Sunday, June 5, 2016
This 95-minute drama is performed by two amazing actors, David Strathairn and Dan Clegg, who give vivid performances. I was spellbound by their presentation of this tale of a young man named…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:23PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
The songs are nice hummable tunes. Duane Poole captures the magic of the Dickens story while finding effective ways of filling it out. The incomparable Jason Graae brilliantly stars as the s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:58PMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Fred's Dinner, with a definite trace of theatre, is a stylish, neatly crafted television drama.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:16AMSunday, September 20, 2015
This play concerns the alliance between Welsh miners and the lesbian and gay community during the 1984 British miners strike, which also inspired the 2014 film Pride.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
... one of the most charming musicals I have seen in a long time. A brilliant cast makes this almost two hour production a delightful experience.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:52PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
The 42nd Street Moon Company is revisiting one of its earliest hits, the rarely produced Something for the Boys with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Dorothy Fields. The company, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40PMSaturday, November 8, 2014
The show is an irrepressibly bubbly mix of song and dance that sparkles, thanks to the great direction of Cindy Goldfield, who also did the glistening choreography. Tap, the Charleston, and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:07AMWednesday, October 29, 2014
Playwright Laural Meade has each of the main characters relate from their own perspective what happened in this crime of passion in a unique style of theatre that includes Victorian melodram…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:38PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
The characters are pre-historic yeasts; their aspirations, feelings and challenges echo ours in modern day. The concept, execution, cast and design are all well done.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:30PMSaturday, September 27, 2014
Director Diane Paulus has raised the bar to dizzying heights of imagination, amalgamation and originality with this new approach. It is a brilliant, magical production and the energy level i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:49AMMonday, September 15, 2014
This is indeed a strange but interesting 90 minutes with the talented Australian-born singer and dancer who is a cross between Liza Minnelli and Lucille Ball, with an intoxicating touch of M…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:49PMFriday, August 29, 2014
Marin Shakespeare Company is currently offering their third and final production of the season, an attractive presentation of Oscar Wilde's social comedy An Ideal Husband.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:15PMThe historical drama is based on a press conference in which heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali introduces his "secret strategy man," the former Hollywood comedic actor Stepin Fetchit,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:15PMSunday, August 3, 2014
This two-hour production comes to vivid life as, in 1895 Scotland Yard, detective Avery Sly arrives at an asylum where he will interrogate four inmates about the disappearance of a mysteriou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:07PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
The action takes place on Sunday, October 14, 1990, on a set in a television studio. There is a large blank screen as the backdrop where photos of Leonard Bernstein and family and others wil…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:26PMThursday, June 12, 2014
The fast-paced production, thanks to first time director Alex Kirschner, takes place on Isla Nublar, and island made famous by Michael Crichton and more famous by Steven Spielberg.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:49PMSan Francisco Opera has produced a glorious and bold recreation of the 1927 version of the show with a few cuts from the original version (the Dahomey dance scene has been excluded) with 14 …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:48PMThursday, May 22, 2014
The Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival is starting their 2014 season with a program of six intriguing plays ranging from the zany 1925 musical that starred the Marx Brothers, The…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:46AMFriday, April 11, 2014
42nd Street Moon is presenting its very first world premiere musical at the Eureka Theatre ... Magic Theatre is currently presenting the world premiere of Scottish playwright Linda McLean's …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:22AMThursday, March 27, 2014
San Francisco Playhouse is presenting the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson's superb new drama Bauer based on the life of brilliant abstract artist Rudolf Bauer.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36AMSaturday, March 8, 2014
In a stylized staging, director Jasson Minadakis has assembled a splendid cast of mostly local actors to present a fascinating and sensual evening of entertainment ... [Del Shore] has now wr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:05PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Loeb, who wrote First Person Shooter and Abraham Lincoln's Big, Gay Dance Party, now goes into the world of paranoia in this excellent 90-minute drama.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:28PMThursday, November 21, 2013
The production materializes as a moving accolade to the genius of the original.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:28PMWednesday, October 23, 2013
This Carrie is definitely worth having and much of it is surprising good ... TheatreWorks is currently presenting Kenneth Lin's Warrior Class ... The last part of the act is the illusionist …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:30AMSunday, October 13, 2013
There's a lot to like in this production, including the appealing and striking Jessie Mueller as Carole King. Although the plot doesn't live up to the songs, there is no denying that this sc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:23PMSunday, October 6, 2013
A Wonderful Mash up of Chekhovian Themes in Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and An Inventive Production of "A Winter's Tale"
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PMSunday, September 29, 2013
1776 is as much a play as it is a musical. History is never sacrificed for a song and dance routine and, still, the music and dance is integrated. ... To say that the action of Sam Shepard's…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:35PMThursday, September 12, 2013
Aurora Theatre is presenting Amy Herzog's smart and finely written After the Revolution ... Marin Theatre is presenting probably the most popular play in America: David Lindsay-Abaire's Good…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:25PMMonday, September 2, 2013
TheatreWorks' Other Desert Cities is a passionately alive play inhabited by a flawless cast of fascinating characters ... Oregon Shakespeare director Christopher Liam Moore has staged [Lady …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:44PMTuesday, August 27, 2013
Priscilla Queen of the Desert is a rollicking, sassy, upbeat musical that will make you feel young again (at least it did this oldster).
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Berkeley Repertory Theatre is currently presenting a superb cast of two incomparable interpreters of Harold Pinter's notorious ambiguity, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart, with Billy…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49PM 
