Friendship sometimes comes in the most unexpected of packages.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:19PMNetwork, director Ivo van Hove's razzle dazzle staging of Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 film of the same title, transmogrifies the Belasco Theatre into one gigantic hyperkinetic television studio, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PMPlease excuse the feeling of foreboding that flooded my bloodstream as I waited to enter the Neil Simon Theatre, where The Cher Show opened tonight.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMGetting your head around playwright Tom Stoppard's The Hard Problem, opening tonight at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, is a bit like trying to pin down one of artist M. C. …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMThe Prom, the new musical opening tonight at the Longacre Theatre, is a bonbon of the highest order.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:44PMOK. There's really only one thing anyone wants to know about King Kong, the new musical opening tonight at the Broadway Theatre. So let's get right to it. The answer is, yes. The great ape i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:59PMPlaywright Patricia Ione Lloyd stands on the shoulders of giants to bring us a sizzling and darkly comic new work, Eve's Song, opening tonight at the Public Theater in a riveting production …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01PMHow does anyone become a trailblazer?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09AMMagic and music, domesticity and revolution saturate Jez Butterworth's gloriously hyperkinetic The Ferryman, opening today at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:54PMThe Lifespan of a Fact, a funny, thought-provoking, and exceedingly well performed "comedy of conflict" opening tonight at Studio 54 . . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:23PMNo one will ever love you like your mom, not even if you are a saint-in-training.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:53PMLet us heap accolades upon Stockard Channing, who finds a pulse and thrillingly breathes life into Alexi Kaye Campbell's Apologia, a somewhat squishy play opening tonight at the Laura Pels T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMThere is definitely no honor among thieves in J. C. Ernst's Goodbody, a pitch dark comedy about a quartet of double-crossing thugs opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:19PMPay close attention as Mare Winningham sings Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" at the end of Act I of the bleak and stunning Girl from the North Country, opening tonight at the Public Theat…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58PMEmily Dickinson, the near-reclusive nineteenth century American poet, is the focus of Because I Could Not Stop, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century's latest and, to my mind, the most effec…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMJanet McTeer is luminous as Sarah Bernhardt, the reigning queen of 19th century French theater, in Theresa Rebeck's Bernhardt/Hamlet, opening tonight at the American Airlines Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22PMPlaywright Sharr White's The True, opening tonight at the Pershing Square Signature Center in a production by The New Group, is an old-fashioned political potboiler that manages to rise abov…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMUntil recently, playwright Catya McMullen's biggest claim to fame was winning the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in 2012 for her two-character work Missed Connections.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMThe septic wound of legally sanctioned racial segregation in the U.S. remains very much a living memory for anyone who was around prior to its painfully slow dissolution starting in the mid-…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:33PMPianist, composer, and theatrical storyteller Hershey Felder has carved out a specialized niche for himself with his staged presentations about musical masters, from classicists Frédéric C…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMImagine for a moment what some adventurous and creative theater team might come up with based on a story idea about a sex worker and a very wealthy man who upend one another's lives.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:59PMYou know what might be fun? How about a Broadway Battle of the Bands pitting the kids from School of Rock against the hapless middle-aged suburban Jersey guys in Gettin' the Band Back Togeth…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMFor good or for ill, we may just be witnessing the next phase in the evolution of the American musical ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:52PMLove and courage, pride and hope suffuse the stellar Encores! Off-Center production of Micki Grant's Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope at New York City Center.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41PMShh. Listen. Pay attention to everything, from the exceedingly loud rap music that permeates the theater as you enter and take your seat, to the two seemingly peripheral characters known as …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PMA promise to a dying parent and an unfortunate propensity for latching onto other peoples dreams has led a woman down a series of blind alleys in search of her own lifes passion.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMPlaywright Tracy Letts's Mary Page Marlowe, opening tonight at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater, caroms every which way through and around the course of the lifetime of its title character.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:08PMA musical with no plot? No dialog? No actual characters? With only a thread of a theme to hold things together? Really?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:22PMIf ever a play should come with a heads-up trigger warning for potential audiences, it is David Ireland's devastating Cypress Avenue, opening tonight in a gut-wrenching presentation at the P…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMIs it better to be loved or feared?
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