Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Even the biggest of men can seem small in the right — or wrong — circumstances.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00PMWhat if you were given carte blanche to live out your wildest dreams on someone else's dime, and promised that you'd attain your loftiest career goals if you followed through?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
When history comes alive (something it seldom does) in Hamilton, which just opened at The Public Theater, it tends to do so on the wave of a yawn.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58PMOf all potential terrors, surely the unknown must be the most unsettling.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PMThursday, February 12, 2015
Style isn't always enough to sell a half-cooked play, but it can really help.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMThe sheer number of hot-button issues touched upon in The Events, the intriguing but arid play by David Grieg that just opened at New York Theatre Workshop, is staggering.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMCan paper feel pain? As strange as that question may sound, it has real implications for the three (human) characters in Rajiv Joseph's 2008 play Animals Out of Paper.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Walter Washington may be loaded down with problems, but it's tough not to want to be him.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PM"Post-racial" isn't a state of mind in Rasheeda Speaking — it's a state of confusion.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
You “fall” for someone just as you “fall” ill.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:16PMSunday, February 8, 2015
Many voices — including, on more than one occasion, mine — have lamented the musical’s increasing inability to simultaneously engage the brain and the heart, to transcend the limitatio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:04PMThursday, February 5, 2015
Culture clashes rarely get more unusual than they do in Texas in Paris, which just opened at the York Theatre at St. Peter’s.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMWhen the curtain goes up on the new Encores! concert of Lady, Be Good, which is playing at City Center through Sunday, the particular hue lighting the rear cyclorama is no accident.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:19AMFriday, January 30, 2015
The eternally simmering conflict in the Middle East has inspired much drama, both onstage and off, over the question of how Americans and their enemies deal with each other.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:35PMThursday, January 29, 2015
No one will ever mistake Taylor Schilling for stodgy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMSunday, January 25, 2015
Underestimate darkness at your own peril.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02PMThursday, January 22, 2015
A story may be a powerful thing, but the way it's told often has an even greater impact.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMLove and frustration echo down — and over, under, and across — the years in Hugh Leonard's 1978 play Da
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
The greatest strength of I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard, the new play by Halley Feiffer that just opened at Atlantic Stage 2, is also its greatest weakness: It's impossible to tell whether o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMSunday, January 18, 2015
Thanks to Wicked, L. Frank Baum has been having a serious post-death resurgence — well, sort of.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:27PMThursday, January 15, 2015
Are you still keeping your New Year's resolution to eat healthier? If so, congratulations.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
The could-have-beens. The should-have-beens. The shouldn't-have-beens. The almost-but-not-quites. The never-weres.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PMA fragile façade of perfection is both the key element and the condemning feature of Eric Parness's production of Victor L. Cahn's new play Villainous Company, which just opened at the Clur…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:53PMSunday, January 11, 2015
It’s rarely a plus for a theatrical production to lose fireworks, but that occurrence has given a comfortable nudge to You Can’t Take It With You. When Scott Ellis’s revival of George …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:06AMThursday, January 8, 2015
Lament the overpoliticization of life in the 21st century all you like — it could always be (and has frequently been) worse.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMFriday, January 2, 2015
The new Metropolitan Opera production of The Merry Widow is, on one level, a dazzling fusion of the operatic and the theatrical.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:11PMSunday, December 21, 2014
All stunt casting should be done the way The Last Ship does it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMSaturday, December 20, 2014
Holiday concerts can be fun, but there are only so many ways to balance the fresh and the familiar.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:46AMMonday, December 15, 2014
You don't hear so much about urban blight anymore; it may still technically exist, but it's so over.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMSunday, December 14, 2014
Even if you’re an audience member rather than a practitioner, the most moving evening of theatre can be one you create yourself.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMMonday, December 8, 2014
Economic terrorism takes on a chilling new meaning in The Invisible Hand, the new play by Ayad Akhtar that just opened at New York Theatre Workshop.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PM 
