8,501 stories from Backstage
Joel Gross gives history a refreshingly human face in his richly detailed psychological study.
David Harrower's play has a genuinely unsettling theme and ultimately haunts.
O'Neill's classic is staged with sensitivity and pathos, beautifully played by two performers at their peak.
A distinctive comic identity is taking shape here.
The characters' stories are interesting but undramatized.
This stellar production is by people who love the work and understand it.
David Zellnick's play runs into trouble but is worth watching.
This expensive yawner has a patchwork feel to it, with its many disparate elements failing to mesh into a satisfying whole.
There is little insight in these eight seamy one-acts, only attempts to shock or amuse.
Phil Hall's play with music is grossly and grotesquely exploitative yet incongruously heartfelt.
Constance Congdon's satirical critique of 1980s suburbia is still relevant but feels interminably long.
Playwright Gino Dilorio wrestles with some of life's biggest questions but only gets the expected answers.
At least three acting styles crisscross the stage in Neil Bartlett's story theatre-style adaptation.
A sweet, old-fashioned example of American playwriting and Southern storytelling.
This is exactly the type of show the marvelous Encores! series should be doing.
Three great artists demonstrate what theatre in its simplest form can do.
Theresa Gambacorta's Anna Magnani is technically admirable but short on soul.
Cryer and Ford's new musical tickles the spirit and touches the heart.
Michael Shurtleff, longtime Broadway caster and author of the best-selling acting book Audition, died in his Los Angeles home Sunday morning, Jan. 28. He was 86.
