Monday, May 25, 2015
Not only is it a chamber musical and character-focused, without production values like choreography or elaborate visuals that are expected of a Broadway production, but it's an emotionally c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMMonday, May 4, 2015
[Paul Gordon's] Sense and Sensibility (he wrote book, music and lyrics, so it is indeed "his") boasts a strong score and an absolutely first-rate production.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:39PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
What The Upstairs Concierge lacks though, is high stakes.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:37PMTony Award-winning actor Anthony Crivello (Kiss of the Spider Woman) delivers all the crazy, manic energy Prima gave to his act and matches his performance style most effectively.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:36PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Ashford mixes presentationalism with realism, musical theater with opera and takes a chance on an artist with no theatrical resume to design the sets. It all comes together to make this 70-y…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:33PMSunday, March 15, 2015
... though the performances are strong, the piece never gels as a musical and there's no apparent reason for it to be one.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:21PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Those of us who love the art form appreciate efforts like this to make the musical relevant and appealing to new generations, and it may well be that those who have more recently experienced…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:34PMFriday, December 19, 2014
Those who see Airline Highway will never look at New Orleans locals the same way again. Even more importantly, though, it shows just how fragile life can be�what a difference a few wrong cho…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:29AMTuesday, December 2, 2014
The play's message�that in times of trouble, no one will be more helpful or essential than family�is hardly a new one. Delivered with such honesty as it is here, though, it feels fresh and r…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:53AMMonday, October 20, 2014
This engagement is billed as "pre-Broadway," but no Broadway opening date or theatre has been announced, so time will tell about that. The caliber of talent hired for the cast and creative t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:20PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
. The four-year-old Bailiwick Chicago has added LaChiusa's Wild Party to the list of little-seen, but exceedingly worthy, musicals it has lovingly performed for Chicago audiences.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:44PMSunday, October 5, 2014
I missed the production of Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek's musical when it ran on Broadway for just two months at the end of 2010, but The Theatre at the Center, in northwest Indiana section…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:05PMWednesday, July 23, 2014
One of the jewels of the southern Wisconsin/northern Illinois region ... especially for lovers of classical theater, is the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, about 35 miles west of M…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:45AMFriday, July 18, 2014
Though Norris is a funny and fearless writer, this play risks falling into a formulaic trap.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50AMFriday, July 11, 2014
The good news in Brigadoon's revised book by Brian Hill is that it's respectful to Alan Jay Lerner's original rather than a rethinking of it. No new or deleted characters�no additional plotl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40AMThursday, June 26, 2014
"The Last Ship" ... though it employs some rather familiar plot lines, is an affectionate memoir of Sting's northeast England home town, Wallsend. Despite a story that's improbable and contr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:39PMMonday, June 23, 2014
Given the similarity of Cera's usual on screen persona to Warren, it's unlikely anyone will be surprised by his performance, but it's a good one nonetheless.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:52PMMonday, June 16, 2014
... we can thank Bailiwick Chicago for its smart, well-sung and imaginatively produced presentation of this notorious musical that deserves a place in musical theater literature.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
Jack Lemmon that has returned, through the performance of his son Chris Lemmon, working under the direction of Hershey Felder.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:22PMFriday, May 9, 2014
... delivers a musical performance without compromise while admirably serving the script of this significant play.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:19PMWhile Holter�s characters may or may not resemble those who really were there, they sure look and feel like a representative sampling of the sorts of young people one might find around the g…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:18PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Mike Bartlett's play is not what you'd expect. It does concern sexuality and sexual identity, but it's more about emotion than sex and, despite the short, harsh-sounding when said aloud titl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:32PMMonday, February 24, 2014
These all feel like real, believable characters and�even more to the credit of playwright Sheffer and this cast�like people we haven't met before.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:08PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
It's a good story�an intriguing one, as family secrets are revealed and we become invested in the fates of the 19-year-old parents.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:30PM 
