8,501 stories from Backstage
Adam Rapp weighs down his new play with excessive plotting, but there is much to admire in the Vineyard Theatre production, including strong performances for a cast of Off-Broadway veterans.
There are a few spots on this "Restoration," but Claudia Shear is so entertaining as actor and author that we can see past them.
Promising young author Polly Stenham's Olivier-nominated drama has plenty of power, but the final confrontation drags on too long. A fine cast keeps us interested, though.
Directed with nary a thought to comic rhythms by Adam Fitzgerald, Marisa Wegrzyn's play never feels like the satire of corporate life it's meant to be.
Touching revelations in Act Two redeem too much talk in Act One of this drama from Sebastian Barry.
Ellen Fairey's dark comedy has a lot going for it with finely observed characters and relationships, but she reaches for sitcom laughs a tad too often.
To label "Oliver Parker!" a black comedy about child molestation would be an unfair assessment, one that wouldn't be helped much by adding that it's also a very funny one.
Intellect and slapstick coexist uneasily and unevenly in this new play about modern architecture.
As long as Alan Brody's play remains a slice-of-life portrayal of four Jewish women living in a Brooklyn apartment building in 1944, it is luminous and affecting. Unfortunately, when it turn…
Sometimes modest can be marvelous, and such is the case with Chloë Moss' new two-hander, This Wide Night, getting its American premiere from Naked Angels after winning the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in England.
A father's death is melodic, colorful, and full of life in this original artist's unique if unevenly shaped cabaret.
Reprise's scintillatingly entertaining revisit, blessed with Josh Grisetti's luminous lead performance, offers a "how to" course in revitalizing vintage musicals.
Moira Buffini tries to elevate her WW II tale into something new by focusing on weighty issues of morality, throwing in touches of mysticism, and writing much of the script in blank verse. U…
Let's just get the superlatives out of the way. "Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play" is the most exciting, stimulating, and thrilling piece of theater to hit New York since "Angels in America."
This Shakespearian mash-up of "Romeo and Juliet" and "Hamlet" is pretty witty and most definitely gay.
A pair of 400-pound gorillas hovers over the puppet comedy "Stuffed and Unstrung," and neither is made of cloth with halved ping-pong balls for eyes.
Sheila Callaghan's play about a modern variant of the demigod Dionysus, set at the dawn of the Reagan era, is ambitious, but its rich language and potentially explosive plot are undermined b…
This multimedia trip through Einstein's life offers unique visuals but lacks coherency.
Susan Jeremy is a deft player of multiple roles, but her one-woman comedy about immigration law and same-sex marriage is short on detail and disconcertingly man-hating.
William Marchant's pleasing comedy about the introduction of the computer into office life gets an earnest if awkward revival from Retro Productions.
All the temptation and sin takes place offstage in this flaccid adaptation of C.S. Lewis' novel.
Even today, this sly satire of the medical profession, first presented in France in 1923, still seems astonishingly healthy.
The creators get it right more than they get it wrong in this funny and touching new musical.
John Caird and Stephen Schwartz's Biblical musical abounds in pomposity and uninspired storytelling, but the Astoria Performing Arts Center gives it a hell of a staging.
