8,501 stories from Backstage
David S. Craig’s adaptation of Michael Ende’s “The Neverending Story,” from Canada’s Roseneath Theater, is unfortunately more about the movie than the book.
Neil Simon’s Pulitzer and Tony winner, “Lost in Yonkers,” holds up nicely after 20 years, even in director Jenn Thompson’s underpowered production for TACT.
Des McAnuff delivers a flashy but empty staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera about the last seven days of Christ, from Stratford.
The Broadway-based musical drama series "Smash" will return, meaning more potential TV work for New York theater actors.
The ten recipients of the second annual Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards were announced on Thursday.
"My Occasion of Sin," Monica Bauer's drama of strained race relations in 1960s Omaha, at Urban Stages, suffers from a bad case of split personality.
Ethan Lipton’s “No Place to Go,” at the Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub, captures the artist’s complaint, but the whining gets tiresome after a while.
This concert revival of “Li’l Abner” highlights the wit of the Panama-Frank book and Johnny Mercer’s lyrics and the appeal of Gene de Paul’s swinging score.
With “The Big Meal,” at Playwrights Horizons, Dan LeFranc has written the kind of play that every critic hopes to encounter whenever a curtain rises. Go.
The American Theatre and Drama Society presents a second annual panel discussion March 22 in New York.
"Hunger Games" actor Stanley Tucci is scheduled to address the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior on Thursday.
Welsh opera singer Katherine Jenkins stepped out as the one to beat in the March 19 season premiere of ABC's hit reality show.
Playwright Riti Sachdeva and Maieutic Theatre Works' impressive production make for an involving drama about the British partition of India and Pakistan.
Artist Juliacks adapts her graphic novel “Swell” for the stage for Culture Project, brilliantly merging aesthetics and atmosphere while pushing boundaries.
Annie Golden, Jason Tam, Curtis Hansen, and more join At Hand Theatre’s 3rd Broadway Recycled Earth Day Concert at Joe’s Pub on April 22.
The Stratford veteran is a scene-stealer in the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera.
Off-Broadway performer Mike Daisey has cut questionable sections from the monologue and added a prologue explaining the controversy.
The veteran Broadway actor discovers the child inside while working with the young cast of Disney’s “Newsies.”
Theatre Communications Group celebrates the 50th anniversary of World Theatre Day with actor John Malkovich.
“Tin Pan Alley,” director-choreographer Gene Castle’s revue of songs from the early years of the 20th century, is tired and pointless, despite a solid cast.
Broadway openings of "Death of a Salesman" and "Once," the London "Hunger Games" premiere, and more make this week's event gallery.
The long-running "Wicked" continues to cast its spell over Broadway, topping the Broadway box office for the week ending on Mar. 18.
The importance of musical theatre education in schools was highlighted today at the kick-off for “Musicals in Our Schools” at noon in Duffy Square.
Uta Hagen went underneath the skin of Martha in the original production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
The Pearl Theatre Company offers an intimate staging of Eugene O'Neill's oft-produced romantic tragedy that is more like a caress than a knockout blow.
