8,501 stories from Backstage
If you think there's no fresh way left to tell a gay coming-out tale, then you haven't seen Harrison David Rivers' exhilarating new play.
Teresa Deevy's long-lost play is a worthy addition to Ireland's dramatic literature and shows Deevy to have had a singular, perceptive ear for the dialogue of ordinary people.
As cleverly directed by Jesca Prudencio and acted by a knowing cast, Matt Owen's play has clarity issues but also distinct possibilities.
Despite a quintet of spirited performances, this rambling 1993 comedy from the Five Lesbian Brothers is a decidedly wan excursion into camp.
Though it's a shallow work, a series of short scenes that doesn't get very far and raises more questions than it knows what to do with, writer-director Chad Beckim's play is sweet-natured.
With enough material for a dozen plays, John Pollono's drama is an Italian stew, with moments both touching and volatile.
Writer-performer Ben Whiting has woven his skillful illusions into a one-man performance that celebrates the ineffable connection between artist and audience and between mentor and prot&eacu…
Though the story is slight and sometimes a bit predictable, the talents of the terrific cast make Kate Hewlett's new play a pleasure to see.
In a masterful display of acting and storytelling, Anna Khaja rivets the audience to its seats with her depiction of the events leading up to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former …
Though adapter-performer Brian Foyster's work in the one-man stage adaptation of John Knowles' 1960 novel is never less than intelligent and always tasteful, the end result diminishes its so…
Though it flirts with grown-up irreverence, the lively tuner is a juvenile romp that should appeal to fans of television cartoons.
Although it's not always a smooth blend, this exploration of identity, culture, and race is funny, introspective, and will appeal to the young at heart.
There's nothing challenging in this occasionally funny but mostly silly mockery of Christian evangelists.
The writing of this new musical spoof is sharp and satirical, the direction crisp, the choreography inventive, and the cast terrific.
To say this musical is over the top is an understatement, but director-choreographer Hinton Battle has a lot of fun with the material.
Burning in China is a brisk and poetic retelling of playwright Gary Moore's experiences as an English teacher in Shanghai in the run-up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Lauren Olson's one-woman show is a display of well-executed self-therapy.
Actor and first-time playwright Alex Giacin's clichéd tale offers no new insights into the emotional cost of war.
tan Richardson's new play, based on the true story of a Harvard witch hunt undertaken against a group of gay students (and one tutor) in the spring of 1920, packs quite a punch.
For the most part, Joe Salvatore's "verbatim interview play" about open relationships among gay men is engrossing and illuminating.
Writer-actor Steven Fales' second installment of his "Mormon Trilogy" left me wondering if this unquestionably interesting story of growing up a gay Mormon really needs three shows to tell i…
Composer-librettist David Chesky takes no prisoners as he goes after the state of American art and culture with a rapier in his largely delightful satiric comic opera.
Anna Fishbeyn says little about mothers and sexuality that we haven't heard before, but she speaks with such gusto, wisdom, and sexual frankness that we're content to stop and hear it again.
Although actor and playwright David Rhodes takes on several different identities in his one-man show "Rites of Privacy," by far the most compelling personality he presents is his own.
Writer-director Tim Aumiller's bare-bones staging of his new play is only partly successful.
