8,501 stories from Backstage
Philip Gawthorne's David Mamet–inspired drama for Mad Dog Theatre Company and the Drilling Company feels as endless as a bad marriage.
David Drake creates a kooky, lovable drag version of a drugged-up D-lister who happens to be Joey Heatherton's niece in "My Tawny Valentine."
Jelena Stupljanin stars in a new film "Cirkus Columbia" and is a member of the Rising Phoenix Repertory.
Old Kent Road Theater's "Hamlet"-inspired piece of absurdist theater, by Eric Bland, at the Brick Theater is mostly self-absorbed.
"DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story," the new bio-musical at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre by Luis Caballero and Harold Gutiérrez, drops the ball.
Bethany Knox of Telsey + Company is casting the project, which runs March 10-April 12 in New York City.
William Shatner discusses "Star Trek," Priceline, and other career highlights in his one-man show on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre through March 4.
Colman Domingo and Scott Shepard give superb performances in Athol Fugard's "Blood Knot" at Signature Theatre's new Frank Gehry–designed Pershing Center.
This boring hodgepodge of video, songs, and talk at Dixon Place created by Grammy winner Vernon R. Reid explores African-American identity.
Tony Award nominee Josie De Guzman stars as Arkadina in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" at Houston's Alley Theater.
Gabe McKinley's thinly veiled fictionalization of the 2003 Jayson Blair journalism scandal rarely dips beneath the surface, playing more like an extended TV-drama episode than a thoughtful…
Jack Canfora's new drama about a renowned poet and his family is held hostage by its own hyper-articulate characters, leaving the plot stuck in second gear.
The Asian American Performers Action Coalition and Fordham University presented RepresentAsian on Monday night.
Series creator Theresa Rebeck says that who ultimately landed the part changed from the series' early incarnation.
This flashy, upbeat celebration of Brazilian music and dance is distinguished by its inclusion of freestyle footballers who delight us with soccer-ball juggling tricks.
Many theater hearts will be gladdened, not broken, by director Selina Cartmell's consummate production of John Ford's wondrous but rarely seen 1629 revenge drama at Theater for a New Audie…
Despite a top director, a talented cast, and a Pulitzer Prize–winning script, this new production of Paula Vogel's 1997 drama never slips satisfyingly into gear.
Two attractively symbiotic actors demonstrate diversity in this aptly titled 75-minute series of sketches, which, like most such programs, has its ups and downs.
The Arts NYS Coalition wants to partner with the New York State Legislature to rebuild the New York State Council on the Arts.
This production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's classic 1928 show turns out to be an accessible entertainment and one of the most enjoyable musicals around.
Featuring a star turn by Melissa Hawkins, Andras Visky's fictionalized account of Romania in the grip of Nicolae Ceausescu retains the rawness and poignancy of a memoir.
Just the right measure of quirk and psychodrama, buoyed by a smart and sharp production, makes Erin Courtney's new play the best 13P offering in years.
A slave auctioneer meets a runaway slave in a desolate swampland in this ultimately powerful two-hander, reminding us of the horrors of slavery and man's potential for inhumanity to man.
Rinde Eckert's aching adaptation of "Moby Dick," which Herman Melville himself described as his "wicked book," maintains much of its original power, although its focus has softened.
Author-composer Eric Shorr's artistic reach falls considerably short of his grasp in this thinly written, musically derivative, and ultimately dramatically preposterous new culture-clash m…
