Saturday, November 9, 2024
There's more than a whiff of Rent to We Live in Cairo, Daniel and Patrick Lazour's long-aborning musical now at New York Theatre Workshop. Also the heady scents of cardamom and sumac. Take a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:19AMWednesday, October 16, 2024
One of the pleasures of Vladimir, Erika Sheffer's sturdy new play at Manhattan Theatre Club, is how it allows us Americans to listen in on ordinary Russians' conversations. We've had plenty …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:13AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
This won't be a long one, because The Counter is one of those plays where divulging almost any detail might constitute a spoiler. Meghan Kennedy's short, straightforward exploration of frien…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:06PMSaturday, September 28, 2024
Your first thought on entering the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons is, hey, this doesn't look like the set for a song cycle. That's what Magnificent Bird and Book of Traveler…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMThursday, September 26, 2024
"Fatherland." Has a vaguely Teutonic ring to it, no? But plays don't come more American than Fatherland, Stephen Sachs's distillation of disturbing recent U.S. events and their cataclysmic e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:11PMSunday, September 22, 2024
It's Irish Rep, and there's a squabbling mother and her adult son onstage, so we know this isn't going to end well. My first thought of The Beacon, Nancy Harris's new play, was, this reminds…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12PMFriday, September 20, 2024
So let me take you back to the original Forbidden Broadway. It's 1982 and we're at Palsson's, an inelegant upstairs boîte on West 72nd Street (it's still there, as the Triad). The stage is …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:46AMMonday, July 15, 2024
As one who has often found the works of Samuel Beckett to be baffling, boring, or both, I wasn't looking forward to On Beckett. The lecture on and excerpts from the man's oeuvre, returning t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:20PMThursday, May 23, 2024
Everybody, except me, loved Irish Repertory Theatre's previous effort in its Friel Project, Philadelphia, Here I Come! They saw a trenchant examination of stultifying small-town Irish life a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Here There Are Blueberries is surely the right title for this one. It refers to a caption in a photo album, a very special photo album. The phrase evokes a carefree, whimsical quotidian exis…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58AMSunday, April 28, 2024
Ever seen a shaggy-dog play? That's a fair description of Staff Meal, Abe Koogler's shape-shifter of a comedy now at Playwrights Horizons. His purpose is hard to pin down, if not impossible.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00PMThursday, April 18, 2024
With Brooklyn Laundry having recently ended its merry run at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York now has a new, not-dissimilar mini-romance to celebrate. Lia Romeo's Still, from Colt Coeur at D…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38PMMonday, March 25, 2024
Philadelphia, Here I Come! was Brian Friel's first major success, and the new revival at Irish Repertory Theatre, part of its Friel Project retrospective, offers ample evidence why. It's a s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:42AMSaturday, March 23, 2024
You've probably heard about it as "the musical about the penis-eating vagina." Yes, but Teeth aims to be something more–a horror musical that also takes in repression, misogyny, violence, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:11PMSaturday, March 16, 2024
Rupert Murdoch is a scourge, a reckless power monger whose pursuit of material gain has irrevocably changed and devalued the journalistic universe. On that much many of us will probably agre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:45PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
The New York Times beat me to it yesterday in saying so, but gosh, this is some season John Patrick Shanley is having. First a well-received revival of his early play, Danny and the Deep Blu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00PMThursday, February 22, 2024
It's called A Sign of the Times, and zowie, is it ever. Start with a jukebox score, consisting of rock 'n' roll favorites old enough to be nostalgically remembered by people old enough to be…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:32PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
At the Brick, there's not a bad seat in the house. That's because the house is a long, narrow room framing a long, narrow table, plus a few barstool-height chairs against the wall to fill th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:23PMStorytelling doesn't come much more basic than I Love You So Much I Could Die, Mona Pirnot's autobiographical one-woman show at New York Theatre Workshop. NYTW's mainstage theater usually fe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:06PMFriday, February 2, 2024
The first thing about Jonah: It's not much about Jonah. He's a character, to be sure, an endearing one, embodied by Hagan Oliveras with goofy Jesse Eisenberg charm. But Jonah is mostly about…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:40AMMonday, January 22, 2024
Said my companion as we exited Aristocrats: "It's The Cherry Orchard meets Three Sisters." Not quite, but Brian Friel's 1979 drama, in revival at Irish Repertory Theatre, does have a heavy l…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:33AMThursday, 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 04:56AM 
