Elephant - Reviewed by RON COHEN

The elephant puppets steal the show, but the invigorating dancing and chanting of the human characters are applause-worthy as well.

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

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

Inappropriate stars and hokey direction pretty much do in this revival of pop legend Burt Bacharach's only foray into musical theater.

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

The Habit of Art - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

The National Theatre concludes its pilot season of broadcasts to movie theaters with a hilarious, bracing, and multileveled rumination on the creative process.

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

Sondheim on Sondheim - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

James Lapine's new musical revue engages and entrances as much through Stephen Sondheim's chatty, intimate videotaped patter as through the top-drawer performances of the gifted eight-person…

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

The Aliens - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Annie Baker's weirdly endearing play offers a moving portrait of two slackers loitering outside a Vermont coffee shop and the awkward teenager who yearns to join them. Dane DeHaan delivers a…

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

This Side of Paradise - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

This inert tuner about the lives of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald has some occasionally attractive (if dramatically unsuccessful) music, but the rest of the show is a mess.

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

Creditors - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Alan Rickman stages a pitched and powerful three-way battle for dominance in this rarely performed August Strindberg work.

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

Reviewed by David Sheward

Though the book is skeletal, this loud and angry rock opera from Green Day breaks all the Broadway rules to create a moving portrait of rebels without causes and no place to go.

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

Post Modern Living - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

Richard Sheinmel's new work is a series of endearing but slight domestic tales buoyed by the talent of a leading lady.

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

Engaging Shaw - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

The play, about George Bernard Shaw, is smart and witty, but the production comes apart under close scrutiny.

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

My Trip Down the Pink Carpet - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

In this hilarious show, Leslie Jordan serves up anecdotes about his career in Hollywood while spinning a touching tale of how he came to accept himself as a gay man.

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

<cite>The Really Big Once</cite>, reviewed by Erik Haagensen

This avant-garde exploration of the Tennessee Williams–Elia Kazan collaboration on the creation of the 1953 play Camino Real is full of passion and love.

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

<cite>Closer Than Ever</cite>, reviewed by Marc Miller

The years melt away in this fine 20th-anniversary production of the classic Maltby-Shire musical revue

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Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

The Pearl Theatre Company's respectful production of Frank D. Gilroy's classic play is only fitfully powerful.

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

Reviewed by David Sheward

Terry Johnson's ingenious staging and Douglas Hodge's Olivier Award-winning star turn fully justify a Broadway revival, even though we recently had another.

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

The 39 Steps - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

"The 39 Steps" remains a crowd pleaser, with delights for both the movie-trivia fanatic and general audiences.

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

666 - Reviewed by TOM PENKETH

Who'd have thought that a show about four men in prison getting beaten, raped, electrocuted, hung, and guillotined would be so hilarious? The Madrid-based troupe Yllana obviously did.

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

Langston in Harlem - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Urban Stages has itself a fresh, original winner in "Langston in Harlem," a new musical based on the poetry and life of Langston Hughes.

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

Bloodsong of Love - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

Spirited performances and some toe-tapping tunes, along with clever staging and design, are not enough to disguise the repetitive excesses of this promising tuner parodying spaghetti western…

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

Stop the World--I Want to Get Off (in Concert) - Reviewed by NICOLE VILLENEUVE

Musicals Tonight! revives a classic musical that presents life as a circus act. Though the show is high on revelry, it's low on substance.

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

On the Faultlines - Reviewed by THOMAS RIEMSCHNEIDER

Watching "On the Faultlines," a new offering from the brand-new Ruffled Feathers theater company, one can't help but think: "It all happens so fast."

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

Phoenix - Reviewed by CLIFFORD LEE JOHNSON III

An appealing cast, sure-handed direction, and a crisp script combine to make "Phoenix," the latest production by the Barrow Group Theatre Company, an evening of tasty and easily digestible t…

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Reviewed by David Sheward

There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in Broadway's latest jukebox musical, but the book ain't nothin' but a hound dog.

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

The Realm - Reviewed by MITCH MONTGOMERY

In the subterranean world of "The Realm," playwright Sarah Myers attempts to engage the lives and deaths of words and hearts both figuratively and literally.

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

Anyone Can Whistle (in Concert) - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

"Anyone Can Whistle" is the perfect show for the Encores! concert series: an oddity that hasn't got a chance for a commercial revival but contains brilliant elements deserving of a second lo…

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