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Naked Angels Finds New Home at New School

The downtown theater company is partnering with the New School for Drama and will be housed in the schools’ facilities on Bank Street.

‘The Madrid’ Evaporates Before Our Eyes

It’s hard to fathom how Manhattan Theatre Club allowed Liz Flahive’s undercooked comedy-drama “The Madrid,” starring Edie Falco, to get all the way to City Center’s downstairs stage.

Inventive 'The Dance and the Railroad' Makes for Memorable Theater

Signature’s elegant revival of David Henry Hwang’s 1981 “The Dance and the Railroad,” which mixes Chinese opera with building America’s transcontinental railroad, is memorable.

‘Katie Roche’ Has a Wild Heart

Teresa Deevy’s 1936 “Katie Roche” is less compelling than her “Temporal Powers” and “Wife to James Whelan,” but the Mint’s first-rate production makes the most it can out of it.

'The Grapes of Wrath' Is a Hell of a Ride

A Noise Within’s production of Frank Galati’s Tony Award–winning adaptation of Nobel laureate John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning 1939 novel “The Grapes of Wrath” is a stunner.

Beauty Pageant Returns to B’way

The 7th annual Broadway Beauty Pageant will be held May 20 at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

'Complete' Interweaves Hilarity and Pain

Splendid performances, smooth direction, and Andrea Kuchlewska’s clever script make “Complete,” a parody of self-help cults, a provocative, highly amusing evening in the theater.

'The Radiant' Rushes Through Its History

Diana LaMar is giving a strong, at times touching performance as Marie Curie in Shirley Lauro’s “The Radiant,” from Red Fern Theatre Company, but the sketchy script undercuts her.

Shuler Hensley On Playing 'Bad' Guys and Returning to the Classics With 'Carousel'

Shuler Hensley sat down with Backstage to talk about musical theater, classical training, and handling perceptions as an actor.

'What May Fall' Examines the Fragility of Life

The nine characters linked six-degrees style by a man’s random death in Peter Gil-Sheridan’s “What May Fall,” at Theatre of Note, are given delicate shading by a fine ensemble.