Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "All of Me" - 5/14/24 by James Wilson

In the last few decades, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) has made huge technological advances in speech-generated tools, but it is hard to imagine a dramatic love scene prod…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:57PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Here There Are Blueberries" - 5/13/24 by Marc Miller

Here There Are Blueberries is surely the right title for this one. It refers to a caption in a photo album, a very special photo album. The phrase evokes a carefree, whimsical quotidian exis…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58AM
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Actors" - 5/8/24 by Howard Miller

Never judge a book by its cover, or, apparently, a playwright by his prior works. This certainly applies to playwright Ronnie Larsen, whose oeuvre includes such titles as An Evening with Joh…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PM
Monday, May 6, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Lucky Stiff" - 5/6/24 by Rob Lester

Maybe the musical Lucky Stiff wasn't enormously lucky the first time around, managing only 15 performances in its 1988 Off-Broadway debut, but it has continued to pop up over the years aroun…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:46PM
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Chicago - "Judgment Day" (world premiere) - 5/5/24 by Karen Topham

Jason Alexander is the perfect actor to play a deeply flawed but somehow sympathetic character; after all, he did it for nine seasons of "Seinfeld" as George Costanza. In Chicago Shakespeare…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53PM
Saturday, May 4, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Fingers and Spoons" - 5/4/24 by James Wilson

Eating disorders, adolescent trauma, motherhood, and managing an acting career are just some of the topics explored in Fingers and Spoons, the one-person show written and performed by Pascal…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33PM
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Message in a Bottle" - 4/2/24 by Howard Miller

When it comes to the art form known as dance theater, the spotlight is definitely shining on Illinoise, which just made a bold jeté from a near sold-out run at the Park Avenue Armory to bec…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PM
Sunday, April 28, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Staff Meal" - 4/28/24 by Marc Miller

Ever seen a shaggy-dog play? That's a fair description of Staff Meal, Abe Koogler's shape-shifter of a comedy now at Playwrights Horizons. His purpose is hard to pin down, if not impossible.…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00PM
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Mother Play" 4/25/24 by Howard Miller

Playwright Paula Vogel's brother Carl, who died of AIDS in 1988 and whose story she related in her partly autobiographical 1992 play The Baltimore Waltz, is back on stage, one of the trio of…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40PM
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Mary Jane" 4/24/24 by Howard Miller

How do we categorize Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov's play about family life on an estate and working farm in late nineteenth century rural Russia? Is it a comedy, a melodrama, an excursion into…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Mary Jane" 4/24/24 by Howard Miller

Don't cry for Mary Jane. Not in front of her, anyway. She hasn't the time for your pity or to feel sorry for herself, as she single-mindedly pours everything she's got into the care of her c…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:26AM
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Milwaukee - "From Here to Eternity: The Musical" - 4/23/24 by John Olson

... a newly revised musical version of From Here to Eternity by Sir Tim Rice, lyricist of many of the most successful musicals of the past 50 years, along with composer Stuart Brayson, and b…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:25AM
Monday, April 22, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Heart of Rock and Roll" 4/22/24 by Kimberly Ramírez

Yet another musical has arrived on Broadway that's ready to transport audiences "Back in Time." The Heart of Rock and Roll is still beating after its recent run at San Diego's Old Globe. Now…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Patriots" 4/22/24 by Howard Miller

It's the Fiery Oligarch vs. the Icy Dictator in Peter Morgan's Patriots, opening tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Only one of them can survive, though in the end you may come away fee…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:35PM
Sunday, April 21, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Cabaret" 4/21/24 by Howard Miller

Listen up. Time to put down the knitting, the book, and the broom and hie on over to the imaginatively staged, directed, and performed multiple Olivier Award-winning revival of Kander & Ebb …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Orlando" - 4/21/24 by James Wilson

Midway through Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, "Orlando: A Biography," the protagonist awakes after a long sleep as a different gender. "It is enough for us to state the simple fact," the narra…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Hell's Kitchen" 4/20/24 by James Wilson

It is very common for audiences at Broadway musicals to clap and hoot at the entrance of a star or in appreciation of impressive scenic design. In Hell's Kitchen, which concluded an Off-Broa…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:56AM
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Do Re Mi" - 4/20/24 by Rob Lester

There's a place for a glib, undemanding, unpretentious old-school musical comedy that seeks to entertain and just wants to make someone happy. "Make Someone Happy" was the big song that came…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PM
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Suffs" 4/18/24 by Howard Miller

There is a certain subgroup of musicals whose aim it is to set the record straight, or at least enlighten us on some aspect of history, even if they do occasionally stray from the actual fac…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:59PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Still" - 4/18/24 by Marc Miller

With Brooklyn Laundry having recently ended its merry run at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York now has a new, not-dissimilar mini-romance to celebrate. Lia Romeo's Still, from Colt Coeur at D…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Wiz" 4/17/24 by James Wilson

Although it won a slew of Tony Awards in 1975, The Wiz has never really been considered a great musical. In the right hands, however, it is a thoroughly enjoyable one, and its buoyant pleasu…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:10AM
Friday, April 12, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Outsiders" 4/11/24 by James Wilson

In his scathing review of The Outsiders, Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of S.E. Hinton's best-selling novel, New York Times critic Vincent Canby described the movie as "a melodramatic kid…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:05AM
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Las Vegas - "Ted Chapin adds another credit to his Follies r�sum�" - 4/11/24 by Robert Sokol

Interview with Ted Chapin as "Follies" starts in Las Vegas.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PM
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Who's Tommy" 3/28/24 by Howard Miller

The thing about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is that before you can get to the "post" part, you are going to have to endure the trauma part. And there is trauma aplenty in the first half o…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02PM
Monday, March 25, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" - 3/24/24 by Marc Miller

Philadelphia, Here I Come! was Brian Friel's first major success, and the new revival at Irish Repertory Theatre, part of its Friel Project retrospective, offers ample evidence why. It's a s…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:42AM
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Teeth" - 3/23/24 by Marc Miller

You've probably heard about it as "the musical about the penis-eating vagina." Yes, but Teeth aims to be something more–a horror musical that also takes in repression, misogyny, violence, …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:11PM
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Water for Elephants" 3/21/24 by Howard Miller

Ladies and gentlemen!!! Children of all ages!!! Feast your eyes on the center (and only) ring, where you will witness feats of wonder the likes of which have never been seen before!!! Welcom…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:32PM
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Corruption" - 3/16/24 by Marc Miller

Rupert Murdoch is a scourge, a reckless power monger whose pursuit of material gain has irrevocably changed and devalued the journalistic universe. On that much many of us will probably agre…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:45PM
Friday, March 15, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Notebook" 3/14/24 by Howard Miller

Love at first sight. Love everlasting. 'Til death do us part. That, in a nutshell, is a description of The Notebook, the heartfelt musical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' best-selling 1996 no…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40AM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Ibsen's Ghost" - 3/14/24 by Howard Miller

Anyone who thought plays featuring men in drag were on the way out (Pick your poison: Insulting to women? Exploiting transgender stereotypes? Too old hat for words?) should cast their eyes o…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards