Monday, October 1, 2012
This is an excellent production of a very well written and engrossing play that leaves off with an unpleasant sense of sound and fury signifying not much. It’s about a husband and wife who…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:10PMSunday, September 23, 2012
... as good as it gets ... Pook's Hill, a new theatre group, is presenting three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams -- 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton, Hello From Bertha, and This Property Is Cond…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:14PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
For a thoroughly enjoyable time, go see The Anderson Twins Play The Fabulous Dorseys at 59E59. Here’s how it goes: it’s not a theater, for the time being, but a nightclub from the 1920�…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:43PMSunday, September 16, 2012
... why do the righteous playgoers suffer? ... The story of Job reinterpreted by a contemporary playwright: what an intriguing idea. Exotic times and places -- here the ancient Near East, ar…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:27PMThursday, September 13, 2012
This is a fascinating exhibit, stimulating for its irony, humor, kaleidoscopic glimpses at American culture in the last 50 years, and interrelationships between artists with Warhol the creat…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:35PMSaturday, September 8, 2012
… inadvertent … Among the Fugard plays I’ve seen, this -- possibly excepting the iconic The Island -- is the finest. It’s intense, with a driving force. Especially interesting, altho…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 12:30PMMonday, July 30, 2012
... a complete world ... Looking for an enchanted evening? You couldn't find a better one than an evening spent at South Pacific -- beautifully produced and played by the North Fork Communit…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:28PMMonday, July 23, 2012
... keep laughing, Clown ... With breathtakingly beautiful photography -- and the people are as fascinating to see as the city -- Woody Allen weaves together stories of lovers, Romans and vi…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 02:43PMFriday, July 20, 2012
Tickets Now On Sale For NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL 16th Annual Festival Runs August 10 - 26, 2012 Tickets are now on sale for The 16th annual New York International Fringe Festiv…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:08PMSunday, July 15, 2012
... Prospero on Shelter Island ... At the beginning, Ariel heads the storm tossed boat like a great, gleaming figurehead, thrown now this way now that by the waves and wind but at the same s…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:04PMWednesday, July 4, 2012
... endangered species ... Men’s Lives tells the story of what happens to fishermen on the East End of Long Island when the forces of change and politics put an end to the only way they kn…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:40PMSunday, June 17, 2012
This is a one-person show in which Angela, a 44-year old woman, recounts the story of her divorce, from her husband’s abrupt announcement that he's leaving her through her stages of coping…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:41PMWednesday, June 13, 2012
… if only I’d … If only I could have a do-over! What a frustrating experience it is to fail to come up with the right words at a critical moment – and pay for it, it seems, forever a…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:49PMMonday, June 4, 2012
The Independent Theater Bloggers Association (the “ITBA”) is proud to announce the 2012 recipients of the Fourth Annual Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Awards, (the “the Patricks”). Patr…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:37PMThursday, May 31, 2012
Cloud City is a shimmering, spacious delight that plays with space and gravity and takes you to a new place. What an adventure! What do you see when you arrive at the roof? a very large stru…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:32PMSunday, May 27, 2012
… opposites attract … This movie is a delight. The Intouchables is about a hugely rich French man who became paraplegic in an accident and hires against the odds a big Black man original…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:42PMMonday, April 30, 2012
Man and Superman is a totally delightful evening of theater that lifts you from yourself with enjoyment and -- thinking about it after -- reminds you of what theater is all about. It couldn�…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:13PMSaturday, April 21, 2012
Don’t Dress for Dinner -- and don’t see this show either. I went because I read somewhere it was really funny. It is, for about ten minutes. But the rest is an uninspired cliche -- thoug…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:35PMSunday, April 15, 2012
End of the Rainbow tells the story of the last weeks of Judy Garland’s Life. Addicted to drugs and alcohol, and debt ridden, she’s spiraling downward -- but her personality, on and off-s…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:09PMTuesday, April 10, 2012
Joan Miro, large blue stained glass at Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France, detail The wild flowers are yellow and purple and the hills are terraced with olives, and amidst it is w…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 08:21PMTuesday, March 27, 2012
Tribes is a cleverly written, witty and engaging play about a “problem.” The surface problem involves deafness. A young man who is deaf and a young woman who is going that way fall in lo…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 02:44PMSaturday, March 17, 2012
A Moon for the Misbegotten is a tense, character driven play that demands great acting and this excellent production provides it: Kim Martin-Cotton is as fine an actress as I’ve seen anywh…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:33PMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Seeing War Horse in its current production is a powerful experience -- the kind one has to be glad one had and feel concerned for everyone who hasn't had the chance. “You must see it” I …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:04PMSunday, February 26, 2012
While watching Beyond the Horizon, I was often gripped by the strong conflicts in individual scenes. Yet, the play came across as less than the sum of the parts. O’Neill won the Pulitzer P…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:46PMThursday, February 23, 2012
The three early one-act plays by O’Neill are moving and naturalistic, not melodramatic as I’ve seen them called elsewhere. In order to find this out, though, one has to look through this…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:02PMSaturday, February 18, 2012
Denis O’Hare gives a magnificent performance as “The Poet”, a bard transported through time from ancient Greece to today, picking up our style and our way of speaking to tell us the st…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:07PMTuesday, February 14, 2012
The Time of Your Life is a classic American play. It’s terrific, wonderful, rich in comedy, music, dance, vivid characters, feeling, humanity -- all that and it has a great sense of place …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:13PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
The conflict in Galileo is iconic: freedom of ideas vs. censorship. Brecht peppers his play and his character of Galileo (1564-1642 ) with some Marxist views which are anachronistic but the …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:37PMSunday, February 5, 2012
... Who wears the suit ?.... Set in South Africa in 1961, during apartheid, Blood Knot tells the story of two brothers, one who looks White and the other Black. They're sons of one black mot…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:06PMMonday, January 30, 2012
Allison Buck as Tekmessa and Grant Harreison as Ajax, photo Laura June Kirsch, courtesy Flea Theater If you’re lucky enough to see These Seven Sicknesses, you’re in for a rich adventure.…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:14PMThursday, January 26, 2012
... pre-vintage Shaw ... Shaw’s early play, The Philanderer of 1893, is a romantic comedy that’s as focused on the ideas of Henrik Ibsen as it is on love, and with good reason: for Shaw …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:25AM 
