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294 stories by "David Sheward"

Time Stands Still by David Sheward

Laura Linney and company provide ample reason for another viewing of Donald Margulies' play, but are there enough theatergoers for a second engagement of a serious American drama that has al…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Fucking Girls by David Sheward

"Finally, a 'bromance' for the stage," reads the press release describing "Fucking Girls," as if the idiotic genre that has invaded feature films was a desirable element for the theater.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'Bottom of the World' by David Sheward

Two realities clash in Lucy Thurber's uneven comedy-drama about a young woman in mourning for her sister and the "fictional" world of the late sibling's last novel.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Penny Penniworth by David Sheward

A return engagement of this 70-minute satire is a rollicking romp through the works of Charles Dickens and a compact parody of the RSC's famous staging of "Nicholas Nickleby."

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Alphabetical Order by David Sheward

Michael Frayn has established himself as a master of both slapstick farce and complex drama, but this 1975 play, which contains elements of both, fails to satisfy as either.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'The Mikado' by David Sheward

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's "The Mikado" is as fresh and funny as the night it premiered at London's Savoyard Theatre in 1885.SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' by David Sheward

This wild history lesson and political cartoon blasts onto Broadway with an adrenaline shot of satire and a sexypants star turn from Benjamin Walker.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Film & NY Review: 'Hamlet' by David Sheward

For this National Theatre production, broadcast to cinemas worldwide, Nicholas Hytner finds a new interpretation of the most famous play in Western history and creates an Elsinore based on c…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'Michael Feinstein & Barbara Cook: Cheek to Cheek' by David Sheward

The veteran singer-pianist and the Broadway legend team up for a terrific evening of Great American Songbook standards delivered with unexpected twists and consummate skill.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'underneathmybed' by David Sheward

Reality and fantasy are seamlessly blended in this fascinatingly bizarre new play about an Argentinean family haunted by the horrors of a military dictatorship.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Marcia Lewis, Tony Nominee for 'Grease' and 'Chicago,' Dies at 72 by David Sheward

Marcia Lewis, a Tony Award nominee for her performances in the Broadway revivals of "Grease" and "Chicago," died in the early hours of Dec. 21. She was 72.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Nixon in China by David Sheward

More than 20 years after its premiere, this examination of contemporary politics, media, and clashing cultures makes a vital case for the relevancy of modern opera.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'Dracula' by David Sheward

Hoping to cash in on the "Twilight" craze, the producers of this inept Off-Broadway revival of a horror classic have cast a hunky Italian heartthrob as the king of the vampires. The results …

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'Elf' by David Sheward

Like a batch of oversugared Christmas cookies, this adaptation of the 2003 film hit is too sweet. The professional cast does its best to overcome the deficiencies of this flimsy holiday card…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'Gruesome Playground Injuries' by David Sheward

Pablo Schreiber and Jennifer Carpenter fill in the blanks in Rajiv Joseph's skimpy two-hander about two mismatched almost-lovers who seem to connect only in times of crisis.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Three Women by David Sheward

This poem for three voices should have remained on the page rather than being put on the stage.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Spirit Control by David Sheward

Manhattan Theatre Club fumbles with this hybrid of a "Twilight Zone" episode and a Hallmark Channel TV movie. It's a mundane thriller/soap opera.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'The Importance of Being Ernest' by David Sheward

Brian Bedford stages a near-perfect rendition of Oscar Wilde's whimsical classic and gives a pitch-perfect performance as Lady Bracknell without stooping to drag-queen excesses or even raisi…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

John Gabriel Borkman by David Sheward

Henrik Ibsen's penultimate play suffers from a surfeit of melodrama, but Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan, and especially the fiery Fiona Shaw save it from its plotty excesses.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Ellen Stewart, Off-Off-B'way Pioneer, Dies at 91 by David Sheward

Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and one of the pioneers of the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement, died on Jan. 12. She was 91.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Middletown by David Sheward

The residents of Will Eno's allegorical Everytown spout fortune-cookie philosophy and act like overtranquilized mental patients in this pretentious play about life, death, and all the Big Is…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Devil Boys From Beyond by David Sheward

Two shirtless hunks, four fabulous drag queens, and 90 minutes of high-camp comedy. What more could you want?

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'Three Pianos' by David Sheward

While this unique combination frat party and musical history lesson is sometimes entertaining and informative, it's way too loosey-goosey to be ultimately satisfying. Plenty of free booze, though.SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A Child's Christmas in Wales by David Sheward

Director Charlotte Moore's staging of Dylan Thomas' classic yuletide memoir is like unspiked eggnog—sweet but not very strong.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

NY Review: 'A Life in the Theatre' by David Sheward

Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight are hilarious and touching as actors engaged in a series of onstage mishaps, but the real power of David Mamet's 1977 two-hander is in their changing mentor-p…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑
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