Monday, 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 08:44PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
These debonair individuals aren't easy for us schlubs to identify with, and their problems are neither that acute nor that compelling.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
A New York with a Forbidden Broadway in it is always a happier place. And the franchise's latest incarnation, Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, currently occupying the York, is a pip.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:57AMThursday, December 5, 2019
... well-produced, humorous, and occasionally moving. Still, Eastman's trudging down a well-traveled path.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:19PMMonday, November 18, 2019
Lopez's mammoth depiction of the last 30-odd years of gay American male-hood is a unique meditation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:44AMFriday, March 29, 2019
“There are some who think Judy Holliday was the greatest comic actress of all time, and some who think she was simply the greatest comic actress of the century.” That’s David Shipman i…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:46PMSaturday, March 23, 2019
There’s only one other full-size Broadway musical revival in town right now, that thing uptown about Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, so fans of golden age musicals had better hie themse…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:20PMSunday, January 27, 2019
But there must be something about Carmelina, because York Theatre Company's Musicals in Mufti has just brought it back for its third airing, the first title to score such a trifecta.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:43PMTuesday, January 8, 2019
A stageful of characters you don't often encounter in Broadway houses populates Choir Boy, Tarell Alvin McCraney's two-thirds-drama, one-third-concert, a Manhattan Theatre Club production at…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMThursday, December 13, 2018
One walks into Christmas in Hell, at the York, wanting to like it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMMonday, December 10, 2018
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Tricky business, political correctness.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:33AMMonday, November 5, 2018
Though we never actually meet him, Jamal, the title character of Christopher Demos-Brown's American Son, sounds like a wonderful kid.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09AMFriday, November 2, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
So once upon a time, kids, there was this play called Oleanna. Mid-career David Mamet, it opened off-Broadway in 1992 and immediately caused a ruckus, both on its own merits and in light of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMThursday, October 11, 2018
There's a famous, oft-exhibited photo of Julius, the still-there predominantly gay bar in the Village, from 1966.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:52PMThursday, September 27, 2018
"You wanna play snooker? Well, chalk up your cue."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PM 
