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 08:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 07:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 02:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 02:03PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 01:40PM[SHARE]In 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 01:39PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 paralle…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:22PM[SHARE]It 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 01:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 03:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 02:25PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 05:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 Mach…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:24PM[SHARE]Monday, 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[SHARE] 
