Linda Eder: All of Me - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Linda Eder can put across a ballad with the best of them, but it would be nice if she mixed it up with more jazzy material.

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

Inner Voices: Solo Musicals - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Unfortunately, it's no go for the second edition of this innovative series.

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

Louisville Stimulus Package by David Sheward

Outlook hopeful for new plays at the 34th Annual Humana Festival

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

The Addams Family - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

This adaptation of Charles Addams' iconic cartoons is a musical all dressed up with no place to go.

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

Is There Life After High School? - Reviewed by MARC MILLER

The musical is a hazy collection of generic high school memories set to a soft-rock score of insufficient variety, but the production provides an exciting preview of some up-and-coming music…

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

Enjoy - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

Toshiki Okada has written a jewel of a play, a masterfully executed reminder of what we learn when we strip language to its most mundane and its most honest.

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

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman's wild rock satire offers a combination history lesson and political cartoon.

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

Terrence McNally's Nights at the Opera: Golden Age, The Lisbon Traviata, and Master Class - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Headed by a revelatory production of "The Lisbon Traviata," this Kennedy Center festival tribute to playwright Terrence McNally is an inspiring experience.

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

Havana Journal, 2004 - Reviewed by RON COHEN

Storytelling comes in second to the sense of political frustration that pervades this drama, but the playwright's palpable anger leavened with humor make for an engrossingly thoughtful work.

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

Limonade Tous les Jours - Reviewed by DAVID A. ROSENBERG

An older American and a much younger Parisian weigh and balance the consequences of love's past, present, and future in Charles Mee's loquacious play.

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

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

Keen Company kicks it up a notch with its production of Robert Anderson's family drama, navigating this moving if problematic play confidently into port.

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

Reviewed by David Sheward

Stanley Tucci's riotous staging of Ken Ludwig's farce provides an evening full of belly laughs, slapstick action, and projectiles aimed into the orchestra seats.

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

Love Is My Sin - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

At under an hour, this arrangement of 31 Shakespeare sonnets is like a little gem in a simple setting.

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

Red - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

There's barely a cliché left unturned in John Logan's two-hander about the late-in-life creative struggles of artist Mark Rothko, arriving direct from London's Donmar Warehouse.

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

Leslie Uggams: Uptown Downtown - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

The first word that leaps to mind when thinking of Leslie Uggams is "joy." The lady infuses everything she sings with a glowing appreciation of life, and she's at the very top of her form in…

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

John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

The pre-kindergarten set will be thoroughly enchanted by this clever puppet musical, and their guardians will find that its ingenious staging captures their hearts and imaginations too.

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

Rescue Me (A Postmodern Classic With Snacks) - Reviewed by PAUL MENARD

Despite its creative team of downtown stars, this disappointing Euripides adaptation falls victim to sitcom jokes and overused pseudo-postmodern conventions.

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

GBS - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

This family dramedy feels more like a radio play than a theatrical production.

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

The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret - Reviewed by THOMAS RIEMSCHNEIDER

This refreshingly enjoyable lampooning of gender stereotypes is nevertheless just a tad too tidy.

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

August Wilson's Women - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

Director Lorna Littleway's adaptation of scenes showcasing the strength of August Wilson's women has polish and intelligence.

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

The Diary of a Teenage Girl - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

This is a brave portrait, at once challenging and refreshing, of a young girl overcome by desire and circumstance.

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

Hello, My Name Is Billy - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

This musical about drugs and sex rocks, even as Billy hits rock bottom.

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

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

Adapter Matt Pelfrey's efficient script is short on character, and director Joe Tantalo's high-intensity production favors style over substance.

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

Reviewed by David A. Rosenberg

Size matters to five men fighting not to be defined by their willies in this funny, touching, if a bit predictable work.

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

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

Kia Corthron's new play is positively overflowing with themes, styles, stories, and politics, drowning whatever it is that she wants to say in this maddening, disjointed, overly elliptical w…

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