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Monday, May 25, 2015

Lost in the Stars by Matthew Murray

Weill is one of the few talents to emerge utterly unblemished from the City Center Encores! production, playing through Sunday.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM

The Road to Qatar! by Matthew Murray

Cole 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 05:58PM

Black Tie by Matthew Murray

Whether 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 05:58PM

When I Come to Die by Matthew Murray

Nathan 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 05:58PM

Interviewing the Audience by Matthew Murray

By 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 05:58PM

Timon of Athens by Matthew Murray

A 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 05:58PM

Peter and the Starcatcher by Matthew Murray

Many 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 05:58PM

Cactus Flower by Matthew Murray

Abe 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 05:58PM
Thursday, May 21, 2015

THE OTHER THING - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

A 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 07:32PM
Monday, May 11, 2015

THE PAINTED ROCKS AT REVOLVER CREEK - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

They 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 09:38PM
Thursday, May 7, 2015

ZORBA - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

It'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 08:15AM
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

DINNER WITH THE BOYS - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Suburban living has a unique set of challenges for those in certain lines of work.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:16AM
Sunday, April 26, 2015

GROUNDED - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

One 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 09:41PM

SPEAKEASY DOLLHOUSE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Entering the Liberty Theatre is like stepping back in time.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40PM
Thursday, April 23, 2015

THE VISIT - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Tragedy 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 08:03PM

AIRLINE HIGHWAY - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

New Orleans without Mardi Gras is like a New York day without traffic, right?

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:47PM
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

SOMETHING ROTTEN! - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Tired of the spoofsical? Who can blame you?

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21PM
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

By 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 06:32PM
Monday, April 20, 2015

LIVING ON LOVE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Sometimes all you need for your trifle is for a star to give it gravitas.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PM
Sunday, April 19, 2015

FUN HOME - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Not everything that’s beautiful from a distance retains its captivating allure when seen close up.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:11PM
Thursday, April 16, 2015

THE KING AND I - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Though 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 06:49PM
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

HAMLET - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Madness 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 07:02PM

FINDING NEVERLAND - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Theatre 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 06:33PM
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

No wedding ever goes off completely without a hitch. (At least no wedding with which I've been involved.)

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PM

IOWA - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Admit it: You’ve fallen into the Wikipedia whirlpool once or twice.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22AM

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