Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The Outer Space, the new concert-musical by Ethan Lipton that just opened at Joe's Pub, turns on a familiar axiom: "Things are the same all over."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PMThursday, March 2, 2017
Can someone who's truly deprived of joy give it abundantly to others?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMLove and sex are complicated at any age, but they're especially so for adolescents who lack the experience, wisdom, and good judgment needed to properly wrangle their simmering feelings.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Is it written somewhere that we can only learn from the past by filtering it through the present?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53PMIf you're familiar with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the 1979 musical by Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim, you're probably inclined (with good reason) to not be in the mo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:50PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
You've undoubtedly heard that those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMInvisibility? I can't see it. Not that I'm contesting it's an issue for women "of a certain age" - in this case, over 50 - but that Janie Dee is a woman who demands, even needs, to be seen w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20PMThe Penitent, the new play by David Mamet at the Atlantic Theater Company, is a stylish and sharp-looking stab at issues that rarely arise in New York theatre today.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:53AMI'd love to tell you what Wakey, Wakey, which just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is about, but it ain't easy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:53AMThursday, February 23, 2017
An artist whose brilliance goes unheralded because of other people's inability to put him into any of their conventional boxes?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
From the Nazi occupation of Germany (Cabaret) and the toxic relationship between murder and celebrity (Chicago) to tortured sexuality amid just plain torture (Kiss of the Spider Woman) and e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMSome things are just too terrible to say, invoking horrifying ghosts and suggesting blood-curdling motives even if the underlying intentions are pure (or something close it, at any rate).
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMSunday, February 19, 2017
Enemies are not hard to come by, if only you know where to look.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMThursday, February 16, 2017
Theatre is a notoriously chatty medium, and those who create it - and, let's face it, those who watch it - are usually unable to keep their mouths shut.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:54PMA man desperately searching for answers but encountering only silence in response to his pleas is the central issue of Tracy Letts's play Man From Nebraska, which just opened at Second Stage…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01AMSunday, February 12, 2017
A politically and economically ravaged dystopia, divided into "districts" that are presided over by lord-like dictators who luxuriate in comfort and wealth while everyone below them is barel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:44PMFriday, February 10, 2017
The scenic backdrop for the City Center Encores! concert of Big River, which is playing through this weekend, is a black-and-white photo of the Mississippi River that's about as expansive an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:20AMThursday, February 9, 2017
The old axiom that one person's trash is another person's treasure is beautifully illustrated by most of The Object Lesson, a kind of theatrical art installation by Geoff Sobelle that just o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:16PMSilent film star Norma Desmond learns the hard way that remaining a legend isn't easy,
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:42PMWednesday, February 8, 2017
For her play Fade, which just opened at the Cherry Lane Theatre in a Primary Stages production, Tanya Saracho has constructed a fascinating foundation: When social identity and racial identi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMMonday, January 30, 2017
What's going on inside Hench's head? There's no way to be sure, but boy, do you ever want to find out.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:16PMThursday, January 26, 2017
Playwright David Ives has long been adept at finding drama - however small the kernels of it may be - within the deepest comedy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMMonday, January 23, 2017
In the program for her new play at the Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 space, Tell Hector I Miss Him, playwright Paola Lázaro references winning the 2011 Arts Entertainment Scholarship A…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMNo one would argue that it's far better to learn about cholera from a computer game than from actually dying from it ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMSunday, January 22, 2017
"Democracy," quipped H.L. Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:23PMFriday, January 20, 2017
Falling in love is hard enough, but who knew that not falling in love could be such a struggle?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AMThursday, January 19, 2017
August Wilson, who built his playwriting name on his "Century Cycle" covering the African-American experience during each decade of the 20th century, eventually proved expert at intertwining…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:19PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Obsessive behavior is usually treated as pitiable, but why shouldn't what we love—or what we love too much—represent who we are?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00AMMonday, December 19, 2016
There may be no sadder or more sobering experience than getting what you always thought you wanted or needed, only to discover downsides you never imagined possible.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:15PMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Christmas theatre, like Christmas songs, Christmas movies, and Christmas TV shows, tends to follow a predictably tooth-rotting pattern about bringing people around to the "spirit of the seas…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:59PM 
