8,501 stories from Backstage
A GPS device turns out not just to be aggressively helpful but also clairvoyant in Eddie Antar's clever, cautionary comedy about our tech-dependent era.
This stream-of-consciousness opera employs elegant slide projections and dissonant live music to coax a mother's life story out of her adult children.
Maya Macdonald has crafted a heartbreakingly real examination of the quarter-life crisis, when escape—through substances, jokes, silence—feels like the only option.
This is a powerful one-act contemporary dance piece about Japanese businessmen to which its choreographer, Takehiro Ueyama, unfortunately has added a cumbersome 30-minute second half.
The WorkShop Theater Company is reviving its New York Innovative Theatre Award-winning production of Eddie Antar's "The Navigator," beginning Feb. 11.
Punctuated by generic pop songs by Tony Biancosino, Lia Romeo's evening of short plays feels like a romantic fling. It's fun for a while, but when it's over you're left feeling empty.
Adapter-director James Lapine's brilliant staging of this formerly problematic musical is quite simply one of the finest evenings of musical theater I have encountered. This "Merrily" is m…
Fordham University and the Asian American Performers Action Coalition will present "RepresentAsian: The Changing Face of New York Theater" on Feb. 13 at 7 p.m.
The Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx announced in January the launch of an initiative that allows artists of all disciplines to perform creative services to receive he…
Judy Garland in "A Star Is Born" never fails to exhilarate me and leave me shattered at the end of the film. It seems to be the pinnacle of her career and shows absolutely every facet of her…
Melanie Lockyer is casting teen and adult actors for a developmental workshop of "Because of Winn-Dixie." Equity principal auditions will be held Friday, February 17 in New York City.
Amy Sherman-Palladino's "Bunheads" joins "Baby Daddy" as pilots receiving series orders from the youth-skewing cable network this year.
Marius von Mayenburg's sharp satire on the nature of identity and the inescapable human bent for conformity is a wicked piece of japery that elegantly makes its points in one breezy hour.
Director Elizabeth Lucas has tried to turn Adam Guettel's 1998 song cycle into a musical by adding a narrative, but her ambitious and undeniably inventive attempt is not theatrically satis…
This dramatization of nine short stories by Anton Chekhov has fluid staging, aptly defined performances, handsome period costumes, and evocative music, but soul is in short supply.
Playwright Kate Fodor mixes strong dosages of satire and pathos in this piercing new comedy about our overmedicated society. It's the perfect prescription for an anemic theater season.
You'll get more laughs by watching clips from classic TV sitcoms on YouTube than you will from 90 minutes of misery at Frank Strausser's flimsy excuse for a play.
Zulema Clares' masterful portrayal of a woman who puts her family ahead of her art breathes life into Karen Zacarías' moving but predictable play about painters living in a Mexican de…
Joe Lauinger's perfectly fine realistic one-act play is undercut by tacking on a slapdash absurdist second act, which seems as if it was written by a different playwright.
This production of a rarely presented Arthur Schnitzler play is dogged by an unwieldy translation and a large, uneven cast but features a title performance of genuine distinction.
Taking a note from Vidal's 1960 drama about a presidential convention, the event was held like a press conference with cast member Donna Hanover, a reporter and TV host as well as an actor…
A spoof of the shady side of college admissions, D.B. Gilles' new play offers moments of fun that unfortunately often stretch into periods of tedium.
John Osborne's 1956 play, with its famous angry-young-man protagonist, is unquestionably a landmark work, having upended the dominance of genteel English drawing-room drama. That doesn't n…
John Osborne's 1956 play, with its famous angry-young-man protagonist, is unquestionably a landmark work, having upended the dominance of genteel English drawing-room drama. That doesn't n…
This revival of a short-lived 1974 revue derived from the absurdist oeuvre of Eugene Ionesco provides a few giggles but lacks the danger of the author's best works.
