How do you interpret Shakespeare's lengthy soliloquies, impassioned dialogue, and intricate plots without words? In "Hamlet Shut Up," the solution is a few strokes of wit, a reliance on phys…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMParkour, also known as free running, has been gaining popularity since the mid-2000s, but Bulletrun's "Living on the Edge," the shift from the streets to the stage saps the sport of its vita…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMHow do you interpret Shakespeare's lengthy soliloquies, impassioned dialogue, and intricate plots without words? In "Hamlet Shut Up," the solution is a few strokes of wit, a reliance on phys…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMParkour, also known as free running, has been gaining popularity since the mid-2000s, but Bulletrun's "Living on the Edge," the shift from the streets to the stage saps the sport of its vita…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM"The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival" is a moving and captivating storytelling session that chronicles five journeys through Katrina and the weeks that followed.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn Axis Theatre Company's "Down There," playwright and director Randy Sharp attempts to investigate the circumstances that brought about brutal torture and murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Liken…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMWallfly Theatre Company's fine production turns a single incident at London's Paddington Green police station into a thoughtfully rendered look at the tangled politics of Northern Ireland.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMFans of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel and its 2001 film version will get a kick out of this campy takeoff, but those unfamiliar with Middle Earth will be lost.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
Despite striking visuals, Anthony Dodge's noir play can't decide whether to deconstruct or reinvent the genre, and the result is a watered-down version of classic noir that broaches gender i…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMEric Henry Sanders' take on Georg Büchner's "Woyzcek" finds effective contemporary parallels but has unfortunate errors in execution.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe team behind Wakka Wakka Productions breathes unexpected life into a scientific theory in this visually stunning and emotionally soaring creation.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMConceiver-director Annie Dorsen sets two laptops to "chatting" to find out if they can equal human performance interaction. They can't.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMLynn Rosen's new play is a confused portrayal of a woman's self-discovery that combines camp with convention to little effect.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBased on the Oregon Trail computer game, "Quest for the West" is a Fringe musical that plays for nostalgic laughs, with promising hints of a deeper story.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:17AM"Stand Tall," at NYMF, shrinks the epic David and Goliath story down to the playground level, turning it into a simplistic and immature bullying parable.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:35AM“Where is this going?” is not just a dating question. It also applies to this series of monologues that never becomes more than a sum of its parts.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:45AMCasey Cleverly’s shallow modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” set on Wall Street, diminishes both the original work and its reconception.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:37AM"Welcome to America," an adaptation of a 1921 Yiddish Art Theatre play about immigrants by H. Leivick, from New Worlds Theatre Project, warrants a look.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:11AMPatricia Buckley's absorbing solo show "Evolution," from Absolute Uncertainty and Interart Theatre, explores commonly accepted ideas of progress and change.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:03AMMiriam Kulick's one-woman show "Open Hearts," about a 90-year-old Jewish matriarch and her complicated family, packs too much into barely more than an hour.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:14AMTheodora Skipitares' insightful puppet-theater work at La MaMa, "Prometheus Within," places the archetypal myth in the context of stem-cell research.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:59AMVoyage Theater Company's production of "Obama 44," at La MaMa, wants to examine obsession but is limited by its one-dimensional preoccupation with its star.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:30AMArtist Juliacks adapts her graphic novel “Swell” for the stage for Culture Project, brilliantly merging aesthetics and atmosphere while pushing boundaries.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:18AMStoryteller Slash Coleman's "Big Plastic Heroes," part of Frigid New York, has some high notes but loses its way among tired tropes and youthful fantasy.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:15AMFeaturing a star turn by Melissa Hawkins, Andras Visky's fictionalized account of Romania in the grip of Nicolae Ceausescu retains the rawness and poignancy of a memoir.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMA spoof of the shady side of college admissions, D.B. Gilles' new play offers moments of fun that unfortunately often stretch into periods of tedium.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:19AMIn his first new work in more than a decade, avant-garde pioneer John Jesurun updates the stories of 17th-century writer Ihara Saikaku for a dreamlike look at our isolated modern world.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:22AMFeaturing a flurry of action and little substance, Susan Eve Haar's new play is swallowed up by a supernatural premise that takes precedence over its characters.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:10AMIn a sensuous and disturbing one-woman show that largely manages to avoid the perilous trap of self-reflectivity, Raïna von Waldenburg channels three stories that confront the taboo t…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:16AMCarla Ching's update of the Hansel and Gretel tale attempts to articulate the perils of growing up but hides the real emotion of adolescence behind unnecessary modernizations.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:53AMIn three bizarre but powerful playlets, Sybil Kempson takes us on an exploration of the grotesque and the uncanny that forces us to stop thinking and start feeling.
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