Monday, May 25, 2015
Ambition overreaches ability in Jon Steinhagen's split-personality comedy about the backstage tribulations of a theater company attempting to perform a Dadaist biography of Erik Satie.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Zehra Fazal's warm, wise, and very funny one-woman play with music is a welcome addition to the ongoing, often contentious conversation between Muslim and non-Muslim America.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Writer-director Erik Zambrano's rumination on the cost of fame, the loss of identity, and the mystery of desire loses itself in a nontraditional style of presentation that never connects wit…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]By the time Trent Armand Kendall's one-man musical ends, he is wrung out and we are infused with the kind of glow that only a superlative performance can kindle.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]By the time Trent Armand Kendall's one-man musical ends, he is wrung out and we are infused with the kind of glow that only a superlative performance can kindle.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Anna Fishbeyn says little about mothers and sexuality that we haven't heard before, but she speaks with such gusto, wisdom, and sexual frankness that we're content to stop and hear it again.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]In a masterful display of acting and storytelling, Anna Khaja rivets the audience to its seats with her depiction of the events leading up to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former …
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]<p>Five-time Tony Award nominee John McMartin and <i>In the Heights</i> vet Justina Machado have joined the cast of John Guare’s <i><a href="http://www.b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM[SHARE]Daniel Beaty's thrilling play conjures a community of African Americans whose lives intertwine in a series of epiphanies, narrow escapes, and tragic accidents on a single summer night.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Though this autobiographical musical about a composer losing his hearing is flawed, it deserves to be seen.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]The authors of this overly familiar tuner show great promise, but, apart from a rousing gospel number, this is a routine coming-of-age story.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Is this a slyly subversive comedy or cheesy, amateurish theater with plenty of naked bodies? Hard to say, but its message of tolerance is worth hearing.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Patrick Healey's two-person adaptation of James Joyce's "Ulysses," though not perfect, is rewarding theater for those who enjoy standout acting, a searching exploration of the human heart, a…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Playwright Richard Nelson lobs a grenade with this hyper-timely play about the midterm elections. Performed by a sterling ensemble, it should give everyone, right or left, pause to reflect.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]"Notes From Underground" is a harrowing evening of theater that will appeal to those who delight in profound but difficult thought and exhaustive emotional venting.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Amoralists use this early Adam Rapp play to strike a blow against sclerotic modes of presentation and received attitudes in the minds of audiences and critics. I had a blast.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Why anyone would want to see a mild musical is beyond me, but if you're in the mood for one, pay a visit to "The Extraordinary Ordinary."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Though the show's roots as a concert are always on view, Daniel Alexander Jones' heartfelt performance in the title role, offbeat and delicious, grounds this entertaining musical as theater.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]
These four one-acts from the Common Tongue theater company make up an evening of mediocre theater weighed down by the trite theme of connectedness.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]In theater, a revival is the bringing back to life of a play that has not been performed recently. "Touch," the 41-year-old musical, strains the definition of revival, because it is in no …
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 12, 2012
Fringe show "Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness!" delivers an hour of insightful comedy before becoming a tired academic debate about theater.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2012
Spellbinding Fringe entry "Saharava" combines inventive choreography and Eastern-flavored music to trace the birth, life, and rebirth of a young everywoman.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2012
A few stirring songs sandwiched among uninspired playwriting comprise "Shelter," a NYMF show about the plight of women and families in homeless shelters.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2012
Uneven casting and wrong-headed revisions sink Irish Rep's revival of "New Girl in Town," a 1957 musical adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie."
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2012
An amateurish book and a nondescript score fail to animate "Captain Crash vs. the Zzorgwomen: Chapters 5 & 6," a parody of Saturday afternoon movie serials.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2012
Untitled Theater Company #61's adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science-fiction novel, "The Lathe of Heaven," is entertaining but flawed.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Duncan Pflaster's "The Empress of Sex," in the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, is an amusing exploration of the relationship between love and sex.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 3, 2012
Ingratiating performances can't rescue "A Dance for Rylie," a naive musical in the Planet Connections Festivity about the death of an HIV-positive gay man.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
“The Bachelors’ Tea Party,” a unique amalgamation of a five-course afternoon tea service and a historical comedy, is more filling than fulfilling.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:28AM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2012
Author-actor Maria Cassi's delightful one-woman show "My Life With Men…and Other Animals" blends charming patter, hilarious clowning, and poignant songs.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2012
This production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's classic 1928 show turns out to be an accessible entertainment and one of the most enjoyable musicals around.
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