8,501 stories from Backstage
Throughout Tings Dey Happen, Dan Hoyle's panoramic solo chronicle of his journey to Nigeria as a Fulbright scholar, you can't mistake his gifts as a performer. Unfortunately, Hoyle's acting …
Author Michael Hollinger and director Terrence J. Nolen manage to draw us into the cloistered realm of classical musicians and keep us enthralled until a final climax that crackles through t…
Jay O. Sanders gets mighty heated on the topic of defining an actor's success. "Is success about achieving recognition or greatness?" he asks.
McKinley is as irresistible as the fine Disney ditties he purveys.
Le Wilhelm's plodding Southern-fried play displays all the subtlety of Foghorn Leghorn on his eighth julep.
Only one of the four short plays in the Open Book's summer festival scores: Leslie Lyles' "Rain, Heavy at Times."
As the premiere Spanish-language theatre company in New York, Repertorio Español caters to a niche audience. Its production of "Boxcar," however, proves that the Repertorio's drama, w…
Israeli playwright Ilan Hatsor has written a devastating drama about three Palestinian brothers caught up in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
After a couple of scenes that struggle to establish characters and tone, Josh Tobiessen's new comedy settles into a blissful groove of mile-a-minute gags with a healthy laugh-out-loud quotie…
The Living Room Theatre's "Tyrannos Rex," a reinvention of the Oedipus tale, takes the classic back to insipid infancy.
In Betty Shamieh's new play, four excellent actors recount moving, enlightening stories in language by turns haunting and funny. As theatre, that's pretty good.
"My First Time" is probably the first play based on a website. Appropriately enough, the result is like spending an hour and a half surfing the net, randomly ricocheting from site to site. T…
The ruggedly handsome leading man walks a fascinating line at the Metropolitan Room in his cabaret debut.
33 to Nothing follows the recent trend of other pop pseudo-theatre pieces: If you can't get anyone to come to your concerts and pay money to hear your songs, then the next best thing is to w…
Playwright Padraic Lillis sets up intriguing dramatic possibilities, and director Giovanna Sardelli delivers an efficient and powerful production, eliciting honest and heartfelt performances…
The Impetuous Theater Group isn't staging its evening of 10-minute plays in a traditional setting. Instead of a dark, enclosed space, the audience lounges in padded deck chairs beside a roof…
In the age of television and the Internet, theatre has to find increasingly audacious ways to snag the public's attention.
Only a passing interest in Sammy Cahn - because he wrote for Carrico's idol, Frank Sinatra - seems to have instigated this cursory review of the lyricist's illustrious and often witty oeuvre…
Working with a young cast culled predominantly from current City College students in this production from Harlem Repertory Theatre, director-choreographer Keith Lee Grant does about as well …
Writer Ted Minos, who also serves as the director and producer, transforms the typically somber tale into a lighthearted one, similar in feel to the Shakespearian comedies that the Inwood Sh…
With its Off-Off Broadway revival of Sin, Wendy MacLeod's 1994 comically cautionary tale, Bohemian Archeology proves that even when sin isn't original, it can still be fun.
The Woodshed Collective, in its production of John Logan's Never the Sinner, attempts to transform its audience into the jury that never was.
The minimal book by Paul Andrew Perez and Mersey-inflected score by George Griggs strike a note of cheerful inanity that makes Bye Bye Birdie look like a proposition from Wittgenstein. The r…
In Dooley's expressive hands, the play not only pays tribute to a remarkable figure but to the towering, blank indifference of nature.
