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SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:22AMCan you blame Richard Hannay for looking exhausted? He's been running a bloody long time, after all, with investigators hot on his trail every step of the way.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PMEven when it’s drenched in the unmistakable light of day, the city is astonishingly dreamlike.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:44PMEven if two Republican candidates hadn’t already announced (and there weren’t already seemingly dozens of others lined up to do so), the 2016 campaign would now officially be underway, t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMNo offense to the current troupe—Elizabeth, Charles, William, Kate, and so on—but the British monarchy just ain’t what it used to be.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMWe all know you can't go home again, but how many of us know where our true spiritual homes actually are?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMThe new production of Gigi, which just opened at the Neil Simon, is a fascinating exercise in exploring just how far a revival can go — and how far it shouldn't.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PMIs there any excuse more popular, or more vapid, than “the devil made me do it”?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMFor someone who is constantly carrying a pair of unspeakable burdens, Kyra Hollis moves pretty efficiently.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMNo visionary lasts forever. Take, for example, Hank, the Chicago bar owner at the center of Laura Eason's new play at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Undeniable Sound of Right Now.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMIt's often said that pornography can't be easily defined, but you know it when you see it. Does the same apply to genius?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMFor a love letter to... Wait, no, that’s not right. What’s stronger than a love letter? Poetry? A flat-out marriage proposal? A deed to a house? A deed to a small country?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:19PMWhen Wendy Wasserstein's play The Heidi Chronicles opened in 1988, it was perfectly poised in history.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMSince its inception in 1995, City Center Encores! has redeemed failed musicals, and brought to new light others we may have forgotten (or never known) existed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:31PMMore than just illnesses can be psychosomatic.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:43PMThe urge to create is a powerful one, especially when the artist realizes and is in full command of his nearly godlike abilities to articulate and — when necessary — reshape reality.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:21PMWhen traveling, should luggage handling ever be more than half the fun?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:20PMThere are plenty of takeaways from Josephine and I, the invigorating one-woman show written by and starring Cush Jumbo that just opened at Joe's pub.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMThere are years of possibilities in every glance, word, or kiss exchanged by two people who are, or simply may be, in love.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:17PMSlavery of the soul can be even more violent and deadening a condition than slavery of the body, though, naturally, the two are often tightly interlinked.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PMNo ordinary person can quiet a crowd with a half-turn of the head. Or make your heart skip a beat by stepping into a room just so. Or sit in a chair with far more purpose than most conduct e…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:12PMIf your laughs don't go deep, at least they can go long.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:00PMThe Mystery of Love & Sex, the new play by Bathsheba Doran that just opened at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, is nothing if not inclusive.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMEach of us is constantly adrift on a personal stream of consciousness, but it’s not easy to bring other people along for the ride without drowning them.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34PMOur lives and choices are shaped in innumerable ways by others, especially those closest to us, often in ways we don’t recognize at the time (if ever).
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMIt’s not a bird and it’s not a plane, but Brooklynite is just about featherweight enough to fly — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMWe’re so consumed with the idea of “feeling good” in this country that we can easily forget that there are plenty of places where our concepts of self-actualization simply do not apply.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:45AMHow you behave when no one can see you is frequently cited as the ultimate definition of character.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMNot everything is a laughing matter.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMDepression, addiction, bulimia, and rape are terrible things, as the teens at the core of the new musical One Day are all too ready to tell you.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMEven the biggest of men can seem small in the right — or wrong — circumstances.
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