Slipping - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Daniel Talbott's fine new drama takes familiar material and makes it engagingly fresh.

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

Lyric Is Waiting - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Michael Puzzo's new play is a pretentious misfire.

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

Burn the Floor - Reviewed by LISA JO SAGOLLA

This dazzling Latin and ballroom dance revue is brilliantly performed by a cast of international dancesport champions.

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

Dreyfus in Rehearsal - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

This capable revival of Garson Kanin's unsuccessful Broadway swansong can't undo the original verdict.

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

Click, Clack, Moo - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

Moooove over "Billy Elliot." There's a new strike-centered musical in town. Both sympathize with the workers and treat audiences like children, but at least "Click, Clack, Moo" has an excuse…

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

Summer Shorts 3: Series A - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

Now in its third year, this summer series of shorter works remains a pretty hit-or-miss affair, with a new offering from Neil LaBute the standout of Series A.

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

Wildflower - Reviewed by LEONARD JACOBS

Lila Rose Kaplan's "Wildflower" is a wilted, stilted comedy.

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

Etty - Reviewed by LEONARD JACOBS

There's nothing wrong with dramatizing untold or underexplored Holocaust stories, provided they deliver as much of a theatrical punch as the topic obviously deserves and requires. The proble…

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

Levittown - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Marc Palmieri's "Levittown" has some genuinely earned dramatic pyrotechnics, but when he wanders from kitchen-sink realism to soap operatics, not even the sterling work of director George De…

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

Girls Night: The Musical - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

When the whole audience joins in to chant "I Will Survive," you realize that "Girls Night: The Musical" is not just a silly bachelorette-flavored night on the town. It's a rally.

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

Babes in Toyland - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

The imaginative physical production for this deconstruction of Victor Herbert's classic operetta is a gift that keeps on giving. Ultimately, though, there just isn't enough edge to co-direct…

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

Trilogia della villeggiatura - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

Toni Servillo's production lifts Goldoni irrevocably out of the 18th century, revealing him as a daringly modern witness to the compromises of lovers' hearts.

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

Boris Godunov - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

For all the philosophical implications, Declan Donnellan's marvelous production has none of the weary marks of the cynic or the academic. This "Boris Godunov" crackles with ambition.

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

The Soap Myth - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

While it could use an editor, Jeff Cohen's new play has a powerful impact.

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

Life and Fate - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

Director Lev Dodin, who also adapted Vasily Grossman's novel, accomplishes something rare with his Maly Drama Theatre production of "Life and Fate": He simultaneously leaves the audience beh…

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

Peasant Opera - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

It is a privilege to see Béla Pintér and Company re-create its sophisticated, multilayered, and yet delightfully unpretentious little opera for a New York audience.

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

Passing Ceremonies - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Playwright Steve Willis has gotten some of the harder things right in his promising new play about an imagined meeting in the afterlife between Harlem Renaissance artist Richard Bruce Nugent…

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

The Boychick Affair: The Bar Mitzvah of Harry Boychick - Reviewed by LEONARD JACOBS

In a summertime starved for comedy, this show is a "brucha"-a blessing.

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

Art of Memory - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

"Art of Memory" is one of a growing number of pseudointellectual collaborative collages being presented as theater.

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

Reviewed by Les Spindle

This world premiere revue, saluting Tony-winning Broadway composer Cy Coleman (1929-2004), is a bona fide class act.

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

Death in Mozambique - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

It's difficult to write a play about the spirit of a nation, particularly one whose recent history is as sensational as Mozambique's.

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

Haunted House - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

Unable to decide on one plot, playwright Daniel Roberts has blithely tossed every idea that crossed his mind into the script.

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

Vanities - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

A Main Stem run for this just-okay, small-scale tuner would have most likely resulted in a short run. It's right where it belongs in a limited Off-Broadway noncommercial engagement.

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

Fight Girl Battle World - Reviewed by RON COHEN

They obviously don't have a George Lucas-type budget, but the creative team and cast of "Fight Girl Battle World," a frenetic takeoff on "Star Wars" and other epics of that ilk, make up for …

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

Writers Colony - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

That David Allyn's new hourlong play "Writers Colony" is the first offering of the 2009 Fresh Fruit Festival may just be happenstance. Even so, it certainly isn't a case of putting your best…

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