Monday, May 25, 2015
Angels in America may be a great play, but it’s not an especially good one.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMEvery moment of sheer genius — and in the score, there are many — is met with an equal instance of what-were-they-thinking disappointment. The result is a show that annoys just a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMWhen everyone speaks in the dissembling and disconnected thoughts that constitute their ongoing interior monologues, you get mostly a lot of nothing — none of which is worth listening …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMIf this all sounds directionless and underdeveloped... well, it is.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMJudgmental is as judgmental does in In the Wake, Lisa Kron’s not-so-sweeping sideswipe at blind spots both personal and political, which just opened at The Public Theater.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMThis adaptation, which has been directed by Bartlett Sher, may be many things — including inventively designed and spectacularly cast (at least on paper) — but exciting is not on…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMIf all history classes were as much fun as Long Story Short, Colin Quinn’s new show at the Helen Hayes, high school and college would be far more cheery than dreary.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMAs we’re now even farther removed from the objects of parody, it’s much more difficult to replicate the original show’s impact.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMWhether this show will succeed as well in the heart of the Theatre District is anyone’s guess, but it will roughly triple the area’s laugh quotient for as long as it’s able…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMThe Radio City Christmas Spectacular delivers this year as deliciously as it always has.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMThe Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc. production playing at the Al Hirschfeld through January 2 looks intended, from start to finish, as staunch support for the 2003 holiday hit, but is em…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMFor a play that’s been haunted for over 400 years by its own debatable attitudes toward race and religion, this treatment of its underlying questions is a stunning reversal — and…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMGuare has constructed a dazzling series of moments that Wolfe and his team have given vibrant life. But along the way, Guare has managed to say nothing of consequence, settling instead for p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMIt’s flawless in every way except the one that counts most — its leading lady.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMDespite the participation of top-notch talent onstage (the cast is led by Denis O’Hare and Brendan Fraser) and off (the director is Doug Hughes), it’s notable for not much more t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMFaith does not come easy to anyone, but Neil LaBute’s intricate and thoughtful new play, The Break of Noon, which MCC is presenting at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, asks whether the conv…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMThe only thing certain in the pair of Harold Pinter plays that the Atlantic Theater Company is presenting at Classic Stage Company is that identity is never certain.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMHow, you may ask, can the sight of a man throwing a pie be not just insightful but also fall-down hilarious?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMPaul Alexander’s revival of Deane and Balderston’s version, which just opened at the Little Shubert, is utterly bloodless.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMBock's latest play, A Small Fire, which just opened at Playwrights Horizons, demonstrates that even when at his most realistic and affecting, his judgment is not always sure.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMDecorum may be vanishing from the everyday world in which we live, but it’s alive and well at the American Airlines.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMIt could be a much stronger look at the intersection of Hollywood, Washington D.C., and a fractured family unit if it didn't take the easy way out.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMBy sacrificing so much of the original script’s color and messy whimsy, Auburn has made The New York Idea into a play that doesn’t know what it is, and full of characters who no …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMWeill is one of the few talents to emerge utterly unblemished from the City Center Encores! production, playing through Sunday.
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