Monday, October 13, 2025
Mellow jazz is playing, and the Playwrights Horizons stage is plainly dressed: Emmie Finckel's set design consists of two folding chairs, a small table in between with two coffee cups and a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:28PMSunday, September 28, 2025
So, Eric Krebs, who runs a theater on far West 42nd, treks to work one morning and is greeted by a large manila envelope resting by the door. Intrigued, he opens it to find a script and a no…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:10PMFriday, September 19, 2025
The 2017 indie film Saturday Church is a musical, of sorts. But all of the songs are happening in the head of its protagonist, Ulysses, a troubled Black teen in some vaguely defined New York…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:52PMOn the morning of January 13, 2018, Hawaii's Emergency Alert System issued a warning of an impending ballistic missile attack, widely believed to have emanated from North Korea and plunging …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:37AMThursday, July 17, 2025
Irish Repertory Theatre really loves The Weir. They've done Conor McPherson's drama three times since 2013, most recently a digital staging during early pandemic days. Their affection for th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
It hasn't even opened as I write this, but Prince F*ggot, a joint production of Soho Rep and Playwrights Horizons, has already generated plenty of social media vitriol, mostly of the "how da…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMTuesday, June 3, 2025
I'm no Molière authority, so I can't say how many liberties Jeffrey Hatcher has taken in his adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid, now being presented by Red Bull Theater at New World Stages…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:57AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
He enters, rising up out of the floor, back to the audience, in a pink spangled blazer, like a gaudier Velma Kelly about to launch into "All That Jazz." But Ryan J. Haddad has other things o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:40PMSunday, April 13, 2025
The Irish Repertory Theatre is in an uncharacteristically jocular mood. Irishtown, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth's comedy, is a slight but merry look at Irish theatre's history, its nature, and let'…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
What's most impressive about Becoming Eve–and there's a lot–is its generosity of spirit. Emil Weinstein's play at New York Theatre Workshop's temporary quarters on Grand Street, adapted …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36AMMonday, March 24, 2025
I'm smiling this morning. Who Is Jimmy Pants?, the second in New2NY's trio of staged readings at the York Theatre Company, is silly and inconsequential, but it's also one big long grin.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
Some playwrights we appreciate because we don't know what they're going to come up with next, and some we appreciate because we do. Joshua Harmon surely belongs in the latter category, for a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
A decade back, Jordan Harrison got us thinking about artificial intelligence, man-machine relationships, and the dangers of rapidly advancing technologies in his Pulitzer finalist Marjorie P…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PMSunday, January 26, 2025
The house at Irish Repertory Theatre is less than full, and the end-of-evening applause, at best, polite. There's my argument: Do less Samuel Beckett! But Irish Rep is on something of a Beck…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:24PMSunday, December 8, 2024
"Then I would be slap-dashing home, the gravy smell of the dinners of others, the bird smell, the brandy, the pudding and mince, coiling up to my nostrils, when out of a snow-clogged side la…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:14PMSaturday, November 9, 2024
There's more than a whiff of Rent to We Live in Cairo, Daniel and Patrick Lazour's long-aborning musical now at New York Theatre Workshop. Also the heady scents of cardamom and sumac. Take a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:19AMWednesday, October 16, 2024
One of the pleasures of Vladimir, Erika Sheffer's sturdy new play at Manhattan Theatre Club, is how it allows us Americans to listen in on ordinary Russians' conversations. We've had plenty …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:13AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
This won't be a long one, because The Counter is one of those plays where divulging almost any detail might constitute a spoiler. Meghan Kennedy's short, straightforward exploration of frien…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:06PMSaturday, September 28, 2024
Your first thought on entering the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons is, hey, this doesn't look like the set for a song cycle. That's what Magnificent Bird and Book of Traveler…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMThursday, September 26, 2024
"Fatherland." Has a vaguely Teutonic ring to it, no? But plays don't come more American than Fatherland, Stephen Sachs's distillation of disturbing recent U.S. events and their cataclysmic e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:11PMSunday, September 22, 2024
It's Irish Rep, and there's a squabbling mother and her adult son onstage, so we know this isn't going to end well. My first thought of The Beacon, Nancy Harris's new play, was, this reminds…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12PMFriday, September 20, 2024
So let me take you back to the original Forbidden Broadway. It's 1982 and we're at Palsson's, an inelegant upstairs boîte on West 72nd Street (it's still there, as the Triad). The stage is …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:46AMMonday, July 15, 2024
As one who has often found the works of Samuel Beckett to be baffling, boring, or both, I wasn't looking forward to On Beckett. The lecture on and excerpts from the man's oeuvre, returning t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:20PMThursday, May 23, 2024
Everybody, except me, loved Irish Repertory Theatre's previous effort in its Friel Project, Philadelphia, Here I Come! They saw a trenchant examination of stultifying small-town Irish life a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Here There Are Blueberries is surely the right title for this one. It refers to a caption in a photo album, a very special photo album. The phrase evokes a carefree, whimsical quotidian exis…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58AMSunday, April 28, 2024
Ever seen a shaggy-dog play? That's a fair description of Staff Meal, Abe Koogler's shape-shifter of a comedy now at Playwrights Horizons. His purpose is hard to pin down, if not impossible.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00PMThursday, April 18, 2024
With Brooklyn Laundry having recently ended its merry run at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York now has a new, not-dissimilar mini-romance to celebrate. Lia Romeo's Still, from Colt Coeur at D…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38PMMonday, March 25, 2024
Philadelphia, Here I Come! was Brian Friel's first major success, and the new revival at Irish Repertory Theatre, part of its Friel Project retrospective, offers ample evidence why. It's a s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:42AMSaturday, March 23, 2024
You've probably heard about it as "the musical about the penis-eating vagina." Yes, but Teeth aims to be something more–a horror musical that also takes in repression, misogyny, violence, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:11PMSaturday, March 16, 2024
Rupert Murdoch is a scourge, a reckless power monger whose pursuit of material gain has irrevocably changed and devalued the journalistic universe. On that much many of us will probably agre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:45PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
The New York Times beat me to it yesterday in saying so, but gosh, this is some season John Patrick Shanley is having. First a well-received revival of his early play, Danny and the Deep Blu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00PM 
