Wednesday, September 14, 2022
MacDermott addresses important issues about parenting, and there are some affecting moments among all of the conflicted characters. Ultimately, however, the play is unsatisfying as it hints …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:53PMWednesday, August 31, 2022
The two characters that populate Los Otros, the affecting and intimate new musical by Ellen Fitzhugh and Michael John LaChiusa, appear to be from different worlds entirely. One is a twice-di…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:56PMThursday, August 18, 2022
As portrayed in Johnny G. Lloyd's Patience, now playing as part of Second Stage's Uptown Season at the McGinn/ Cazale Theater, professional Solitaire is a highly competitive, cut-throat, and…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:59AMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Within the first few minutes of Between the Lines, currently running at the Tony Kiser Theater, audiences may have the feeling they are watching what one might call a "genre musical" of sort…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:19AMTuesday, June 28, 2022
The title refers to the percentage of white women that voted Republican in the 2016 presidential election, and the play presents a snapshot of the red and blue, gender and racial divide that…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:21PMSunday, June 19, 2022
The centerpiece of Romello Huins's set design for Lambs to Slaughter, Khalil Kain's new play presented by the Negro Ensemble Company at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is a large, circular wall clo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMThursday, June 9, 2022
Lessons in Survival: 1971 re-creates a television talk show from more than fifty years ago, but the evening throbs with intellectual intensity, political urgency, and striking theatricality.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PMAs audience members take their seats at A.R.T./New York for Stephen Kaliski's The Refugees, they are invited to write a haiku inspired by the statement: "You didn't do enough." The play, pre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:37PMSunday, May 22, 2022
The evening combines stand-up, humorous guidelines for Jewish rituals, and pointed jabs at cultural stereotypes, but the most powerful moments occur when Takiff addresses his personal religi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:55AMMonday, May 9, 2022
, Oh God feels necessary and urgent in a way that it would not have, say, two weeks ago. Now, that's impeccable timing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:37PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
Don't be misled by the title: A Case for the Existence of God, Samuel D. Hunter's gorgeous and heartbreaking new play now running at Signature Theatre, is anything but a theoretical religiou…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:57AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
To My Girls comprises stock figures recognizable from plays like The Boys in the Band, Torch Song Trilogy, Jeffrey, and Angels in America.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:07AMSunday, April 10, 2022
More than a decade after he first performed the piece, and once again directed by Cummings, Greenspan remains a force of nature. Until he climbs off of the stage after eighty breathless minu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
The New Group's exhilarating new musical adaptation retains the novel's relevance, and it is the rare show that appeals to the intellect, the heart, and the soul.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:18PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
While Will Pomerantz and Nancy Harrow's adaptation may not necessarily raise Turgenev's literary stature, it makes for a lovely and bittersweet night at the theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:14PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
... one of the most exhilarating, reassuring, and life-affirming performances you may experience this year.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMIn the end, though, the play, overstuffed with ideas and theatricality, does not pack the emotional wallop one might expect.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AMTuesday, February 4, 2020
... an ambitious musical, but sadly, its appeal is as lasting as a one-night stand.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMThursday, January 23, 2020
Romeo and Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn, does not nearly reach the very high bar that Amas has set in its first half century.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
... the play raises complex questions about the desire to assign blame in the wake of a senseless and tragic massacre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:50PMMonday, November 25, 2019
With direction by Michael Wilson, the cast is uniformly strong, and they keep the audience guessing about the uncomfortable truths.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:24AMFriday, November 22, 2019
... Will Eno's strange and wonderful new play currently running at Second Stage Theater ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:50AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
How much do biographers really know about the individuals they research?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMFriday, February 15, 2019
In State of the Union, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning play currently being revived by Metropolitan Playhouse, a presidential hopeful agrees to go on the pre-c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PMTuesday, January 22, 2019
One thing that Americans can all agree on is that Americans cannot all agree on anything.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMMonday, January 21, 2019
In Awake, the estimable Barrow Group's current production, K. Lorrel Manning tackles a host of divisive and contemporary hot-button issues. Racism, sexism, Islamophobia, religious hypocrisy,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Two years ago Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit Red Rabbit was an Off-Broadway hit and ran an impressive forty-two weeks. (It played Monday nights only at the Westside Theatre.)
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
"Can I be honest with you?" These are the first words uttered by Undine Barnes Calles, a high-powered New York City publicist and the central character in Lynn Nottage's sweeping and satiric…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:57AMSunday, December 2, 2018
When The Tricky Part, Martin Morans lacerating solo show about child sex abuse, debuted in 2003, the nation was still reeling from The Boston Globes Roman Catholic church exposé publish…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:09PMSunday, October 14, 2018
When silent film star Greta Garbo transitioned to talking movies with her performance of Anna Christie in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize winning-play of the same name, the marketing campaig…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:11PMMonday, September 10, 2018
It can't be easy being the last remaining dragon on earth, a planet which humans do not even inhabit anymore.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PM 
