Reviewed by Robert Windeler

While playwright and actor may know their Dylan Thomas and Welsh heritage, fans of the poet will learn little, and fans of the play may find it less satisfying than in previous productions.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by David Sheward

David Mamet's new play has plenty of sharp observation on the state of race relations in contemporary America, but it's more a political tract than a compelling drama.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

She Like Girls - Reviewed by NICOLE VILLENEUVE

Chisa Hutchinson crafts an inner-city world full of energy-both joyful and destructive-which is bogged down by problematic pacing.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Light in the Dark: Chekhov Shorts - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

Two graceful song-and-dance lagniappes of international culture can't compensate for an underconceived bill of two overly familiar Chekhov shorts.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Santa Claus Is Coming Out - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Writer-performer Jeffrey Solomon has his heart in the right place, but his play is a curiously muted affair.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Orpheus X - Reviewed by DAVID A. ROSENBERG

Upending and contemporizing a famous Greek myth, Rinde Eckert's latest work is an intellectually disturbing piece that riffs on art, love, life, death, and other vital subjects.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Sex Crimes Cabaret - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

L. Gabrielle Penabaz manages what so many teachers and artists before her have failed to do: make sex education fun and funny, smart and scary, even a little bit sexy.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Sister's Christmas Catechism - Reviewed by PAUL MENARD

One might suspect that any grown adult who would willfully subject himself to the authoritarianism of a parochial-school classroom is earning points toward saintly martyrdom.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Though respectful and thoughtful, Rebecca Gilman's dramatization of Carson McCullers' breathtaking debut novel fails to set the heart of this "Hunter" fully beating.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

This - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Playwright Melissa James Gibson starts with a deceptively simple parlor game and builds it into an insightful study of five New York friends.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A Streetcar Named Desire - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Director Liv Ullmann boldly re-imagines this classic with stunning success, with Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton mesmerizing as Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Meg's New Friend - Reviewed by KARL LEVETT

Before the satisfactory fade-out is reached in this topical comedy, there are some well-worn paths about modern relationships to be trod.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

<cite>American Treasure</cite>, reviewed by Jason Fitzgerald

Sadly, whatever is brilliant about Julia Jarcho's newest play is unrecoverable beneath mazelike dialogue and the production's misfired pacing and film-noir parody.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by David Sheward

Playwright-director Joe Marshall throws in everything but the kitchen sink in his zany mess of a holiday play.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by Karl Levett

For the holiday season, the Metropolitan Playhouse is giving New York a present from the past: an 1867 melodrama alive with action and shining with gentle humor.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Biography - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

S.N. Behrman's play was called "adult," "mature," "provocative," "intelligent," and "sinewy" by the New York critics at its premiere, and it's still all of that more than 75 years later.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Irving Berlin's White Christmas - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Evergreen Berlin tunes and reliable Randy Skinner choreography are the brightest ornaments, but not everything on this holiday tree is worth celebrating.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Right Out of the Gate By Dany Margolies

Troian Bellisario goes from student to working actor in two not-so-easy steps.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Starry Messenger - Reviewed by David Sheward

Matthew Broderick repeats his performance from last season's "The Philanthropist," as another dull midlevel academic with a stalled career, in Kenneth Lonergan's disappointing new play.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Fela! - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Director-choreographer Bill T. Jones has improved this dynamic political musical for a transfer to the Main Stem. But will it survive on star-driven Broadway?

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Saycon Sengbloh Takes the Stairs By Alexis Brown

Sandra Isidore enters the Eugene O'Neill Theatre stage atop a staircase, ready to inspire Fela Kuti to stand against the military dictatorship in Lagos, Nigeria.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by Adam R. Perlman

When did Classic Stage Company get into the bloated, mindboggling miniseries business?

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

Jim Brochu not only creates an astonishing physical resemblance to Zero Mostel, capturing his distinctive body language and vocal patterns, Brochu goes deep under the skin to reveal the man'…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by David Sheward

This national tour production of the 1981 hit girl-group musical is far from a knockoff of the original and is a dream come true.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

My Wonderful Day - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Though it's centered on the timeworn cliché of the wise innocent child, Alan Ayckbourn's "My Wonderful Day" is largely entertaining.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑