8,501 stories from Backstage
While this is an unsentimental play about two loving sisters, the evening is also very much about two female performers at the top of their game.
"Jason and the Argonauts," an adaptation of the Greek myth by Scottish theatre company Visible Fictions, is a fun, friendly romp in streamlined-theatre style.
Dan LeFranc captures the conversational awkwardness, intimacy, and anger shared by a divorced man and his teenage son in "Sixty Miles to Silver Lake," an often poetic play in which bends in …
My first reaction to the news of Manhattan Theatre Club's revival of Richard Greenberg's 1990 "The American Plan" was "Why?"Well, either I didn't fully appreciate Greenberg's vision or this …
Joan Tewkesbury's new play (which she also directed) about Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz - is several plays in one.
It's writer-actor Frank Blocker's delight in performing that keeps the audience enthralled with this one-man show. What a delight to watch even villainous characters imbued with so much life…
Jane Bodie's play belongs to the none-too-original category of the two-hander that is a reluctant romance. The proceedings are greatly aided by Jeremy Waters and Melissa Chambers, two skille…
As six women wait together to find out which of their husbands' planes has crashed, the grimmest experiences of U.S. Marine wives during the Vietnam War become painfully clear in Linda Escal…
Playwright Lawrence Dial should have stopped with the first act of "Hollow Log."
If a thriller isn't thrilling, does the descriptive phrase still hold?
Philip Ridley's drama is so riddled with holes, so all over the place, and so limply directed that it would take both Rand and McNally to find a way out of its maze.
"Dust" is an anti-opera; it's also a musical stage work of novelistic depth, intimacy, and incisiveness.
This is the New York premiere of Tennessee Williams' original one-act version, and it provides an interesting look at the writer's process when compared with the longer version. Thanks to Ta…
In Edmund White's new play, elderly American writer James Brevoort has a series of conversations on death row with Harrison, the bomber of an Oklahoma City federal building. Director George …
"The Judgment of Paris" is the perfect antidote to all that stark minimalism too often equated with aesthetic sophistication on Manhattan's downtown arts scene.
It's hard to imagine a more perfect interpreter of Samuel Beckett's words than Conor Lovett.
Any enthusiast hungry for Herman Melville should hurry to the Metropolitan Playhouse.
"People shouldn't go to plays. They should look in the mirror at their gray lives," says the confused, disheartened Madame Ranevskaya in Tom Stoppard's compassionate yet brutally realistic a…
With the current economic downturn shuttering Broadway shows left and right, we can expect to see more attractions like "Soul of Shaolin," a martial-arts spectacular more suited to a theme p…
Adapted by Mabou Mines founder Lee Breuer from his prose work "La Divina Caricatura," the two one-acts constituting "Pataphysics Penyeach" playfully take on such weighty topics as William Ja…
If Simon and Garfunkel had a child, he well might be Holcombe Waller.
"The Break/s" is best described as a performance event that moves in and through hip-hop's primary modes: remix, jump cuts, quick speeds, and subversiveness.
"Architecting" is a riveting examination of American attitudes about race, homes, money, and gumption.
