Monday, June 19, 2017
Some two decades ago, I committed to playing a graphic adventure video game called "Myst."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14PMSunday, June 18, 2017
New York subway regulars will undoubtedly empathize with the couple who are stuck on a broken-down train in London's Underground at the end of a pleasant/awkward first date, in Isla van Tric…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:48PMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Invincible, Torben Betts's darkly comic play about the class divide in Britain, places its audience in the company of two very annoying couples, neither of whom we would probably want to spe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:27PMMonday, June 12, 2017
William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which opened tonight at the Public Theater's Delacorte Theater in Central Park, has been given a contemporary makeover by the Public's artistic director …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMThursday, June 1, 2017
A couple of sparkling performances and the assuring presence of five-time Tony nominated Patricia Birch serving as director and choreographer are not enough to prevent the new musical Sweete…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:03PMThe Government Inspector, Nikolai Gogol's 1836 satiric play about public corruption in Tsarist Russia, opening tonight at The Duke, has been given the full "Marxist" treatment by Red Bull Th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMFriday, May 26, 2017
A production of Abram Hill's On Strivers Row, opening today at the Metropolitan Playhouse, offers a rare opportunity to see the kind of work that was a specialty of the American Negro Theate…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:08PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
In Jon Brittain's play, Rotterdam, opening today as part of the Brits Off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theaters, Alice (Alice McCarthy) has finally worked up the courage to come out as gay, vi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:16PMSunday, May 21, 2017
Questions of blame, shame, and culpability lie just beneath the surface as estranged family members, friends, repentant drug dealers, and casual acquaintances gather to say their last goodby…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:46PMFriday, May 19, 2017
If you think of “the troubles” in Ireland and the nationalistic, ethnic, and religious strife that rocked that part of the world as strictly a late twentieth century phenomenon, you may …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13AMMany years before Joseph "the Elephant Man" Merrick was hauled around London to be gawked at as the "freak du jour," a young black South African woman named Saartjie Baartman was lured from …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13AM“Imagination + Structure = Art.” With these words scrawled on a whiteboard, an instructor kicks off the first session of a writing workshop in the premiere production of Lawrence Dial’…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13AMWhen we first encounter the tough-as-nails Effie in Gary Owen's sizzling monologue of a play, Iphigenia In Splott, she is scrunched over in a chair, half-buried in a hoodie.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13AMSunday, May 7, 2017
An exhausted and out-of-work 40-something single mother of an infant son finds her strength and courage in the spirited, romantic, and altogether charming pop and rock musical Ernest Shackle…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMSaturday, May 6, 2017
Anyone entering the universe of Paul Zindel's bitterly dark comedy, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, would do well do heed the famous quote uttered by Bette Davis in the film All About Eve:…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Be warned before entering the world of the Axis Theatre Company and its artistic director Randy Sharp. They have a penchant for asking us to stare unblinkingly into some of life's darkest co…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:53PMMonday, May 1, 2017
Not all resurrected and dusted-off plays from yesteryear reveal themselves to be glittering lost diamonds.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:38PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
It is difficult to know whether Wink, Neil Koenigsberg’s play about a surprising friendship between a homeless teen and a middle-aged former Oscar winning movie star, is intended to be a h…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22PMSunday, April 16, 2017
What becomes of the designated "losers" from high school when they enter into their twenties as rudderless and adrift as they were back in the day?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14AMSunday, April 2, 2017
“Is death a bad thing?” asks one of the characters in Judson Blake’s ambitious if rambling dystopian satire Perversion, now at the 13th Street Repertory Theater. Answer: It depends on …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:37AMThursday, March 30, 2017
It's tempting to refer to Adam Szymkowicz's new play Rare Birds by another name, perhaps "Dear Evan Wills."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMThursday, March 2, 2017
With the premiere of Dolphins and Sharks at the Labyrinth Theater Company, the professional debut of playwright James Anthony Tyler is an impressive one indeed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
It’s a bumpy carnival ride, that strange time between adolescence and young adulthood.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:53PMFriday, February 24, 2017
A self-proclaimed king, attended to by a single subject, has not stepped away from his throne for 11 years.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33PMThursday, February 23, 2017
If the names Bobby Seale, the Berrigan brothers, the Catonsville Nine, the Chicago Seven, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin stir up memories and make your heart thump just a little faster, then…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28PMFriday, February 17, 2017
A xenophobic assault on immigrants and a forbidden inter-religious love story make the Metropolitan Playhouse’s revival of Augustin Daly’s 19th century melodrama Leah, the Forsaken as ti…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:26PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
It can be quite disconcerting to view a work by the experimental playwright/director Richard Maxwell, so before heading out to see the revival of his 2004 play Good Samaritans at the Abrons …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMIf you are a devotee of William Shakespeare and are interested in what was being written by his contemporaries, you are sure to be intrigued by the rare opportunity to see what is a thorough…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:55AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
It is understandable that everyone in Sarah Levine Simon and Mihai Grunfeld’s touching new play The Dressmaker’s Secret, having its premiere production at 59E59 Theaters, would hold thei…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:51PMWednesday, February 8, 2017
The plays of Robert Holman are not widely produced outside his native England, but at home he is known as a prolific creator of quirky and enigmatic works about quirky and enigmatic characte…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PM 
