Friday, October 17, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Ragtime" 10/16/25 by Howard Miller

Wow! That's the interjection of the day and the singular way to describe the powerful and emotionally stirring revival of Ragtime that opened tonight at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Thea…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:12AM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Oratorio for Living Things" - 10/16/25 by James Wilson

Missing the Ars Nova production of Oratorio for Living Things is one of my great theatre disappointments of the last several years. The production had performed only twice in 2019 before bei…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:12AM
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Let's Love!" - 10/15/25 by Kimberly Ramírez

Though it tries hard to shock and amuse, Let's Love! never earns its exclamation point. Ethan Coen's dramatic experiment attempts a triptych on the theme of love but delivers vulgar irritati…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:01PM
Monday, October 13, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God" - 10/13/25 by Marc Miller

Mellow jazz is playing, and the Playwrights Horizons stage is plainly dressed: Emmie Finckel's set design consists of two folding chairs, a small table in between with two coffee cups and a …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:28PM
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Crooked Cross" - 10/9/25 by James Wilson

1937 was a very good year for new shows in the West End. In addition to the smash hit Me and My Girl, London also saw premieres of Ivor Novello's The Crest of the Wave, the frothy musical co…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:07PM
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Caroline" - 9/30/25 by Kimberly Ramírez

MCC Theater's world premiere of Caroline, written by Preston Max Allen and directed with measured intensity by David Cromer, may at first seem deceptively simple, but it gradually reveals a …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:15PM
Monday, September 29, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Punch" 9/29/25 by Howard Miller

Accept if you can, even if you can't forgive. Forgive if you can, even if you can't forget. That's the idea behind restorative justice, a systematic supportive approach to seeking healing fo…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46PM
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Murdoch: The Final Interview" - 9/28/25 by Marc Miller

So, Eric Krebs, who runs a theater on far West 42nd, treks to work one morning and is greeted by a large manila envelope resting by the door. Intrigued, he opens it to find a script and a no…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:10PM
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Other Americans" - 9/25/25 by Howard Miller

As a playwright and performer, John Leguizamo is best known for offering up sharp-eyed and thought-provoking takes on Latino identity and culture. Given the current state of affairs with res…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17PM
Friday, September 19, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Saturday Church" - 9/19/25 by Marc Miller

The 2017 indie film Saturday Church is a musical, of sorts. But all of the songs are happening in the head of its protagonist, Ulysses, a troubled Black teen in some vaguely defined New York…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:52PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "This Is Not a Drill" - 9/19/25 by Marc Miller

On the morning of January 13, 2018, Hawaii's Emergency Alert System issued a warning of an impending ballistic missile attack, widely believed to have emanated from North Korea and plunging …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:37AM
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Mexodus" - 9/18/25 by James Wilson

At the top of Mexodus, the new, two-person musical produced by Audible Theater, audiences are given permission–indeed, are encouraged–to "yell, dance, and shake your asses." Typically, I…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:42PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Essentialisn't" - 9/18/25 by Michael Dale

"Black women, you know how you have had to show and prove. Your authenticity has been challenged if you don't hit that Jennifer Holliday or Jennifer Hudson note just right. That Aretha note.…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:39PM
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Art" 9/16/25 by Howard Miller

When Yasmina Reza's Art kicked off its initial Broadway run in 1998, New York Times critic Ben Brantley gave it a genial pat on the head, calling it a "sleek, pleasant comedy of manners." No…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01AM
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice: "Floyd Collins," "Dead Outlaw," "Winchell" - 9/11/25 by Rob Lester

Floyd Collins and Elmer McCurdy were true-life figures (and, in the latter case, a true-death figure), born several years apart and both dying in their 30s. They captured public attention in…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:02PM
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

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