Monday, May 25, 2015
Coming hot on the heels of "The Orphan's Home Cycle," Signature Theatre's extraordinary production of Tony Kushner's masterwork may give the company the theatrical event of the season for th…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMA 10-ton pudding of Irish whimsy laced with sticky-sweet operetta romance, "Three Wishes for Jamie" nevertheless gets loving care from Musicals Tonight!
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMLeonard Bernstein's final stage work marries a strong score with a flawed libretto. Nevertheless, it's essential viewing for musical theater lovers.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe last show written by John Kander and Fred Ebb has pulled together, setting a high bar for Broadway musicals this season.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThere's much to enjoy in David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar's 1988 film, particularly the top-notch, star-heavy cast, but ultimately the show fails to jell.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn a belated New York City debut, Reggie Cheong-Leen's play examining a culture clash not usually seen in American drama proves to be an absorbing if flawed work.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis obscure musical comedy may not be a neglected masterpiece, but there's plenty of craft, charm, and high spirits on hand, plus two terrific leading performances.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAmy Herzog's play may not break new ground, but it crackles with intelligence and is laced with welcome wit. I was thoroughly captivated throughout.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMJohn Osborne and Anthony Creighton's lost play is unquestionably fascinating as a historical artifact. Unfortunately, it plays like an episode of "The Donna Reed Show" on crack.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis tale of an endangered Russian journalist and her American husband seeking refuge in rural New York with two of his former close friends, now married, never coheres.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMCraig Wright’s explosively funny play is 100 minutes of high-octane bliss, with a tour-de-force turn from Michael Shannon blazing at its center.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMPeter Nichols' latest play is a deceptively sedate, neo-Chekhovian character study that ends up delivering a surprise haymaker that proves the veteran author is still in top form.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis highly promising collaboration between playwright John Guare and director George C. Wolfe never fulfills its laudable ambitions despite Lincoln Center's lavish and loving production.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMUltimately, this "Bells" is a pleasant-enough serving of a rather ramshackle yet endearing Jule Styne-Betty Comden-Adolph Green mid-career musical comedy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBrendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare share terrific rapport as two polar-opposite social misfits released into the world from a state mental institution in this quirky, intimate comedy-drama.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe invaluable Metropolitan Playhouse explores George L. Aiken's stage adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel with intelligence and invention. The result is absolutely fascinating.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
Playwright Nick Jones' exercise in style is far too pleased with itself and its jejune juxtapositions of period behavior and contemporary snark, amounting to little more than an overextended…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBrendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare have terrific rapport as two polar-opposite social misfits released into the world from a state mental institution in this quirky, intimate comedy-drama.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMCarl Caulfield's 55-minute one-man play about Peter Sellers is short on character insight and so self-referential that it can border on opacity.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMPassionate, witty, endearing, furious, and fabulous, performance artist Tim Miller witheringly assesses America's shortcomings on gay (and other) issues while somehow still inspiring hope.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMEpic in scope yet intimate in characterization, this 7-hour collection of 12 one-acts is smart, absorbing, and deeply affecting. It's also easy to follow and full of impressively versatile a…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMEdna O'Brien is a celebrated novelist, particularly in her native Ireland and the United Kingdom, whose play, "Haunted," is equal parts exasperating and enveloping.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis piece of extremely English comic frippery is lightweight yet undeniably funny. Fans of "Fawlty Towers" and "Little Britain" should have a fine time.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBonnie Langford has taken the traditional autobiographical approach. The result is mostly, to paraphrase a song from Langford's only Broadway credit, friendly and funny and fine.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThat thumping sound you hear is my heart in overdrive. I've fallen head over heels for the young British physical-theater company Inspector Sands and its anarchic sense of humor.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis expansive musical tribute to Judy Garland by her daughter suffers from being truncated and crammed into a room that's too small, but it succeeds in communicating the love they shared.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDirector Travis Chamberlain's staging of Tennessee Williams' obscure 1970 one-act in a claustrophobic room at the Hudson Hotel on West 58th Street is a tiny, pitch-perfect triumph.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn 75 minutes, actors Thomas Jay Ryan and Christina Rouner recapitulate the 95-minute film's screenplay, voicing all the characters (though not inhabiting them) in a rapid and sometimes conf…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis cabaret act plunked down in an Off-Broadway theater has its charms but plays it awfully safe, settling for "pleasant" and "friendly" and failing to convey the excitement Carol Channing …
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis embarrassingly amateurish collection of three one-acts does violence to the reputation of its author, Renaissance man John Gruen.
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