8,501 stories from Backstage
Playwright Eliza Clark takes a seeming ordinary fast-food restaurant and three normal kids and turns out a taut and scary examination of the effects of terrorism.
How do you solve a problem like a stage adaptation of Fassbinder's 'The Marriage of Maria Braun?' With an elegant, darkly comic production.
Inspired by true events, this heartbreaking tale of the decline of the castrati in late-19th-century Rome is beautifully staged and passionately performed, though hampered by some one-dimens…
Peter Nichols' latest play, "Lingua Franca," is a deceptively sedate, neo-Chekhovian character study of misfit language teachers at a private school in mid-1950s Florence, Italy.
The Amoralists use this early Adam Rapp play to strike a blow against sclerotic modes of presentation and received attitudes in the minds of audiences and critics. I had a blast.
This two-person adaptation of Henry James' classic ghost story too often tells the audience to be scared rather than quietly allowing fear to take over.
Moving indoors to the Broadhurst after a summer's run outdoors in Central Park has darkened and deepened this rich production. Al Pacino and Lily Rabe are two heavyweights at the top of thei…
This tale of an endangered Russian journalist and her American husband seeking refuge in rural New York with two of his former close friends, now married, never coheres.
Like a batch of oversugared Christmas cookies, this adaptation of the 2003 film hit is too sweet. The professional cast does its best to overcome the deficiencies of this flimsy holiday card.
Craig Wright’s explosively funny play is 100 minutes of high-octane bliss, with a tour de force turn from Michael Shannon blazing at its center.
Two shirtless hunks, four fabulous drag queens, and 90 minutes of high-camp comedy. What more could you want?
Rather than an updating of John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" for the 21st century, Bethany Larsen's play comes off more like a rejected spec script for the short-lived TV series "Dirty S…
This 45-minute piece is more about the fine art of puppetry than it is revealing of Marlene Dietrich's last years or nostalgic about her glamorous life.
"Notes From Underground" is a harrowing evening of theater that will appeal to those who delight in profound but difficult thought and exhaustive emotional venting.
This stylish stage version of Kurosawa's film, which adapted a Shakespearean tragedy, gains much gravitas in the multiple translations.
Paul Reubens brings his red-bow-tied man-boy to Broadway for an evening of kiddie nostalgia and double entendres. But if you are not a fan, you probably won't be converted.
Oscar winner sings title track from upcoming film 'Country Strong.'
John Osborne and Anthony Creighton's lost play is unquestionably fascinating as a historical artifact. Unfortunately, it plays like an episode of "The Donna Reed Show" on crack.
Performer Todd Robbins serves up some chills, a few laughs, a little macabre history, and several incredible illusions in this contemporary riff on midnight spook shows.
Amy Herzog's play may not break new ground, but it crackles with intelligence and is laced with welcome wit. I was thoroughly captivated throughout.
Comedian Chris Rock will make his Broadway debut in a new play about love and fidelity with an X-rated title.
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