Thursday, October 24, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Romeo + Juliet" 10/24/24 by Howard Miller

Director Sam Gold and William Shakespeare. Always expect the unexpected when these two pair up. For instance, when Gold, in his most avant-garde mode, tackled Hamlet in 2017 and, five years …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:26PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Left on Tenth" 10/23/24 by Howard Miller

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it does not necessarily make for a compelling theatrical experience. And when the truth that is being depicted is based on autobiography, the biggest …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:32AM
Monday, October 21, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Sunset Boulevard" 10/20/24 by Howard Miller

Ach du lieber!!! Holy Moly!!! Or even WTF!!! Feel free to quote me once you exit (or stagger out of) the St. James Theatre, where director/mad scientist Jamie Lloyd has unleashed his latest …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40AM
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Hold On to Me Darling" - 10/16/24 by Howard Miller

A psychoanalyst would surely have a field day with Clarence McCrane, known to all the world as megastar country and western singer and movie actor Strings McCrane, the irresistibly appealing…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:20AM
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Vladimir" - 10/15/24 by Marc Miller

One of the pleasures of Vladimir, Erika Sheffer's sturdy new play at Manhattan Theatre Club, is how it allows us Americans to listen in on ordinary Russians' conversations. We've had plenty …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:13AM
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Sump'n Like Wings" - 10/12/24 by Howard Miller

Sump'n Like Wings, now on stage at Theatre Row, is the latest entry from the always intriguing Mint Theater Company, whose aim it is to uncover, dust off, and produce lost or forgotten plays…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:17AM
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Our Town" 10/10/24 by Howard Miller

Thornton Wilder's Our Town is one American play that feels as though it belongs to everyone. It is regularly read and performed in high schools and mounted by amateur theatre groups across t…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:05PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "I'm Going to Eat You Alive" - 10/10/24 by Michael Dale

"Content warning for like, everything. Really sorry. This play's really gross," advises playwright Riley Elton McCarthy in the press script provided to reviewers of their psychological Grand…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Deep History" - 10/10/24 by Howard Miller

"It's the end of the world as we know it." You may recall these lyrics to a jaunty song by the rock band R.E.M. from back in 1987. And while Deep History, opening tonight at the Public Theat…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36PM
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Counter" - 10/9/24 by Marc Miller

This won't be a long one, because The Counter is one of those plays where divulging almost any detail might constitute a spoiler. Meghan Kennedy's short, straightforward exploration of frien…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:06PM
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Distant Thunder" - 10/3/24 by Howard Miller

"We are falling off the shoulders of our ancestors." These demoralizing words declaimed by an elder of the Blackfeet tribe comes late in the new musical Distant Thunder, opening tonight for …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:06PM
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Yellow Face" 10/91/24 by Howard Miller

One of the many pleasures to be experienced in David Henry Hwang's highly pleasurable Yellow Face, opening tonight at the Todd Haimes Theatre, lies in the splendid way he has of twisting fac…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:41PM
Monday, September 30, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "McNeal" 9/30/24 by Howard Miller

To be sure, there are many individual moments in which Robert Downey Jr. (making his Broadway debut) and the rest of the game and talented cast manage to grab our attention for entire disjoi…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:06PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "The Hills of California" 9/29/24 by Howard Miller

Playwright Jez Butterworth has set a high bar for himself as a writer, with vastly varied works that include the bombastic Jerusalem, the fanciful The River, and the great crowd-pleaser The …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:38AM
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Magnificent Bird / Book of Travelers" - 9/28/24 by Marc Miller

Your first thought on entering the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons is, hey, this doesn't look like the set for a song cycle. That's what Magnificent Bird and Book of Traveler…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PM
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Fatherland" - 9/26/24 by Marc Miller

"Fatherland." Has a vaguely Teutonic ring to it, no? But plays don't come more American than Fatherland, Stephen Sachs's distillation of disturbing recent U.S. events and their cataclysmic e…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:11PM
Monday, September 23, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Blood of the Lamb" - 9/23/24 by Howard Miller

The political and the personal merge most keenly in Arlene Hutton's one-act Blood of the Lamb, opening today at 59E59 Theaters. It is a humdinger of a play, effectively and scathingly satiri…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:23PM
Sunday, September 22, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Beacon" - 9/22/24 by Marc Miller

It's Irish Rep, and there's a squabbling mother and her adult son onstage, so we know this isn't going to end well. My first thought of The Beacon, Nancy Harris's new play, was, this reminds…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12PM
Friday, September 20, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song" - 9/20/24 by Marc Miller

So let me take you back to the original Forbidden Broadway. It's 1982 and we're at Palsson's, an inelegant upstairs boîte on West 72nd Street (it's still there, as the Triad). The stage is …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:46AM
Saturday, September 7, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Table 17" - 9/6/24 by Kimberly Ramírez

When you enter the Frankel Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, the ushers seem a bit like hosts seating you inside a vibrant, trendy restaurant. Some audience members take pla…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:10AM
Monday, August 26, 2024

Talkin' Broadway - Book Review: "Closer Than Ever: The Unique Six-Decade Songwriting Partnership of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire" - 8/26/24 by Mark Dundas Wood

The creative collaboration between lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. and composer David Shire has lasted well over 60 years and is still in motion, making other musical-theatre teamings seem like …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:40PM
Monday, August 12, 2024

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Once Upon a Mattress" 8/12/24 by Howard Miller

I'm in love with a girl named Fred! And I venture to say you will be, too, at least as she is being portrayed in all her unabashed glory by Sutton Foster in the thoroughly irresistible Broad…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00PM
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Meeting: The Interpreter" - 8/4/24 by Howard Miller

Playwright Catherine Gropper is here to offer us a break from any anxiety we might be feeling about the impending 2024 presidential election by taking us back in time to recall the anxiety w…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:05PM
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "someone spectacular" - 7/31/24 by James Wilson

How long is it appropriate to grieve one's personal loss? Are some losses worthier of sympathy than others? Is there a proper way to grieve? These are just some of the questions pondered, de…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:19PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Job" 7/30/24 by Kimberly Ramírez

Job is just a two-hander, but it feels populated by a crowd of characters who haunt the mind of the play's desperate protagonist. This makes for 80 minutes of intense, gripping action as a h…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:33AM
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical" - 7/30/24 by Peter Danish

The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical, by Cary Gitter (book and lyrics) and Neil Berg (music and lyrics), had a successful and well-received world premiere at Penguin Repertory Theater in Stony Po…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:32PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Six Characters" - 7/29/24 by James Wilson

Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author caused a cultural firestorm when it opened in Rome in 1921. Reportedly, after the show's premiere the playwright had to leave through…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:49AM
Monday, July 15, 2024

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Ain't Done Bad" - 7/15/24 by James Wilson

Following in the nimble footsteps of Twyla Tharp and most recently Justin Peck, choreographer and dancer Jakob Karr has turned to the music of a contemporary singer/songwriter to create a na…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:20PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "On Beckett" - 7/15/24 by Marc Miller

As one who has often found the works of Samuel Beckett to be baffling, boring, or both, I wasn't looking forward to On Beckett. The lecture on and excerpts from the man's oeuvre, returning t…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:20PM
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Chicago - "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" - 7/13/24 by Christine Malcom

The Goodman Theatre continues its season with a world-premiere musical, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, an adaptation of the book by John Berendt, with a book by Taylor Mac, music a…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:37PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic