The second powerful play in a year to tell the story of a horrifying 1920 purge of gay students at Harvard, the Plastic Theatre's communally written show is a triumph.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMWhen there's as much talent on display as there is in Daniella Shoshan's new play, it's dispiriting to have to report that the show comes across as one hot mess.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:32AMIt's clear that a refreshingly original sensibility is at work in Michael Mitnick's consistently inventive and surprising comedy-drama about love and commitment.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AMAuthor-actor Jeff Key's intelligent, evocative, psychologically shrewd solo show about serving as a gay Marine in the Iraq war is one of the finest of its genre I have ever encountered.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:15AMAmy Herzog's new play is a companion piece to her captivating "After the Revolution," but it's more successful as character study than as a fully realized dramatic work.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMDirector-adaptor Tom Andolora's inspired site-specific staging of Edgar Lee Masters' penetrating study of small-town American life makes up in atmosphere whatever it may lack in polish.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMDowntown drag queen Linda Simpson travels above 14th Street for the first time with her new comedy, which though ramshackle contains plenty of laughs and a memorable performance from Patri…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:46AMThoughtfully adapted and directed by Moisés Kaufman from an unproduced Tennessee Williams screenplay, this taut and fluid production unsettles with a quiet intensity.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:48AMBarbara Cook, a superb actor who knows a thing or two about the human condition, shares her knowledge in this artfully understated, deeply affecting show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:45AMDirector Jackson Gay's nurturing production of Rachel Crothers' 1918 drama flies by swimmingly for two acts but can't entirely overcome a sudden lurch into melodrama.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMTony Kushner's Corneille adaptation is a penetrating and poetic consideration of human desire told with a shimmering theatricality and a joy from start to finish.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMChristopher Fry's blank-verse comedy-drama about the meaning and purpose of life won't be everyone's cup of tea, but this scrappy production succeeds in making a case for it.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:26AMDavid Zippel's beautifully structured, exquisitely executed revue is a dry-martini delight that should leave everyone, from aficionados of Broadway's coolest composer to the uninitiated, d…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:05AMWhile it's always a pleasure to encounter James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's woundingly beautiful, vibrantly theatrical meditation on mortality, director Eric Schaeffer's wham-bam-thank-…
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:49AMThis arty, misbegotten musical version of Bernard Shaw's "Candida" turns his sociopolitical romcom into a perfervid romantic triangle. The result can only be described as unbearably preci…
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMTony Kushner’s latest is full of fascinating people and plenty of interesting story, but as absorbing as it is, the play could still use further refinement and focus.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMMetropolitan Playhouse hits a high note with director Alex Roe's swift and vivid account of Arthur Arent's 1938 Living Newspaper play on the subject of substandard housing in America.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:33AMClocking in at a bloated two and a half hours, this tribute to New York City nightclubs never manages to escape from meander mode, despite a few high points.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:44AMLaurel Haines' new black comedy about a dystopian future makes for a reasonably diverting 80 minutes, though one can't help noticing that the script is awfully thin.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMLarry Kramer's towering American tragedy is getting a letter-perfect production from directors Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe. If you see only one play this year, make it "The Normal Heart."
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:10AMThe pugnacious Nina Arianda claims Billie Dawn for her own in director Doug Hughes' loving and intelligent revival of Garson Kanin's classic comedy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMIf Alisha Silver's play has trouble connecting its dots and feels more like a series of characters sketches than a complete work, it still marks her as a writer to watch.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:32AMJez Butterworth's play falls in the tradition of works lionizing the nonconforming outsider whose outrageous behavior masks a pure heart that by contrast proves the mendacity of the socie…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMThe talented Christopher Shinn seems to have set himself a difficult task with this irritating offering: writing a play largely devoid of dramatic conflict.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMA ramshackle yet agreeable film comedy with plausibility issues has here become an even more ramshackle and outlandish musical comedy that consistently diminishes its source.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMStephen Schwartz's first opera, though not without its flaws, proves him to be a first-rate musical dramatist and is a welcome addition to the modern opera canon.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:40AMThere are 20 names in the producing credits for Matthew Lombardo's poorly written drama, starring Kathleen Turner. All I kept thinking was, "Didn't any of them see 'Looped'?"
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMGloriously theatrical and almost unbearably moving, this testimonial to the power of honest sentiment from Britain's National Theater is a never-to-be-forgotten theatrical experience.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMDavid Greenspan's new play is a 70-minute slice of joy about the rebirth of the human spirit. I left the theater more than a little bit in love.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:22AMFinding no compelling reason for its characters to sing, this synthetic musical adaptation of Steven Spielberg's 2002 film ranks as the Broadway season's biggest disappointment to date.
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