King John - Reviewed by RON COHEN

While the play is not one of Shakespeare's greatest hits, it takes shape in this production as a lively and involving epic with present-day relevance.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Five Days in March - Reviewed by MITCH MONTGOMERY

This world premiere English translation of an award-winning Japanese play is almost too hip for its own good.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Through the Night - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

An original yet recognizable community in contemporary Harlem comes blazingly alive in this one-person but multicharacter show by writer-performer Daniel Beaty.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Girls Night: The Musical - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

When the whole audience joins in to chant "I Will Survive," you realize that "Girls Night: The Musical" is not just a silly bachelorette-flavored night on the town. It's a rally.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

White's Lies - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

An ensemble of indefatigable A-list troupers works valiantly-and often quite successfully-to create hilarity in this silly modern-day farce.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Forest - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Classic Stage Company gets lost in the 'Forest' with an uneven production of Alexander Ostrovsky's rarely performed 1870 comedy.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

De Novo - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

Literalism trumps naturalism in this heartfelt but ultimately wearisome docudrama about a troubled Guatemalan teenager who enters the U.S. illegally.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Family Week - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Director Jonathan Demme is stuck in cinema mode for his theatrical debut, and Beth Henley's 75-minute script feels like a first draft.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Milk - Reviewed by NICOLE VILLENEUVE

In "Milk," Emily DeVoti examines what we lose when we choose to homogenize both our milk and, in a bit of a metaphorical stretch, our lifestyles.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Song for a Future Generation - Reviewed by THOMAS RIEMSCHNEIDER

For a prime example of the sci-fi spectacle dance-party play genre, look to the Management and Horse Trade Theater Group's production of Joe Tracz's "Song for a Future Generation."

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

Kate Moira Ryan's standup writing roots show through in this scattershot attempt at screwball comedy.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

Original and surprising, Anton Dudley's intelligent drama about young people searching for their place in the world is an unmitigated, invigorating joy.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The Love List - Reviewed by THOMAS RIEMSCHNEIDER

My Hungarian relatives always told me to stay away from gypsy matchmakers. Apparently, neither Norm Foster, playwright of "The Love List," nor Boo-Arts, who is currently presenting it, ever …

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Dinner at Grandma's - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

If this two-and-a-half-hour piece relates to your specific experience of growing up, you will enjoy its music, humor, and pathos of recognition; if not, the holes in the patchwork quilt may …

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

Though Bathsheba Doran's writing is sharp enough to sustain interest from moment to moment, in the end this compact 75-minute work (including intermission) seems incomplete, as if it wants s…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by David Sheward

Sherie Rene Scott wraps up the 2009-10 Broadway season and saves Roundabout's schedule with a moving and wry self-examination.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

<cite>The Last Supper</cite>, reviewed by Clifford Lee Johnson III

If you had the chance to kill Hitler or Stalin when they were young men, would you have taken it?" That's the hypothetical question at the heart of The Last Supper, the latest production from Rising Sun Performance Company. Unfortunately, the answer provided by Dan Rosen's play is confused.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by David Sheward

Despite two relatively recent Off-Broadway productions of the play, Linda Lavin breathes new life into Donald Margulies' two-hander about a veteran writer and her protégé.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

bobrauschenbergamerica, reviewed by Mitch Montgomery

This mirthful pastiche of down-home flag-waving comes by way of Anne Bogart and Robert Rauschenberg.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

<cite>The Maids</cite>, reviewed by Ron Cohen

French playwright Jean Genet never aimed to make his audiences feel comfortable, and this production carries out his intentions admirably.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

<cite>The Vigil or the Guided Cradle</cite>, reviewed by Mitch Montgomery

Crystal Skillman has written a formidable rumination on torture that spans two time periods.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

<cite>End of the Road</cite>, reviewed by Ronni Reich

Maybe it's not so surprising that the Young@Heart Chorus' End of the Road could make you laugh or cry. But it can also make a full crowd dance.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

Lucy Prebble's new play is like a big, shiny, beautifully wrapped package that once eagerly ripped opened reveals a horde of Styrofoam peanuts through which you search vainly for the anticip…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Fences - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Denzel Washington is magnificent in the role indelibly created by James Earl Jones, and the astonishing Viola Davis matches him every step of the way. Director Kenny Leon delivers a deeply m…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Gin & "It" - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

Director Reid Farrington's latest video-theater piece is as entertaining and enchanting as a murder mystery of Hitchcockian standards.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑