Monday, May 25, 2015
Dylan Lamb's "Alligator Summer" celebrates racy situations and over-the-top characters of Southern Gothic drama while mocking it.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMWhy is it so difficult for Mom to get the sex she wants on her birthday? That's the central question of "Happy Birthday, Mom," a tepid new play written and directed by Meghan Gambling.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMActor and first-time playwright Alex Giacin's clichéd tale offers no new insights into the emotional cost of war.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMTo say this musical is over the top is an understatement, but director-choreographer Hinton Battle has a lot of fun with the material.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe writing of this new musical spoof is sharp and satirical, the direction crisp, the choreography inventive, and the cast terrific.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThough the story is slight and sometimes a bit predictable, the talents of the terrific cast make Kate Hewlett's new play a pleasure to see.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn "Without You"—based on successful "Rent" actor Anthony Rapp's 2006 memoir— reveals that the late 1990s was also a time of great personal loss.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe soap-opera rollercoaster has a few fun turns, but mostly it follows apath of well-worn romantic comedy clichés of entanglement and discord.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
"Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, & Marriage" seems to have been designed solely as a diverting way for a gaggle of young single women (say, a bachelorette party) to spend an evening.SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
If you can pony up some extra cash for these pricey tickets, I'd strongly advise you to catch a performance of Cirque du Soleil's dazzling work.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMRebecca Northan is nothing if not nervy, working with an audience volunteer for 90 minutes in this sweet and hilarious improvised show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn a world in which Blue Man Group and Cirque du Soleil are staples of the mainstream, the troupe's abstract puppets seem oddly antiquated.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMFriday, June 15, 2012
A leaner, shorter "Zarkana" returns to Radio City Music Hall as less "Magic Flute" and more Harry Potter.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:01AMSunday, August 21, 2011
With verve and wry humor, dancer Anna Sullivan channels the cyberpunk aesthetic to express the way sex and soulless plasticity have become shamelessly intertwined in modern media.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:43AMFriday, August 19, 2011
Stephen Garvey's comic mash-up attempts to cross-pollinate the plots of Bill Shakespeare with the sitcom humor of Sherwood Schwartz, but Garvey doesn't add much that's original.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:41AMThis new musical is young, foolish, and in love with theater, but it lacks the wit and sophistication to be anything more than a 90-minute inside joke.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:34AMThursday, August 18, 2011
Recounting her life story through the prism of her struggle with weight, talented Aussie comedian Emily O'Loughlin weaves a delightful though somewhat shallow tale.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:15AMNo need to check Zagat's. Brian Pollack's tiresome restaurant farce "Smoking Section" moves at a glacial pace and does not offer anything very tasty on the menu.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:12AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
Louise Rozett's Sept. 11–themed drama suffers from an often-pedestrian script that shifts awkwardly among three scenarios despite the efforts of a veteran cast.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:40AMTuesday, August 16, 2011
COBU takes traditional Taiko percussion and kicks it up a notch—literally—with a vigorous mix of American and Japanese choreography in this thrilling 45-minute set of nonstop p…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:12AMSaturday, August 13, 2011
Is this history of an unbearably hip musical group an evening of pretentious experimental theater or just a parody of it? Either way, the show is a complete bore.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:44AMWednesday, June 29, 2011
Underneath all the wondrous acrobatics, costumes, and sets and the cacophonous score, Cirque du Soleil's dark new show has a romantic heartbeat generated by two terrific performers.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM 
