Friday, May 19, 2017
... a gorgeous, sensual show that tells its complicated political story through the media of music and dance.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
There is no shortage of superlatives to describe the touring production of An American in Paris, but most of them are overused. Rather than label it as sublime, or stunning, or as must see, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22PMSunday, May 22, 2016
Ensler's performance is engaging and without a shred of artifice as she obliterates the fourth wall and addresses the audience in an intimate, conversational style.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:56AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
One of Jacobs-Jenkins' great achievements in An Octoroon is his ability to make us feel that we are simultaneously experiencing a theatrical event from 150 years in the past and something th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:20AMThursday, January 28, 2016
To craft the play composed of the prose poems of Louis Jenkins, two-time Tony Award-winning actor Mark Rylance collaborated with Minnesota-based poet and director/composer Claire van Kampen.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:35PMWednesday, December 23, 2015
Dave Malloy's book and libretto extract the heart of the story, making it both accessible and contemporary, and director Rachel Chavkin's thrilling staging offers a non-stop sensory feast.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:47AMSunday, November 22, 2015
Expectations have been running high in two camps for the opening of the Huntington Theatre Company world premiere of A Confederacy of Dunces: fans of Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson in NBC's "P…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
... ne side tickles your ribs with its rapier wit, while the other side incisively provokes your heart and mind with questions about the consequences of the choices we make.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:34AMMonday, July 20, 2015
... Marisa Smith's play is consistently funny and outrageous, and Jennifer Coolidge gives a knockout performance as the manipulative matriarch of a liberal, atheist Manhattan family coming f…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:29AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Friday, May 15, 2015
... pairing Broadway and television star Mandy Patinkin (A.R.T. debut) with playwright/performance artist Taylor Mac (The Lily's Revenge at A.R.T.), with direction and choreography by five-…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:23PMFriday, March 20, 2015
... this smaller, more intimate iteration by bookwriter John August and composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa reduces the size and scope of the Broadway production, directed by Susan Stroman, which…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:36AMSunday, March 1, 2015
Beyond the finely tuned performances, attentive direction, and crisp writing, Oceanside works because it is realistic and relevant.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:24AMSunday, February 15, 2015
Pitting antagonistic Jewish sects against each other, it might be subtitled "East Side Story," only with a comedic foundation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:52AMSaturday, February 7, 2015
... play that imagines the lives of those who serve the fictional Tyrone family.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:08AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge continues its commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' new trilogy, Father…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:08PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
A Future Perfect is marked by strong writing and three-dimensional, flawed characters, authentically portrayed by the four actors.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00AMFriday, January 16, 2015
With intelligent, balanced direction by Bridget Kathleen O'Leary, it is impossible to find a seam where actors Esme Allen and Lewis D. Wheeler end and their characters begin.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Vanya (Martin Moran) and Sonia (Marcia DeBonis) live in the family's Bucks County, Pennsylvania, bucolic fieldstone house (beautifully conceived by scenic designer David Korins) where they c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:30AMWednesday, January 7, 2015
MacDonald inhabits rather than impersonates the late, great Texas columnist whose folksy intellect provides a wellspring of witticisms and anecdotes that entertain and enlighten.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
It's at its best during the many musical numbers and whenever [Sirena] Abalian is center stage; but, while she is soaring on a higher plane, much of the show is struggling to achieve altitud…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01AMMonday, December 15, 2014
... the latest entertainment to spill from the labyrinthian mind of the local playwright. Directed by frequent collaborator David R. Gammons, who likens the structure of Kuntz's play to that…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:04PMSaturday, December 13, 2014
... is as much a giant wave in a cultural tsunami as it is a play.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:17PMThursday, December 4, 2014
. It was inspired for Fuller and Kleinbort to find the dramatic justification to turn the play into a musical. That isn't always the case, but this duo found the way to make this story sing …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53AMTuesday, December 2, 2014
The 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry, the most-read and most-translated book in French language history, has been adapted into a musical by John Scoullar (book and lyrics) and Rick C…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
Director Larry Coen, who previously staged Busch's The Divine Sister (SpeakEasy Stage 2011), has done his homework to capture the sensibility and sentiments of the playwright.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:53PMMonday, November 24, 2014
Reprising her 2013 Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated performance as Carrie Watts, Tyson is joined by Vanessa Williams and Blair Underwood to round out the conflicted family triangl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:47PMMonday, November 3, 2014
If Bad Jews happened to be a person, rather than a play, its Jewish parents would be kvelling over its achievements.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PMFriday, October 24, 2014
Renowned 20th century poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell exchanged more than 400 letters during their thirty-year friendship, and from them playwright Sarah Ruhl has culled a represent…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07AM 
