If you thought celebrity stalking was a recent phenomenon, meet Marla and Kate, two 22-year-olds with nothing better to do than have daily picnics on the grounds outside the gated estate of …
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAs performers rather than actors, in an extended sketch rather than a play, Megan McClellan and Brian Sostek are showing off a variety of talents, which seems to be the point of their self-w…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMPaul Schultz has written the book, music, and lyrics for what is essentially a two-character musical. So who are all those other people on stage?
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIt's a rare privilege to be invited into unfamiliar territory and yet to feel instantly at home. Something like that happens on seeing Owen Panettieri's play about three New York roommates o…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis charming, tuneful, and lovingly produced musical provides the perfect antidote to the image of the Garden State projected by Snooki and "The Sopranos."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDespite a solid production and some good acting, this one-act is grounded by its three main characters' talk of writing novels instead of actually doing it, allowing their muses to take over…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMRather than an updating of John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" for the 21st century, Bethany Larsen's play comes off more like a rejected spec script for the short-lived TV series "Dirty Sexy Money."SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM
This 45-minute piece is more about the fine art of puppetry than it is revealing of Marlene Dietrich's last years or nostalgic about her glamorous life.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMAuthor-producer Gregg Greenberg’s somewhat clever sketch idea has been extended to a full-length play, with ever-diminishing results.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDespite some dazzling stagecraft and amusing moments, the central premise of this 70-minute piece palls about halfway through its presentation.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMInventive, amusing staging often trumps the consistency of content here, but the multiple subplots in search of a through-line are frequently witty and never dull.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMA pale, truncated take on the Faust legend, this 20-year-old "trunk" play, by the late Jovanka Bach, wasn't ready to be read, much less performed. It still isn't.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis is a rare chance to see Francis Beaumont's groundbreaking Jacobean comedy about the theater, but Richard Mazda's production is spoiled by strained contemporary pop-culture references.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMDespite some problematic audibility, here is a rare chance to see a decent production of a watershed but seldom-performed 1677 Restoration comedy—and the price is right: It's free.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMMost of the important elements are in place for "Zapata!," a promising and highly original musical at NYMF by Peter and Ana Edwards. But there are problems.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:44AMA few too many characters and themes lessen the impact of Otho Eskin's "Final Analysis," a well-acted one-act in the Midtown International Theatre Festival.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:13AMJaime Salom’s play pairing the lives of Medea and Maria Callas gets the production it deserves at Thalia Spanish Theatre, full of passion and panache.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:56AMNehassaiu deGannes is the ideal surrogate for Diana Sands, a groundbreaking actress who died young, but this bioplay needs a serious overhaul.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:27AMAlloy Theater Company’s account of William Luce’s one-woman play about Charlotte Brontë, starring Maxine Linehan, can’t overcome the writing’s contrivances.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMDenver Chiu’s riveting performance and a look at Brecht’s basis for “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” are reasons to see this uneven trilingual production.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:26AMThe Storm Theatre's "The President" rescues a forgotten charmer of a short satirical play by Ferenc Molnár through topflight acting and direction.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:13AMThis staged reading of “Sitting Pretty,” a deservedly forgotten 1924 musical with music by Jerome Kern, is more engaging than the material it serves.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:28AMActor-author-director Gerda Stevenson pulls off an impressive hat trick in “Federer Versus Murray,” a moving one-act about loss, denial, blame, and escape.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:34AMRichard Geha’s interminable “Satan’s Whore, Victoria Woodhull,” at Theater for the New City, gets lost in Geha’s obsession with Woodhull’s sexual histor…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:51AMThis twin bill at the Cell of one-acts by Larry Kirwin and Seamus Scanlon offers a vivid look at Irish Republicanism in 1916 and 1984.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:38AMJohn J. Ronan's 80-minute play, produced by American Storyboard at the Producers' Club, like W.B. Yeats is full of large themes, but it has small people.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:12AMRiff Collective's rock riff on Shakespeare's "Hamlet," part of Frigid New York, has much to recommend in its music and performances, but the plot palls.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:35AMActor-author Tali Brady's one-woman play about Jane Austen, part of Frigid New York, is charming and insightful but marred by contemporary references.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:40AMTwo attractively symbiotic actors demonstrate diversity in this aptly titled 75-minute series of sketches, which, like most such programs, has its ups and downs.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:27AMJoe Lauinger's perfectly fine realistic one-act play is undercut by tacking on a slapdash absurdist second act, which seems as if it was written by a different playwright.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:52AMEvery August, Lorna Luft calls her agents to remind them that it's time to start booking her into a year-end production of the stage version of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas."
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