The Karate Kid - The Musical, now having its world premiere at Stages St. Louis, and boldly promised for Broadway. There are plenty of admirable moments of spiritual elegance, in apposition …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMHere, 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�…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:45AMIt's a herculean effort, both for President Johnson and actor Brian Dykstra, one which often resembles a collision of C-SPAN and "Game Of Thrones."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:34AMThe announcement of the impending closure was our local theater community's latest 100 mph crash into the realities that every theatre must eventually face.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:26AMAs a young man, the Pulitzer Prize winning author (of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, among others) performed in community theater at the same austere, elegant St. Louis Artists' Guild building, on t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52AM... the implications of murder and robbery tower over them as their celebrity grows�thanks to directors Scott Miller and Mike Dowdy. The crazy love on stage becomes an end in itself for this…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02AMThe cast is absolutely great, the music weaves a dissonant spell, and the humor is brilliantly wacky under the direction of Shulee Cook (with the surprisingly complex musical direction of Ni…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19AMNick Otten's play is strangely, inescapably endearing, in spite of the fact that it shows how each of our own lives can seem like patchwork monsters: haunting us just as much as Mary Shelley…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:14PMNicole Angeli (as Clarice) and Maggie Murphy (as Lucrece) are excellent as a pair of wacky, glammed-out Parisian mademoiselles in David Ives' 2011 adaption of Pierre Corneille's 1644 play.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37PMAs the Marquis, Ted Gregory is simply mind-boggling-shocking, hilarious, giddy, and utterly grotesque�in a stylish, delightful sort of way that makes him even more dangerous, I suppose. The …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:50AMIn an outstanding new production of Frank Loesser and Abe Burrow's famed musical comedy, we have a show that may, nevertheless, be remembered as the "Psychedelic H2$." And, of course, I pick…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:36AMLindsey Jones is the latest to stake her claim, singing the role terrifically, and playing comedy and tragedy with honesty and simplicity.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:35AMChallenging for the actors, and sometimes even challenging for the audience, the RS Theatrics production of Frank McGuinness' 1992 hostage drama gives us three outstanding performers to appr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34AMBefore the opening, Mr. Miller said that the concept of directing a cast�even one as talented as this one is�to keep at least one hand (in a Mickey Mouse glove) planted on a new pick-up truc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:09PMIf you can stand some "elbow-in-the-face" humor, and equally brash sex and drug references please don't miss it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:42PMThere's nothing like sitting back and just laughing for 75 minutes, and if you doubt it at all, go see this show. Five very funny, talented actors show you how to really laugh at yourself, e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:54PMThere are plenty of funny, endearing moments, too, supplied by actor Bobby Miller as a used furniture buyer. But, even at the age of 89, Mr. Solomon seems like the only man on stage who can …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:54PMIf there really is an apocalypse out there in our future, it'll probably bear a strong resemblance to Michael Frayn's farce-to-end-all-farces, Noises Off.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:53PMIt almost seems [Scott] Miller (as Artistic Director) is choosing his seasons nowadays for sheer emotional complexity, along with New Line's usual focus on strong musicianship.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:01PMThe whole story becomes a gripping contest between the steadfast endurance of an older man (Mr. Davis) and the fear and impulsiveness of two younger men. And, thanks to director Doug Finlays…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:21PMThis is a surprisingly mainstream story, for a theater company that's usually uniquely, disarmingly other-worldly. And that puts me in an awkward position.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:19PMThis is a lavish, gripping new production of one of the longest-running plays in the English language. And Agatha Christie's whodunit shines with an outstanding cast of quirky, fascinating a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48AMThe full title of play is The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut and the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:47AMA weird, funny, terrific little show that puts a lot of big touring productions to shame, for sheer wit and audacity�and the simple fact that it assumes the audience has a brain in its head.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AMSuppose "1984" came, and we never realized it�that there was no George Orwell, with writing as direct as cannon-fire, to tell us about the horrors of a violently out-of-control government, b…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52PMStripped way down and very satisfyingly funny, this tale of two pairs of twin brothers features a breathless Ben Watts in all his frantic glory, as a badly used servant (two, in fact)�and ac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:44PMBased on the stories of the Tuskegee Airmen, its brash, likable pilots benefit from the modern technical wizardry of the stage (clever use of projection screens) while its somewhat predictab…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:43PMWell, of course, Evil Dead: The Musical is not great theatre. But it is a great time, full of outrageous, anguished performances and lots and lots of ridiculously inventive moments�and fun s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:25PM... you carry the dread of it with you after the show, all the way to bedtime. Scott Miller: musical theater director and master of suspense. Who knew?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:25PMThere are still a few big Halloween shows set to open this month, but this is certain to be the scariest of the bunch.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:33PMTheatergoers expect big relationship comedy from Simon, comedy that plays out in "the long game"�not the hit-and-run, ambiguous Russian format we see here, with dour twist-endings.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:07PM