<cite>Snow White</cite>, reviewed by Lisa Jo Sagolla

This spectacular, over-the-top, Baroque-inspired fairy-tale adaptation titillates adults while captivating kids.

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

Reviewed by Leonard Jacobs

Roger Guenveur Smith recalls a terrible incident in baseball history, aligning his own experience with that of the players at the burning center of the story.

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

Reviewed by Adam R. Perlman

The Pearl Theatre Company's production of Shaw's Misalliance offers a full-bodied experience, delivering the funny with a strong dose of the author's subversive politics.

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

Reviewed by Erik Haagensen

While it's hard not to miss the romantic sweep and orchestral lushness of Harold Prince's glorious original production, Trevor Nunn's chamber version is a persuasive and entertaining account…

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

Le Serpent Rouge - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

Writer-director-choreographer Austin McCormick likes his opulence. With "Le Serpent Rouge," he delivers a wildly flamboyant take on the Biblical story of Adam and Eve.

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

Closer - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

This badly miscast revival nevertheless manages to retain some of the play's devastating power thanks to Patrick Marber's acidic writing.

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

Bail Out: The Musical - Reviewed by KARL LEVETT

Written and performed by enterprising members of the Wreckio Ensemble, this satiric musical, which begins so promisingly, unhappily loses its way as it meanders toward a shopworn finale.

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

Fault Lines - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

Rebecca Louise Miller's new play reveals a wound that never heals, but battles over the past don't create a work that moves in the present.

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

For Artists Only - Reviewed by MITCH MONTGOMERY

Nellie Tinder's girls just want to have fun in this high-style narrative but often find the complex travails of adulthood instead.

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

The Judgment of Paris - Reviewed by LISA JO SAGOLLA

Austin McCormick's "The Judgment of Paris" is the perfect antidote to all that stark minimalism too often equated with aesthetic sophistication on Manhattan's downtown arts scene.

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

Red Noir - Reviewed by JASON FITZGERALD

Judith Malina and poet-playwright Anne Waldman fail to ignite the anarchist revolution, but they sure give audiences a good time.

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

The Great Recession - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

The Flea Theater offers plenty of volume with six plays and a cast of more than 50. But the biggest bargain is seeing the young cast of Bats.

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

Love's Labour's Lost - Reviewed by LEONARD JACOBS

One of Shakespeare's most entertaining comedies is given a laugh-a-minute styling, though nearly at the risk of overwhelming the play's not-so-funny message.

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

Newsical the Musical - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

"Newsical" is as lame and tired as "Forbidden Broadway" was cheeky and inspired.

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

Diagnosis of a Faun - Reviewed by MITCH MONTGOMERY

Choreographer Tamar Rogoff's piece of dance-theater, inspired by the classic ballet "Afternoon of a Faun," is a touching analysis of disability through dance.

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

Christmas Rappings - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

Al Carmines' oratorio about the birth of Jesus Christ manages to overwhelm audiences with a sheer wall of sound while remaining a bore.

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

Hee-Haw: It's a Wonderful Lie - Reviewed by PAUL MENARD

While clever in concept-namely exploding the fairy-tale romanticism of "It's a Wonderful Life"-this theatrical misfire just isn't subversive enough to deliver the goods.

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

Crime or Emergency - Reviewed by MITCH MONTGOMERY

This cabaret deconstruction feels a little textbook but still offers laughs.

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

The Big Bupkis: A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

This one-man show is a silly, satisfying 75 minutes, with goy Shane Bertram Baker demonstrating an offbeat, 21st-century nostalgia.

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

Groovaloo Freestyle - Reviewed by LISA JO SAGOLLA

This spiffy 85-minute show of locking, popping, free-styling, and spoken-word poetry is theatrically slick, delightfully upbeat, and clean enough that you can bring your 3-year-old.

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

Brief Encounter - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

This lovingly imaginative rumination on an iconic film is a joyous burst of theatrical inventiveness.

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

Swimming to Spalding - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

Lián Amaris proves herself a gifted and engaging storyteller in this piece that, though initially contrived, develops into a stirring solo show.

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

Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

The Gallery Players' production is more enthusiastic than skilled, but for Durang fans, a trip to Brooklyn for this NYC premiere would seem to be in the Christmas cards.

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

The Last Cargo Cult - Reviewed by NICOLE VILLENEUVE

Monologuist Mike Daisey's newest piece about the moneyless island culture of Tanna and our own financial crisis is moving, provoking, and well worth the investment of your time.

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

So Help Me God! - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

When Maurine Dallas Watkins' "So Help Me God!" closed out of town in 1929, the playwright's gimlet-eyed backstage view of Broadway was probably much fresher, but as a period piece it provide…

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