Weill is one of the few talents to emerge utterly unblemished from the City Center Encores! production, playing through Sunday.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMCole and Krane's chronicle of the whole affair, now playing at the York Theatre at St. Peter's, often seems to be in its own, incomprehensible language.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMWhether you agree with his premise or his moral may well determine the extent to which you’re captivated by this play, but no orientation of your own opinion is likely to make you miss…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMNathan Louis Jackson’s biggest achievement with his new play When I Come to Die, which Lincoln Center is producing at the Duke on 42nd Street as part of its LCT3 program, is that he ca…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMBy luck or by pluck, Helm created a marvelous tapestry of humanity that presented complete strangers in ways that made them feel familiar and important — and more than a little like th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMA part of the new Public LAB Shakespeare initiative, this production, which has been directed by Barry Edelstein, is so handsomely appointed, your mind is utterly freed to focus on the text.…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMMany real plays and musicals out there, in New York and elsewhere, treat their audiences with more respect and intelligence than this one sees fit, and are much better suited for members of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMAbe Burrows’s 1965 farce, Cactus Flower, and by extension Michael Bush’s new revival of it, are together a 14-karat delight.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PMA ghost hovers over The Other Thing, the chill-free thriller by Emily Schwend that just opened at the McGinn-Cazale Theatre as part of Second Stage Theatre's Uptown series, but it's not the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMThey don't look like any flowers you've ever seen. No stems. No petals. No buzzing bees determined to elicit from them, and then spread anew, the basic elements of life.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38PMIt's ironic, if not also comfortingly correct, that those who understand life the best are those who have the least of it left.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:15AMSuburban living has a unique set of challenges for those in certain lines of work.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:16AMOne hit is all it takes to turn a human being into a monster. Or is it a human into a god? Or a victim into an oppressor?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:41PMEntering the Liberty Theatre is like stepping back in time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40PMTragedy and comedy share a tighter bond than is usually assumed. After all, doesn't laughter make the dark more devastating, and immense anguish find an unparalleled release in laughter?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMNew Orleans without Mardi Gras is like a New York day without traffic, right?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:47PMTired of the spoofsical? Who can blame you?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PMBy the time you finally arrive in Siberia, deep into the second act of Doctor Zhivago, which just opened at the Broadway, you've already been in a deep chill for upwards of two hours.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PMSometimes all you need for your trifle is for a star to give it gravitas.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PMNot everything that’s beautiful from a distance retains its captivating allure when seen close up.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PMThough Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's final show together, The Sound of Music, opened on Broadway in 1959, the last 55 years have, if anything, burnished the duo's reputation as …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:49PMMadness can be debilitating, but it's usually not considered an infectious disease. In Austin Pendleton's new production of Hamlet for Classic Stage Company, however, it proves far more comm…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMTheatre obeys its own unique science, and it's not one that those in the "outside world" will able to recognize or even understand. Take, for example, the small matter of flying.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:33PMNo wedding ever goes off completely without a hitch. (At least no wedding with which I've been involved.)
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PMAdmit it: You’ve fallen into the Wikipedia whirlpool once or twice.
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