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
Monday, February 16, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Dinosaurs" - 2/16/26 by Marc Miller

First of all: Jacob Perkins can really write for women. The women in The Dinosaurs, his new drama at Playwrights Horizons, argue, confront, and support one another with great believability a…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:00PM
Thursday, February 5, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Dirt" - 2/5/26 by Michael Dale

I've attended a lot of immersive theatre in my close to fifty years of playgoing, but none of it has come close to the participatory nature of Sour Milk's theatrical game Dirt, which casts a…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:41AM
Monday, January 26, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Ulysses" - 1/25/26 by Howard Miller

Early on in Elevator Repair Service's Ulysses, which opened tonight at the Public Theater in a co-production with the Under the Radar Festival, we are reminded by co-director and dramaturg S…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:39AM
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Falling Out" - 1/22/26 by Michael Dale

"I love writing music in the way of being a storyteller about my personal life. Just like my influences... ya know, the greats, the classics. Like Sabrina Carpenter," explains singer/songwri…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:11PM
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Disappear" - 1/15/26 by James Wilson

The first thing audiences will notice upon entering the Minetta Lane Theatre, where Erica Schmidt's The Disappear is running, is the rustic and exquisitely well-appointed living-room set. Sc…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:05PM
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon" - 1/12/26 by Marc Miller

Attention, baby boomers: Get out your miniskirts and bell bottoms! Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon, a musical retrospective of Burt Bacharach and (mostly) Hal David, summons up the mid…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:30AM
Monday, January 12, 2026

Talkin' Broadway - "Going Bacharach" - 1/12/26 by Mark Dundas Wood

Lewin's nautical epiphany has now resulted in a show called Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon. It opens tonight (following a handful of preview performances) at The Marjorie S. Deane Lit…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:07AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

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

The "meaning" of Samuel Beckett's 1953 absurdist masterwork Waiting for Godot will be parsed forever and will never be fully discerned. Some theatregoers will be enthralled by the experience…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Honey Trap" - 9/28/25 by Marc Miller

The press rep at Irish Repertory Theatre, always helpful and cheery, seemed even more effusive than usual, as if she were about to hand out tickets to a winner. She wasn't wrong. The Honey T…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "It's a Wonderful Life! A Live Radio Play" - 12/7/25 by Marc Miller

Full disclosure: It's a Wonderful Life is probably my favorite movie. As a movie-addled teenager I wrote Frank Capra a fan letter about it, and he responded, in part: "In thanking me so sinc…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PM

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

Many prize the state of Idaho as a go-to destination for outdoor recreational opportunities, white water rapids, hot springs, and majestic mountains. But playwright Samuel D. Hunter has a wa…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:15PM
Monday, December 22, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice: Sondheim, Finke, the Gershwins, McHugh, Berlin - 12/22/25 by Rob Lester

Reviews of tribute albums for Sondheim, Finke, the Gershwins, McHugh, Berlin.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:12PM
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Tartuffe" - 12/16/25 by Marc Miller

Leaving/speaking. People/evil. Moment/torment. It's evident from the outset that with Tartuffe, his adaptation of Molière's 1664 classic, Lucas Hnath is attempting rhymed verse, as Richard …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:13PM
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Bipolar & the English Channel" - 12/11/25 by Michael Dale

"Today there won't be any singing or dancing, no green flying witches on brooms, no giant projection screens magnifying my every micro-expression," says Julie Ridge to open Bipolar & the Eng…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:32AM
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Marjorie Prime" 12/8/25 by Howard Miller

What does it mean to be human? And will our current and relatively unfettered deep dive into artificial intelligence help to clarify things, or will it further muddy the waters? These are th…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:59AM
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Diversion" - 12/4/25 by James Wilson

A recent survey from Wolters Kluwer, a leading provider of healthcare data, reported that drug diversion is "the elephant in the hospital room." Individuals who have watched the first season…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PM
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Gotta Dance!" - 12/3/25 by Marc Miller

A noble institution, the American Dance Machine. Founded in 1978 by Lee Theodore, an ex-Broadway hoofer (West Side Story, Tenderloin, on and on) turned choreographer (Baker Street, Flora, th…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29PM
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice: Five Cast Albums - 11/25/25 by Rob Lester

Here are five cast albums; the first three have the spectre of death hanging over them, but the last two are cheerier.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:41PM
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)" 11/20/25 by Howard Miller

With the right word of mouth, the goofy, touching, and winningly performed rom-com musical Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), opening tonight at the Longacre Theatre, may just fin…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:22PM
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Practice" - 11/18/25 by Marc Millerrarely Have I Had To Review A Play Whose Meaning Is As Utterly Elusive As That Of Practice, Nazareth Hassan's Comedy-Drama-Whatsit Now Being Unveiled At Playwrights Horizons. Practice, The Press Release Informs Us, "charts The Gradual Seduction

Rarely have I had to review a play whose meaning is as utterly elusive as that of Practice, Nazareth Hassan's comedy-drama-whatsit now being unveiled at Playwrights Horizons. Practice, the p…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:13AM
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Meet the Cartozians" - 11/17/25 by James Wilson

"Can you explain simply please: what it is that makes a person a white person?" The question of who can claim whiteness is at the heart of Talene Monahon's thought-provoking new play, Meet t…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:06AM
Monday, November 17, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" - 11/17/25 by James Wilson

In 2005, when The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opened Off-Broadway, the celestial bodies of the theatre world seemed to be in flawless alignment, and the production garnered rave r…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:08PM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Orlando: A Rhapsody" - 11/17/25 by Michael Dale

Back in 1928, Virginia Woolf chose to subtitle her fictional fantasy "Orlando" as a biography, chronicling the life of an Elizabethan boy who lives for hundreds of years and, somewhere along…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:00PM

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Chess" 11/16/25 by Howard Miller

In the world of Broadway musicals, here's a question to ponder. When is a concept no longer just a concept but a full-out and successful marriage between book and music? Applied to the reviv…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:45AM
Friday, November 14, 2025

Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Oedipus" 11/13/25 by Howard Miller

The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock described the art of suspense as providing the audience with foreknowledge of some terrible event that is about to unfold on unsuspecting characters. We …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:43AM

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "The Seat of Our Pants" - 11/13/25 by Howard Miller

The Seat of our Pants, opening tonight at the Public Theater and blessed with a first-rate cast of theatre stalwarts, is a new version of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Skin of…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:43AM
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - "Queens" - 11/13/25 by Marc Miller

Isn't it annoying when a pair of characters onstage start jabbering back and forth in a language you don't know, furthering the plot in ways you'll never understand? It happens at least twic…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:37PM

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