8,501 stories from Backstage
This exhilarating evening demonstrating the different bonds human beings seek in their personal voyages of discovery is a nice showcase for Rich Orloff's comic, lyric, and surreal talents.
Revolution may have a militant-sounding title, but writer-director Michael D. Jackson's docudrama is more a feel-good tribute to the early days of gay lib than a true call to arms.
Even as the show pleases, and even as the Encores! Orchestra, led by Rob Berman, sounds like a billion blaring bucks, it's not without missteps.
In Betrothed, a triptych of pieces examining women's lives in the months leading up to their marriages, Rachel Dickstein creates images of simple and poetic beauty.
A searing, absolutely splendid new play by Jonathan Lichtenstein, staged with a surgeon's mixture of precision and artistry by Terry Hands.
She's actually selling Tupperware, which is the biggest asset of this otherwise juvenile drag show.
Writer-director Jackie Alexander structures his uneven but absorbing comedy-drama as the inverse of Tennessee Williams' humid classic.
Despite its wild punches, this healthily combative play at least wins its final round.
Playwright Jenny Schwartz captures the emotional and verbal breakdown of a couple whose son has drowned in director Anne Kauffman's gracefully modulated production.
It's the raw emotional shimmering in Audra McDonald's voice - part of the ferociously human Lizzie Curry she creates in Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of 110 in the Shade - that makes …
Much of the brash lunacy of Christopher Durang's play comes through with remarkable piquancy in this revival by New York Deaf Theatre, performed in American Sign Language while two actors on…
Ross Mueller's deliberately claustrophobic two-hander about a pair of Australian inmates can't help but recall other dramas in which mismatched souls are locked together in a codependent tan…
The Gallery Players' mounting only confirms that the property really does require star power.
Lina Koutrakos is to torch singing in 2007 what Helen Morgan was in the 1920s and '30s.
In Susan Bigelow and Janice Goldberg's highly dramatic tale of friendship and salvation, religions and cultures collide to form one human bond against pervasive injustice.
Roberto Ramos Perea's 1987 play only satisfies on an intellectual level.
Brits Off Broadway has kicked off with a bang with The Receipt, a deeply engaging seriocomic howl of existential angst.
"It's hard to have 12 lines in a play." Twice Tony-nominated Beth Fowler is talking about her latest challenge, the role of Mrs. Matthew Harrison Brady in the current Broadway revival of Inh…
Radio Golf is emblematic of the '90s and a disturbing end to August Wilson's 10-play saga.
Just when you thought Neil Simon had no descendent in the 21st century, along comes Delaney Britt Brewer. Her snappy new comedy, An Octopus Love Story, is one of the most accessible and genu…
Terrence McNally's play sports Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes as legendary doubles partners long in retirement, and if ever there was a reason to buy a ticket to a Broadway show, it's to …
Young Jean Lee can frequently be counted on to bring a unique and adventurous voice to the theatre, but with Church, it seems she hasn't quite figured out what she wants to say.
If the members of Banana Bag & Bodice are trying to poke fun at a genre here, there is never that knowing smirk or quick wink to let the audience know that they get the joke, too.
