8,501 stories from Backstage
Under David Galligan's incisive direction, Tyne Daly delivers just over an hour's worth of sheer delight at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency.
If you prefer a play that bubbles with coherent ideas, rollicks with an abundance of fun, or just makes sense, avoid the Brick Theater this January.
It's best to avoid this weakly plotted and written play about the cost of patriotism and familial loyalty.
Set in 1950 Texas, this play might have worked if conceived as a screwball comedy, but as written it's an earnest, maladroit, nearly risible drama.
This irritatingly confused retelling of the Minotaur myth aims high but comes nowhere close to success.
Director Peter Dobbins might have done himself and his ensemble of more than a dozen actors a favor by not cutting the work down to a maddeningly hard-to-follow three hours.
Playwright Shawn Nacol squanders a promising premise in this terrifically performed but underwhelming play about two feature-film animators.
Will Power's flawed but fascinating new play about Stepin Fetchit and Muhammad Ali is a bracing look at the politics of identity and reconciling public and private personas featuring five te…
I left Nicholas A. Linnehan's new play with the suspicion that its story is either highly autobiographical or that of someone very dear to the playwright. He's still entirely too close to hi…
In this satire of melodramas popular during the time of its premiere (1887), W.S. Gilbert's jibes and quips are dated, and too much of Arthur Sullivan's music lacks the bounce found in abund…
This gimmick-free Korean War melodrama is somewhat lacking in telling detail but well-acted and timeless in its close-ups of familial conflict.
The Bard's mad king is nowhere to be found, but his detached children offer many insights in this brave revision.
Writer-director Jonathan Leaf's intriguing but unfocused "Sexual Healing" seems to be a thinly veiled dramatization of the lives and work of pioneering sex researchers William Masters and Vi…
The show supplements the classic Greek tragedy with a combination of traditional Korean performance techniques, but the decision to split the heroine between two actors robs the famous sorce…
"Spine tingling" is an adjective I rarely use when describing an evening of theatre, sadly, but as the lights rose on Here's production of "Aunt Leaf,"I felt genuine chills.
Rachel Axler's moral fable wants to be a dark comedy, but this brave effort lacks a cohesive style.
This coming-of-age yarn, seasoned with whiskey, violence, and Texas twangs, reveals a highly promising playwriting talent at work.
With "The Myopia," David Greenspan makes magic; with "Plays," he writes a love letter; with both, he puts theatre and life back in the present tense.
Richard Maxwell's latest piece wastes the potential of a great premise.
With teens acting as co-creators and cast, the show offers a look at the complicated period of adolescence: the mundanities, the frustrating and nonsensical rebellion, and the moments of end…
Silver Stars purports to be a song cycle, but by the end of this hourlong piece, I had yet to notice one. Based on the experiences of Irish gay men who came of age in the mid-20th century only to face intense repression and homophobia from their society, the musically challenged show is lugubriously sincere, preciously (if intentionally) artless, and a blinding bore.
I well remember the 1973 Dean Corll case, known at the time as the Houston mass murders. It disturbed me greatly, much more than this self-consciously provocative solo play with puppets, bas…
A theatrical riff on a lecture is still, in the end, a lecture.
Temporary Distortion brings live theatre closer to the horror movie, leaving a trail of quivering vertebrae, if you're into that sort of thing.
When you subtitle your show "Disaster on Parade (A Devastated Musical Revue)," you're just asking for it.
