Sunday, April 3, 2016
You may think that piano chords are giving way to human voices. Or that the dusty mechanics of the past are making way for the innovations of the future.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PM[SHARE]Alex Brightman, Danny Burstein, Leslie Odom Jr., and this Broadway season's other leading men ought to be mighty thankful that the musical Cagney, which premiered at the York Theatre Company…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
When you see people flying and slamming into walls, and enormous chunks of ceiling crumble to the ground, your first instinct may be that an earthquake or tornado is afoot.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PM[SHARE]Of all the musicals crying out for the City Center Encores! series to release them from theatrical purgatory"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, The Golden Apple, Love Life"1776 would seem to be the l…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
The greatest feat of magic - okay, the only one - in Tarell Alvin McCraney's play Head of Passes, which just opened at The Public Theater, is its making you an integral part of the land on w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
Who would have thought that something this fresh could seem so stale?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2016
They may wear crisp, clingy, contemporary clothing, wield smartphones the way warriors of earlier ages did longswords, and bicker about the political nuances of global finance in 2016....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 20, 2016
If you've ever longed for an honest-to-goodness love potion to salve your romantic woes"and haven't most of us at one time or another?"The Effect is the cold splash of reality that should br…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
A genuine superstar is catapulted into a swirling existential crisis when his mother dies, and his attempts to extricate himself from it end up causing nothing but pain and loss to everyone …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
If we don't associate the South with magic and wonderment anymore, maybe we need to rethink our priorities.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
Trembling hands tell the whole tale. One is placed on the inner thigh as a sign of intense affection. Another reaches out, desperate for connection. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PM[SHARE]It's no secret that statutory rape, like any other kind of rape, leaves many scars that will not be healed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Remember Airplane!? The 1980 Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker film didn't just ignite the careers of its trio of creators or launch Leslie Nielsen into a second career as a deadpan comic par excellenc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:50PM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2016
You're struck by the energy the moment you step into the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 6, 2016
The landscape is vast and empty, the pockmarks in the soil all but visible.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 5, 2016
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Even if you leave your homeland, your homeland never entirely leaves you.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:37PM[SHARE]Chlorine is not something that everyone will enjoy assaulting their nostrils upon entering New York Theatre Workshop for Red Speedo, the new play by Lucas Hnath that just opened there, but i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:24PM[SHARE]Monday, February 29, 2016
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Is the past supposed to neat and tidy, or is it - regardless of its state - merely supposed to explain where we are today?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Few would dare dispute that the effects of war can linger long, even for those who've never taken a weapon onto a battlefield.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:30PM[SHARE]Take cover! Outside of the David Mamet oeuvre, it is rare indeed to find a play that begins as speedily and forcefully as Colman Domingo's new piece for the Vineyard Theatre, Dot.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
History, both past and future, weighs heavily on the characters in Smokefall, the deliciously (sometimes too-deliciously quirky) play by Noah Haidle that MCC Theater is producing at the Luci…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28PM[SHARE]Because death is one of the very few experiences that all living people share, and because no one who knows what it's really like is able to tell the tale, it's always exerted a particular f…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
Maybe it's not so much that you can't teach an old dog new tricks as that an old dog knows when he doesn't need them?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:36PM[SHARE]Horror occurs in countless forms and at varying degrees, describing a sweeping range of experiences that define who we are.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Is the weirdness real, or merely the outward manifestation of a diseased soul?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27PM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2016
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