Thursday, November 30, 2023
The Jerusalem Syndrome? The timing does not seem propitious for the York Theatre Company to trot out what's meant to be a fizzy, escapist musical comedy set in the present-day Middle East. B…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
With Stereophonic blaring happily away on its mainstage, Playwrights Horizons is attempting an intriguing experiment upstairs at the Peter Jay Sharp: three one-acts, all solo shows, each wri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AMThursday, November 2, 2023
The curious thing about Poor Yella Rednecks, Qui Nguyen's Manhattan Theatre Club follow-up to his well-received, autobiographical Vietgone of several seasons back, is that its title characte…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:40AMWednesday, November 1, 2023
Whoo-whee! It's a good thing Hansol Jung's Merry Me, at New York Theatre Workshop, hired an intimacy coordinator (Rocío Mendez). A great deal of shagging permeates the action, of various ge…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:16AMSunday, October 29, 2023
How much you like Stereophonic, David Adjmi's play with (quite a lot of) music at Playwrights Horizons, may well hinge on how much you like Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Aerosmith, and their ilk…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMA word of advice: Before seeing Translations, the opening volley in Irish Repertory Theatre's season-long (Brian) Friel Project, show up early. To get maximum impact out of this beguiling li…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMThursday, September 28, 2023
Winners! Losers! Sinners! Boozers! So goes a line in "24 Hours a Day," the opening number of Golden Rainbow, the 1968 musical being given a rare airing at York Theatre Company's Musicals in …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:51PMMonday, September 11, 2023
Indulge us for a moment, please, we collectors of cast albums and mavens of Tony Awards trivia. In 1975, a lot of Jerry Herman fans were very upset when his favorite among his scores, Mack a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PMMonday, August 28, 2023
Sounds current, doesn't it? When I told friends I was reviewing something called How to Steal an Election, at least one responded, "Oh, is it new?" Not at all: The Off-Broadway musical by Wi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:16PMFriday, July 14, 2023
It can't be easy to cram two separate plays into one 70-minute running time, but that appears to be what playwright Deirdre Kinahan has done with The Saviour, a compact drama now on Irish Re…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:56AMWednesday, June 7, 2023
Dysfunctional families rarely emerge as dysfunctional as the one portrayed in Wet Brain, John J. Caswell, Jr.'s high-decibel whatsit of a comedy-drama on Playwrights Horizons' mainstage in a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:47AMSunday, June 4, 2023
Well, it's one way to kick off Pride Month. Love + Science, David J. Glass's drama now at City Center Stage II, recalls the whole horrible 1980s mishandling of the emerging AIDS crisis, as s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Primary Trust, to begin with, is the name of a bank. Its columned exterior dominates the streetscape of Cranberry, New York–the town of 15,000 is fictitious, but it could be any of a coupl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:43PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
How much you know about basketball, it seems fair to say, will go a long way toward determining how much you will like Rajiv Joseph's King James, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 1. I don't…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:20PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
The last time Playwrights Horizons aimed to just make us laugh and not think too hard was The Thanksgiving Play. That turned out well. Playwrights is back in comedic mode with Regretfully, S…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:36AMThursday, March 30, 2023
As an Off-Broadway nonmusical, Vanities ran forever, opening in 1976 and closing after almost 1,800 performances. A look at three besties (one of whom was played by Kathy Bates) at the end o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PMMonday, March 13, 2023
Whew, this one really needed an intimacy coordinator. Liliana Padilla's How to Defend Yourself, at New York Theatre Workshop, is mostly about its titular topic, as reflected through the unea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:23PMWednesday, March 1, 2023
There's more than a whiff of Our Town in The Best We Could, Emily Feldman's "family tragedy" now on Manhattan Theatre Club's mainstage. The Wilder influence begins with Lael Jellinek's sceni…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:30PMThursday, February 16, 2023
Who are these people? Why are they sharing a stage? Where are the character details that would help us understand them better? The Wanderers, Anna Ziegler's new drama at the Laura Pels, shar…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35PMThursday, February 2, 2023
Exactly what Samuel Beckett was up to with Endgame has been the source of much speculation. A meditation on the futility of life? A fever dream about the inevitable journey toward death? A p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMThursday, January 26, 2023
Moral ambiguity seeps into, permeates, and ultimately overwhelms The Smuggler, Ronán Noone's intelligent little "thriller in rhyme" downstairs at Irish Rep. The one-hander, performed with s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:04PMThursday, December 1, 2022
Wedging some 40 songs into a little over 90 minutes, Stardust Road is filled with Great American Songbook treasures, well-known and otherwise. And it mostly sounds terrific, thanks to Lawren…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17PMThursday, November 17, 2022
Mary, though we don't find out until the very last moment that that's her name, is recording a monologue on her phone, which she's set up on a tripod, and the mechanics baffle her. Media-sav…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:17PMWednesday, November 16, 2022
A tough one, this. Bruce Norris's Downstate, now playing at Playwrights Horizons, plunks us down into a repellent environment, one we'd never choose to find ourselves in, and shakes our assu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:06AMMonday, November 7, 2022
Given the human suffering we are made to witness in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of You Will Get Sick–the main character's terrifying and mysterious physical deterioration, ev…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Chester Bailey. A prosaic title, and the play at Irish Rep, by Joseph Dougherty, doesn't overflow with poetry, either. It's a straightforward little two-hander, one with perhaps too many tan…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMThursday, September 29, 2022
american (tele)visions, Victor I. Cazares's new play, in a premiere production at New York Theatre Workshop, is a kaleidoscope, an ever-shifting dazzlement of colors, patterns, shapes, multi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:30PMThursday, June 23, 2022
Will Arbery is an outlier. His previous play at Playwrights Horizons, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, introduced us New York sophisticates to a subculture we'd probably never met, and hoped we…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02AMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Golden Shield has a lot on its mind–too much, perhaps. Anchuli Felicia King's new drama at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 1 concerns itself with, on the one hand, the unholy alliances of c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:40AMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Hilary Bettis's new play, 72 Miles to Go..., kind of sneaks up on you. It begins in a Tucson church in 2016, where the pastor, Billy (Triney Sandoval), is giving what evidently is his farewe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03AMMonday, March 9, 2020
[Friedman's] writing in many styles, from pastiche to operatic to sorta-Sondheim, and he melds them well to tell an affecting story.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44PM 
