8,501 stories from Backstage
This intimate musical adaptation of the Academy Award–winning movie of the same name makes for an offbeat but moving look at wounded lives redeemed by love and music.
In a sensuous and disturbing one-woman show that largely manages to avoid the perilous trap of self-reflectivity, Raïna von Waldenburg channels three stories that confront the taboo t…
Freezing weather, 5,800 extras and 300 horses were among the challenges handled by the director during the film's 63-day shoot.
Ethan Coen offers unrelieved anger and depression in three one-acts. Aside from a funny and fascinatingly bizarre scene in a Japanese restaurant, the playlets go nowhere.
This rewarding production offers five extremely well-acted short plays that are based on classic fairy tales and illuminate various aspects of the dark side of human nature.
James Presson's would-be comedy about television's sitcom industry has a split personality, strangely trying to mix satire with Henrik Ibsen without much success.
Baba Brinkman presents a study of how language has evolved from middle English to gangster rap while maintaining the essence of Chaucer's stories in a fresh way.
In this dark but vital one-man play from Enda Walsh, Cillian Murphy is a would-be savior living in an abandoned factory who descends from divine messenger to murderous madman.
Director Andrei Belgrader transforms Chekhov's tender comedy-drama of a displaced Russian family into a manic one-ring circus. Even sterling performances can't save it.
Performance artist John Fleck combines pop culture with autobiography in a bizarre "psychological burlesque" paying tribute to the legendary Judy Garland and his mother.
Marc Castle's straightforward comedy-drama about a group of gay male friends living in Manhattan from 1977 to 1987 feels like one of those interchangeable TLA Video gay indie releases.
Kaufman and Hart's satire of celebrity and self-reinvention still amuses, but Jim Brochu's blustery Sheridan Whiteside doesn't reverberate as fully as one would like.
Six short plays, presented over two separate evenings, offer a loosely connected and uneven glimpse at New York City.
Douglas Carter Beane may have two musicals simultaneously playing on Broadway but that isn't enough. "Neil Simon had four. Where are my other two?"
Playwright David Adjmi gives new meaning to the term "parlor trick" with this site-specifically staged 20-minute monologue, which the slyly insinuating Zoe Caldwell delivers superbly.
Samuel Brett Williams' new play offers the dynamics of destructive behavior in a work that is not so much over-the-top as up the next hillside.
Whatever made Bonnie and Clyde special is missing from this sentimental musical, as are sufficient character development, adequate dramatic thrust, and any kind of subtext.
Superbly directed and choreographed by Martha Clarke, with fascinating historically based text by Alfred Uhry, this is an enthralling dance-theater portrait of an 18th-century Shaker commu…
Every August, Lorna Luft calls her agents to remind them that it's time to start booking her into a year-end production of the stage version of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas."
Christine Antosca is something of a hero to the folks behind "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." She has now seen it 46 times — and counting. "It draws me back every single week I see it,…
Producers of the hit show said Tuesday that it has recouped its $11.4 million capitalization after just nine months.
Tony Earnshaw's concise drama features standout performances from its two actors and accomplishes everything that a play should in under an hour.
With this latest work, choreographer-designer Shen Wei seems to be moving—or at least looking—backward, embracing the past rather than evolving new approaches to the art of dan…
Cook, whose buttery soprano helped define show after show on Broadway, from "Candide" and "The Music Man" to various revivals of "Carousel," will be recognized for her contribution to Amer…
Jina Jay felt a special connection to "War Horse" before she even started casting it. Her family has always been a fan of English novelist Michael Morpurgo, and her children have read, and…
