Fans 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 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑
In 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…
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…
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…
Parkour, 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…
Wallfly 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.
"The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival" is a moving and captivating storytelling session that chronicles five journeys through Katrina and the weeks that followed.
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…
Parkour, 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…
Based 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.
"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.
Casey Cleverly’s shallow modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” set on Wall Street, diminishes both the original work and its reconception.
"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.
Patricia Buckley's absorbing solo show "Evolution," from Absolute Uncertainty and Interart Theatre, explores commonly accepted ideas of progress and change.
Miriam 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.
Voyage 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.
Artist Juliacks adapts her graphic novel “Swell” for the stage for Culture Project, brilliantly merging aesthetics and atmosphere while pushing boundaries.
Storyteller 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 7:15am on February 25, 2012☆⚑
Featuring 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 8:00am on February 12, 2012☆⚑
