Wednesday, April 23, 2025
He enters, rising up out of the floor, back to the audience, in a pink spangled blazer, like a gaudier Velma Kelly about to launch into "All That Jazz." But Ryan J. Haddad has other things o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:40PMSunday, April 13, 2025
The Irish Repertory Theatre is in an uncharacteristically jocular mood. Irishtown, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth's comedy, is a slight but merry look at Irish theatre's history, its nature, and let'…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
What's most impressive about Becoming Eve–and there's a lot–is its generosity of spirit. Emil Weinstein's play at New York Theatre Workshop's temporary quarters on Grand Street, adapted …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36AMMonday, March 24, 2025
I'm smiling this morning. Who Is Jimmy Pants?, the second in New2NY's trio of staged readings at the York Theatre Company, is silly and inconsequential, but it's also one big long grin.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
Some playwrights we appreciate because we don't know what they're going to come up with next, and some we appreciate because we do. Joshua Harmon surely belongs in the latter category, for a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
A decade back, Jordan Harrison got us thinking about artificial intelligence, man-machine relationships, and the dangers of rapidly advancing technologies in his Pulitzer finalist Marjorie P…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMSunday, January 26, 2025
The house at Irish Repertory Theatre is less than full, and the end-of-evening applause, at best, polite. There's my argument: Do less Samuel Beckett! But Irish Rep is on something of a Beck…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:24PMSunday, December 8, 2024
"Then I would be slap-dashing home, the gravy smell of the dinners of others, the bird smell, the brandy, the pudding and mince, coiling up to my nostrils, when out of a snow-clogged side la…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:14PMSaturday, 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 09:18AM 
