Sunday, November 18, 2012
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 01:41PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
This 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 11:33AMFriday, October 19, 2012
... 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 08:43AMFriday, October 5, 2012
With 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 11:58AMFriday, September 28, 2012
I 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 11:53AMMonday, September 24, 2012
... 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 08:12PMMonday, September 17, 2012
The 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 04:54PMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Richard 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 11:01AMFriday, July 20, 2012
They'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 09:16PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
With "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 05:35PMSaturday, June 30, 2012
Just 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 10:56AMMonday, June 11, 2012
With 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 12:27PMTuesday, May 29, 2012
The 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 08:25PMSunday, May 27, 2012
Long 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 11:21PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
At 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 10:56PMWednesday, May 16, 2012
In 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 10:30AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
Debra 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 04:15PMMonday, May 7, 2012
Shakespeare'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 08:23PMSunday, May 6, 2012
The 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 11:35AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
It'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 04:27PMSunday, April 22, 2012
Candido 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 01:30PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Writer-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 11:24AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Indeed, 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 02:18PMMonday, March 19, 2012
As 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 06:38PMTuesday, March 13, 2012
Arthur 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 04:28PMSunday, February 26, 2012
It's rare for a musical to communicate this much depth of character, and deliver so solidly on the "theatre" part of "musical theatre."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:31AM 
