Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Every Brilliant Thing" 3/12/26 by Howard Miller

How do you retain the feeling of rapport inherent in an intimate small theater setting when you move things to a much larger Broadway house? How do you manage to create a feeling of spontane…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PM
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Fallen Angels" 4/19/26 by Howard Miller

Is "ripsnortin'" still a thing? In any event, the first Broadway revival in seventy years of Noël Coward's 1925 comedy Fallen Angels, opening tonight at the Todd Haimes Theatre, is a rips…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:24PM
Friday, April 17, 2026

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Proof" 4/16/26 by Howard Miller

Calculus is "intuitively obvious." At least that's what they told me when I enrolled in a college calc course a gazillion years ago. In my case, it turned out not to be so true. But mathemat…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02AM
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice: April Birthdays - 4/16/26 by Rob Lester

Albums from Liz Callaway, Marilyn Maye, Claybourne Elder, Nellie McKay and more.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:15PM

Talkin' Broadway - "New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' Utopia, Limited" - 4/16/26 by Mark Dundas Wood

New York City's New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP) will perform a full production of Utopia, Limited for the very first time. (The company presented "concert" versions of the piece…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Fear of 13" 4/15/26 by Howard Miller

It is said that the wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Fortunately, few of us can claim to have had first-hand experience in testing this adage, especially the "slowl…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:07AM
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Adding Machine" - 4/14/26 by Howard Miller

Hi there, all you ignominious peons stuck in dead-end, soul-sucking jobs that you'd give anything to chuck yet are worried about losing to mechanization or AI or robots. You think this is a …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:44PM
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Death of a Salesman" 4/9/26 by Howard Miller

When Arthur Miller's seminal work Death of a Salesman was first produced in 1949, and indeed for some time after, it was viewed as an indictment of the evanescent nature of the "American Dre…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02PM
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Becky Shaw" 4/6/26 by Howard Miller

Here's a bit of wisdom to cross-stitch on a throw pillow: "There are times when lying is the most humane thing you can do." Well, maybe. But in the case of Second Stage's glistening revival …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:23AM
Monday, April 6, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Pushover" - 4/6/26 by Michael Dale

"The day you looked at me. Really looked at me. That's the day I was born. I hated myself till you." Healthy relationships aren't exactly the cornerstone of playwright John Patrick Shanley'…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:23PM
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Gotta Dance!" - 3/31/26 by Howard Miller

"The best things happen while you're dancing." So wrote Irving Berlin for the classic 1954 film White Christmas. Musical theatre fans might amend it slightly to "the best things happen while…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:51AM
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Dog Day Afternoon" 3/30/26 by Howard Miller

"We come in peace!" Comforting to know when the person who declaims these words is holding you at gunpoint during a poorly planned and even more poorly executed bank robbery that kickstarts …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:20AM
Monday, March 30, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Monte Cristo" - 3/30/26 by Michael Dale

The good news"actually the very splendid news"is that The York Theatre Company, which has been spending decades developing new musicals, has granted a very handsome world premiere production…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "No Singing in the Navy" - 3/29/26 by Marc Miller

If you took On the Town, stripped it down, and gave it a lobotomy, it might end up very like No Singing in the Navy, now cavorting upstairs at Playwrights Horizons. The entertainment, "writt…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:04AM
Friday, March 27, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Public Charge" - 3/25/26 by Michael Dale

There seems to be a developing trend on the New York stages where audiences witness women characters deconstructing stage classics written by men, focusing on underdeveloped feminist aspects.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:56PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Public Charge" - 3/25/26 by Howard Miller

Once upon a time, towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century, there was a Black man who served as U.S. President and a woman who served as his Secretary of State. Barriers were …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10PM
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Giant" 3/23/26 by Howard Miller

Genuinely disturbing or tempest in a teapot? That's the prompt for post-performance discussion after seeing Mark Rosenblatt's Olivier Award-winning play Giant, which opened tonight at the Mu…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:46AM
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Wild Party" - 3/19/26 by Howard Miller

Gin. Skin. Sin. Put them all together, and you're in for the hedonistic ride of your life in the flawlessly performed, few-holds-barred Encores! production of Michael John LaChiusa and Georg…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:54PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "My Joy Is Heavy" - 3/17/26 by Marc Miller

"My joy is heavy." What the heck does that mean? Well, you'll find out at My Joy Is Heavy, the autobiographical musical by the Bergsons at New York Theatre Workshop, detailing a painful time…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:44PM
Monday, March 16, 2026

Talkin' Broadway - "Interview with Jesse Tyler Ferguson" - 3/16/26 by Michael Portantiere

Despite his highly distinctive physical appearance, Jesse Tyler Ferguson's versatility as an actor has allowed him to triumph in roles as disparate as a naïve young sailor in On the Town,…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:52AM
Sunday, March 15, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Calf Scramble" - 3/15/26 by Howard Miller

Primary Stages' production of Libby Carr's coming-of-age play Calf Scramble, opening today at 59E59 Theaters, offers up an intriguing premise and a well-executed series of set pieces about a…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:28PM
Friday, March 13, 2026

incinatti Reviw: Playwright Heidi Armbruster's mystery/drama/comedy, Mrs. Christie,unexpectedly entertaining piece of imaginative storytelling. by Rick Pender

Mrs. Christie, currently onstage at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park through March 29th, is an intriguing blend of fact & fiction. It's rooted in a real episode from the life of mystery …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:59AM
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Antigone (This Play I Read In High School)" - 3/11/26 by Howard Miller

The title of Anna Ziegler's explosive new play, having its world premiere at the Public Theater, is Antigone (This Play I Read In High School). It's catchy, and it may lead you to expect a v…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:42PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Bughouse" - 3/11/26 by James Wilson

Last fall, Stephen Rea appeared in a celebrated revival of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which he portrayed a reclusive 69-year-old man grappling with decades of sadness and regret.…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PM
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Cold War Choir Practice" - 3/10/26 by Kimberly Ramírez

An uneasy echo of present-day geopolitics reverberates throughout Cold War Choir Practice, Ro Reddick's new play with music. Taking place during the climactic nuclear standoff of the late Co…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PM
Sunday, March 8, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Zack" - 3/8/26 by James Wilson

Last season, New York's Mint Theater Company hit pay dirt with Garside's Career, a lesser-known work by Harold Brighouse, whose 1915 classic play Hobson's Choice is frequently staged and ada…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:53PM
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Spread" - 3/4/26 by Michael Dale

"Hey. Not in a weird way or... Well, not weird like... I just mean not like... Not like that, but... I love you, okay?" Hopefully, things have improved since then, but when I was a high sch…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PM
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Chinese Republicans" - 2/26/26 by Marc Miller

With a title like Chinese Republicans, you're bound to wonder what the heck you're in for. But Alex Lin's new play at the Roundabout's Laura Pels is, in fact, about Chinese Republicans, a ve…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:07PM
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Mother Russia" - 2/24/26 by James Wilson

There is a priceless comic scene in Lauren Yee's Mother Russia, which opened last night at New York's Signature Theatre. It's 1992, just one year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58AM
Sunday, February 22, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Marcel on the Train" - 2/22/26 by James Wilson

In 1999, Marcel Marceau said in an interview, "Of course, I have had many imitators. And I am aware of the jokes about mime. But if you love your art, you just do it. Time will judge me." In…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PM
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The First Line of Dante's Inferno" - 2/17/26 by Michael Dale

Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. For my fellow non-literary types, this is what playwright Kirk Lynn…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:51PM

All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off