Saturday, April 30, 2022
Sometimes, the entire production comes off as if it were being performed by a high school class of mixed talents, assigned to read Macbeth by their popular English teacher. Indeed, that role…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:47PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
The main plot may be melodramatic, even corny at times, but mostly Mr. Saturday Night is filled with joy: Crystal's joy of performing for us (the one-liners crackle and gleam), and our joy i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
"Write what you know" is advice that is given to all new writers. But first you need to "know what you know," and what better place is there to find that out than inside your own head? That'…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:51PMMonday, April 25, 2022
When you are dealing with an outsize character like Fanny Brice, a certain amount of chutzpah comes in handy. But to be effective, that kind of audacity needs to have a big payoff, with some…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMFriday, April 22, 2022
A talented cast, funny bits of dark humor, a clever set design, and a dash of Alfred Hitchcock-style suspense add up to an unexpectedly tepid production of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen, opening…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:39AMTuesday, April 19, 2022
Parker and Morse and Day and Brokaw are back, revisiting and digging ever more deeply into their original roles.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:13PMSunday, April 10, 2022
... much of the play consists of a ticking off of biographical events. By necessity or by design, it is incumbent on members of the audience to find a personal connection to the ups and down…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:23PMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Go for the naked guys if you'd like, but stay for the wonderful weave of stories performed by a terrific ensemble of actors.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:11AMWednesday, March 9, 2022
"... Lloyd Suh's The Chinese Lady, a cleverly conceived satire that stirs its gentle humor with a cutting edge in a beautifully rendered production..."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21AMMonday, October 11, 2021
"Family is a loaded word," to quote one of the characters in Douglas Lyons' Chicken & Biscuits, a mashup of broad comedy and domestic drama opening tonight at Circle in the Square. If the pa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:25PMFriday, March 6, 2020
... a perplexing amalgam of thin-as-a-reed storytelling and powerhouse performances of reimagined tunes from the vast songbook of America's Nobel Prize-winning troubadour, Bob Dylan.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:50AMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Coal Country, then, is the forum through which their voices are finally allowed to be heard. And we are there to listen in fellowship to their disquieting recollections.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
,,, an inventive mix of gradually darkening humor, family drama, and the vicissitudes of memory,
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AMThursday, February 20, 2020
... t for anyone willing to separate the wheat from the chaff, there is a great deal of enjoyment to be found by focusing on the performances on the stage.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:30PM... Encores! at New York City Center is back on top, doing what it does best with a beautifully rendered Mack & Mabel...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:03PMMonday, February 17, 2020
Pulling off Animal Farm with four actors is just the kind of dare Seeing Place would gravitate towards.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55PMMonday, February 10, 2020
... a partial success for the Mint. If nothing else, Chekhov/Tolstoy: Love Stories offers the opportunity to view these rarely seen works based on stories by two giants of Russian literatur…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMThursday, January 23, 2020
The play is often quite funny in the way that a well-written sitcom can be, but a thick layer of jokes and punchlines cannot cover up the fact that there is little of credible substance here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:23PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
A rock solid cast and a spit-shine production make for a gripping and altogether outstanding revival of Charles Fuller's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
... as it stands, the production seems like a staged book-on-tape.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26PMSunday, January 12, 2020
... what emerges is a quirky yet moving story about the vulnerability of the human heart and the universal need for connection.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:21PMFriday, December 6, 2019
... damn if it doesn't set a new aspirational standard for the subgenre referred to mostly in scoffing terms as the "jukebox musical."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AMThursday, December 5, 2019
... having a strong idea for a play is a far cry from being able to translate it into compelling dramaturgy and authentic-seeming dialog. And that is definitely the problem here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:19PMFriday, November 22, 2019
,,, the venturesome chamber musical Einstein's Dreams, now on view at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50AMThursday, November 21, 2019
Thorne's interpretation, under Matthew Warchus's direction, is darker, more analytical and psychologically probing than we have become accustomed to. As a result, it is also less emotionally…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12AMMonday, November 4, 2019
... a haunting duet that briefly brings together a world that is shaped by words with another that is shaped by music.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:23AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Misogyny, thou art hereby banished from Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate!, opening tonight in a snappy, scintillating, and decidedly woke new production at Studio 54 and featuring an altogether s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:05PMThursday, February 14, 2019
"If this can happen, anything can happen," warns Alex, a man striving to stay afloat in the wake of a tragic and sudden loss he can hardly begin to grasp, in the first of the pair of monolog…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58PMSunday, February 10, 2019
Televangelist Thomas Isaac Rehan has scored quite a programming coup, with a very very very special guest scheduled to appear on the broadcast from his sprawling megachurch and compound in a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMThursday, January 24, 2019
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano burn up the stage as a lock-horn duo of estranged brothers in the rip-roaring revival of True West, playwright Sam Shepard's offbeat salute to sibling rivalry and b…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:05PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Friendship sometimes comes in the most unexpected of packages.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:19PM 
