Saturday, March 8, 2014
In a stylized staging, director Jasson Minadakis has assembled a splendid cast of mostly local actors to present a fascinating and sensual evening of entertainment ... [Del Shore] has now wr…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 01:07PMFriday, March 7, 2014
In The Happiest Song Plays Last, the final play in Quiara Alegría Hudes's "Elliot" trilogy that just opened at Second Stage, borders and barricades of both the geographic and emotional pers…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:03PMThere is an abundance of mystery, drama, intrigue and humor in Bill Cain's fascinating play Equivocation.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 03:10PMThursday, March 6, 2014
If you like your meat pies with a side of anarchy, then you'll love the New York Philharmonic concert of Sweeney Todd that's now being presented at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMHere are two contrasting how-do-you-do scenes taking place in a single night, where memories and imagination take over. One is a new show about a date that recently visited Broadway and the …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 01:57PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Mike Bartlett's play is not what you'd expect. It does concern sexuality and sexual identity, but it's more about emotion than sex and, despite the short, harsh-sounding when said aloud titl…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:49PMWho cares about the setting when the soul is what's at stake?
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMThe play is set in a posh hotel in Switzerland and the leading man, Hugo Latymer is played by veteran actor Brian Murray. Murray has a distinctive presence, but his words, from time to time,…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 11:28AMBeaches, the musical receiving its world premiere at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, does many things well, but it still needs some work before all the pieces can fit together.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:05AMThe challenge facing a reviewer writing about I and You, the two-character drama now at the Olney Theatre Center in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, is how much and how little to say abou…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:58AMMonday, March 3, 2014
Ever since hitting the scene in 2005, Will Eno has been asking one question with his plays: Does anyone belong anywhere?
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMSunday, March 2, 2014
"I'm not a rain person, I'm a sun person," sings Sara Jane, the young woman at the center of Victor Lodato and Polly Pen's musical Arlington, and that declaration could not be more true.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMCreativity has never been a problem for Sarah Ruhl, but boy, concision sure has been.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:10PMSaturday, March 1, 2014
Although Centenary Stage Company is not in top form this time out, its production ofThe Liar is certainly lively and robust.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:01AMThursday, February 27, 2014
To explain why Craig Lucas's new traumatic comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre bears the title Ode to Joy would give away the whole game.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWednesday, February 26, 2014
The charming and delightfully funny The Other Josh Cohen, which has been musically inspired by the oeuvre of Neil Diamond, may be the most successful pop rock musical to date in its ability …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 09:27PMMerrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Massachusetts, presents the regional premiere of Oscar-winning British playwright Ronald Harwood's Equally Divided, a character study that homes in on …
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:17PMHere, they have rescued the musical version of My Favorite Year from the brink of oblivion.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:33PMWhen, in the final moments of the play, three generations of women raise their glasses to toast freedom, what do they mean? "You're free," they tell each other.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:32PMMonday, February 24, 2014
Why all the dancing, you may wonder, ornamenting an otherwise earthbound story about the king of cinematic martial arts?
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMLondon Wall offers present-day American theatergoers a glimpse of office sexual politics that is twice-removed from our own culture and time.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMPrivate Lives is, to an extent, highly comedic and amusing fare perfect for a chilly evening in mid or late winter, complete with elegance, charm, and high society manners. On another level,…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:16PMThese all feel like real, believable characters andeven more to the credit of playwright Sheffer and this castlike people we haven't met before.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 05:16PMSunday, February 23, 2014
Revivals of two one-act plays about the collateral damage of war (especially on the ones who are left behind to deal with the consequences) make for a deeply compelling and richly provocativ…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMSan Diego's two largest theatre companies, the La Jolla Playhouse and the Old Globe, recently hosted major openings within days of each other. Turns out that both plays were about the variet…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:49PMIves' tale, one rife with sexually provocative dialogue, takes place after a long day's journey turns into an even longer night for New York playwright/director Thomas, who has endured one e…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 11:07AMSaturday, February 22, 2014
... the actors make use of doors that open to the outside, enhancing the reality of the Russian winter in the play as they literally come in from the cold, which the audience also feels as a…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:00PMFriday, February 21, 2014
There is not a gimmick to be found in the WorkShop Theater Company’s smart, engaging, and emotionally rewarding production of Shakespeare’s late romance and so-called “problem play,”…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:37PM[D]irector Sara Bernstein decided to make one significant changeupdating the setting to modern day Las Vegas.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 02:56PM... props for gently addressing the important issue as to whether a number of newly labeled psychological disorders which are widely and casually chemically treated with powerful and dangero…
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