Tuesday, March 3, 2020
These debonair individuals aren't easy for us schlubs to identify with, and their problems are neither that acute nor that compelling.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
A New York with a Forbidden Broadway in it is always a happier place. And the franchise's latest incarnation, Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation, currently occupying the York, is a pip.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:57AMThursday, December 5, 2019
... well-produced, humorous, and occasionally moving. Still, Eastman's trudging down a well-traveled path.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:19PMMonday, November 18, 2019
Lopez's mammoth depiction of the last 30-odd years of gay American male-hood is a unique meditation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:44AMFriday, March 29, 2019
“There are some who think Judy Holliday was the greatest comic actress of all time, and some who think she was simply the greatest comic actress of the century.” That’s David Shipman i…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:46PMSaturday, March 23, 2019
There’s only one other full-size Broadway musical revival in town right now, that thing uptown about Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, so fans of golden age musicals had better hie themse…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:20PMSunday, January 27, 2019
But there must be something about Carmelina, because York Theatre Company's Musicals in Mufti has just brought it back for its third airing, the first title to score such a trifecta.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:43PMTuesday, January 8, 2019
A stageful of characters you don't often encounter in Broadway houses populates Choir Boy, Tarell Alvin McCraney's two-thirds-drama, one-third-concert, a Manhattan Theatre Club production at…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMThursday, December 13, 2018
One walks into Christmas in Hell, at the York, wanting to like it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMMonday, December 10, 2018
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Tricky business, political correctness.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:33AMMonday, November 5, 2018
Though we never actually meet him, Jamal, the title character of Christopher Demos-Brown's American Son, sounds like a wonderful kid.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:09AMFriday, November 2, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
So once upon a time, kids, there was this play called Oleanna. Mid-career David Mamet, it opened off-Broadway in 1992 and immediately caused a ruckus, both on its own merits and in light of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMThursday, October 11, 2018
There's a famous, oft-exhibited photo of Julius, the still-there predominantly gay bar in the Village, from 1966.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:52PMThursday, September 27, 2018
"You wanna play snooker? Well, chalk up your cue."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMMonday, September 24, 2018
An unfamiliar sight greets audiences filing into Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater:
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PMSaturday, September 15, 2018
The story of the writing of You and I turns out to be more compelling than You and I itself. Philip Barry, fatherless from infancy and raised in a modest Irish-Catholic household, was to inh…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:43PMMonday, August 27, 2018
It's just a guess, but I'll hazard that Mark Chrisler has a Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fixation.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMSaturday, August 25, 2018
Henry VI doesn't get a lot of stagings . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:36PMMonday, June 25, 2018
Log Cabin is so stuffed with ideas, it feels foolish to try to unpack them all here.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Upstage center in Donja R. Love's Sugar in Our Wounds is, as the Playbill says, "a tall, tall tree."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
When did you last see a new play where at the end of Act One you thought, hmm, I'm not sure, then at the end of Act Two you thought, Wow?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:06PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The theatrical tradition of grownups playing kids, and bringing fresh nuance to adolescent angst, is long and honorable: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, of course, and then there's that "P…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PMThursday, May 3, 2018
Unexpected Joy has a cast of four women and possesses a chick-flick plot that, while original, might have been lifted from a Lifetime Movie of the Week. Wait, wait, don't go away.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMUnexpected Joy has a cast of four women and possesses a chick-flick plot that, while original, might have been lifted from a Lifetime Movie of the Week. Wait, wait, don't go away.
SOURCE: at 06:50PMMonday, April 9, 2018
Plays don't come timelier than Lindsey Ferrentino's This Flat Earth, premiering at Playwrights Horizons, and sadly, this one will probably stay timely for some good while.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
A.R. Gurney is back in town; town is a more civilized place.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Vulnerability doesn't come easily to Eve Ensler. Neither does holding back.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27PMSunday, February 4, 2018
The Connelly Theater, on East Fourth, is an elegant old-style off-Broadway house, with gilded proscenium arch, dramatic red curtain, and ample wing space to store enormous set changes.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:21PMMonday, January 22, 2018
The more you like being in a crowded teachers' lounge in the middle of Ohio, the more you'll like Miles for Mary.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:10PM 
