8,082 stories from TalkinBroadway
You're looking down in judgment. You're joined by a couple of hundred other tut-tutters whose opinions are just as set in stone as yours are, but without whom you can't make the decision....
While the story evokes the imagination, genius, and risk taking that Disney took in the first half of the 20th century, and the production has a capable cast and good creative aspects, the m…
What's the best way to celebrate a milestone birthday? Why, with a show packed with loss, decay, and death, of course! Party down!
Ensler's performance is engaging and without a shred of artifice as she obliterates the fourth wall and addresses the audience in an intimate, conversational style.
As a pick-up line in a bar, Gabe's invitation to "come watch me bowl" isn't the best way to garner Annie's interest, even if the bar happens to be in a bowling alley....
Charles Aznavour, about to turn 92 and still writing, provides songs which sustain, and these are adapted with English lyrics by gifted Jason Robert Brown. Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) h…
... I'm so bummed that I'm 6-4 and will never be able to play Huck again.
"a few of the songs are well crafted, some of the jokes land well, and several characters capture our attention.
We follow them from week one, when they are reading the script for the first time and devising backstories for their characters; to week two, when they start acting with each other, scripts …
Guards at the Taj (Outstanding Play), FUTURITY (Outstanding Musical), and The Robber Bridegroom (Outstanding Revival) were among the big winners at the 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards honoring ex…
The title character of Dear Evan Hansen, the gorgeous, affecting, and wayward new musical that just opened at Second Stage, is caught in a predicament that that would vex someone much older …
Is there such a thing as white lung disease?
Theatrical history does not come alive in Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed - and that's a good thing.
When theatre folk want to mock either the explosion of off-color language in the theatre or those "puritanical" souls who fret about such things, their lead go-to guy for the past few decade…
Even a small storm can be devastating.
Two wives find themselves dodging raindrops on the streets of dark and dreary London and being ignored in small, equally dreary apartments by husbands much more focused on themselves than on…
Where do you stand in the ongoing battle between "timely" and "timeless"?
The game is afoot as the famed English consulting detective Sherlock Holmes locks horns with the French "gentleman thief" Arsène Lupin in a mashup play based on stories by the creators of e…
It's been a heavy season of Broadway plays: Blackbird, The Crucible, Eclipsed, The Father, The Humans, and Long Day's Journey Into Night - and those are just the ones that are currently runn…
As much as we'd all love to believe we're above petty gossip, that we've moved beyond the world where every social faux pas rates a clucking tongue and agitated whispers from our neighbors, …
Sensory and emotional overload - to say nothing of mere engagement - are rare occurrences these days at the Brooks Atkinson, where the new musical Waitress just opened, but when they hit, th…
The parallel stories of two teenage girls living 175 years apart take them leaping from the tepid frying pan of their stultifying lives into an all-consuming fire in Echoes, Henry Naylor's g…
Here, Shakespeare's famed story of ambition and murder and very slippery prophecy explodes in great, wretched chaos, with overlapping monologs and unexpected costumes and settings and props"…
Can a theatre piece be too true to life? That's the implicit question beneath Cate Ryan's new work, In the Secret Sea, which just opened at the Beckett Theatre. . . .
The energy is unmistakable. It's genuine electricity, not the faux stuff, of the kind only a succinct, unique work of art can create.
