8,501 stories from Backstage
The 37-year-old actor, best known for the TV series "ER" and the film "8 Mile," is discovering that audiences aren't silent while watching him in "Stick Fly," Lydia R. Diamond's complex dr…
Victor Kaufold's family drama features unsympathetic characters, and though the actors attempt to fill out the roles, the choppy plot lacks believable motivation and ultimately falls flat.
Named after an uncommon sexual practice, this surrealist detective story about the murder of a famous porn star explores notions of power, renegade sexuality, and love.
Daniel Kitson's impeccably self-aware and comic telling of two intersecting tales seems quotidian yet represents a radical paradigm shift in how we view life itself.
Although there’s an abundance of straightforward narration, this Spanish-language production is smartly written and details in absorbing fashion the lives of four Argentineans over a…
This new one-person show about genetics and biology is also a darkly funny, hyper-theatrical exploration of the meaning of theater that is as smart as it is riveting.
This riveting production of a disturbingly dirty redrafting of Strindberg's "Miss Julie" derives its lifeblood from D.J. Mendel's tour-de-force turn as a gritty blue-collar worker.
This rock-concert adaptation in Polish of an abstract two-character French play is cool in a not very fresh way, despite the fine performances of Wojciech Niemczyk and Tomasz Nosinski.
Ken Simon's adaptation of Evelyn Piper's novel is an awkward mix of incompatible media, a long evening even at a little more than an hour.
Perhaps it seems unexpected for Beau Bridges to be tackling a Broadway musical at this stage of his career, but for him it's the logical next step.
Co-writer and director Hideki Noda illustrates his misogynistic belief in man's inherent unkindness to man in this unsettling but arresting play of feverish theatricality and escalating gr…
In this quirky and surprisingly funny play, Japanese writer-director Toshiki Okada portrays the quiet malaise of his country's young office workers caught in an economic downturn.
This haunting collaboration between Croatian performance artists and former members of Goat Island is a first-rate love song to what we can't touch—in each other, in our art, and in …
A cardboard puppet questions his existence in this screamingly funny and achingly sad Beckettian piece from Britain's Blind Summit Theatre that combines whimsy with pathos.
Intellectual giant Susan Sontag gets the solo treatment from actor-adapter Moe Angelos and director Marianne Weems. An intense performance and imaginative video design partially rescue a s…
This "live concept album" based on Judith Rossner's bestselling novel has a few effective moments but fails to evoke pathos for its desperate heroine.
This extravagant presentation of an old Chinese play told through Chinese folk dance has more in common with Western story-ballet spectaculars than with traditional Chinese opera forms.
Art and politics and ancient and contemporary culture collide in this jagged and ultimately moving collage about the shooting of a young boy in Athens.
Catherine Trieschmann's new three-person drama hides behind a smokescreen of talk about the conflict between science and religion and suffers from blankly written characters far too remini…
Nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in "The Help" and an Independent Spirit Award for "Take Shelter," the Juilliard-trained actress will star in a Broadway revival of the Henry James…
"I loved this role!" Patti Murin squeals with delight. "I knew that everyone would love the show like I loved the show... it's snappy, it's witty, it's current, I mean it's great."
The "Glee" star took to Twitter hours before his Broadway debut in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," while receiving well wishes from co-stars and friends in Hollywood.
The Broadway League reported Tuesday that "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" took in a whopping $2,941,790 over nine performances last week, which is the highest single-week gross of any show…
Producers said Tuesday that they're pulling the plug on the Douglas Carter Beane-written comedy, and its last performance will be Sunday.
As 2012 commences, Back Stage's co–head critics in New York, David Sheward and Erik Haagensen, continue their tradition of eschewing a list of the top 10 shows of the past year in fa…
