Monday, May 25, 2015
Nicky Silver's 1993 comedy skewers some familiar targets but does it with a delightful sense of the ridiculous. It's receiving an intelligent and enjoyable revival by New City Stage Company.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMSaturday, March 9, 2013
You may not like the four Hollywood sleazeballs at the center of David Rabe's play, but the rich, multi-layered (and profane) dialogue makes these characters complex and fascinating.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:58AMThursday, February 28, 2013
The North Plan is filled with violence, profanity and paranoia. It's also downright funny. ... Nicholas Wright's Vincent in Brixton is a play about a famous artist where we don't see the art…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
For this Valentine's Day week, here are two plays about romance ... Theatre Horizon's An Infinite Ache has an interesting concept, but it isn't executed particularly well. And Hedgerow Theat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:18PMFriday, February 8, 2013
Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of The Mountaintop has been highly controversial because it was mounted during a stagehands strike ... Luna Theater's production of Lungs is surpri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:05PMSunday, February 3, 2013
In spite of its title, Assassin isn't about a shooting ... despite its inconsistency, An Ideal Husband is an entertaining piece ... The Arden has never done a Beckett show in its twenty-five…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:27PMThursday, January 24, 2013
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Martin McDonagh's hilarious, heartbreaking and horrifying play, is a study of a mother and daughter who have spent decades in a bleak, tiny Irish cottage battlin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:03PMFriday, December 21, 2012
The Wonderettes shows, written by Roger Bean, have been popular in regional theatre for years, serving as a female answer to the all-male Forever Plaid franchise ... ELFuego is a much more a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:38AMMonday, December 10, 2012
The Arden Theatre's holiday show, Cinderella, is a peculiar take on the children's classic ... Plaid Tidings' mixture of comedy and music isn't always a successful one, but when it sticks to…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:01PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
In The Music Man, Marian Paroo recognizes that Harold Hill is a crook, but falls in love with him anyway because she sees the hope and good will he inspires in people. In Theatre Exile's The…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:38PMThursday, November 15, 2012
Lantern Theater's The Liar is one of those comedies of errors where improbable situations, mistaken identities, and identical twins keep all the characters busy and confused from beginning t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:43PMMonday, November 12, 2012
J.C. Lee's highly enjoyable new comedy focuses on a girl for whom art, rebellion, self-expression and self-promotion are inextricably linked ... while it's never less than interesting, Freud…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:43AMThursday, November 8, 2012
Theatre Horizon's handsome, spacious new home in Norristown is getting a first-rate introduction via Pretty Fire, actress/author Charlayne Woodard's finely detailed chronicle of the highs an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:05PMSaturday, November 3, 2012
Stars of David is Philadelphia Theatre Company's ambitious new musical that attempts to provide an overview of the way modern American Jews feel about their place in society ... Lee Miller w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:21PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Quintessence Theatre's Othello is tough ... Gutenberg! The Musical! is a good show about a bad show.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:07PMSaturday, October 13, 2012
What makes the Arden's new production so interesting is that it doesn't pummel you with its power.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Mamet's play is designed to be provocative, and it certainly provoked the audience on opening night ... Villanova Theatre is offering a fine production of How I Learned To Drive, Paula Vogel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:22PMThursday, September 27, 2012
Red-Eye to Havre de Grace is a mesmerizing piece of theatre ... What makes Bang so great is how it subverts and explodes our expectations ... Jacqueline Goldfinger's Raw Stitch is a raunchy …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:11AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
"The Edge of Our Bodies," "Creditors," "Zero Cost House" and "Ivona, Princess of Burgundia."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:17PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
[T]his adaptation of Erich Segal's simplistic, nuance-free 1970 novel about a rich boy who falls for a poor, saintly girl doesn't add any freshness to a romance that was already cliched fort…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMThursday, September 13, 2012
Reviews of "Jeff Coon and Ben Dibble Must Die," "27," and "Devotedly, Sincerely Yours: The Story of the USO."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:06AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
David Ives' New Jerusalem played last fall at the Lantern Theater Company and was the best-selling production in the theater's 18-year history. The play has now been brought back, with the s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Ira Levin's Deathtrap ran for over four years on Broadway (where it opened in 1978), and it's not hard to see why. It's an enormously appealing play that combines comedy with mystery, ridicu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:49AMThursday, August 16, 2012
Mauckingbird Theatre Company's take on Much Ado About Nothing has several commendable qualities.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PM 
