Wednesday, March 14, 2018
A long-married, long-suffering couple entering late middle age have pushed each other's buttons so often that they threaten to "bicker each other to death," as one of them puts it in Max Bak…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMMonday, March 12, 2018
One of the more ironic benefits of membership in the socio-economic cocoon known as "white privilege" is the luxury of being able to criticize the unfair advantages its status confers withou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55PMThursday, March 8, 2018
"Fortune favors the brave!" is the way one hopeful character puts it in David Rabe's Good for Otto, a masterwork about the care and treatment of mental illness, written by a playwright at th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Anyone who spends time contemplating the end of human civilization might take a modicum of comfort in knowing that a record of our existence may very well outlast us somewhere in the vastnes…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMThursday, March 1, 2018
Lindsey Ferrentino's Amy and the Orphans, opening tonight at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, is a smart and perceptive blend of a laugh-out-loud 'road trip' comedy and a serious examination…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMMonday, February 26, 2018
Third time's the charm as the York Theatre Company closes out its three-show Musicals in Mufti tribute to composer Jule Styne with an effervescent production of Subways Are For Sleeping.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PMFriday, February 23, 2018
We are fortunate in New York to have a couple of theater companies that specialize in presenting older plays that generally have been confined to dusty shelves and haven't seen the light of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Remember The Book of Mormon, the musical that The New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley called "blasphemous, scurrilous and more foul-mouthed than David Mamet on a blue streak?"
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Director Lila Neugebauer has a flair for finding a clear path through abstract works.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Playwright Sarah Burgess has shown a real interest in the intersection of wealth and power.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMThursday, February 15, 2018
Carl Jung meets Jurassic Park in Alexander V. Thompson's Pete Rex, an unpolished yet intriguing new play about one man's personal journey through psychological darkness, opening tonight at 5…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Playwright Greg Pierce's Cardinal, which opened tonight at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theater, is a sketchbook of a play ostensibly about the impact of urban renewal, population shifts, and t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Balls, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is a rollicking, three-ring circus of a play that retells the story of the ultra-hyped man-vs-woman tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:26PMMonday, January 22, 2018
There is no doubt that the big draw for audiences at Party Face, Isobel Mahon's wobbly comic drama opening tonight at City Center Stage II, is the headline presence of Hayley Mills among the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
If you are ever in need of a psychopomp, someone to guide you on your journey to the afterlife, I recommend you consider hiring Lydia.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:47PMSunday, January 14, 2018
Fans of playwright Neil LaBute, a specialist in works about men and women behaving badly within the intersection of sex and power (among them, Fat Pig, reasons to be pretty, and All The Ways…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14PMThursday, January 11, 2018
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
The Ensemble for the Romantic Century is an exceptionally ambitious company, bent on creating theatrical works that combine live performances of classical music, dance, acting, artistic imag…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:34PMSunday, December 17, 2017
Harry Houdini was not only a gifted stage magician and escape artist; he was a master showman who knew how to pull off attention-grabbing stunts that ensured both a lucrative career while he…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:14PM"Musick has charms to sooth a savage breast," wrote William Congreve in 1697. That aphorism is put to the test in Claire van Kampen's Farinelli and the King, opening tonight at the Belasco T…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:14PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
The Children, Lucy Kirkwood's all too believable play about the aftermath of a nuclear accident, is much more than a cautionary dystopian tale.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMMonday, December 4, 2017
If nautical nonsense be something you wish, you can either (a) drop on the deck and flop like a fish, or (b) head on out to the Palace Theatre where mayhem reigns supreme with the opening of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:50PMSunday, December 3, 2017
Michael Arden showed us all what it looks like to breathe new life into a revived musical when he brought Spring Awakening back to Broadway in 2015 just six years after its original and high…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PMIf you are going to push the envelope in theater, you really ought to make sure there is enough inside that envelope that makes it worth pushing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:38PMThursday, November 30, 2017
"In the land of sinners, the whore is Queen," observes an experienced political hand in Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman, an old-fashioned melodrama about the interplay of sex, power, and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Somewhere around the middle of the supremely silly and not-entirely comprehensible comedy Meteor Shower, opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, one of the show's four characters whips out a p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:54PMSunday, November 26, 2017
Should someone ask where you were when you first heard the shocking news "on the day of," what pops immediately into your head?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Home for the Holidays, "the Broadway concert celebration" that opened tonight at the August Wilson Theatre, would best be enjoyed by fans of TV's "American Idol," "The Voice," and "America's…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:57PMMonday, November 20, 2017
Writing recently about another play, I made the point that the day-to-day lives of teenagers can be terribly dramatic, at least to them. While that particular work failed to make a convincin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:09PMThursday, November 16, 2017
There are assuredly many engrossing musicals about adolescent angst, from West Side Story to Spring Awakening to Dear Evan Hansen. Even the day-to-day lives of teenagers can be terribly dram…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PMJust to be absolutely clear on this, the "morons" John Leguizamo is referring to in his frenzied, funny, and surprisingly tender-hearted one-man show Latin History for Morons at Studio 54, i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:59AM 
