Wednesday, April 23, 2014
I am not inclined to gush, but gush away I shall over the most delightful new musical in many a season, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, which blew onto the stage of the Seattle Repertory Theatre…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:30AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Dress it up with all the denim, fake fur, fishnets, and sequins you like, a second-rate talent shouldn't fit easily into a first-rate house.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:55PMFor its season finale, WestCoast Black Theatre Troupe (WBTT) is presenting Bubbling Brown Sugar by Loften Mitchell, a revue that attempts an overview of American black music circa 1920-1940s.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:14PMIt is set on the stage of a Broadway theatre during rehearsals for the opening of an anti-lynching Broadway play (Chaos in Belleville).
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 04:45PM"Lift" is set in an elevator in a large building which is owned and occupied by a large corporation which encompasses varied businesses and financial institutions.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 04:45PMThe 30th Annual Helen Hayes Awards, were held by theatreWashington April 21 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:35AMThe sprawling mountain vistas lurking just at the limits of your vision loom large over Annapurna, the play by Sharr White that just opened at the Acorn Theatre in a production of The New Gr…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:26AMMonday, April 21, 2014
Given the amorous activities suggested by the play's title, it's probably a good thing that Kirk Lynn's Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra is not significantly about anyone's parents havin…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMOne of Anton Chekhov's most widely cited rules about writing concerns waste: If you're going to show a rifle when the curtain goes up, you'd better have fired it by the time the curtain come…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:38PM[Stacy] Keach is magnetic as he draws out all the contradictory sides of Falstaff: charming and exasperating, a self-deceiver who tells lies both for fun and for self-preservation, a drunkar…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 04:44PMSunday, April 20, 2014
Special effects don’t get much more special than in Violet, the Brian Crawley–Jeanine Tesori musical that just opened at the American Airlines in a scintillating Roundabout Theatre Compa…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:38PMSerious theatre is so rare these days, with the plethora of glitz, laser shows and, not to mention, the ubiquitous chandeliers and helicopters ...
But, sometimes there is hope.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMBest brush up on your Bible stories and make sure you are well rested before heading out to the Flea Theater and director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar’s breathtaking and boldly conceived productio…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:33PMCan you ever believe your ears? In the Michael Grandage Company production of The Cripple of Inishmaan, which just opened at the Cort following a London run last year, the answer would seem …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 04:22PMThe Marriage of Figaro is the finest production of any play that I have seen in New Jersey this entire season.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:51AMEverything has come up all aces for the Paper Mill Playhouse and its fresh as a daisy new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific."
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:27AMThursday, April 17, 2014
If Ridiculous has begun seeming less ridiculous in recent years, that doesn't mean it still can't be incredibly funny.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 11:51PMIt's a tale tested (and honored, and wrinkled) by time: a bright-eyed youngster falls in love with art, pursues it to no avail, gets discouraged, plans to quit, and then, at the last possibl…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:53PM"Going Up" studio cast recording and "Andy Capp" original London cast recording.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 11:13AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Dreams can be magical, uplifting, portentous, or oppressive — or, sometimes, all four at once.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:25PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Facts, John Adams wrote, are stubborn things — if not always as trustworthy as we may like.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:37PMSomewhere is, on a certain level, a wistful drama about those who dream on while reality forcibly threatens them.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:44AMMonday, April 14, 2014
Jeffrey Hatcher's theatrical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's novel "An Unsocial Socialist" has all the earmarks of Shaw's better-known plays: witty, erudite dialogue; arch and sarcastic …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:38PMOn stage at the McCarter in a felicitous translation/adaptation of the latter 18th century French commedia dell'arte The Barber of Seville. Originally conceived of as a comic opera, the play…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:37AMSunday, April 13, 2014
Is she the dream, or is it you? It's impossible not to wonder this once the titular star appears in the opening moments of the revival of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, which just opened…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMFriday, April 11, 2014
A production of Midsummer that can't make Puck work has a serious problem.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 01:33PM42nd 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 …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:01PMHere they area collection paired up for your musical inspectiona formidable musical theatre actress well matched to songs favored by one of our greatest playwrights; lovers from thousand o…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:47AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Has the high price of theatre tickets got you down? Concerned that you don't get enough bang for your buck? Tired of having to pick just one type of show when you may want something more lay…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:19PMMonday, April 7, 2014
Life is a musical-comedy cabaret, old chum, in the Atlantic Theater Company's new revival of The Threepenny Opera at the Linda Gross Theater.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMSunday, April 6, 2014
Humans have long recognized the relationship between laughter and health: “laugh through the pain,” “I laughed so much, it hurt,” and so on.
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