8,501 stories from Backstage
This is a softer, gentler take on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s hit, with uneven performances from Elena Roger, Ricky Martin, and Michael Cerveris.
The Tony winner joins calls for Shakespeare's Globe to revoke an invitation to Israel's Habima company for a theater festival.
Soap actor Jack Wagner is cut from the competition while Seal and Rascal Flatts provide musical entertainment on the ABC competition show.
NBC's "Smash" partners with iTheatrics to create sustainable musical theater programs in underserved schools nationwide.
Long Wharf Theatre is the latest to aim for an architectural overhaul, alongside NYC's Signature and Public theaters.
Katherine Jenkins and William Levy score the first perfect tens of the season on ABC's popular competition show.
Amy Brenneman plans to return to an off-Broadway stage this spring in the play "Rapture, Blister, Burn."
Actor Neil Patrick Harris will return to host the annual Broadway awards ceremony for a third time this year.
Willy Holtzman’s “The Morini Strad” feels like a warmed-over Chicken Soup for the Soul entry, despite a fine performance from Mary Beth Peil.
The Tony winner tackles a kinder, gentler Juan Peron in a reconceived version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera at the Marquis Theatre.
Leaning heavily on whimsy, director Josh Hecht’s production of “Out of Iceland” badly miscalculates the humor of Lea DeLaria, to the play’s detriment.
Amy Herzog’s “4000 Miles,” now at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater after debuting last June at the Duke on 42nd Street, is a quiet triumph.
Tracie Bennett goes far beyond impersonation with an indelible performance as the legendary Judy Garland in Peter Quilter’s “End of the Rainbow.”
"Mary Poppins" and "Newsies" join "Lion King" among Broadway's box office champs.
When I was a young singing actress, there were a few artists I wanted to emulate-Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lena Horne.
In Michael Wilson's crackling take on "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," Eric McCormack, John Larroquette, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, and more are tops.
Theatre for a New Audience's Wild West take on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" has a rollicking style that can't accommodate the "taming" itself.
Voyage Theater Company's production of "Obama 44," at La MaMa, wants to examine obsession but is limited by its one-dimensional preoccupation with its star.
Richard 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…
Disney’s stage version of its 1992 flop musical, “Newsies,” despite a few flaws, is a galvanizing hit, with a star-making performance from Jeremy Jordan and catchy Alan M…
The film-based musical tops the list for the Off-Broadway awards with seven noms; "Tribes" follows with six.
Director Kevin Smith announced his plans to open another sequel to his indie film 'Clerks' on stage instead of screen.
Gavin Creel is slated to star in “The Book of Mormon’s” first national tour, which kicks off this summer in Denver.
Sleeping Beauty and Puss in Boots take a naughty turn in this year’s annual Broadway Bares benefit, to be held Sunday, June 17.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1955 musical flop, “Pipe Dream,” gets a bang-up Encores! presentation, starring Leslie Uggams, that highlights its lovely and engagingly quirky …
