Thursday, September 1, 2011
... two thoughtful musicals that examine how male/female partners-in-life-and-love deal with each other and other compelling things that enter the picture ... The first is adapted from Georg…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2011
Picture it: A 2pm matinee is about to start, the cast in costume: a drag queen, a guy whose get-up is fabric made to look like absurdly bulging muscles, a gaggle of gals in very high heels a…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Among the numerous gay-themed plays in the almost 200 varied and varying-quality productions in the New York International Fringe Festival are a serious drama of deception and attraction and…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:07PM[SHARE]Here's a heads-up about how violence hath reared its ugly head in shows at the currently-running NY International Fringe Festival with, head and shoulders above the others, the drama Sammy G…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:06PM[SHARE]Four score and seven years ago, exactly, our forefathers brought forth a new national fascination: news headlines trumpeting reports about an elusive female robber dubbed "The Bobbed Hair Ba…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2011
Two male vocalists on board: a veteran and a newer voice, each capable of singing in hushed, romantic tones or letting loose with a big sound. Both have dipped their pens into ink a bit as c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 30, 2011
Same old/ same old story? Not quite. Alice and Rip! revisit the tales of wonder in Wonderland and the legend of Mr. Van Winkle, the sleepy man written by that Sleepy Hollow writer, respect…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:54AM[SHARE]Hallelujah!Praise the Lord! There's a musical in town briefly --- but, I suspect, ripe and ready for a long run delighting audiences, that is satisfying in the ways we want musicals to be. …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 21, 2011
Let the games begin. Theatre festivals are always a game … of chance. We festival regulars know that you get the shows that are cheery and the ones that make you weary, the dreary and dr…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2011
The Fourth of July holiday may be over, but the permanence of recordings makes it never too late to strike up the band and declare a knickerbocker or any kind of holiday to celebrate finally…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2011
Two episodic, song-filled, leaving-home journeys this time, previously seen on the screen but first told in books—inspired by the imaginative real life of Frank Abagnale, Jr., and the imag…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2011
This week Rob reviews Show Some Beauty, which features songs by Steve Marzullo.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2011
This week Rob reviews: Lynn DiMenna's Fun & Fancy Free: The Music of Dinah Shore; Jamie deRoy's Wish on the Moon; Susie Meissner's I'm Confessin'.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2011
What is more theatrical than an awards show? There's that suspense of "Who will win?" There's the dramatic pause between the rattling off of nominees' names and the envelope-opening and th…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2011
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This week Rob reviews: Lisa Howard: Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Music of William Finn; Karen Oberlin: Live at the Algonquin, The Songs of Frank Loesser; Shepley Metcalf: Something…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Yes, its kind of a mess. A classic messed around with, a misguided misfire, a critical mass of mistakes that some critics will massacre. All that. This mess is hit and miss, but not to be…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 09:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 9, 2011
This week Rob reviews two CDs in the Ricky Ian Gordon Sings Ricky Ian Gordon series: A Horse With Wings and Bric-A-Brac
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:16AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2011
This week Rob reviews: Our First Mistake: Kerrigan-Lowdermilk; Chasing the Day: The Music of Will Van Dyke; and Thirteen Stories Down: The Songs of Jonathan Reid Gault.
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