Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Christmas theatre, like Christmas songs, Christmas movies, and Christmas TV shows, tends to follow a predictably tooth-rotting pattern about bringing people around to the "spirit of the seas…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:59PMSunday, December 11, 2016
That New York's MTA subway system is a microcosm of humanity is the closest you'll find to a detectable point - and concept - in In Transit, which just opened at Circle in the Square.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:40PMFriday, December 9, 2016
Because so much of stage acting is keeping the small small while also allowing it to appear big, it's easy to forget that you can remove the additional amplification and still get a transfix…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21PMIt's a unique characteristic of art that it's capable of being "great" without actually being "good."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21PMWednesday, December 7, 2016
Dialogue is the chief building block of theatre for a reason.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:21PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
When you've landed somewhere you feel you don't belong - or you know you don't belong - everything just seems wrong.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMWhere better to observe the racing heartbeat of change than the epitome of conformity?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:28AMSunday, December 4, 2016
Anxiety, isolation, and depression, the kinds of feelings that crush inward rather than expand outward, do not naturally sing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMThere is no shortage of captivating magic to be found in The Illusionists: Turn of the Century, which just opened at the Palace.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMThursday, December 1, 2016
As far as I could tell from scouring the Playbill for the new musical A Bronx Tale, which just opened at the Longacre, Disney Theatrical Productions was not involved in its creation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Monday, November 21, 2016
Love and marriage are part of a long game that's getting longer all the time, if Nicky Silver's new play This Day Forward is to be trusted.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:21PMSunday, November 20, 2016
Poor Charity Hope Valentine: so lovely, so talented, so awash in an identity crisis.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:27PMIt's been tempting, over the course of this long, hyperpoliticized year, and especially during the past (yikes) tumultuous week and a half, to want to check out entirely.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:38AMThursday, November 17, 2016
If you're adapting a film to the stage, so the theory goes, you'd better find a way to make it theatrical.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:40PMLeave it to Cupid to melt all the hearts he's not able to pierce with his arrows.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:40PMIt's been said that the kitchen is the most important room in the house - and why not?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:39PMTuesday, November 15, 2016
It takes way, way too long, but Party People, the combination play and in-your-face musical art installation that just opened at The Public Theater, eventually comes to ask a fascinating que…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMMonday, November 14, 2016
If you couldn't stand reading long and boring foreign novels in school, does Dave Malloy ever have a treat for you.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMSunday, November 13, 2016
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Women of a Certain Age, the third and final play in Richard Nelson's series "The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family," is set amid three blighted wastelands.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:50AMMonday, November 7, 2016
You might experience a bit of an initial shock at how shocking the Signature Theatre revival of "Master Harold" ...and the boys, which just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:43PMSunday, November 6, 2016
Maybe it's just late-election malaise talking, but Missitucky is looking pretty darn nice this time of year.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMThursday, November 3, 2016
Few playwrights are as skilled as Lynn Nottage in excavating the souls of the disadvantaged, whether spiritually, emotionally, or economically.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:21PMAs the Internet moves out of childhood and into its uneasy adolescence, stories about it (or at least that use it as a backdrop) have to change as well.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29AMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Few of the people Anna Deavere Smith portrays in her new play at Second Stage, Notes From the Field, could be considered articulate in the traditional sense.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMSunday, October 30, 2016
Annoyed Liaisons? Perturbed Liaisons? Mildly Irritated Liaisons? . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:40PMFriday, October 28, 2016
I'll give it to Andrew Bergh: He sure knows his Rodgers, Hammerstein, Crouse, Lindsay, and Lehman!
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:49AMThursday, October 27, 2016
There are a lot of potential elements to great theatre: superb writing, and outstanding production, sublime acting. But I would argue that one of the chief things that makes a great show - t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:44PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
Sunday in the Park With George, the Pulitzer Prize-winning James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim musical, tells the intertwining stories of two artists born a century apart who both struggle with ma…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:14PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
The American experience is not (and never has been) exclusively white, even if so many of the narrative genres - and their associated films - linked to it frequently are.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:25PM 
