8,501 stories from Backstage
"Lion King" squeaks to number one on Broadway while straight plays "Death of a Salesman" and "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" join the musical hit list.
AEA will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a year of special events honoring actors and theater professionals.
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" tops Outer Critics Circle nominations with 9, "Newsies" and "Once" grab 7 each.
In "The Shelter Presents: Art," four short plays attempt to offer arguments for the necessity of art, managing some insights amid the self-involved clichés.
Helmer Emily Mann and stars Nicole Ari Parker and Blair Underwood treat Tennessee Williams' masterwork as soap opera and sitcom, with embarrassing results.
Rori Bergman on casting "Nancy, Please," a new film that will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21.
Timberlake Wertenbaker's 2003 retelling of the Cinderella story, "The Ash Girl," is getting a mixed-bag production from the young Pipeline Theatre Company.
Adapted by Richard Tulloch from a Guus Kuijer novel, "The Book of Everything" proffers the most worthwhile 135 minutes you are likely to spend in a theater.
New York theater actor Tom O'Brien makes his feature film debut as actor, writer, and director of "Fairhaven," co-starring Chris Messina and Rich Sommer.
Ballet Hispanico presents a smart work by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, an uninspired premiere by Ronald K. Brown, and a flop by artistic director Eduardo Vilaro.
Emotions rise to the surface in the Maly Drama Theater's wrenching production of Anton Chekhov's classic of unfulfilled lives at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Miriam Kulick's one-woman show "Open Hearts," about a 90-year-old Jewish matriarch and her complicated family, packs too much into barely more than an hour.
New York City Opera will return to its roots at New York City Center in March after a 48-year absence.
After 30 years, the Theatre Alliance calls it quits and spreads out its programs to the Walnut Street and Wilma theater.
Producers Steven C. Byrd and Alia M. Jones recruited composer Terence Blanchard to score the show.
"Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' era-spanning satire on race, comes to Broadway with its original cast intact and a Pulitzer Prize, but it's still weak tea.
In Richard Caliban’s “MoM: A Rock Concert Musical,” at TBG Theater, suburban moms form a rock group and vent, but the show is more concert than musical.
“The Bachelors’ Tea Party,” a unique amalgamation of a five-course afternoon tea service and a historical comedy, is more filling than fulfilling.
Broderick and O'Hara create a new classic in "Nice Work If You Can Get It," directed by Kathleen Marshall.
Nick Jonas has leveraged his gig on Broadway in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" into a mini-album.
Addressing a multi-hundred million dollar pension and health funding shortfall required instituting premiums for dependents.
Brett C. Leonard’s “Ninth and Joanie,” directed by Mark Wing-Davey at Labyrinth Theater Company, struggles to establish compelling action.
“One Man, Two Guvnors,” an import from the National Theatre, is a rollicking roller coaster of hilarity. James Corden will have you rolling in the aisles.
Catch Tony award-winner Zoe Caldwell at Pace University's "Masters Series" at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, April 23 at 6 p.m.
This staged reading of “Sitting Pretty,” a deservedly forgotten 1924 musical with music by Jerome Kern, is more engaging than the material it serves.
