8,501 stories from Backstage
This TheatreworksUSA musical adaptation of the popular animated children's TV show from Nick Jr. and Noggin about a pair of young bunny rabbits may only clock in at less than an hour - just …
Jordan Harrison's new play at Playwrights Horizons employs every single slick, arch, self-conscious, self-parodic, intervening device available to contemporary playwrights.
The team of Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch last week presented a jolly four-night Birdland seasonal celebration.
For a thinly veiled autobiography with a cliché for a title, Bo Eason's one-man show at 37 Arts is surprisingly...surprising.
Some ambitious young actors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts who recently formed a new company called the Elephant Brigade are presenting Bertolt Brecht's Man Is Man with …
Writer and performer Petronia Paley uses Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets to explore the vortex of sexuality, race, and language in her solo show at the Ensemble Studio Theatre.
David Henry Hwang's new play at the Public Theater is entertaining and absorbing almost every step of the way.
Amidst all the big-budget holiday theatrical fare, I sincerely hope theatregoers will find time to enjoy this delightful offering from WorkShop Theater Company, a tiny Midtown black-box thea…
La MaMa's "West Bank, UK" is a rancid musical mixture of lofty ambitions and lowbrow misfires that's almost as deadly - and about as funny - as its namesake.
This Al Carmines mock cantata - it has too much action to be an oratorio, too little action to be a musical play - is back at Judson Church, where it was first performed in the Christmas sea…
If you go to see Maudie & Jane expecting to see the bold experimentation that made a name for the Living Theatre back in the 1950s, you'll be disappointed. However, you won't be disappointed…
Insistently insipid as "Is He Dead?" is, the actors are all so game that director Michael Blakemore's production winds up far funnier than the material deserves.
The show is swell. Emcee Susannah Perlman presides over a bevy of bawdy, sharp-witted, often scantily clad "chosen chicks" whose comic chops are fortified with a dash of old-school burlesque.
Gilles Ségal's clear-eyed exploration of the trauma and guilt experienced by Holocaust survivors and the personal responsibility and day-to-day choices of citizens living under fascis…
It's always good to see a new play adhering to some traditional values and structure, and Kristen Palmer's "Local Story" is a stunner in this way.
Once the central premise is established, "The Seafarer" plows ahead like a full-masted schooner in full sail under the strong helmsmanship of playwright Conor McPherson, who serves as his ow…
This Salzburg Marionette Theatre production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein warhorse, conceived and directed by Richard Hamburger, is completely charming, with believable "actors" and few str…
Even though James Thiérée tackles some pretty intense themes and emotions in "Au Revoir Parapluie" - such as life, love, death, and grief - there's little sadness or angst-ridd…
Peter Parnell's "Trumpery" is a slice of historical fiction tarted up to look like Chekhov and sound like Stoppard. Mainly, though, it plays like one of those school assemblies where you dut…
David Wright Crawford's play is a lovingly crafted celebration of an endangered species, the American farmer working his own land. He endows his characters with authenticity and poetic simpl…
Abbie Spallen's static and unsurprising drama is a banal and familiar tale of rural boredom and adultery.
Tracy Letts uses the wickedly funny, grotesque perspective that infused his "Killer Joe" and "Bug" to offer a raucous, jaundiced, yet sympathetic view of the American family.
Theater for the New City's latest offering is an uneven, overly speech-laden, sentimental play in an uneven if well-intentioned production.
