Friday, May 19, 2017
You don't need to have served in the military to know that the old axiom is true.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13AMThursday, April 27, 2017
Spring has finally sprung in New York, but it's summer 365 days a year in the Illyria of The Public Theater's Mobile Unit production of Twelfth Night.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMEven a door that's slammed rarely stays shut forever.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14PMWednesday, April 26, 2017
Swing music tends to be both exciting and comforting: reliant on the bright, brash edges of brass, but conjuring the more innocently explosive energy of a simpler and carefree era.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Few plays of recent vintage have entered the public consciousness, to say nothing of the public vernacular, the way Six Degrees of Separation has.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PMMonday, April 24, 2017
It's no wonder that the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova continues to fascinate a century after her death: Hers is one of the few modern fairy tales everyone wants to bel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMSunday, April 23, 2017
With her gripping new play The Antipodes, which just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center, Annie Baker considers one of the artist's eternal dilemmas: What happens when you give ev…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:23PMChocolate has traditionally fallen into the category of things that are pretty good even when they're bad.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMThursday, April 20, 2017
The real news about the slam-bang revival of Hello, Dolly! that just opened at the Shubert isn't what you think.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:37PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
Certain distances may seem large, but can in fact be very small: between wealth and poverty, for example, or between importance and meaninglessness, or between being somebody and being nobod…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
It's almost impossible today to imagine a time when a Broadway play would have been shut down for obscenity, especially about the long-since-accepted topic of homosexuality.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMMonday, April 17, 2017
Andy Karl looked to be in visible pain at the end of the Friday night press performance of Groundhog Day, the new musical at the August Wilson.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:29PMThursday, April 13, 2017
It's a sad fact of the even sadder world we live in that J.T. Rogers's play Oslo, which just opened at the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center following a run downstairs at the Mitzi E. Newhou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:18PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Magic acts can get away with being quiet and contemplative, as the magic is usually flashy and showy enough.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMMonday, April 10, 2017
The one intriguing twist Zayd Dohrn puts on the traditional culture-clash-marriage plot he uses in The Profane, which just opened at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons, is t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33AMThursday, April 6, 2017
You don't need to be obsessed with beauty products to grasp the timeless axiom about makeup: Less is more.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
When you need gold-plated ham, who better to turn to than Kevin Kline?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMYou already know the tune that gives Martin Sherman's new play at The Public Theater, Gently Down the Stream, its title.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Charm used to be the glue that held musicals together, but today it's largely unappreciated, if not outright scorned, as antithetical to big products and big budgets that can't (or shouldn't…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29PMSunday, April 2, 2017
The Play That Goes Wrong, which just opened at the Lyceum, is funny.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMMonday, March 27, 2017
It's rarely fun to have your intelligence demeaned, but you may not mind the way John Leguizamo does it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:53PMSunday, March 26, 2017
When Lynn Nottage's new play Sweat opened at The Public Theater last year right before election day (November 3, to be exact) it made one kind of political statement.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMThursday, March 23, 2017
At least the helicopter is better. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMMonday, March 20, 2017
Sarah Ruhl is a playwright who usually needs an editor, and for the first act of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, her new play at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, she seems…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:49PMThursday, March 16, 2017
Subtlety is no great hallmark of Arthur Miller's plays.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52PMWednesday, March 15, 2017
For their first musical together at The Public Theater in 2013, Here Lies Love, David Byrne and Alex Timbers (working with Fatboy Slim) chose Imelda Marcos to anchor a disco-fueled swirl thr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:11PMMonday, March 13, 2017
Of all the irresistible forces in the universe, progress may be the toughest to slow down.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMHas devolution ever appeared more terrifying - or more vital - onstage than it does in The Emperor Jones?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33AMSunday, March 12, 2017
For many Americans - and undoubtedly for many New Yorkers - memories of September 11, 2001, still sting.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:19PMThursday, March 9, 2017
Few next-generation directors have proven their understanding of understatement better than Sam Gold.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
The Outer Space, the new concert-musical by Ethan Lipton that just opened at Joe's Pub, turns on a familiar axiom: "Things are the same all over."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PM 
