8,082 stories from TalkinBroadway
From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
Twelfth Night, which is playing at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park through tomorrow night, is the best of the three Public Works productions I've seen ...
Life of the Party does not mix and match Andrew Lippa's songs into a contrived storyline (as some Sondheim revues have done) but instead presents several songs of his various musicals, compl…
What's a hedonistic gay guy to do when he's turning 40 and the rituals of pleasure have become numbing habit, and the booze, drugs, and sex are no longer doing their job of keeping the wolve…
With The Producers more than a decade ago, Broadway's biggest head honchos learned the hard way about the dangers of putting on a musical with genuine star-casting requirements in an environ…
Who is Medea? What is it about this tragic figure from Greek mythology that has continued to speak to us in an unrelentingly visceral way through so many stage translations for close to 2,50…
While not a typical or titanic type of musical theatre"it tends to musically glide more than soar with its more subtle persuasive attractions"the cast album is quite pleasing.
When it comes to exploring the darkest regions of the human soul in search of the reasons we behave in the devastating ways we do, few playwrights are more experienced or gifted than Leslye …
The program for the Mint Theater Company's production of N.C. Hunter's A Day by the Sea tells us that the author "took his place among the leading British dramatists of the 1950s," but it's …
There's a closer relationship between the erosion of the land and the erosion of human souls than you may initially assume. . . .
"Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."
Iwuji is thrilled that through this production Hamlet will be performed for people who may not be familiar with Shakespeare's works, and for those in reduced circumstances and in prison for …
It is a meticulously researched must-read for fans and students of dance, aspiring directors, playwrights, and weekend theatergoers alike; which is to say that de Mille's choreographic contr…
In one corner: the corrupt government, which uses its chosen arm of force (given that its agents wear black Kevlar and wield powerful pistols, apparently the FBI) to impose its will via stif…
Two young women, new college students, are unpacking a few personal belongings in their shared dorm room....
Fantasy and fact collide in modern romantic-comedy terms in Engagements, the amusing but flighty play by Lucy Teitler than just opened at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre as part of the Second Stag…
There are lots of reasons that jukebox musicals irritate hardcore theatre fans ....
Masculinity gets a thorough dunking - almost a drowning - in Men on Boats, the Jaclyn Backhaus play that just opened at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater
The process of creating short form plays, running under 30 minutes, is as difficult to master as the short story.
Now that the show has just opened at the Neil Simon in a largely faithful revival, I will come clean and admit publicly: I like Cats.
Despite the infinite swath of possibilities the theatre offers, there are some hard limits on just how adventurous your show should be.
Plunging you into the mind of a troubled soul is not easy for the theatre under the best of circumstances, but musicals make it more challenging still: A demented psychology and a damaged mi…
War is hell. Truly.
Beer, ball (football that is, or soccer if you live on this side of the pond), and brawling: Are there more quintessential examples of Irish mindset - or at least the Irish theatrical mindse…
The world will never know for sure what it lost when Howard Ashman died of complications of AIDS in 1991.
