Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Welcome to the manosphere! The philosophy behind this realm is best summed up by 21 Studios, a prominent anti-feminist and Men's Rights Activist (MRA) organization, which succinctly instruct…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PMWednesday, June 4, 2025
In his 2000 Pulitzer-Prize winning drama Dinner with Friends, Donald Margulies dissected the institution of marriage and revealed the quotidian struggles, shifting affinities, and existentia…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:31AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
When I first saw Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at Second Stage Theater in 2007, I found the play mawkish and pretentious. What's more, its retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice seemed at the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58AMMonday, May 19, 2025
Swedish playwright August Strindberg's early plays explore fluctuating power dynamics, depicting relationships as volatile arenas where characters skillfully employ psychological manipulatio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:18PMSunday, May 18, 2025
In his poem about the loneliness of a schoolteacher, playwright William Inge wrote, "Funny but being alone in a room full of people is more lonely somehow than/ Being left to your own device…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PMWednesday, May 14, 2025
Emblazoned on a November 2006 cover of the New York Post was a photo of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears in the front seat of a fancy car. The trio, dubbed "3 Bimbos of the Ap…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:21AMSunday, April 6, 2025
Since it first appeared, Jason Robert Brown's song-cycle musical The Last Five Years seems to be in a continual loop. The short-lived Off-Broadway original in 2002 spawned countless regional…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMTuesday, March 25, 2025
When Tommy Marie, a character in Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness (now playing at Classic Stage Company's Lynn F. Angelson Theater), first appears, she draws laughs. Her ill-fitting …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:48AMWednesday, February 26, 2025
Curse of the Starving Class, which was first produced in New York in 1978, is the second play in what playwright Sam Shepard called his Family Trilogy. Along with Buried Child and True West,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:05AMMonday, February 24, 2025
Samuel D. Hunter's stunning and deeply affecting Grangeville, currently running at New York's Signature Center, begins in complete darkness. The disembodied phone voices of two men discussin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PMSunday, February 23, 2025
Conversations with Mother, Matthew Lombardo's semi-autobiographical comedy currently running at Theater 555, is a crowd-pleasing show that traces the relationship of a mother and son over fi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:42PMThursday, February 20, 2025
British playwright Harold Brighouse's legacy rests largely on Hobson's Choice, his well-crafted comedy from 1915 that satirizes class hypocrisies and gender roles. Though best known for its …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
Charlie Chaplin's appreciation for Japanese culture has been well documented. He visited Japan several times, and he had a deep admiration for the physicality of both Kabuki and kengeki (sam…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMFriday, January 24, 2025
George Bernard Shaw famously dubbed Shakespeare's Cymbeline "stagey trash of the lowest melodramatic order." Appalled by the ludicrous coincidences and tangled plot lines, Shaw rewrote the l…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:36AMThursday, December 12, 2024
The past and present collide in Anthony M. Laura's Duality, currently running at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at The A.R.T./New York Theatres. Primarily, the play explores the lasting…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:11AMMonday, November 25, 2024
Former stand-up comic Sam Kissajukian states matter-of-factly at the beginning of his one-person show, "I'm not from the theatre. I'm from Australia." In 300 Paintings, currently playing at …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01AMWednesday, November 20, 2024
Stereophonic, this year's Tony Award winner for Best Play, is set in the 1970s and depicts rampant toxic masculinity in the recording industry. The New Group's current production, Babe by Je…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMMonday, November 11, 2024
First dates are generally awkward, sometimes cringeworthy, and occasionally hopeful. In Miriam Battye's Strategic Love Play, Audible Theater's current production, these familiar qualities ar…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz's Another Shot, now running at New York's Signature Center (but is not a Signature production), is set in an addiction rehab facility. The title slyly hints …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:20PMWednesday, July 31, 2024
How long is it appropriate to grieve one's personal loss? Are some losses worthier of sympathy than others? Is there a proper way to grieve? These are just some of the questions pondered, de…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author caused a cultural firestorm when it opened in Rome in 1921. Reportedly, after the show's premiere the playwright had to leave through…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:49AMMonday, July 15, 2024
Following in the nimble footsteps of Twyla Tharp and most recently Justin Peck, choreographer and dancer Jakob Karr has turned to the music of a contemporary singer/songwriter to create a na…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:20PMTuesday, July 2, 2024
On June 12, 2016, the attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando was (at the time) the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. It remains the most violent assault on LGBTQ+ people. Set…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:41AMThursday, June 20, 2024
Mark Twain's preface to "Huckleberry Finn" famously states, "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banish…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PMSunday, June 9, 2024
A program note states that New York's AMT Theater in Hell's Kitchen was established for several different purposes, including serving "as a launching pad to Broadway" and presenting "childre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:58PMThursday, May 16, 2024
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, an "invasive species" is one that "has been intentionally or inadvertently brought into a region or area. Also called an exotic or non-nativ…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
In the last few decades, Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) has made huge technological advances in speech-generated tools, but it is hard to imagine a dramatic love scene prod…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:57PMSaturday, May 4, 2024
Eating disorders, adolescent trauma, motherhood, and managing an acting career are just some of the topics explored in Fingers and Spoons, the one-person show written and performed by Pascal…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:33PMSunday, April 21, 2024
Midway through Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, "Orlando: A Biography," the protagonist awakes after a long sleep as a different gender. "It is enough for us to state the simple fact," the narra…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53PMIt is very common for audiences at Broadway musicals to clap and hoot at the entrance of a star or in appreciation of impressive scenic design. In Hell's Kitchen, which concluded an Off-Broa…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:56AMThursday, April 18, 2024
Although it won a slew of Tony Awards in 1975, The Wiz has never really been considered a great musical. In the right hands, however, it is a thoroughly enjoyable one, and its buoyant pleasu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:10AM 
