Thursday, 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 08:03PMMonday, September 24, 2018
An unfamiliar sight greets audiences filing into Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater:
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PMSaturday, September 15, 2018
The story of the writing of You and I turns out to be more compelling than You and I itself. Philip Barry, fatherless from infancy and raised in a modest Irish-Catholic household, was to inh…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:43PMMonday, August 27, 2018
It's just a guess, but I'll hazard that Mark Chrisler has a Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fixation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMSaturday, August 25, 2018
Henry VI doesn't get a lot of stagings . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:36PMMonday, June 25, 2018
Log Cabin is so stuffed with ideas, it feels foolish to try to unpack them all here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Upstage center in Donja R. Love's Sugar in Our Wounds is, as the Playbill says, "a tall, tall tree."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
When did you last see a new play where at the end of Act One you thought, hmm, I'm not sure, then at the end of Act Two you thought, Wow?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The theatrical tradition of grownups playing kids, and bringing fresh nuance to adolescent angst, is long and honorable: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, of course, and then there's that "P…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMThursday, May 3, 2018
Unexpected Joy has a cast of four women and possesses a chick-flick plot that, while original, might have been lifted from a Lifetime Movie of the Week. Wait, wait, don't go away.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMUnexpected Joy has a cast of four women and possesses a chick-flick plot that, while original, might have been lifted from a Lifetime Movie of the Week. Wait, wait, don't go away.
SOURCE: at 06:50PMMonday, April 9, 2018
Plays don't come timelier than Lindsey Ferrentino's This Flat Earth, premiering at Playwrights Horizons, and sadly, this one will probably stay timely for some good while.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
A.R. Gurney is back in town; town is a more civilized place.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Vulnerability doesn't come easily to Eve Ensler. Neither does holding back.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27PMSunday, February 4, 2018
The Connelly Theater, on East Fourth, is an elegant old-style off-Broadway house, with gilded proscenium arch, dramatic red curtain, and ample wing space to store enormous set changes.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:21PMMonday, January 22, 2018
The more you like being in a crowded teachers' lounge in the middle of Ohio, the more you'll like Miles for Mary.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMSunday, October 1, 2017
Something's happened to Peter Kellogg. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:17PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Filial guilt may seem a slender thread on which to hang a whole evening. And it turns out, with The Treasurer, that it is. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Sarah Ruhl, who's usually so eager to provoke and bend rules and tease her audience, has gone mostly naturalistic and presentational with her latest.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
Sherlock Holmes hasn't had an easy time of it on the musical stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:15PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
The sad outweighs the funny in Fulfillment Center, at City Center Stage II at Manhattan Theatre Club, but my gosh, there's plenty of both.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:15PMMonday, June 12, 2017
Bella: An American Tall Tale wore me down.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMThursday, May 25, 2017
It's called Building the Wall, and yes, the wall referred to is That Wall.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:18AM 
