Monday, February 27, 2023
The little-known or virtually unknown plays that have been expertly revived by the Mint Theater Company throughout its history have fallen into two broad categories: (1) obscure works by obs…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMWednesday, February 23, 2022
Almost miraculously, the Mint has given us new-old winners time and again for 30 years now, with only a few re-dos. Its current offering is a revival of a true rarity that the company first …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26AMSunday, August 26, 2018
It's interesting to debate just where Lillian Hellman's reputation as a playwright stands as compared to her contemporaries in terms of quality, prolificity, and also revivability.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PMThursday, June 21, 2018
Sex, politics, and sex in politics have been rich subjects for theatrical treatment pretty much since day one, and will no doubt continue to be
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:56PMThursday, January 18, 2018
The year 1912 was a bad one for certain trans-Atlantic ship passengers—and, based on what happens in the first scene of Stanley Houghton's 1912 play Hindle Wakes, currently on view in a ra…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMThursday, November 9, 2017
It's demonstrably true that people who think they're supposed to hate each other due to cultural, racial, religious, ideological, and other differences amplified by tribalism can actually li…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14PMThursday, October 26, 2017
Director Julie Taymor has stated that a Chinese puzzle box was the metaphor that came to her mind as the jumping-off point for her new Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMThursday, August 24, 2017
When it was first announced that there would be a show celebrating the Broadway career of Harold Prince, some people expressed the opinion that this did not sound like a good idea.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMIn Michael Moore's Broadway show, he makes the powerful point that a single person can effect tremendous change for the better in our world, and he gives several examples. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51PMThursday, August 10, 2017
Have you seen the electoral map of New York City for the 2016 Presidential election?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:36PMThursday, June 29, 2017
Dark comedies don't get much darker that Scott McPherson's funny, sad, beautiful play Marvin's Room, about a caregiver who contracts a serious illness herself.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMThursday, June 22, 2017
The dystopia depicted by George Orwell (real name, Eric Arthur Blair) in his chillingly prescient novel 1984 has not come true in all of its nightmarish particulars, at least not to the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMThursday, May 11, 2017
The current, wish-come-true, New York City Center Encores! presentation of The Golden Apple will have seven performances over a five-day period.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PMThursday, January 26, 2017
It's not surprising that Yours Unfaithfully, Miles Malleson's 1933 play about a couple's attempt to successfully negotiate the terrain of what we would now call an “open marriage,” was n…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26PMThursday, August 25, 2016
The program for the Mint Theater Company's production of N.C. Hunter's A Day by the Sea tells us that the author “took his place among the leading British dramatists of the 1950s,” but i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMSunday, July 3, 2016
“The Sound of Musicals,” is a monthly podcast devoted to musical theatre recordings of all types, including Broadway cast albums, London cast albums, studio cast albums, and soun…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:44PMTuesday, May 24, 2016
The 72nd annual Theatre World Awards, honoring "outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway significant, reviewable debut performances," were presented last evening in a ceremony at Circle in the S…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:39PMMonday, May 2, 2016
Guards at the Taj (Outstanding Play), FUTURITY (Outstanding Musical), and The Robber Bridegroom (Outstanding Revival) were among the big winners at the 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards honoring ex…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:25AMSaturday, April 23, 2016
“The Sound of Musicals,” is a monthly podcast devoted to musical theatre recordings of all types, including Broadway cast albums, London cast albums, studio cast albums, and soun…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:59PMThursday, February 25, 2016
Women Without Men sounds like it could be the title of a girl-on-girl porno flick, or maybe one of those trashy, lesbian-themed pulp novels of the 1950s.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52PMThursday, January 14, 2016
As the 20th anniversary of Rent's Off-Broadway debut approaches, we look back to our 1996 interview with musical director Tim Weil, who talked about putting the finishing touches on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
George and Ira Gershwin's utterly delightful 1926 musical Oh, Kay! is the current production of Mel Miller's essential Musicals Tonight! company.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMMonday, September 21, 2015
In theatrical comedy, drama, and even tragedy, an entire play can revolve around or turn upon the smallest of plot points.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMMonday, June 22, 2015
A Tony Award nominee for Spring Awakening, Jonathan Groff has been away from theater for a while, making himself known and beloved in two of the most disparate roles imaginable: as the flawe…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:04AMThursday, May 28, 2015
In collaboration with her husband John Pizzarelli, as well as solo appearances in musical theater, in concert and cabaret, on recordings, etc., the "singers' singer" Jessica Molask…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:52AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Bryan Batt, Paula West, Karen Akers, Paulo Szot, and Jay Armstrong Johnson are only some of the super-talents now playing in clubs around town.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:58PMPaige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Terrence Mann, and Gary Beach talk about the magic of Beauty and the Beast.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:58PMBroadwayStars talks with the pumped and ripped Broadway veteran who serves as Jackie Warner's co-trainer on the new Bravo TV reality series Thintervention.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:58PMTenor Vittorio Grigolo, the Metropolitan Opera's newest star, is definitely ready for his close-up.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:58PMAs a tremendously exciting new season begins at the New York City Opera, general manager and artistic director George Steel waxes enthusiastic
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:58PMMonday, May 4, 2015
Zorba! may be the greatest Kander and Ebb musical you've never seen. A story of life and death in the Greek isles, originally produced and directed by Harold Prince, the show was well regard…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:29PM 
