Monday, May 25, 2015
Playwright Eliza Clark takes a seeming ordinary fast-food restaurant and three normal kids and turns out a taut and scary examination of the effects of terrorism.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMNeil LaBute reverts to his formula of brutish protagonists and political incorrectness in this twisted morality tale. TV star David Duchovny lacks stage presence.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMTwo one-acts from different periods in his career display Harold Pinter's range and give a quintet of New York's finest actors the opportunity to explore the depths of his famous pauses.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis stunning adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic novel of alienation will have you believing a man can crawl up walls and at a much cheaper ticket price than "Spider-Man."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMNo one is spared Jackie Hoffman's acid tongue in this riotously funny kvetchfest. Everything from Holocaust movies to her current gig in "The Addams Family" gets royally roasted.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMFor this National Theatre production, broadcast to cinemas worldwide, Nicholas Hytner finds a new interpretation of the most famous play in Western history and creates an Elsinore based on c…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDirector Charlotte Moore's staging of Dylan Thomas' classic yuletide memoir is like unspiked eggnog—sweet but not very strong.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDonny and Marie Osmond both work hard for the holiday cheer in this Vegas-style entertainment; the trouble is that we can see them sweat. Kudos to Marie for a supple and versatile voice.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMWhile this unique combination frat party and musical history lesson is sometimes entertaining and informative, it's way too loosey-goosey to be ultimately satisfying. Plenty of free booze, though.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
Marcia Lewis, a Tony Award nominee for her performances in the Broadway revivals of "Grease" and "Chicago," died in the early hours of Dec. 21. She was 72.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAs we enter the second decade of the 21st century, William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's "The Mikado" is as fresh and funny as the night it premiered at London's Savoyard Theatre in 1885.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
Hoping to cash in on the "Twilight" craze, the producers of this inept Off-Broadway revival of a horror classic have cast a hunky Italian heartthrob as the king of the vampires. The results …
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDespite admirable attempts at CPR by a valiant cast, director, and creative team, novice playwright Tommy Nohilly's calamitous family drama does not pull through.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBrian Bedford stages a near-perfect rendition of Oscar Wilde's whimsical classic and gives a pitch-perfect performance as Lady Bracknell without stooping to drag-queen excesses or even raisi…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMHenrik Ibsen's penultimate play suffers from a surfeit of melodrama, but Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan, and especially the fiery Fiona Shaw save it from its plotty excesses.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMEllen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and one of the pioneers of the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement, died on Jan. 12. She was 91.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe two-time Tony winner balances ballads and comedy numbers with tales of Tinseltown and personal moments in a polished hour. The only complaint is that it's a shade too polished.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBrian Bedford stages a near-perfect rendition of Oscar Wilde's whimsical classic and gives a pitch-perfect performance as Lady Bracknell without stooping to drag-queen excesses or even raisi…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThere is both sexual and literary chemistry in this modest but effective Pearl Theatre Company production of Molière's classic.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe Irish Repertory Theatre provides the perfect intimate setting for this monologue play featuring a blazing performance from Geraldine Hughes.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMPablo Schreiber and Jennifer Carpenter fill in the blanks in Rajiv Joseph's skimpy two-hander about two mismatched almost-lovers who seem to connect only in times of crisis.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAt first Matthew Lopez's new play resembles a horror film, but once the Stephen King theatrics are out of the way, Lopez offers an insightful examination of faith, race, and history.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDirector Austin Pendleton makes more than a few odd staging choices but also elicits some heartbreaking performances in the CSC production of the Chekhov classic.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis shaggy-dog story about a musical written to premiere in a Middle Eastern soccer stadium is better suited for an anecdote than a full-fledged tuner.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMMore than 20 years after its premiere, this examination of contemporary politics, media, and clashing cultures makes a vital case for the relevancy of modern opera.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAs it stands, "Spider-Man" runs 165 minutes, of which only about 25 really work.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMEmploying Spalding Gray's basic template, Zach Helm uses the recollections and observations of audience members to create a rewarding and memorable experience.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMExcept for one hokey device, Nathan Louis Jackson avoids death row clichés in this simple, powerful play featuring strong performances from Chris Chalk and David Patrick Kelly.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMGeoffrey Rush astonishes as he shifts from Chaplinesque clown to heartbroken lover to raving lunatic in this circuslike adaptation of the Gogol masterpiece.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMStrong performances help this trilogy of plays set in the hallway of a Lower East Side tenement over 150 years, but playwright Adam Rapp takes on too many themes and characters.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM"Finally, a 'bromance' for the stage," reads the press release describing "Fucking Girls," as if the idiotic genre that has invaded feature films was a desirable element for the theater.
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