Monday, 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 08:26PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
... the play raises complex questions about the desire to assign blame in the wake of a senseless and tragic massacre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:50PMMonday, November 25, 2019
With direction by Michael Wilson, the cast is uniformly strong, and they keep the audience guessing about the uncomfortable truths.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:24AMFriday, November 22, 2019
... Will Eno's strange and wonderful new play currently running at Second Stage Theater ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
How much do biographers really know about the individuals they research?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMFriday, February 15, 2019
In State of the Union, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning play currently being revived by Metropolitan Playhouse, a presidential hopeful agrees to go on the pre-c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMTuesday, January 22, 2019
One thing that Americans can all agree on is that Americans cannot all agree on anything.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMMonday, January 21, 2019
In Awake, the estimable Barrow Group's current production, K. Lorrel Manning tackles a host of divisive and contemporary hot-button issues. Racism, sexism, Islamophobia, religious hypocrisy,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Two years ago Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit Red Rabbit was an Off-Broadway hit and ran an impressive forty-two weeks. (It played Monday nights only at the Westside Theatre.)
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
"Can I be honest with you?" These are the first words uttered by Undine Barnes Calles, a high-powered New York City publicist and the central character in Lynn Nottage's sweeping and satiric…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:57AMSunday, December 2, 2018
When The Tricky Part, Martin Morans lacerating solo show about child sex abuse, debuted in 2003, the nation was still reeling from The Boston Globes Roman Catholic church exposé publish…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMSunday, October 14, 2018
When silent film star Greta Garbo transitioned to talking movies with her performance of Anna Christie in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning-play of the same name, the marketing campaig…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:11PMMonday, September 10, 2018
It can't be easy being the last remaining dragon on earth, a planet which humans do not even inhabit anymore.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Time is of the essence in Beloved, Lisa Lengseth's one-person show currently playing at the Lion Theatre in Theatre Row.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:06PMThursday, August 2, 2018
The central image of Mike Birbiglia's dazzling new solo show, aptly and simply named The New One, is a couch.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PMFriday, July 13, 2018
Austin Pendelton draws fine comic performances from his cast of nine with ANDRUS NICHOLS in the title role; her indomitable spirt balancing a perfect mix of kookiness and pathos as "Margery."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:05AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Morality and domesticity are so fourteenth century. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Karl Marx is in the house, and he has some things he needs to get off his chest.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMFriday, April 27, 2018
Quick: Who wrote, "By the pricking of my thumbs,/ Something wicked this way comes"?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:18PMSaturday, April 14, 2018
According to a program note, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was inspired to write his first play, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, after leading a reading group on The Odyssey.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMMonday, March 26, 2018
The experience of watching A Walk in the Woods, Lee Blessing's 1988 play in its current revival by the Barrow Group, is both simultaneously comforting and disconcerting.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMSunday, March 25, 2018
Babette's Feast, currently playing at the Theatre at St. Clement's, demonstrates the power of art, grace, and selfless generosity to unite a community riven by petty differences, personal sl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:29PM 
