaptation retains the novel's relevance, and it is the rare show that appeals to the intellect, the heart, and the soul.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:18PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
While Will Pomerantz and Nancy Harrow's adaptation may not necessarily raise Turgenev's literary stature, it makes for a lovely and bittersweet night at the theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
... one of the most exhilarating, reassuring, and life-affirming performances you may experience this year.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMIn the end, though, the play, overstuffed with ideas and theatricality, does not pack the emotional wallop one might expect.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
... an ambitious musical, but sadly, its appeal is as lasting as a one-night stand.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMThursday, January 23, 2020
Romeo and Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, does not nearly reach the very high bar that Amas has set in its first half century.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PM 
