Thursday, August 21, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Twelfth Night" - 8/21/25 by Howard Miller

Unbridled joy has returned to a special corner of Manhattan with the unveiling and reopening of the newly refurbished Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where the Public Theater is serving u…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:28PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Road Kills" - 8/21/25 by Michael Dale

"The Midwestern urge to keep a friendly conversation going by any means possible is a powerful motivator," explains Wisconsin-raised New York playwright Sophie McIntosh in the press script p…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:50AM
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice: Songs of Peter Foley, George M. Cohan Tonight!, and Orchestrator Emulator - 8/19/25 by Rob Lester

Let's begin with a recording of a compelling concert presenting low profile/high quality songs of Peter Foley. Moving from Peter to Peterson, it was Jon J Peterson who portrayed a Broadway a…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:39AM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for a Ride" 8/18/25 by Howard Miller

How best to describe the comedic stylings of Jeff Ross, best known by the sobriquet of "Roastmaster General" for his celebrity roasts at the Friars Club or as captured in Comedy Central and …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34AM
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Phoenix: "Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo" - 8/17/25 by Gil Benbrook

The new musical Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo, which is having its world premiere at the Phoenix Theatre Company, is a joyful and heartfelt tribute to the resilience and spiri…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:04PM
Friday, August 15, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Mamma Mia!" 8/15/25 by Howard Miller

"We're Back," reads the sign hanging from the marquee of the Winter Garden Theatre, a kind of "honey, I'm home" salute to the Broadway return of the musically infectious if skimpily plotted …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:55AM
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Lili/Darwin" - 8/10/25 by Michael Dale

"I made my New York debut on this very stage, in a play where I portrayed a boy who wanted to become a woman," explains playwright/actor Darwin Del Fabro in the Author's Note included in the…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:56PM
Friday, August 8, 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Weir" - 7/17/25 by Marc Miller

Irish Repertory Theatre really loves The Weir. They've done Conor McPherson's drama three times since 2013, most recently a digital staging during early pandemic days. Their affection for th…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38PM
Monday, July 14, 2025

Talkin' Broadway - Book Review: "The Musicals of Cole Porter: Broadway, Hollywood, Television" - 7/14/25 by Mark Dundas Wood

Aficionados of musical theatre continue to revere composer/lyricist Cole Porter (1891-1964) as a force for wit and romantic passion in show songs. And rightly so. Porter wrote–in whole or …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:38AM
Friday, July 11, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Heathers: The Musical" - 7/10/25 by Howard Miller

It's a raucous and thoroughly smashing homecoming for the old Westerberg High School gang as the nerds, jocks, clueless staff, and a trio of very mean girls gather for a top-notch revival of…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:06AM
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Trophy Boys" - 6/25/25 by Kimberly Ramírez

Following her sharp staging of Kimberly Bellflower's John Proctor Is the Villain, Tony-winning director Danya Taymor dives into the relentless crucible of elite prep-school culture with Emma…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PM
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Breakin' NYC" - 6/22/25 by James Wilson

Breaking, pioneered by African American and Puerto Rican youth, emerged in the Bronx in the early 1970s. Some fifty years later, the urban dance form is a worldwide phenomenon and was includ…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15PM
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Prince F*ggot" - 6/17/25 by Marc Miller

It hasn't even opened as I write this, but Prince F*ggot, a joint production of Soho Rep and Playwrights Horizons, has already generated plenty of social media vitriol, mostly of the "how da…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18PM
Friday, June 13, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Call Me Izzy" 6/12/25 by Howard Miller

Call Me Izzy, opening tonight at Studio 54 as the first Broadway show of the 2025-26 theater season, is likely to divide its audience into two camps. For some, Jamie Wax's one-act play about…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:01AM
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice: "Once Upon a Mattress," "Dot and the Kangaroo," and Laurie Berkner - 6/12/25 by Rob Lester

Once Upon a Mattress, Dot and the Kangaroo cast recordings reviewed.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:26PM
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Angry Alan" - 6/11/25 by James Wilson

Welcome to the manosphere! The philosophy behind this realm is best summed up by 21 Studios, a prominent anti-feminist and Men's Rights Activist (MRA) organization, which succinctly instruct…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Lunar Eclipse" - 6/3/25 by James Wilson

In his 2000 Pulitzer-Prize winning drama Dinner with Friends, Donald Margulies dissected the institution of marriage and revealed the quotidian struggles, shifting affinities, and existentia…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:31AM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Eurydice" - 6/2/25 by James Wilson

When I first saw Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at Second Stage Theater in 2007, I found the play mawkish and pretentious. What's more, its retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice seemed at the…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58AM

All That Chat - NEW OFF-BROADWAY REVIEW - "THE IMAGINARY INVALID" by Marc Miller

I'm no Molière authority, so I can't say how many liberties Jeffrey Hatcher has taken in his adaptation of The Imaginary Invalid, now being presented by Red Bull Theater at New World Stages…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:57AM
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole" - 5/21/25 by Michael Dale

One of the real gems to be found on YouTube is a collection of full episodes of "The Nat King Cole Show," which premiered on NBC in November of 1956. Originally a 15-minute program, then exp…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:34PM
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "O.K.!" - 5/19/25 by Michael Dale

"Slim pickings of a post-pandemic industry," is the way an actor describes her current gig in the early moments of Christin Eve Cato's very funny, very topical, and very urgent O.K.!, the ne…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:42PM
Monday, May 19, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Class" and "Creditors" - 5/19/25 by James Wilson

Swedish playwright August Strindberg's early plays explore fluctuating power dynamics, depicting relationships as volatile arenas where characters skillfully employ psychological manipulatio…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:18PM
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Bus Stop" - 5/18/25 by James Wilson

In his poem about the loneliness of a schoolteacher, playwright William Inge wrote, "Funny but being alone in a room full of people is more lonely somehow than/ Being left to your own device…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:39PM
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse" - 5/13/25 by James Wilson

Emblazoned on a November 2006 cover of the New York Post was a photo of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears in the front seat of a fancy car. The trio, dubbed "3 Bimbos of the Ap…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:21AM
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Real Women Have Curves: The Musical" 4/27/25 by Kimberly Ramírez

Broadway audiences might not immediately sense it from this vibrant new musical, but this year marks the 35th anniversary of Real Women Have Curves. Each iteration of Josefina López's groun…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Dead Outlaw" 4/27/25 by Howard Miller

Imagine for a moment that the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan, the tornado-riding Pecos Bill, the "steel-driving" John Henry, and other figures out of the American tall tale tradition were real…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:36PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Just in Time" 4/26/25 by Howard Miller

Just in Time, opening tonight at Circle in the Square Theatre, is what happens when two chameleons merge, where it is difficult to separate the character being portrayed from the performer i…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:44AM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Hold Me in the Water" - 4/23/25 by Marc Miller

He enters, rising up out of the floor, back to the audience, in a pink spangled blazer, like a gaudier Velma Kelly about to launch into "All That Jazz." But Ryan J. Haddad has other things o…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:40PM
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "John Proctor Is the Villain" 4/14/25 by Howard Miller

In order to maximize your enjoyment of Kimberly Belflower's compelling and exceptionally well-acted play John Proctor is the Villain, opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, we really ought to…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:57AM
Sunday, April 13, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Irishtown" - 4/13/25 by Marc Miller

The Irish Repertory Theatre is in an uncharacteristically jocular mood. Irishtown, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth's comedy, is a slight but merry look at Irish theatre's history, its nature, and let'…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:45PM

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