Sunday, February 26, 2023
There is something magical happening on East 13th Street in Manhattan. Marcus Gardley's black odyssey, now playing at Classic Stage Company, is an adaptation of Homer's epic poem, but audien…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:30PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Perhaps my favorite play of the last year is Samuel D. Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God, an exquisite drama that plumbs the depths of a friendship between two men in Twin Falls, Idah…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:31PMMonday, February 6, 2023
Lucy, Erica Schmidt's new play, now in its world premiere production by Audible Theater at the Minetta Lane, begins with a mother of a six-year-old girl (and a baby on the way) interviewing …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMSunday, January 22, 2023
... it was quite illuminating to learn the full backstory behind the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through Livian Yeh's Memorial, which is currently playing at A.R.T New York Theatres in a produ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:29PMThursday, January 19, 2023
Stand-up comic and television writer Sam Morrison knows comedy. He has performed on "The Drew Barrymore Show" and has written for Bravo's reality television program "Blind Date." He also is …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PMMonday, December 12, 2022
It hasn't even been four years since the last professional revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along. Roundabout Theatre Company presented Fiasco's pared-down prod…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMThursday, December 8, 2022
Adapted and directed by Charlotte Moore, the musical pageant includes a cast of six immensely appealing performers who give life to a host of Welsh denizens, including a group of mischievous…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41PMSunday, November 27, 2022
It's part backstage musical, part jukebox-bio show, part multimedia extravaganza, and a large part arena-concert spectacle. The components do not cohere nearly as effortlessly as they do in …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:36PMSunday, November 20, 2022
[David]Cale's newest solo play, Sandra, currently running at the Vineyard Theatre, stars Marjan Neshat as a forty-something-year-old woman caught in a web of international intrigue, mysterio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMThursday, 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 09:37PM 
