Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Cyrano is deaf, and finds himself running up against jerks who see him as someone who can't hear, can't speak, and flails his arms around in a wasteful and senseless attempt to make his pres…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:10AMSaturday, April 28, 2012
The single plotline that drives all the action in Chuck Rose's political play Bedfellows, now in a world premiere production by The New American Theatre, is the sort of thing that would cons…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29PMSunday, April 1, 2012
Matthew Leavitt's The Boomerang Effect isn't so much a play as five short plays, joined together by a common set, and a cute little quirk of storytelling.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:17PMTuesday, January 24, 2012
t has been said that it's a terrible thing to be judged for the rest of your life based on the worst thing you've ever done. Matt Pelfrey's world premiere play NOgoodDEED considers the possi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:03PMMonday, January 9, 2012
To use a (likely inappropriate) baseball metaphor, Leslie Jordan's new one-man show, "Fruit Fly," is a swing and a miss.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:48PMSunday, November 27, 2011
Yes, the play is about Marie Curie; yes, radium plays a part; yes, there are a few mentions of her Nobel prizes and the scientific community's reluctance to even acknowledge that a woman cou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:40PMIn terms of a show with a phenomenal score, a thought-provoking book, or a slick, well-produced laugh-fest, "Bring It On" is a dramatic failure.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:39PMFriday, October 14, 2011
John Walch's "The Dinosaur Within" has a few interesting ideas going for it. It talks of fossils, history, and evolution�but not necessarily in the way you might think. Walch draws parallels…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:22PMIt should work, and I bet it reads great. The play itself is both smart and clever. It deals with themes of love, lust, instinct, worth, revolution and sacrifice; and it does so in an allego…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:21PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
John Leguizamo does not lie. At the top of "Ghetto Klown" he tells you that the auto-biographical one-man show is an act of "spilling [his] guts" for us and "therapy" for him. But by the end…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:14PMSaturday, September 17, 2011
In Reprise's production of Cabaret, director/choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge has chosen to emphasize the time period of the show by giving the Kit Kat Klub dancers Charleston-style choreo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:25PMMonday, September 12, 2011
As a rule, if you have an opportunity to see Lisa Wolpe in a Shakespeare play, you should take it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40PMSaturday, August 27, 2011
The reason you should see "Blackbird" is for the amazing performance Sam Anderson gives as Ray�reacting to accusations of the unthinkable acts of which Ray is guilty ... Also at Rogue Machin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:19PMSunday, July 3, 2011
Twist�An American Musical is the sort of show that can sell a hell of a lot of tickets, but very few cast recordings. It is engaging and entertaining while you're in the theatre, but the son…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:24PMMonday, April 25, 2011
It's hard to watch Musical Theatre Guild's "concert-staged reading" of Little Me without getting the feeling that Jason Graae has been auditioning for the leading male role(s) for the past d…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PM 
