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Tara Battani, Good Listener (Slideshow)

Backstage member Tara Battani is a SAG-AFTRA actor who earned her B.A. in theater from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Tex., and has since booked several roles as a result of reading Backstage.

'A Christmas Story' Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul Write For Actors

The songwriting team who are making a promising Broadway debut with “A Christmas Story” began as performance majors at the University of Michigan.

‘The Holiday Guys in Happy Merry Hanu-Mas’ Is as Chaotic as the Season

In “The Holiday Guys in Happy Merry Hanu-Mas,” at the York Theatre, Marc Kudisch and Jeffry Denman, the Bert and Ernie of musical theater, are serving up a pretty special gift.

Maverick Theater Puts 'Night of the Living Dead' Onstage With Ghoulish Results

Adapter-director-designer Brian Newell’s stage version of “Night of the Living Dead,” at Maverick Theater from Staged Cinema Productions, delivers terror and strong performances.

‘Radiance’ Drops a Bomb

Cusi Cram's new world premiere play, about the horrors of the atom bomb, benefits from a good performance by Aaron Roman Weiner but suffers mightily from misguided direction.

'Incendiary Agents' Sermonizes Weakly Against War

Jack Karp’s “Incendiary Agents,” from Nylon Fusion Theatre Company, directed by Peter Jensen at the New Ohio Theater, promises a fiery conflict but delivers only a few puffs of smoke.

LA Review: 'Sideways the Play'

In “Sideways The Play,” at Ruskin Group Theatre, swilling with overgrown boys in wine country is enjoyable, but we’re left without a satisfying finish.

The Apocalypse of John

In “The Apocalypse of John,” a scatterbrained Fringe comedy from the Serious Theatre Collective, it’s the end of the world at the Players Theatre.

The Hills Are Alive!

Frankie Johnson and Eric Thomas Johnson have imagined a hilarious, darkly campy version of what happens after “The Sound of Music” in the Fringe musical “The Hills Are Alive!”

'Intimate Apparel' Gets Handsome if Occasionally Overreaching Revival

Vanessa Williams (of “New Jack City”) finds interesting shadings in the “I’m nobody’s doormat” heroine of “Intimate Apparel,” Lynn Nottage’s 2003 play about love, class, and isolation.