Tuesday, October 21, 2014
The "mismatched buddies" flick is a cherished film genre, especially when applied to comedy and police movies. But screenwriters? Does it matter if they rub each other the wrong way?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:41PMThe jumble of styles should be oppressive, shouldn't it? Or at least irritating.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PMSunday, October 19, 2014
Emily Dickinson the poet and Emily Dickinson the woman do not mesh naturally with Emily Dickinson the character in the revival of The Belle of Amherst that just opened at the Westside Theatr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02PMThursday, October 16, 2014
The Lyric Theatre as we know it today was not around in the 1940s. (Heck, it’s had four names since opening with Ragtime in 1998, after being reconstructed from two smaller theaters.) But …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
Size is the looming issue in Big: The Musical, John Weidman, Richard Maltby, Jr., and David Shire's adaptation of Penny Marshall's 1988 film comedy—but not quite in the way you expect.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:25PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Getting lost isn't always terrible: You may discover amazing places you didn't know exist, or have life-changing experiences you could never have anticipated.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMSunday, October 12, 2014
Think you know what you feel? And why? Don’t be so sure.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:33PMFriday, October 10, 2014
Fluff, at least of the traditional variety, was hardly in Douglas Carter Beane's mind when rethinking Cinderella for the 2010s.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:50AMThursday, October 9, 2014
Short of replacing all the seats with sofas and piping in the smells cooking meatloaf and mashed potatoes, it's difficult to imagine how the Gerald Schoenfeld could feel more comfortable tha…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSunday, October 5, 2014
There’s a seemingly endless number of plays that have as their only goal revealing all of a character’s heart. But how often does a play try to inject you literally into someone’s brai…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:31PMThursday, October 2, 2014
How odd it seems, at first, that in a family packed with actors, not a one of them has ever done Chekhov!
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:12PMLike so many other things in life, your tolerance for diffuse, dissonant chatter depends greatly on its source.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:11PMWednesday, October 1, 2014
Political scandals are supposed to be no laughing matter, but someone forgot to tell Mario Correa. The mastermind behind Tail! Spin!, which just opened at the Culture Project's Lynn Redgrave…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMTuesday, September 30, 2014
No one plays with time the way Tom Stoppard does.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PMMonday, September 29, 2014
Can a story be too dramatic for the stage? While watching Stalking the Bogeyman, which just opened at New World Stages, I was convinced the answer was yes. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSunday, September 28, 2014
Levity walks with heavy feet in the new revival of You Can’t Take It With You that just opened at the Longacre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PMTuesday, September 23, 2014
Marital woes are never tragic for just one couple. In his new stage spin of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage, which just opened at New York Theatre Workshop, conceiver-director Ivo va…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:36PMThe sticky sloppiness of man-woman relations has been Neil LaBute�s favorite subject since � well, since forever, pretty much. And as he�s shown with works for the screen and stage, when he …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:36PMFriday, September 19, 2014
For the four single roommates in Love Quirks, the new musical that just opened at Theatre 54, Manhattan's dating scene may as well be a war zone.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMThursday, September 18, 2014
Two generations of men learn the hard way that there's no coming home again after war in Almost Home, the new play by Walter Anderson that just opened at the Acorn Theatre.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMLove Letters could never be written today.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMSunday, September 14, 2014
Sometimes a show can be too timely. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:41PMThursday, September 11, 2014
The hopelessness really is towering, isn't it? Gaze at the uppermost reaches of the set for the Steppenwolf revival of This Is Our Youth that just opened at the Cort and you'll be drawn into…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:02PMWednesday, September 10, 2014
Want therapy? Get out of the theater and into a psychologist's office. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PMSunday, September 7, 2014
Though the title of The Winter’s Tale suggests something of a chilly, even sullen, play, that’s never actually been true.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:35PMFriday, September 5, 2014
When you're hungry or in a hurry (or both), it's easy enough to not give proper respect to restaurant servers, to say nothing of the people who bus the tables.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:10PMThursday, September 4, 2014
Walk into the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center for Signature's new production of A.R. Gurney's The Wayside Motor Inn, and you're immediately thrust int…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:04PMTake The Threepenny Opera, swap out the classically idiosyncratic Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht score for one steeped in the American musical comedy tradition, and then drench the entire thing…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMWednesday, September 3, 2014
Adolescence is a messy, uncertain, and confusing time for many people, and at evoking those particular feelings, Caroline Prugh’s new play at the Hartley House, It’s Only Kickball, Stupi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:31PMSunday, August 17, 2014
If one were exceedingly generous, one could consider the play Poor Behavior a psychological romantic mystery.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20PMNo one knows you quite the way a sibling does.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:58AM 
