Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole" - 5/21/25 by Michael Dale

One of the real gems to be found on YouTube is a collection of full episodes of "The Nat King Cole Show," which premiered on NBC in November of 1956. Originally a 15-minute program, then exp…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:34PM
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "O.K.!" - 5/19/25 by Michael Dale

"Slim pickings of a post-pandemic industry," is the way an actor describes her current gig in the early moments of Christin Eve Cato's very funny, very topical, and very urgent O.K.!, the ne…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:42PM
Monday, May 19, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Class" and "Creditors" - 5/19/25 by James Wilson

Swedish playwright August Strindberg's early plays explore fluctuating power dynamics, depicting relationships as volatile arenas where characters skillfully employ psychological manipulatio…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:18PM
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Bus Stop" - 5/18/25 by James Wilson

In his poem about the loneliness of a schoolteacher, playwright William Inge wrote, "Funny but being alone in a room full of people is more lonely somehow than/ Being left to your own device…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PM
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse" - 5/13/25 by James Wilson

Emblazoned on a November 2006 cover of the New York Post was a photo of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears in the front seat of a fancy car. The trio, dubbed "3 Bimbos of the Ap…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:21AM
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Real Women Have Curves: The Musical" 4/27/25 by Kimberly Ramírez

Broadway audiences might not immediately sense it from this vibrant new musical, but this year marks the 35th anniversary of Real Women Have Curves. Each iteration of Josefina López's groun…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Dead Outlaw" 4/27/25 by Howard Miller

Imagine for a moment that the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan, the tornado-riding Pecos Bill, the "steel-driving" John Henry, and other figures out of the American tall tale tradition were real…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:36PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Just in Time" 4/26/25 by Howard Miller

Just in Time, opening tonight at Circle in the Square Theatre, is what happens when two chameleons merge, where it is difficult to separate the character being portrayed from the performer i…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:44AM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Hold Me in the Water" - 4/23/25 by Marc Miller

He enters, rising up out of the floor, back to the audience, in a pink spangled blazer, like a gaudier Velma Kelly about to launch into "All That Jazz." But Ryan J. Haddad has other things o…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:40PM
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "John Proctor Is the Villain" 4/14/25 by Howard Miller

In order to maximize your enjoyment of Kimberly Belflower's compelling and exceptionally well-acted play John Proctor is the Villain, opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, we really ought to…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:57AM
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Irishtown" - 4/13/25 by Marc Miller

The Irish Repertory Theatre is in an uncharacteristically jocular mood. Irishtown, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth's comedy, is a slight but merry look at Irish theatre's history, its nature, and let'…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45PM
Friday, April 11, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Smash" 4/10/25 by Howard Miller

Smash, the new(ish) musical adapted from the 2012-13 NBC series of the same title and opening tonight at the Imperial Theatre, can't seem to decide whether it wants to be a meta-musical stee…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:15AM
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends" 4/8/25 by Howard Miller

Stephen Sondheim was such an extraordinary wordsmith, I wonder what single word he might have come up with to describe Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatr…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Boop! The Musical" 4/7/25 by Howard Miller

Boop! The Musical, the often delightful if overstuffed new musical at the Broadhurst Theatre, features a star-making performance by its lead, an appealing pair of veterans, an adorable puppy…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36AM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Becoming Eve" - 4/7/25 by Marc Miller

What's most impressive about Becoming Eve–and there's a lot–is its generosity of spirit. Emil Weinstein's play at New York Theatre Workshop's temporary quarters on Grand Street, adapted …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36AM
Sunday, April 6, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Last Five Years" 4/6/25 by James Wilson

Since it first appeared, Jason Robert Brown's song-cycle musical The Last Five Years seems to be in a continual loop. The short-lived Off-Broadway original in 2002 spawned countless regional…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PM
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Good Night, and Good Luck" 4/5/25 by Howard Miller

During the 1950s, CBS TV was sometimes referred to as the "Tiffany Network," owing to its reputation of providing high-quality programming. A glittery jewel in its tiara was the news divisio…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:23PM
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Glengarry Glen Ross" 3/31/25 by Howard Miller

Ah, spring is in the air. That can only mean one thing: 'tis the start of baseball season! At least, that's what comes to mind while seeking an analogy for what is now the fourth Broadway pr…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34AM
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Lofe Life" - 3/27/25 by Howard Miller

You know what they say about marriage: the first 150 years are the hardest. OK, while none of us will ever see that sort of longevity, wait until you meet Susan Cooper and her husband Samuel…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:52PM
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Wine in the Wilderness" - 3/24/25 by James Wilson

When Tommy Marie, a character in Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness (now playing at Classic Stage Company's Lynn F. Angelson Theater), first appears, she draws laughs. Her ill-fitting …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:48AM
Monday, March 24, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Who Is Jimmy Pants?" - 3/24/25 by Marc Miller

I'm smiling this morning. Who Is Jimmy Pants?, the second in New2NY's trio of staged readings at the York Theatre Company, is silly and inconsequential, but it's also one big long grin.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Operation Mincemeat" 3/20/25 by Howard Miller

It's bizarre. It's disgusting. It's borderline psychopathic. That's how one of the characters describes an actual who-could-possibly-believe-it scheme of World War II British Intelligence in…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Buena Vista Social Club" 3/19/25 by Howard Miller

Muchas gracias to everyone who brought the gift of the Buena Vista Social Club to Broadway, where it opened tonight at the Schoenfeld Theatre in a perfect blend of music, dance and story.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:43AM
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "We Had a World" - 3/19/25 by Marc Miller

Some playwrights we appreciate because we don't know what they're going to come up with next, and some we appreciate because we do. Joshua Harmon surely belongs in the latter category, for a…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27PM
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Amerikin" - 3/18/25 by Howard Miller

Sharpsburg, Maryland, a small town of well under 1,000 souls, is best known as the site of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam (or, if you are a Confederacy devotee, the Battle of Sharpsburg)…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:25PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Purpose" 3/17/25 by Howard Miller

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' sharp-as-a-tack new play, Purpose, brilliantly directed by Phylicia Rashad and opening tonight on Broadway at the Helen …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:32AM
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Last Call" - 3/16/25 by Michael Dale

"I make something where there was nothing," says the world famous American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein to the equally world famous Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan in Pete…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PM
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics" - 3/4/25 by Michael Dale

If you stay still for a moment in the fictional town serving as the setting for Julián Mesri's mystical adventure, The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics, you may hear the soothing sound of…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:10PM
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "On the Evolutionary Function of Shame" - 2/26/25 by Kimberly Ramírez

How do we define identity when science offers to rewrite the foundations of who we are? D.A. Mindell's On the Evolutionary Function of Shame explores this existential question by blending bi…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Curse of the Starving Class" - 2/25/25 by James Wilson

Curse of the Starving Class, which was first produced in New York in 1978, is the second play in what playwright Sam Shepard called his Family Trilogy. Along with Buried Child and True West,…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:05AM
Monday, February 24, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Grangeville" - 2/24/25 by James Wilson

Samuel D. Hunter's stunning and deeply affecting Grangeville, currently running at New York's Signature Center, begins in complete darkness. The disembodied phone voices of two men discussin…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre