Wednesday, April 24, 2024
How do we categorize Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov's play about family life on an estate and working farm in late nineteenth century rural Russia? Is it a comedy, a melodrama, an excursion into…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PM[SHARE]Don't cry for Mary Jane. Not in front of her, anyway. She hasn't the time for your pity or to feel sorry for herself, as she single-mindedly pours everything she's got into the care of her c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:26AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
It's the Fiery Oligarch vs. the Icy Dictator in Peter Morgan's Patriots, opening tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Only one of them can survive, though in the end you may come away fee…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2024
Listen up. Time to put down the knitting, the book, and the broom and hie on over to the imaginatively staged, directed, and performed multiple Olivier Award-winning revival of Kander & Ebb …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2024
There is a certain subgroup of musicals whose aim it is to set the record straight, or at least enlighten us on some aspect of history, even if they do occasionally stray from the actual fac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2024
The thing about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is that before you can get to the "post" part, you are going to have to endure the trauma part. And there is trauma aplenty in the first half o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2024
Ladies and gentlemen!!! Children of all ages!!! Feast your eyes on the center (and only) ring, where you will witness feats of wonder the likes of which have never been seen before!!! Welcom…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:32PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2024
Love at first sight. Love everlasting. 'Til death do us part. That, in a nutshell, is a description of The Notebook, the heartfelt musical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' best-selling 1996 no…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40AM[SHARE]Anyone who thought plays featuring men in drag were on the way out (Pick your poison: Insulting to women? Exploiting transgender stereotypes? Too old hat for words?) should cast their eyes o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2024
Neurosis meets whimsey in Lisi DeHaas's The Slow Dance, opening last night at 59E59 Theaters, a play about a whiny, immature, and insecure middle-aged man who, over the course of 75 minutes,…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2024
Never underestimate Sister Aloysius Beauvier, principal of St. Nicholas Elementary School. It's easy enough to peg her as a stereotype, a tough-minded old-fashioned conservative nun who, whe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2024
"The meaning of a performance depends most of all on who is in the audience." So says one of the characters in Itamar Moses's scorching new play, The Ally, opening tonight at the Public Thea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 25, 2024
Deadly Stages, Marc Castle and Mark Finley's genial comedy opening today at Theater Row, is a spoofy, affectionate homage to low-budget movie murder mysteries that might have been third on t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2024
Death comes for us all, of course, though it is not typically featured in the opening moments of a big splashy musical such as the one on view at New York City Center, which is hosting an al…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:33PM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2024
History generally has not been terribly kind in its portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the 16th President of the United States. More like the bane of his existence. Angry, bitter, depre…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:57AM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2024
If you had the good fortune of experiencing the intimate Off-Broadway production of Days of Wine and Roses a few months back, anchored by the exquisite lead performances by Kelli O'Hara and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2024
If you've ever been curious about who the "she" is in "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain," you will be happy to learn several differing hypotheses in The Greatest Hits Down Route 66, a so…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Prayer for the French Republic, Joshua Harmon's deep-dive of a play about a family caught up in the growing surge of antisemitism in France, has taken on a darker, more urgent tone in its tr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Go for the music. Stay for the music. And the dancing. And the acting. And the story. And the direction. And the set design. And all the rest of the et ceteras thrown into the mix. Buena Vis…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2023
Remember how it felt during the months leading up to your high school prom? Ignore this question if you were full of confidence, aware of who you would be going with, sure of your appearance…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The Public Theater in New York City regularly makes it a point to respectfully acknowledge that the land on which it stands is the original homeland of the Lenape people. How fitting it is, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Addressing the audience, the title character in Michael John LaChiusa's charming if evanescent musical The Gardens of Anuncia, describes the setting as one in which "flowers float, tomatoes …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:09AM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2023
New York City in the 1990s was just beginning to emerge from a low point in its history, at least so far as the 20th century goes, a period marked by violent lawlessness, a rocketing plague …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 16, 2023
And now for something completely different. Or maybe it's pretty much the same. Anyway, they're back! And not a moment too soon, those wild and crazy characters whose wacky ways are somehow …
SOURCE: www.temptalkinbroadway.com at 08:14PM[SHARE]Playwright Doug Wright has carved out a highly successful niche for himself by creating for the stage, with sympathy and affection, works about actual people whose uncommon behavior and/or m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PM[SHARE]After many years of being on the theatrical down-low, stories of gay Black men (if not women) are starting to show up with some regularity on and off Broadway. In A Strange Loop, Fat Ham, an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PM[SHARE]Have you ever thought of being a hairdresser in a brothel? No? Well, that's merely one of the stops along the way in the life of professional female impersonator Kenneth "Mr. Madam" Marlowe,…
SOURCE: www.temptalkinbroadway.com at 12:48PM[SHARE]A couple of years back, Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh led the post-pandemic reopening of the Delacorte Theater in New York's Central Park with a delightful retelling of Shakespea…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 14, 2023
"And your punishment is to remember everything!!" With these words unleashed on a rapt audience late in the evening, we are engulfed by the burden felt every day of his life by Josef Roman C…
SOURCE: www.temptalkinbroadway.com at 06:03AM[SHARE]Friday, November 3, 2023
Imagine you are the proud owner of four lovely die cut jigsaw puzzles. Each puzzle consists of pieces that have been shaped using the same pattern. Carefully assembled, you will wind up with…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:55PM[SHARE]Theresa Rebeck's new play I Need That, opening tonight at the American Airlines Theatre, was created specifically as a vehicle for actor/comedian Danny DeVito and his daughter Lucy DeVito. N…
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