Friday, 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 09:07AMSunday, September 14, 2014
The Huntington Theatre Company production is a crisp, tight vehicle driven expertly by director David Esbjornson (All My Sons at the Huntington), who follows Kreidler's lead in focusing on t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:14PMWednesday, September 10, 2014
Featuring an ensemble of gifted singers and actors, supported by the skills of music director Jonathan Goldberg and his live six-piece orchestra, and surrounded by masterful design elements,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:09AMMonday, August 18, 2014
[director] Paulus has repeatedly demonstrated her ability to put her imagination on display with amazing stagecraft and her streak remains intact. However, arguably more important, she engag…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:36AMThursday, May 22, 2014
Producing Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos has a proven record as an interpreter of Sondheim's works, and his well-chosen cast of 17 actors meets the challenges of the composer's complex sco…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:45PMThursday, April 3, 2014
... a contemporary version of The Heiress which swaps a high-powered, controlling mother for the film's emotionally abusive father of a plain Jane being romantically pursued by a struggling …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:37PMSaturday, March 15, 2014
This is an example of the SpeakEasy production surpassing the play with its stellar performances, considered direction and skilled design elements.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:27PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Massachusetts, presents the regional premiere of Oscar-winning British playwright Ronald Harwood's Equally Divided, a character study that homes in on …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02PMSunday, January 26, 2014
Whether Hoffman is staring at the floor or tilting her head back to emit a primal wail, her shame and pain are visceral. When she finally has reason to smile and sing out loudly, declaring h…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:20AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Set in a fictional bar in the playwright's hometown of South Philadelphia, the play looks deeply into the hearts of two people who are facing lonely futures unless they find the courage to t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:33AMSaturday, November 30, 2013
A well-structured comedy of manners that dissects the foibles of a quartet of upper-class WASPs, The Cocktail Hour peels back the veneer of cordiality and propriety to reveal the internecine…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:21AMSunday, November 24, 2013
Take a nostalgia-filled journey to 1940 Indiana via the heartwarming reminiscences of the late, legendary radio humorist Jean Shepherd in the 2012 Tony-nominated Best Musical A Christmas Sto…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:21AMSaturday, November 9, 2013
SpeakEasy Stage Company is branching out, adding new plays to its programming which has been a model of excellence in the categories of revivals and second productions for two decades.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:05PMThere are times when a review virtually writes itself; the fingers fly across the keyboard struggling to keep up with the onslaught of words spilling out of the brain.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:04PMSunday, November 3, 2013
The utterly delightful memory play Mrs. Mannerly runs through November 17 at MRT in Lowell, while his adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:47PMWednesday, October 30, 2013
... the New England premiere of Stephen Belber's The Power of Duff by the Huntington Theatre Company, under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois at the Boston Center for the Arts.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:23PMSunday, October 27, 2013
Two plays currently at local theaters plumb the depths of human connection and examine the definitions of community; are virtual relationships more or less nurturing than face-to-face contac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:15PMSaturday, October 19, 2013
As it turns out, the mirage metaphor comes into play on many levels as three affluent suburban couples gather for a dinner party where the foundations of their friendships and marriages are …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMSunday, October 13, 2013
Baritone happens to be my favorite among the male voice roles, but personal preference aside, my ability to articulate what is special about the register pales next to the comprehensive and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:55PMThursday, September 26, 2013
While some lines are taken from historical documents, it bears stating that All the Way is a dramatization, albeit a darn good one, and the gestalt captures the feel of the period in rivetin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:56PMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Tony Award-winner Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of The Jungle Book, based on Rudyard Kipling's 1893 collection of stories and Walt Disney's 1967 animated film, tells the tale of the little orp…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:34PMSaturday, September 21, 2013
The life lessons he learns along the way resonate for anyone searching for their place in the world and a way to meaningfully communicate with others.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:37PMSunday, September 15, 2013
Directed by Artistic Director Jim Petosa, the drama features an accomplished cast of five men and two women, all but one of whom play multiple parts.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:49PMFortunately for us, the Lyric Stage Company has Neil A. Casey in the lead role. His energy carries the play, ratcheting up the laughs with his ad libs and impish grin, and keeping the audien…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:32PMWednesday, June 5, 2013
The Huntington Theatre Company concludes its 31st season on a high note with the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:29PMSunday, June 2, 2013
The recently twice-extended Boston regional premiere of In The Heights, directed by SpeakEasy Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault, continues the fine tradition of ascending every pea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:56PMFriday, May 10, 2013
By comparison to the boy prodigy, Salieri's talents may have been pedestrian, but there is nothing pedestrian about the New Repertory Theatre's production, directed by Artistic Director Jim …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:25PMSunday, April 7, 2013
Making her debut on the Watertown stage, IRNE Award-winning Boston actress Amelia Broome gives a tour de force performance, the force of which will knock your socks off, pin you to your seat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMFriday, March 22, 2013
There are so many layers and themes in A Raisin in the Sun that fifty-five years after Hansberry wrote the play, there is still so much to explore and analyze within its pages.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:31AMSaturday, March 9, 2013
Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (which coincidentally is running through April 7 at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company), Clybourne Park is Norris' not-so-sunny view of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:18AMFriday, February 15, 2013
It took the American Repertory Theater thirty-two years to get around to producing a play by the great American playwright Tennessee Williams, but they got it right on the first try.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:18PM 
