Sunday, November 6, 2011
In three bizarre but powerful playlets, Sybil Kempson takes us on an exploration of the grotesque and the uncanny that forces us to stop thinking and start feeling.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:11AMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Playwright Dan Fishback honors some of its lesser-known heroes of the AIDS epidemic, in a production that's half personal history, half artistic tribute.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:19AMSunday, September 18, 2011
Spectacle rules the day in drag diva Joey Arias' and puppetry master Basil Twist's whirlwind tour of new worlds ending in Big Band–era New York and a decidedly modern interpretation …
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Creator Cody Lucas takes the gruesomeness of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales several steps further in this heavy-handed and directionless production, which devolves into an unfocused, sadis…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:43AMFriday, August 19, 2011
The audience determines the fate of Shakespeare's famously star-crossed lovers in this frothy romp that, playing strictly for laughs, amuses and irks in equal measure.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:14AMThursday, August 18, 2011
Although this one-man show contains too many competing threads, David Nichols' tour-de-force performance overcomes the play's flaws to offer a complex and disquieting picture of our relati…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:21AMFriday, July 22, 2011
In this sequel to "In High Germany," Dermot Bolger returns to the same characters 20 years later, effortlessly adapting poignant scenes of homecoming, friendship, and renewal for the next …
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:46AMSunday, July 10, 2011
This new play by Terry Quinn struggles to assert itself both as drama and as farce, in a confused attempt to explore what happens when couples tell the truth.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:10AMFriday, June 10, 2011
Bill Rutkoski's superficial comedy incomprehensibly attempts to center a full-length play on an already-tired stereotype: the overbearing mother. The result is reminiscent of a standup act.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:26AMWednesday, June 8, 2011
Art, pain, and love become inextricably linked in Maggie Bofill's promising new play, whose emotional exuberance suffers from an unfortunate overdose of clumsy metaphor.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:57AMTuesday, May 24, 2011
Eight years after its premiere in the New York International Fringe Festival, Brian Sloan's play still captures the elegiac but persevering mood that continues to shape the city after Sept…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMTuesday, May 10, 2011
Mabou Mines returns the storybook tale of Peter Pan to its more grown-up roots, in a production that manages to inspire a childlike sense of wonder in those big or small.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:15AMMichael P. Kramer's wooden-beam set provides the contours of the many settings the musical requires, while also providing an open central area where the ensemble sits throughout.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:01AMMonday, April 11, 2011
This staging of Ukrainian Oleh Lysheha's haunting poem derives its power from the text but is undermined by puzzling staging choices that counteract it.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:32AMMonday, April 4, 2011
In this one-man show, NPR host Al Letson proves that he can make words spellbinding yet somehow never fully connects with his audience.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:07AMThursday, March 31, 2011
The comedian's latest one-man show never reaches the heights of his earlier "Sleepwalk With Me," too often feeling like a mishmash of generic romantic anecdotes.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM 
