Thursday, July 17, 2025
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 08:38PMMonday, July 14, 2025
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 08:38AMFriday, July 11, 2025
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 06:06AMWednesday, June 25, 2025
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 07:32PMSunday, June 22, 2025
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 09:15PMTuesday, June 17, 2025
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 09:18PMFriday, June 13, 2025
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 06:01AMThursday, June 12, 2025
Once Upon a Mattress, Dot and the Kangaroo cast recordings reviewed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:26PMWednesday, June 11, 2025
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 09:07PMWednesday, June 4, 2025
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 03:31AMTuesday, June 3, 2025
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 05:58AMI'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 05:57AMWednesday, May 21, 2025
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 02:34PMTuesday, May 20, 2025
"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 04:42PMMonday, May 19, 2025
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 12:18PMSunday, May 18, 2025
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 09:39PMWednesday, May 14, 2025
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 02:21AMSunday, April 27, 2025
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 09:49PMImagine 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 05:36PMJust 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 09:44AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
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 08:40PMTuesday, April 15, 2025
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 05:57AMSunday, April 13, 2025
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 08:45PMFriday, April 11, 2025
Smash, the new(ish) musical adapted from the 2012-13 NBC series of the same title and opening tonight at the Imperial Theatre, can't seem to decide whether it wants to be a meta-musical stee…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:15AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
Stephen Sondheim was such an extraordinary wordsmith, I wonder what single word he might have come up with to describe Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:16PMBoop! The Musical, the often delightful if overstuffed new musical at the Broadhurst Theatre, features a star-making performance by its lead, an appealing pair of veterans, an adorable puppy…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36AMWhat's most impressive about Becoming Eve–and there's a lot–is its generosity of spirit. Emil Weinstein's play at New York Theatre Workshop's temporary quarters on Grand Street, adapted …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36AMSunday, April 6, 2025
Since it first appeared, Jason Robert Brown's song-cycle musical The Last Five Years seems to be in a continual loop. The short-lived Off-Broadway original in 2002 spawned countless regional…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:13PMSaturday, April 5, 2025
During the 1950s, CBS TV was sometimes referred to as the "Tiffany Network," owing to its reputation of providing high-quality programming. A glittery jewel in its tiara was the news divisio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:23PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Ah, spring is in the air. That can only mean one thing: 'tis the start of baseball season! At least, that's what comes to mind while seeking an analogy for what is now the fourth Broadway pr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34AMThursday, March 27, 2025
You know what they say about marriage: the first 150 years are the hardest. OK, while none of us will ever see that sort of longevity, wait until you meet Susan Cooper and her husband Samuel…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:52PM 
