Sunday, July 19, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Deep Love at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:55AMMatthew Murray takes a look at Sudden Valley Fair at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:55AMThursday, July 16, 2015
Amazing Grace, which just opened at the Nederlander, may have the noblest intentions of any major musical I've ever seen.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:53PM"We were having a wild, wild party," sings the tormented chorine Queenie early on in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, which is playing at City Center through Saturday as part of the Encores! O…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:03AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:55AMMatthew Murray takes a look at Real Men at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45AMMatthew Murray takes a look at Wearing Black at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:27AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at 210 Amlent Avenue at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:35AMMonday, July 13, 2015
That fame makes monsters of us all, even at the most inconsequential levels, is the closest thing there is to a moral in Ruthless!, the musical by Joel Paley and Marvin Laird that just opene…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMMatthew Murray takes a look at Claudio Quest at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:36PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Thirty years after they first appeared in New York, Penn Jillette and his partner Teller still have a bit more anti-magic magic to pull out of their bottomless bag of tricks. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMA group of young, straight men might not seem like a natural, or even workable, subject for a musical that's about the way people — most notably friends — respond to an unthinkable trage…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:35PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Spot on the Wall at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMFriday, July 10, 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15AMThursday, July 9, 2015
Moses Man and Acappella at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:42PMThursday, July 2, 2015
I suppose I've long instinctively known that the act of celebrating history in the theatre is capable of creating history in the theatre, but I'm not sure I've ever seen it demonstrated with…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10AMTuesday, June 30, 2015
The eternal battle between nature and nurture establishes its latest front line in Of Good Stock, the play by Melissa Ross that just opened at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage I space at City …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMMonday, June 29, 2015
The scheming. The backbiting. The feuds. The trysts. Making theatre has never been for the faint of heart or the delicate of constitution, but — oh, sorry, did you think I was referring to…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMThursday, June 25, 2015
When people complain that musicals these days can be written about anything — and frequently are — one can't help but wonder if they have A New Brain in mind.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:47PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Joy and pain travel hand in hand in relationships of all stripes, but rarely is the interconnection between the two feelings explored as fully, and as blissfully, as it is in Significant Oth…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:35PMWednesday, June 17, 2015
As anyone who's ever toiled away in one knows, an office can be a lot like a family.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
The best scary tales are frequently the leanest, with every word loaded with import and landing with full bristling effect.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15PMYou're forced out of your dukedom. You're abandoned on a deserted island with nothing but your daughter and minimal supplies. Your only friends are a spirit and a deformed animal-thing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PMMonday, June 15, 2015
It's an unfortunate aspect of human nature for us to be haunted our pasts, whether the achievements that defined us or the failures that stood in our way.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:08PMSunday, June 14, 2015
Taboos do not last long around Bruce Norris.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMThursday, June 11, 2015
As are many things, beauty is deceptive: You only ever see the finished product, not the interminable amounts of time, heartbreak, and/or failure that went into ensuring it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMGiving the benefit of the doubt to David Rhodes is the best I can do with regards to his new play Consent, which just opened at the Black Box at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMWednesday, June 3, 2015
Heisenberg, the new play by Simon Stephens that just opened at Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, contains no direct reference to its likeliest namesake, Werner Heisenberg.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:37PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
There is no weapon that's not in Ben's arsenal. Deflection. Deceit. Derision. Belittlement. Humor (on occasion). Heck, even outright racism if it will get the job done.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMThursday, May 28, 2015
In another time and another place, I imagine the charge could be leveled that David Javerbaum is courting blasphemy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMIf all a musical has going for it are its spine-tingling songs, there are worse things.
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