294 stories by "David Sheward"
It's easy to see why Danny Aiello was attracted to this superficial tearjerker. The lead is a showy part, but the play reduces Sept. 11 and the Holocaust to soap-opera fodder.
This clichéd thriller claims to satirize gay stereotypes but only presents them without satire or irony. The average episode of "Law & Order" has more suspense.
When a three-character play is co-directed by two of the cast members and the third is the playwright, you know you're in trouble. A shallow examination of art and love.
The touring company of the hit 2009 revival makes an electrifying summer stop on Broadway, with the largely new cast retaining the intensity and spontaneity of its predecessor.
Despite a backstage injury, the Royal Shakespeare Company's blazing production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy skillfully mixes time periods and conveys the brief, intense passion of its …
The Royal Shakespeare Company begins its ambitious five-play repertory with a rollicking, love-drunk production featuring one of the best Rosalinds in recent memory.
An especially encouring trend was the number of new American plays including David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish," Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar," Lydia R. Diamond's "Stick Fly," and the triple pla…
Combining autobiography and standup, Judy Gold compares her life to her favorite TV shows in this light, fun, yet also heartfelt and touching show.
Director Howard Davies lets us see Chekhov's classic with new eyes in this fresh and sensitive stage production from London's National Theatre filmed live for international audiences.
David Esbjornson's production is split between a complex examination of sexual politics and a light comedy but somehow still satisfies. Danai Gurira and Michael Hayden lead a powerful cast.
Daniel Sullivan's straightforward staging of one of Shakespeare's problem plays fails to overcome the fanciful plot machinations, but the supporting cast delivers many pleasures.
The familiar marital-battlefield scenario is given new life in Michael Weller's insightful two-hander, with Joely Richardson and Cotter Smith as a pair of formidable combatants.
The tangled plot threads that made this comic-book musical spectacle a sticky mess have been unraveled and rewoven into a web of wonder.
The Tony winner from "Miss Saigon" proves she is much more than a Disney princess in a smashing set at the Carlyle. We need to see more of her on our stages.
This bizarre musical based on the true story of an awful teen rock group is a rough, raw, and weirdly beautiful examination of America's obsession with fame.
As he did with "Xanadu," Douglas Carter Beane mixes Greek legends with modern pop culture for a witty, fun show in this updating of an Aristophanes classic.
The stories of the women behind the gunslingers of the O.K. Corral could have made for a fascinating musical. Unfortunately, this isn't it.
The 2010-11 Broadway season has been one of the busiest and most diverse in recent memory. This year Back Stage celebrates this amazing season with one of our biggest Tony Awards Spotlights …
A play consisting of nothing but two-person conversations in the same restaurant booth could be static, but this is a moving and funny rumination on fatherhood.
The story is silly and contrived, but Willard Beckman's campy little musical is a hilarious spoof and bravo for Varla Jean Merman.
Kristoffer Diaz's "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" was honored as the best new American play of the 2010-2011 season at the 56th annual Obie Awards on Monday night.
The married Broadway stars deliver a professional and polished set in this cabaret tour through their romance, but there aren't many surprises.
Lynn Nottage follows up her shattering play "Ruined" with a scathingly funny satire on showbiz stereotypes of African-American women.
Derek Jacobi will rip your heart out with his definitive performance in this forceful, stripped-down Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy.
Harry Potter's magic did not work on the Tony Nominating Committee. The biggest news out of this morning's nominations is the snub of Daniel Radcliffe for "How to Succeed in Business Witho…
