Friday, October 17, 2025
Wow! That's the interjection of the day and the singular way to describe the powerful and emotionally stirring revival of Ragtime that opened tonight at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Thea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:12AMMissing the Ars Nova production of Oratorio for Living Things is one of my great theatre disappointments of the last several years. The production had performed only twice in 2019 before bei…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:12AMWednesday, October 15, 2025
Though it tries hard to shock and amuse, Let's Love! never earns its exclamation point. Ethan Coen's dramatic experiment attempts a triptych on the theme of love but delivers vulgar irritati…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMMonday, October 13, 2025
Mellow jazz is playing, and the Playwrights Horizons stage is plainly dressed: Emmie Finckel's set design consists of two folding chairs, a small table in between with two coffee cups and a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:28PMThursday, October 9, 2025
1937 was a very good year for new shows in the West End. In addition to the smash hit Me and My Girl, London also saw premieres of Ivor Novello's The Crest of the Wave, the frothy musical co…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMTuesday, September 30, 2025
MCC Theater's world premiere of Caroline, written by Preston Max Allen and directed with measured intensity by David Cromer, may at first seem deceptively simple, but it gradually reveals a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMMonday, September 29, 2025
Accept if you can, even if you can't forgive. Forgive if you can, even if you can't forget. That's the idea behind restorative justice, a systematic supportive approach to seeking healing fo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PMSunday, September 28, 2025
So, Eric Krebs, who runs a theater on far West 42nd, treks to work one morning and is greeted by a large manila envelope resting by the door. Intrigued, he opens it to find a script and a no…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:10PMThursday, September 25, 2025
As a playwright and performer, John Leguizamo is best known for offering up sharp-eyed and thought-provoking takes on Latino identity and culture. Given the current state of affairs with res…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17PMFriday, September 19, 2025
The 2017 indie film Saturday Church is a musical, of sorts. But all of the songs are happening in the head of its protagonist, Ulysses, a troubled Black teen in some vaguely defined New York…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:52PMOn the morning of January 13, 2018, Hawaii's Emergency Alert System issued a warning of an impending ballistic missile attack, widely believed to have emanated from North Korea and plunging …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:37AMThursday, September 18, 2025
At the top of Mexodus, the new, two-person musical produced by Audible Theater, audiences are given permission–indeed, are encouraged–to "yell, dance, and shake your asses." Typically, I…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PM"Black women, you know how you have had to show and prove. Your authenticity has been challenged if you don't hit that Jennifer Holliday or Jennifer Hudson note just right. That Aretha note.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PMWednesday, September 17, 2025
When Yasmina Reza's Art kicked off its initial Broadway run in 1998, New York Times critic Ben Brantley gave it a genial pat on the head, calling it a "sleek, pleasant comedy of manners." No…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01AMThursday, September 11, 2025
Floyd Collins and Elmer McCurdy were true-life figures (and, in the latter case, a true-death figure), born several years apart and both dying in their 30s. They captured public attention in…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:02PMThursday, August 21, 2025
Unbridled joy has returned to a special corner of Manhattan with the unveiling and reopening of the newly refurbished Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where the Public Theater is serving u…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:28PM"The Midwestern urge to keep a friendly conversation going by any means possible is a powerful motivator," explains Wisconsin-raised New York playwright Sophie McIntosh in the press script p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:50AMTuesday, August 19, 2025
Let's begin with a recording of a compelling concert presenting low profile/high quality songs of Peter Foley. Moving from Peter to Peterson, it was Jon J Peterson who portrayed a Broadway a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:39AMHow best to describe the comedic stylings of Jeff Ross, best known by the sobriquet of "Roastmaster General" for his celebrity roasts at the Friars Club or as captured in Comedy Central and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34AMSunday, August 17, 2025
The new musical Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo, which is having its world premiere at the Phoenix Theatre Company, is a joyful and heartfelt tribute to the resilience and spiri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:04PMFriday, August 15, 2025
"We're Back," reads the sign hanging from the marquee of the Winter Garden Theatre, a kind of "honey, I'm home" salute to the Broadway return of the musically infectious if skimpily plotted …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:55AMSunday, August 10, 2025
"I made my New York debut on this very stage, in a play where I portrayed a boy who wanted to become a woman," explains playwright/actor Darwin Del Fabro in the Author's Note included in the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:56PMFriday, August 8, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Irish Repertory Theatre really loves The Weir. They've done Conor McPherson's drama three times since 2013, most recently a digital staging during early pandemic days. Their affection for th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38PMMonday, July 14, 2025
Aficionados of musical theatre continue to revere composer/lyricist Cole Porter (1891-1964) as a force for wit and romantic passion in show songs. And rightly so. Porter wrote–in whole or …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38AMFriday, July 11, 2025
It's a raucous and thoroughly smashing homecoming for the old Westerberg High School gang as the nerds, jocks, clueless staff, and a trio of very mean girls gather for a top-notch revival of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:06AMWednesday, June 25, 2025
Following her sharp staging of Kimberly Bellflower's John Proctor Is the Villain, Tony-winning director Danya Taymor dives into the relentless crucible of elite prep-school culture with Emma…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMSunday, June 22, 2025
Breaking, pioneered by African American and Puerto Rican youth, emerged in the Bronx in the early 1970s. Some fifty years later, the urban dance form is a worldwide phenomenon and was includ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
It hasn't even opened as I write this, but Prince F*ggot, a joint production of Soho Rep and Playwrights Horizons, has already generated plenty of social media vitriol, mostly of the "how da…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMFriday, June 13, 2025
Call Me Izzy, opening tonight at Studio 54 as the first Broadway show of the 2025-26 theater season, is likely to divide its audience into two camps. For some, Jamie Wax's one-act play about…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:01AMThursday, June 12, 2025
Once Upon a Mattress, Dot and the Kangaroo cast recordings reviewed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:26PM 
