Dog and Wolf - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

A wheelchair-bound immigration lawyer improbably follows a client to Eastern Europe for truth, love, or both in this earnest blend of poetry and preachiness.

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

Happy Now - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Despite some solid moments, Lucinda Coxon's comedy-drama about a crazed modern woman attempting to balance family, sex, career, and fear of mortality is as confused as its heroine.

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

Fêtes de la Nuit - Reviewed by MITCH MONTGOMERY

This gleeful hodgepodge of life in Paris, complete with silliness, seduction, and sign language, is nevertheless largely devoid of romance.

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

Enemy of the People - Reviewed by RON COHEN

The production is somewhat limp, but Ibsen's ire and ideas still register with muscle in a knowing adaptation.

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

Tosca e le altre due (Tosca and the Two Downstairs) - Reviewed by LISA JO SAGOLLA

This well-tuned U.S. premiere of Italian playwright Franca Valeri's peppery, two-character comedy, inspired by Puccini's "Tosca," is enormously pleasing.

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

The Enchanted Pig - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

An intergalactic adventure teaches a plucky princess about the true meaning of love in this impressively scored and imaginatively staged opera.

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

Betty Buckley: For the Love of Broadway - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

The Tony-winning actor-singer does Broadway her way in a dazzling kaleidoscope of emotions and vocal impressions.

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

Fanny (in Concert) - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

As a work of art, "Fanny" aspires more than it succeeds, despite arresting moments. The wan Encores! concert version manages neither.

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

THE JACKIE LOOK reviewed by Jason Fitzgerald

Karen Finley brings Jackie Kennedy Onassis back to life, with every quality intact except the most important: her talent for public intimacy.

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

NATION reviewed by David Sheward

The National Theatre of Great Britain's series of broadcasts to movie theaters continues with a sprawling fantasy that will enchant both adults and children.

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

TRIFLES reviewed by David Sheward

Brooke O'Harra's production for the Obie-winning Theatre of a Two-headed Calf brings this rarely seen piece off the library shelf and to vital life.

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

PHANTOM KILLER reviewed by Clifford Lee Johnson III

This misbegotten thriller from Abingdon Theatre Company delivers a body blow to an ailing genre thanks to hokey dialogue and contrived plotting.

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

Time Stands Still - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

In Donald Margulies' new drama, Laura Linney proves yet again she's one of our finest actors.

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

Reviewed by David Sheward

Sam Shepard pens a darkly poetic American version of Waiting for Godot.

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

Tea With Chachaji - Reviewed by CLIFFORD LEE JOHNSON III

"Tea With Chachaji," the latest production from Making Books Sing, achieves the triple crown of family theater: a worthy message effectively presented in an entertaining manner.

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

Venus in Fur - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

This two-hander on sex and power begins predictably but holds more than a few surprises, and Nina Arianda is an actor to be watched.

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

As You Like It - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

The Bridge Project begins its second season at BAM with a lyrical and inventive production of one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies.

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

The Orphans' Home Cycle: Part Three--The Story of a Marriage - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Now that the end of the cycle has been reached, I'm happy to say that what I hoped for after seeing Part One is true: Foote's final gift to the stage is glorious, an essential American maste…

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

A Song at Twilight - Reviewed by Dany Margolies

One wonders why this gem of a Noël Coward play has been hidden from West Coast audiences until now.

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

The Task - Reviewed by MITCH MONTGOMERY

A raunchy zeal for revolution rescues this otherwise overloaded re-evaluation of German avant-garde.

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

A View From the Bridge - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

Liev Schreiber and a brilliant cast bring new life to this oft-produced Arthur Miller tragedy, staged with stunning simplicity by Gregory Mosher.

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

You May Be Splendid - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

A strikingly original comedy about siblings who discover late-night TV isn't all Johnny Carson and genial guests.

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

Il Mondo Della Luna - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

One of the most inspired concepts in recent memory, Gotham Chamber Opera's incarnation of Joseph Haydn's "Il Mondo Della Luna" ("The World on the Moon"), staged by Diane Paulus in the Hayden…

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

Present Laughter - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Noël Coward's comic warhorse is hyped and coarsened, as if director Nicholas Martin doesn't trust American audiences to get Coward's very English humor.

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

The Man in Room 306 - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

This earnest, nicely staged attempt at humanizing an iconic figure results in perhaps unintentional sniping at the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and adds little insight into it.

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