Dylan Lamb's "Alligator Summer" celebrates racy situations and over-the-top characters of Southern Gothic drama while mocking it.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMWhy is it so difficult for Mom to get the sex she wants on her birthday? That's the central question of "Happy Birthday, Mom," a tepid new play written and directed by Meghan Gambling.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMActor and first-time playwright Alex Giacin's clichéd tale offers no new insights into the emotional cost of war.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMTo say this musical is over the top is an understatement, but director-choreographer Hinton Battle has a lot of fun with the material.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe writing of this new musical spoof is sharp and satirical, the direction crisp, the choreography inventive, and the cast terrific.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThough the story is slight and sometimes a bit predictable, the talents of the terrific cast make Kate Hewlett's new play a pleasure to see.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn "Without You"—based on successful "Rent" actor Anthony Rapp's 2006 memoir— reveals that the late 1990s was also a time of great personal loss.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe soap-opera rollercoaster has a few fun turns, but mostly it follows apath of well-worn romantic comedy clichés of entanglement and discord.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
"Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, & Marriage" seems to have been designed solely as a diverting way for a gaggle of young single women (say, a bachelorette party) to spend an evening.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
If you can pony up some extra cash for these pricey tickets, I'd strongly advise you to catch a performance of Cirque du Soleil's dazzling work.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMRebecca Northan is nothing if not nervy, working with an audience volunteer for 90 minutes in this sweet and hilarious improvised show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn a world in which Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soleil are staples of the mainstream, the troupe's abstract puppets seem oddly antiquated.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMA leaner, shorter "Zarkana" returns to Radio City Music Hall as less "Magic Flute" and more Harry Potter.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:01AMWith verve and wry humor, dancer Anna Sullivan channels the cyberpunk aesthetic to express the way sex and soulless plasticity have become shamelessly intertwined in modern media.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:43AMStephen Garvey's comic mash-up attempts to cross-pollinate the plots of Bill Shakespeare with the sitcom humor of Sherwood Schwartz, but Garvey doesn't add much that's original.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:41AMThis new musical is young, foolish, and in love with theater, but it lacks the wit and sophistication to be anything more than a 90-minute inside joke.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:34AMRecounting her life story through the prism of her struggle with weight, talented Aussie comedian Emily O'Loughlin weaves a delightful though somewhat shallow tale.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:15AMNo need to check Zagat's. Brian Pollack's tiresome restaurant farce "Smoking Section" moves at a glacial pace and does not offer anything very tasty on the menu.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:12AMLouise Rozett's Sept. 11–themed drama suffers from an often-pedestrian script that shifts awkwardly among three scenarios despite the efforts of a veteran cast.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:40AMCOBU takes traditional Taiko percussion and kicks it up a notch—literally—with a vigorous mix of American and Japanese choreography in this thrilling 45-minute set of nonstop p…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:12AMIs this history of an unbearably hip musical group an evening of pretentious experimental theater or just a parody of it? Either way, the show is a complete bore.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:44AMUnderneath all the wondrous acrobatics, costumes, and sets and the cacophonous score, Cirque du Soleil's dark new show has a romantic heartbeat generated by two terrific performers.
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