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Monday, May 25, 2015

Brandywine Distillery Fire by Mitch Montgomery

Strange spoken inflections are both the selling point and undoing of this humorous though uneven piece.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Field 309 by Mitch Montgomery

Corporate life goes all dreamlike in this jumbled multimedia performance from Title: Point Productions that's part of Incubator Arts Project.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Hotel Savoy by Mitch Montgomery

An interactive stay at this simulated hotel offers a singular experience of ambiance and reflection.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Bong, Bong, Bong Against the Walls, Ting, Ting, Ting in Our Heads by Mitch Montgomery

This well-designed puppet musical about mentally disabled children means well, but doesn't always pull the right strings.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Electra in a One-Piece by Mitch Montgomery

Mourning becomes electronic in Isaac Oliver's hilarious digital overhaul of a classical tragedy, staged tidily by director David Ruttura.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Montgomery Park, or Opulence by Mitch Montgomery

Karinne Keithley's immersive but daunting archival experiment uses multimedia to explore an asylum's curious history but is far too impenetrable.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Throne of Blood by Mitch Montgomery

This stylish stage version of Kurosawa's film, which adapted a Shakespearean tragedy, gains much gravitas in the multiple translations.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

The Marriage of Maria Braun by Mitch Montgomery

How do you solve a problem like a stage adaptation of Fassbinder's 'The Marriage of Maria Braun?' With an elegant, darkly comic production.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart by Mitch Montgomery

"Goodbye New York, Goodbye Heart" centers on Caroline, an Australian girl who receives a wedding invitation via email from a friend who committed suicide three months earlier.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte by Mitch Montgomery

John Kelly is performing in his inspired dance biography of painter Egon Schiele for the last time.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

NY Review: 'Honey Brown Eyes' by Mitch Montgomery

The breakup of the former Yugoslavia is weighed against the breakup of a high school rock band in this award-winning play.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

NY Review: 'Carnival Round the Central Figure' by Mitch Montgomery

Diana Amsterdam's touching dark comedy about death is a gloomy but lively circus of manners that urges audiences not to fear the reaper.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Lysistrata by Mitch Montgomery

It's Aristophanes by way of "Avenue Q" in this entertainingly lewd but somewhat clunky puppet adaptation of the ancient Greek play.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Etiquette Unraveled by Mitch Montgomery

In Lake Simons' solo clown piece "Etiquette Unraveled," the artist conjures a plethora of wistful scenarios using only a few props.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

Purge by Mitch Montgomery

This American premiere of a dark and dense Finnish play feels botched, too shoddily stage for the script's impact to register fully.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM

NY Review: 'Room' by Mitch Montgomery

Virginia Woolf is not afraid of anyone as she takes her audience and readership to task in this wearying but fascinating solo show from director Anne Bogart.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

NY Review: 'Pulp Shakespeare' by Mitch Montgomery

A nimbly funny Fringe mash-up from Her Majesty's Secret Players, "Pulp Shakespeare" imagines how the Bard might have written the film "Pulp Fiction."

SOURCE: Backstage at 01:13AM
Saturday, August 11, 2012

NY Review: 'I >3 Revolution' by Mitch Montgomery

Three amusingly inept revolutionaries kidnap the audience at the Living Theatre in Hist 123's hilarious Fringe Festival offering, "I >3 Revolution."

SOURCE: Backstage at 11:03AM
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

NY Review: 'The Minervae' by Mitch Montgomery

Steve Bost's imaginative, vigorously intellectual "The Minervae," a free production in Astoria's Athens Square Park, has fun with deposed Greco-Roman gods.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:05AM
Friday, July 13, 2012

NY Review: 'Hell: Paradise Found' by Mitch Montgomery

Director-author-actor Seth Panitch's comedy "Hell: Paradise Found," at 59E59 Theaters, is perhaps too clever but has an undeniable huckster charm.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AM
Sunday, July 8, 2012

NY Review: 'Terminator Too: Judgment Play' by Mitch Montgomery

"Terminator Too: Judgment Play," a parody of James Cameron's 1991 blockbuster film, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," is an earnest and dumbly fun evening.

SOURCE: Backstage at 03:43AM
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

NY Review: 'Sovereign' by Mitch Montgomery

This third part of Gideon Production's "Honeycomb Trilogy" offers a rich and daring conclusion to the saga, anchored by affecting performances and far-reaching ideas.

SOURCE: Backstage at 04:22AM
Saturday, June 9, 2012

NY Review: 'Escape' by Mitch Montgomery

"Escape," Susan Mosakowski's delightful comedy at La MaMa, is about the extremes people will endure before attempting a getaway from their absurd lives.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AM
Friday, May 11, 2012

NY Review: 'Sophie Gets the Horns' by Mitch Montgomery

This supple memory play from the Riot Group presents a search for identity, discovery, and sexuality in college with appropriate alienation.

SOURCE: Backstage at 03:44AM
Thursday, May 3, 2012

DEINDE by Mitch Montgomery

Flux Theatre Ensemble’s sophisticated production of August Schulenburg’s “DEINDE” relies too much upon heady science-fiction concepts.

SOURCE: Backstage at 06:01AM
Thursday, April 26, 2012

NY Review: 'Degeneration X' by Mitch Montgomery

Leah Bachar and Merideth Edwards’ ambitious multimedia play “Degeneration X,” at the Living Theatre, leans too heavily on lengthy video segments.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Sunday, April 22, 2012

NY Review: 'The Shelter Presents: Art' by Mitch Montgomery

In "The Shelter Presents: Art," four short plays attempt to offer arguments for the necessity of art, managing some insights amid the self-involved clichés.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:43AM
Friday, April 6, 2012

NY Review: 'Blast Radius' by Mitch Montgomery

The second installment of Mac Rogers’ “Honeycomb Trilogy,” from Gideon Productions, directed by Jordana Williams, is almost as thrilling as the first.

SOURCE: Backstage at 05:13AM
Thursday, March 8, 2012

NY Review: 'The House of Fitzcarraldo' by Mitch Montgomery

Buran Theatre Company’s “The House of Fitzcarraldo” at the Brick showcases winning performances, brisk musical numbers, and cheeky self-awareness.

SOURCE: Backstage at 06:16AM
Friday, February 17, 2012

NY Review: 'All the Indifferent Children of the Earth' by Mitch Montgomery

Old Kent Road Theater's "Hamlet"-inspired piece of absurdist theater, by Eric Bland, at the Brick Theater is mostly self-absorbed.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Friday, February 10, 2012

NY Review: 'You, My Mother' by Mitch Montgomery

This stream-of-consciousness opera employs elegant slide projections and dissonant live music to coax a mother's life story out of her adult children.

SOURCE: Backstage at 06:18AM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards