Thursday, October 8, 2015
Although Sam Shepard's Fool for Love celebrates heat in forms both emotional and chemical, by the end of Daniel Aukin's revival of the play for Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedm…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMNo matter how bad your family is, the two we meet in Barbecue, which just opened at The Public Theater, are almost certainly worse.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:41PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Maybe this is what electrocution looks like from the inside.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PMMonday, October 5, 2015
Although it premiered in England in 1979 and Off-Broadway two years later, Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine feels fresh, crazy, and relevant enough to have been written yesterday.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:57PMThursday, October 1, 2015
The relentless clashes of generations, as viewed through lenses of pride and common sense, are the fuel The Quare Land, the amusing but rudderless play by John McManus that just opened at th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Tales about serial killers typically revel in the harrowing. The monster's methodical torture of his victims. A terrified prisoner struggling to escape his bloody clutches.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:41PMMonday, September 28, 2015
Reality takes on a whole new meaning in Fondly, Collette Richland, the new extravaganza from Elevator Repair Service at New York Theatre Workshop, which apparently contains absolutely none o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMLetter writing is a dying (dead?) art today, but it's easy to see why it's so tantalized fiction authors over the ages.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMSunday, September 27, 2015
The most acclaimed and remembered moment of Deaf West Theatre's Big River, which landed on Broadway in 2003, is still talked about today....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:46PMFriday, September 18, 2015
Disclaimer: I've never entirely understood why playwrights and directors so often feel a compelling need to mock around with the Greek classics.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14AMBait and switch may be frowned upon in the retail and political worlds, but in the theatre it can be positively blissful. Take, for example, Lucas Hnath's absorbing new play The Christians, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14AMWednesday, September 9, 2015
This is not an Edith Piaf anyone has ever seen before, or for that matter one anyone would recognize.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:38PMSunday, September 6, 2015
How weird, wild, and wonderful the world can be when you view it through new eyes.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:04PMThursday, August 27, 2015
Identity is as inescapable as fingerprints in Whorl Inside a Loop, which just opened at Second Stage Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PMMonday, August 24, 2015
Repentance does not come easy in Love & Money, the new play by A.R. Gurney that just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:40PMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Theatre is perhaps as close as art gets to a true realm of believable make-believe, as everything that's done and everything you see has to, in some way, be possible.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:05PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
If she lacks anything, it's not certainty. Jillian, the big-time university researcher at the center of Deborah Zoe Laufer's play Informed Consent, which just opened at the Duke on 42nd Stre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Forget that it's August — when (notice that's "when," not "if") you head to the Pershing Square Signature Center to see Sam Gold's arresting production of Annie Baker's play John that just…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:57PMMonday, August 10, 2015
Like most of Shakespeare's late-career romances, Cymbeline is difficult to classify. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PMThursday, August 6, 2015
It's almost unheard of for a musical to arrive on Broadway already a genuine phenomenon, but it's a trick that Hamilton has managed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:48PMMonday, July 27, 2015
Not just women and not just African-Americans — people in general don't get much more powerful than Liz Rico.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:16PMEven if you don't want to admit it, the nearly three dozen Helen Keller jokes that open Jack Cummings III's new Transport Group show, Three Days to See, are pretty funny.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39AMSunday, July 26, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Songs for the Fallen at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:45AMSaturday, July 25, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at HeadVoice & Held Momentarily at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:47PMMatthew Murray takes a look at Manuel Versus the State of Liberty & What Do Critics Know? at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:37AMFriday, July 24, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Fooliere at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:52PMMatthew Murray takes a look at Single Wide at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:29PMThursday, July 23, 2015
Ethnic jokes. I shouldn't have even said it, should I?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Napoleon at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:21AMSunday, July 19, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Pope! at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:55AMMatthew Murray takes a look at Deep Love at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:55AM 
