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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

IMPORTANT HATS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Fear not, terminally unstylish: You don't need to know the difference between a trilby and a homburg to have a good time at Nick Jones's new play at City Center Stage II for Manhattan Theatr…

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Sunday, November 22, 2015

NIGHT IS A ROOM - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

The debris is everywhere, the devastation total, and the three people who stand amid the wreckage of a once sensible world could themselves not look more dazed and uncertain.

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Friday, November 20, 2015

RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

"I come every year, and never get tired of it." . . .

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Thursday, November 19, 2015

THE UNREPEATABLE MOMENT - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Consider The Unrepeatable Moment the crossroads of crossroads.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

STEVE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Some 15 minutes before the start of Steve, the new play written by Mark Gerrard and directed by Cynthia Nixon that just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center as a production of The …

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Sunday, November 15, 2015

INCIDENT AT VICHY - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

It begins as confusion, perhaps dotted with annoyance. What's happening? This can't be happening. Nothing's happening. Why is this happening?

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PIKE ST. - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

If anyone is going to be able to cram the entire Lower East Side onto a stage no bigger than the average New York City living room, it's Nilaja Sun.

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MISERY - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

"She's not going to do it. No way she'll do it. She can't do it. She is. No. No. No. Ugh, ugh, ugh, I can't watch. I won't watch. I... Aaaaaaaaaaah... Wait a minute, why are so many people l…

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Eddie Carbone's cage is no longer merely figurative.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

SHEAR MADNESS - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Shear Madness may be many things " raucous, ribald, unpredictable, overwhelmingly enjoyable in spite of itself " but a great play it most assuredly not.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

DADA WOOF PAPA HOT - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

The dark side of marriage equality gets the full-sunlight treatment in Dada Woof Papa Hot, which just opened at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.

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Monday, November 9, 2015

LOST GIRLS - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Eternal love is wonderful in theory, but the trust and hard work it requires mean that it won't always survive the brutal light of day.

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Sunday, November 8, 2015

HIR - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

What price " if any " is too high to pay for progress?

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ALLEGIANCE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

How many today would even try to defend the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II?

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Thursday, November 5, 2015

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Yes, that is Donald Trump's photo on a fan held by a law-enforcement official. There is, in fact, a painted line on the ground and people running around in T-shirts that read "Border Patrol."

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Sunday, November 1, 2015

KING CHARLES III - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

For a monarch unable to adapt to the changing whims of his time, and holding on to a version of tradition that no one else respects (let alone remembers), every day is full of tortuous uncer…

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

THERESE RAQUIN - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

You are keenly aware of water's role as both giver and taker of life across every moment of Roundabout's new version of Thérèse Raquin at Studio 54.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

SYLVIA - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Few plays of recent vintage are as easy to like as A.R. Gurney's Sylvia.

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Monday, October 26, 2015

BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Anyone who has children, or has spent enough time around them, has undoubtedly exclaimed, "They grow up so fast!"

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Sunday, October 25, 2015

THE HUMANS - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Sound is how you experience it first.

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

DAMES AT SEA - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Looking to lose a lot of pounds quickly? You'll find no better teacher than Dames at Sea. . . .

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

A jumble of complex, tangled feelings floods First Daughter Suite, the new musical by Michael John LaChiusa at The Public Theater, but what you feel most is the burden.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

RIPCORD - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Even given the myriad recent changes in health care law, heart medication can be costly.

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Monday, October 19, 2015

KILL FLOOR - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Think cows heading to slaughter have it bad? That's nothing compared to the human characters in Kill Floor, the new play by Abe Koogler that just opened at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theate…

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Sunday, October 18, 2015

TRIP OF LOVE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Walk into Stage 42 (formerly the Little Shubert) for Trip of Love, and you're immediately plunged into its 1960s countercultural setting.

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Thursday, October 15, 2015

UGLY LIES THE BONE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Recovery takes on myriad meanings in Lindsey Ferrentino's beautiful, richly textured new play Ugly Lies the Bone, which is now playing at the Black Box Theatre at the Herald and Miriam Stein…

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PERFECT ARRANGEMENT - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

When Perfect Arrangement, the play by Topher Payne that just opened at the Duke on 42nd Street in a Primary Stages production, opens, we're immersed in the afterglow of a six-person dinner p…

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

THE GIN GAME - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Yes, you can love the players without loving the game or how they play it.

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ECLIPSED - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

"What is your name?" . . .

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Monday, October 12, 2015

CLEVER LITTLE LIES - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Marlo Thomas still knows her way around a sitcom.

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

FOOL FOR LOVE - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

Although Sam Shepard's Fool for Love celebrates heat in forms both emotional and chemical, by the end of Daniel Aukin's revival of the play for Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedm…

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