8,501 stories from Backstage
Though there is undeniably clever writing going on in Romulus Linney's "Love Drunk," the whole thing ultimately feels like a playwriting exercise, and the emotional effect Linney is seeking …
Two things Audrey Hepburn never was are bland and forgettable. Alas, this show ends up being both.
Round-cheeked, glowing, and direct, Kelli O"Hara is someone who's acquired big-city ways but nonetheless hasn't lost touch with her humbler roots.
The big idea in this mounting of "Macbeth" is to enact almost all of it in full light. But the stark lighting on the scenery-less stage covered in white vinyl only seems to rob the productio…
Joy Franz neatly embodies the several sides of Mrs. Warren, while Caralyn Kozlowski is subtly touching as her daughter, Vivie, in G.B. Shaw's classic play.
While stimulating in concept, Banana Bag & Bodice's irreverent "songplay" is a theatrical misfire.
This new musical at New World Stages delivers a riotously good time and proves again that talent and trash are not incompatible.
Christopher Durang refuses to grow up. For the American theatre, this is a very good thing.
Colin Hanks and Samantha Mathis on turning points, Jane Fonda, and famous parents
As a tribute, Back Stage asked actors from A Little Night Music to share their thoughts on working with the Tony Award-winning actor.
Two things Audrey Hepburn never was are bland and forgettable. Alas, this show ends up being both.
So much of what John Tartaglia offered during his one-night Feinstein's at Loews Regency landing was cutesie-pootsie that it initially seemed a touch-and-go question as to whether what was r…
"End Days" by Debora Zoe Laufer is ferociously good.
In the transition to Broadway, there have been cast changes and script tightening-with mixed results. Still, there are plenty of reasons to see "Reasons."
It's surprising Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian's play has taken so long to reach New York. It ought to award him American attention as well.
A chilling trilogy of ancient Greek tragedies, the four-and-a-half-hour "An Oresteia" comprises a spellbinding production of Aiskhylos' "Agamemnon," an intoxicating rendition of Sophokles' "…
After a run last summer in Central Park, this Public Theater revival has moved indoors, and it looks like the hippies will be grooving there for a long time.
Bet you don't know too much about the culture of Kyrgyzstan. "Er Toshtuk" provides a nice taste. It's is a small gem bringing a new flavor to a New York palate.
There is originality and lyricism in actor-author Alyson Pou's writing, but somehow the story never comes to theatrical life.
While playwright and director Barbara Kahn can tell searing stories, most notably that of the tragedy at "Walking From Rumania"'s crux, too often the short vignettes come across like snapsho…
To mount "Tartuffe" memorably these days a director requires a strong angle on the piece, an attitude about it that can be manifest in all aspects of the production, from the blocking to the…
With an accomplished, classically adept cast and a handsome production, Theatre for a New Audience offers a rich and respectful rendering of "Hamlet."
With a device rather than a character at its center, "Happiness" has nowhere to go. Nevertheless, there are ancillary pleasures.
Tovah Feldshuh gives a tour de force performance and may spark enough excitement to make "Irena's Vow" the sleeper hit of a crowded Broadway season.
