For the stage adaptation, bookwriters Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner (with an assist from Douglas Carter Beane) have moved the action back to the 1970s, allowing the original songs…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PMThis production is an unpretentious and respectful reading of this 47-year-old comedy that provides a good opportunity for revisiting it, but just as importantly, an occasion for welcoming T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:33AM... though Kinky Boots the musical does a great many things very well, it's hard to care enough about Charlie to "feel good" when he finally does address those character flaws, whatever the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:43AMWith absolutely top-shelf acting and vocals throughout the cast, impressive digital animation and directorial flourishes used judiciously but to great effect, he gives us one of the very bes…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:58AMI guess it would be fair to call Sweet Bird of Youth a minor major play of Tennessee Williams. Major in that it had a decent Broadway run, was adapted into a well-received feature film, and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:53AM... Good People, which takes on issues like class differences in access to health care and affordable day care, wage stagnation and limited availability of good paying jobs.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PMThe premise of this show is to give the audience the thrill of being in a studio audience for a filming of two episodes of "I Love Lucy" in 1952.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMThe first to be written of August Wilson's "Century Cycle" of plays depicting African-American life in separate decades of the 20th century, Jitney is less overtly historical or political th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:54PMRichard Nelson's play, which premiered at New York's Public Theater on September 11, 2011, the day in which the action is set, depicts the Sunday dinner of a family of adult siblings who hav…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01AMThey've assembled a top-flight cast of ensemble members and other Chicago actors to bring Chekhov's Prozorov family to the downstairs stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PMWith "Hero," in its first full production at the Marriott Theatre, writers Aaron Theilen and Michael Mahler apply the genre to the sort of story and characters that might be played in the mo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:35PMJust three years and three months after Titanic sunk, the SS Eastland, a Lake Michigan cruise ship carrying over 2500 passengers, tipped over on its side even before leaving its dock on the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:56AMWith a trio of active Broadway producers and direction by Broadway and TV star Phylicia Rashad, this new play by Paul Oakley Stovall has the firepower to support its announced hopes for a Br…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:27PMThe life of Marvin Gaye, the R&B singer with a three-octave range who became one of Motown's greatest stars, is indeed quite a story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:25PMLong before Eric Simonson began his campaign to bring sports fans into the theater with "Lombardi" and "Magic/Bird," he adapted the 1956 Mark Harris novel "Bang the Drum Slowly" for the stag…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:21PMAt the end of the day, LaBute seems to be saying we're all-progressive or conservative-trying to make sense of life and get by.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:56PMIn this presidential election year, we hear a lot about politicians "playing to the base." [title of show] isn't particularly political, but it sure plays to the base audience for musicals.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:31AMIt's an admirable approach in its insistence on taking the characters seriously and playing it first as drama, with the music entirely in service of story. The results, though, are a very mi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:30AMDebra Ehrhardt's one-woman show, which was an award winner in New York's 2007 Fringe Festival and has been touring the country since, takes a little while to get going but ends up being a fu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PMShakespeare's uncompromising view of the evils of wealth is given an equally explicit statement of its resonance today in Barbara Gaines' production of this seldom-performed play, starring I…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:23PMThe action occurs over some 48 hours in their lives and sharing nearly one-tenth of that in real time with them, it gives a sense of living through those two days. Over that time, we see the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:35AMIt's way too early for a Broadway revival of Hairspray, but if it weren't, its producers would be lucky to come up with a production as good as the one that just opened at Chicago's Drury La…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:28PM... imagine, if you will, that the professor of your Shakespeare course is one of the world's most esteemed interpreters of the Bard's work and you'll have a good picture of Simon Callow's p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:27PMCandido Tirado's new play opens on five of the regulars in this corner of the park: three hustlers, one casual player, and one who never plays but watches and hangs on anyway.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:30PMWriter-director Frank Galati has once again brought an E. L. Doctorow novel to the stage, and like Galati's earlier Doctorow project, 1997's Ragtime, his adaptation of The March, now in its …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:25AMThough Nash's play is romantic and fanciful in the way the con man saves the spinster from loneliness, his characters are grounded in reality.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:24AMIndeed, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are becoming legends in the strictest definition of the word-increasingly fewer people are living who could have seen them perform live and, as they cho…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:18PMAs a seldom-performed work of Tennessee Williams, envisioned by a major European director who has rarely worked in the U.S. and performed by a stellar cast, the Goodman's production of Camin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:38PMArthur Miller's 1968 play The Price takes place in the attic of a Manhattan brownstone that had been the family home of the play's two middle-aged brothers, and the lifetime of family mement…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:29PMIn bookwriter Jeff Whitty's reworking of Bring It On-with a different plot and characters than the 1990 film of this title, but based on a similar premise-a white, blonde cheerleader from a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:28PMIt's rare for a musical to communicate this much depth of character, and deliver so solidly on the "theatre" part of "musical theatre."
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