8,501 stories from Backstage
Its heart is in the right place, but Giacondo Trevellini's Boots is an enervating evening about the destructive effects of war.
A clever gimmick rapidly becomes tiresome in Gregory Sherman and Gregory Wolfe's Bound in a Nutshell, which uses text from Shakespeare's Hamlet to deliver an alternative take on the tragedy.
This world-premiere, hourlong solo piece about a serial killer understandably will have a limited audience, but it's hard to quibble about its execution.
Like James Cagney did in the 1955 Bob Hope movie version of this story, Ryan Foy as the legendary song-and-dance composer-performer is giving the more memorable performance.
This gangster-themed snoozathon boasts what are surely the gabbiest hit men this side of Quentin Tarantino.
A tuneful camp fest in Little Shop of Horrors tradition, the Annoyance Theatre's Love Is Dead: A NecRomantic Musical Comedy is silly, uneven, and ragged around the edges - but as musical com…
Michael Laurence attempts to tackle too many ideas in this solo piece.
A moving piece about the poet Sylvia Plath, weaves a dreamlike tale, nonlinear and surreal in form, to explore her life and work.
An insanely funny parody musical attempts to tell all of Chinese history.
Lindsay Burns' The Vajayjay Monologues is a wonderfully dry riposte to Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.
Four terrifically committed performances grace Cynthia G. Robinson's Ascension, an intelligent drama set on an antebellum plantation in central Alabama.
Playwright-director Larson Rose may never forgive the creators of [title of show] for first getting the idea of a play acted on stage as it's being written. But he needn't worry: With The Na…
Produced by a London-based troupe composed mostly of Greek expatriates, Velvet Scratch: Voyage of No Return suggests the fanciful dream of a young woman smitten with 19th-century romanticism…
The first woman to run for president of the United States is certainly worthy of lengthy biographical treatment, but the stage may not be its most felicitous home.
A harmless piffle on celebrity culture with an overly loud orchestra.
Playwright Peter Barr Nickowitz has bitten off a lot with his new play The Alice Complex - and shockingly managed to make it all work.
The Public Theater's revival of Hair is so spirited in its heart and mind that experiencing it is like sitting atop a promontory—a mesmerizing high. It's sung so buoyantly, with such sincere embrace, that there are moments when the infectious, durable rock score by composer Galt MacDermot and co-lyricists (and book writers) Gerome Ragni and James Rado floats you on air—a delectable high.
It's not only admirable but intriguing that a jazz singer would reinterpret Carole King's phenomenal "Tapestry" recording. And Laurie Krauz's journey into this King-dom looks to be successfu…
Looking to de-flea the dog days of summer, Metropolitan Room owners Chris and Steve Mazzilli and booker Lennie Watts have concocted a seven-week contest they call Metro Talent Challenge.
At least the title of Ronald Ribman's 30-year-old play still works.
Unfortunately, "Summer Shorts 2: Series B" falls far short of the solid writing and performances featured in the series' first evening.
Rajiv Joseph's "Animals Out of Paper" is that rare piece: a touching set of insights into well-rounded characters - unlikely acquaintances all - devoid of happy endings.
The 'Spring Awakening' star returns to the Age of Aquarius in 'Hair.'
An obscure early comedy by avant-garde legend Richard Foreman reveals that before turning his attention to the gnomic metaphysical spectacles that made his reputation, our man dabbled in mor…
A.R. Gurney's latest play clearly imparts his love of the theatre, but it falls short as convincing drama or whimsical comedy.
