Thursday, November 16, 2017
Just 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 06:59AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Watching Toys, the "dark fairy tale" by Saviana Stanescu that opened tonight at 59E59 Theaters, is like attending an exhibit of abstract expressionism and trying to make heads or tails out o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:12PMThursday, November 2, 2017
It seems that Halloween has not quite ended, what with all the scary stuff that takes place in Ayad Akhtar's new play Junk, which opened tonight at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Cen…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:11PMSunday, October 29, 2017
Though playwright David Harrower hails from Scotland, his compelling if occasionally opaque 1995 play Knives in Hens, opening today at 59E59 Theaters in a production by The Shop, has the fee…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Bringing one of the classic Greek myths to life for a modern audience is a tricky venture.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:10PMBadda bing, badda boom! That, in a nutshell, is what you get with playwright John Patrick Shanley's latest work, The Portuguese Kid, a joke-filled but decidedly saggy sex comedy that opened …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:10PMFriday, October 20, 2017
Zingy jokes, bits of shtick, and sight gags fly fast and furious during Torch Song, a trimmed-down revival of Harvey Fierstein's 1983 Tony Award-winning Torch Song Trilogy, which opened toni…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:42AMThursday, October 5, 2017
Too Heavy For Your Pocket, opening tonight at the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center, provides a truly auspicious introduction of playwright Jiréh Breo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:36PMWednesday, October 4, 2017
Playwright William Donnelly's No Wake, opening tonight at 59E59 Theaters, begins just after a memorial service for a young woman who has committed suicide, the long-estranged daughter of a d…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMMonday, October 2, 2017
It's not exactly a case of fake news, but there is an unshakable artificiality to the presumably true stories that are being aired in Tiny Beautiful Things, which opened tonight in a return …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:07PMSunday, October 1, 2017
Scott Carter's The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, a play that attempts to merge religious argument and personal confessionals with outl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:10PMTuesday, September 19, 2017
Some very good acting, a couple of emotionally touching speeches, and an evocative set are not enough to cover up the numerous plot holes and overall sudsy narrative of The Violin, a slow-pa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:57PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Forget Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose novel "The Scarlet Letter" is credited with being the inspiration for the pair of works by Suzan-Lori Parks being presented at the Pershing Square Signature…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:25AMSunday, September 17, 2017
You've heard, of course, of the comic teams of Abbott and Costello, and Laurel and Hardy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20PMMonday, September 11, 2017
Suzan-Lori Parks' dystopian play Fucking A, a work from 2000 opening tonight at the Pershing Square Signature Center, takes its inspiration from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter but …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28PMSunday, September 10, 2017
It is awfully difficult to pull off a satire about sexual assault without underplaying or overplaying your hand.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMThursday, August 31, 2017
Truly, you haven't lived until you've heard a lusty French Charolais heifer mooningly mooing a rendition of "La Vie En Rose" while daydreaming about breeding with a "bull of excellent pedigr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMThursday, August 17, 2017
How to categorize the Ensemble for the Romantic Century's new production, Van Gogh's Ear, which opened today at the Pershing Square Signature Center?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMSunday, August 6, 2017
It's too bad that the New York International Fringe Festival is on hiatus this year, because that would be a perfect venue for Stephen Kaplan's compelling and ambitious satire-with-a-heart, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29PMWould you risk your job to champion a controversial stance on behalf of someone you like and respect but don't fully agree with?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:13PMThursday, August 3, 2017
"Nostalgia" is not the first word that comes to mind when thinking about children's theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:07PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
Bruce Norris's intriguing and darkly comic science fiction-inspired play, A Parallelogram, has been around for a while, ever since its debut at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2010.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:03PMMonday, July 31, 2017
To co-opt a line of lyric from Stephen Sondheim, "anything can happen in the woods."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:22PMSunday, July 30, 2017
Attending an evening of short plays is rather like opening Forrest Gump's famous box of chocolate; you never know what you're going to get.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:47PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
The 19 talented actors, singers, and musicians who gather onstage at the Pershing Square Signature Center's Linney Theatre kick up such a rip-roaring, rafter-shaking rumpus, they could wake …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:21PMMonday, July 10, 2017
Black lives matter very much to playwright Dominique Morisseau, not just in terms of surviving the mean streets of America, but, far more deeply, with respect to the quality of lives relentl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:10PMThursday, July 6, 2017
Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen's adaptation of Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham's sprawling 1915 coming-of-age novel, may accentuate the melodramatic nature of the plot, but the acti…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
As things stand in the U. S. right now, the primary focus on immigrants seems to be on keeping them out of the country altogether.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMTuesday, June 27, 2017
Meghan Kennedy's immigrant family drama Napoli, Brooklyn, opening tonight at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, contains a number of emotionally-charged and dramatically explosive moments …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
So, here's a question for you: How does the son of a middle class mother and a father/ Reared, though luckily not lost in a forgotten burb of Boston/ By providence blessed with a recessive…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:15PMMonday, June 19, 2017
Some two decades ago, I committed to playing a graphic adventure video game called "Myst."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14PM 
