8,501 stories from Backstage
Three generations of Irish women, enacted by three strong actors, find rebirth in the midst of death and despair.
While hardly convincing that the play itself has been unduly neglected, the laughs are the thing in this merry production.
Sponsored by Nobody's honest docudrama often transcends its outlandish high jinks, aptly replacing the genuine human needs for spirituality, love, and money with frivolous, unending wants.
If you want to tell a New York City ghost story, you'll probably want to set it somewhere between 14th and Delancey streets. And once you find your ghost story, you'll want Edgar Oliver to t…
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.
The fantastic production is a brilliant visual and aural exploration of memory and perception that requires no supplemental support to convey its message.
This welcome experiment in sensation provides powerful jolts of light and noise.
The devil is in the details in this lush marionette adaptation of an American classic.
This multimedia stage adaptation of John Cassavetes' 1970 film is an intense, painful, and imaginative examination of male friendships and macho posturing.
One Broadway legend delivers the work of another as only she can. The show was still a bit undercooked at the second performance, but when it's ready, it's going to be tasty.
Oozing Southern grit and style in the vein of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Sweet Bird of Youth," this Tennessee dream-out-of-time marks a brilliant and welcome screen return for one of Ameri…
The Irish Repertory Theatre stages Eugene O'Neill's rarely seen one-act with chilling intensity, featuring a titanic performance by John Douglas Thompson.
On hand are irresistible tunes such as "He's Only Wonderful" or "The World Is Your Balloon," but though lighthearted and pointed as it aims for an adult's mind and a child's heart, "Flahoole…
This strenuous attempt to wrest a holiday franchise out of grim, off-putting elements at least offers an often-appealing score and a young leading lady with a future.
This insistently mediocre musical version of the Wilde play is nevertheless given performances shot through with spirit and energy.
In Romeo and Juliet from the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, we're not given a traditional production-or even a traditional nontraditional production-of the Shakespearean staple.
Simon Green and David Shrubsole prove delightful company in this charming and imaginative musical look at the subject of travel.
The silly satirical songs from the ladies of "Fascinating Aïda" warm like hot cider with a shot of pepper.
Broadway star Donna Lynne Champlin goes DIY for her first solo album
Difficult to categorize but a privilege to absorb, the show is Shelley meets Beckett meets Rauschenberg, and it's all new again.
As with Part One, three hours fly by as this utterly engaging and deeply compelling work unfolds.
Though Ricardo Pérez Gonzalez has certainly done his historical homework, the story and characters he has come up with to dramatize the WW I Christmas truce of 1914 between German and…
Right now this is a show in search of the right shape. If the creators ever find it, what snaps into focus could be genuinely unsettling.
There's nothing new about this version of the Dickens classic, which serves as a reminder of just how threadbare the story is by now.
Nichola McAuliffe's dramatization of the true-life tale of a man who, caught up in tribal laws, languished in a Pakistani jail for 18 years, is alternately terrifying and tiresome.
