"Prison Dancer" is a jovial yet touching new musical at NYMF based on true events about transformation and reform.and featuring Jose Llana in a fine cast.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:55AMThe prospect of immortality is more arduous than appealing in "Foreverman," Brett M. Boles' new musical, at NYMF, about the discovery of the elixir of life.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:38AMThe York Theatre's charming revival of Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire's "Closer Than Ever" is enacted with devotion by a quartet of polished singers.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMIn “The Maria Project,” Marcella Goheen’s odyssey to uncover her family’s horrific long-suppressed secret ought to be more moving and humorous than it is.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:37AMWith Dermot Crowley and Dearbhla Molloy as guides, poet Paul Durcan's playful stroll through London's National Gallery, at the Irish Rep, is enlightening.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:10AMCastillo Theater's revival of the musical "Sally and Tom," about the relationship between slave Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, is emotionless.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:24AMRinde Eckert's aching adaptation of "Moby Dick," which Herman Melville himself described as his "wicked book," maintains much of its original power, although its focus has softened.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:59AMThe seven deadly sins are no match for the venality that permeates the bloody, disease-ridden mayhem in this pounding adaptation of Sophocles' extant plays.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:59AMScientific research and subjective domesticity clash in a race to find a cure for an epidemic in Matthew Maguire's deadly play, whose stakes, public or private, aren't high.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AMPulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz's take on how the Cuban Revolution affected the commercial and romantic lives of individuals caught up in its fervor doesn't quite come to…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:34AMOdysseus' 10-year struggle to get home from Troy to Ithaca is fodder for this new musical that highlights Homer's great adventure without finding a fresh way to tell the tale.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:31AMWhat we don't know, or may never know, about the American torture of Gitmo prisoners is the searing background of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's prize-winning play about revenge.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMHow the inescapable sores of the Irish rebellions affect generations is told in this pair of thoughtful but mundane one-acts about the lives of two women.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:04AMStuart Caldwell's dated, schematic two-hander about World War II and the Holocaust is further undermined by Caldwell's static direction and a monotonous, barely audible performance from Gi…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:29AMClaire Kiechel's complicated, consciously metaphoric new play, while intriguing, is overstuffed with ambitious themes and, despite Brad Raimondo's fluid direction, fails to involve us emot…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:32AMA.D. Penedo's intelligent and tightly written dramedy about lust and betrayal grabs from the first, an amusing cat-and-mouse game in the guise of budding romance under Christopher Windom's…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:10AM“Nils’ Fucked Up Day” is, like its title, an ear-burning piece of scatology. Once banned in its native Romania as “outrageous, obscene, and vulgar,” the play …
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:31AMThe little things we do to each other and ourselves in attempts to control our lives are the subjects of five one-act plays of varying but admirable quality.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMIn two agile, amusing comedies about the joys and disappointments of marriage and parenthood, Daniel Goldfarb offers an excellent showcase for a pair of 30-something actors.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:52AMEnsemble Studio Theatre's one-acts about displaced people trying to connect are only intermittently diverting. Though they're well-acted and presented with care, the evening rarely catches…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:48AMDaniel Beaty's energetic new musical about gentrification, sex, friendship, religion, and poetry is heady but unwieldy. In telling of a second Harlem Renaissance, its lively cast raises the…
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