8,501 stories from Backstage
Mikaela Feely-Lehmann has her acting school to thank for her first professional job, her Equity card, and her agent.
After seeing Radcliffe play The Boy Who Lived for eight films, audiences are used to watching him suffer onscreen. But "The Woman in Black" marks a notable leap for the actor.
Have you ever wanted to spend a few hours with a Pulitzer Prize winner? Come on, you know you have. Well, now the Drama Book Shop is giving you a chance to make your dreams come true.
Well, as it turns out, it actually takes a little bit of "Trying" to "Succeed" on Broadway and land in a long-running musical. I have been blessed with this experience three times in my ca…
According to the study, there are more than 150 sound stages in the outer boroughs. The studios are in Astoria, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Long Island City, Maspeth, and other areas near Newtow…
This large, immersive multimedia production ruminates on the consciousness of plants by way of a magnificent set design, superb scenes of simultaneous action, and psychedelic effects.
For a show centered on equality, "Created Equal" relies on a lot of polarizing stereotypes, but at least everyone receives the same harsh treatment.
David Alan Grier has a gentle message for anyone who is getting all hot and bothered thinking that he's helping ruin an American masterpiece.
Wheeldon looks even younger than his 38 years, and may always seem like a wunderkind. But he's already created more than 40 ballets and is steadily burnishing a reputation as one of the wo…
As TV series go, "Smash" does a smashing job of abstaining from the usual: no courtrooms, no operating rooms, no interrogation rooms.
The dynamic duo behind the web series "Submissions Only," which takes a loveable look behind the scenes of the New York theater scene, turn their audition room mishaps into comedy.
Erika Sheffer's drama about a Russian-American family contains some snappy dialogue, but the novice playwright gets bogged down by familiar plot twists and structural flaws.
A hallmark event, this performance of three ballets by Christopher Wheeldon, including the premiere of the luscious "Les Carillons," marks the company's first-ever all-Wheeldon program.
Casting directors Jordan Thaler and Heidi Griffiths are holding auditions for the upcoming 50th anniversary of The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park series. Equity principal auditio…
David Sisco's genial divertissement about two 30-something gay friends in Manhattan is both an acting showcase and a fun night out that even manages some unexpected poignancy and depth.
This Terrence McNally–Stephen Flaherty–Lynn Ahrens tuner still overindulges in sentimentality and noisy anti-Catholicism, but the Gallery Players certainly do a fine job with i…
The seven deadly sins are no match for the venality that permeates the bloody, disease-ridden mayhem in this pounding adaptation of Sophocles' extant plays.
Visually striking yet kinetically static, this hourlong marionette musical is driven by an intelligent, humorous script that is probably better appreciated by middle-aged moms than little …
Overflowing with colorful detail and smartly observed anecdotes, this one-man show is an affectionate, funny, and spicily authentic collage of growing up Puerto Rican in the Bronx of the 1…
Martin Dockery's two-hander about the dire consequences of fooling around is deliberately vague and cryptic, and on those terms it's pretty diverting, with fine chemistry between Dockery a…
After years of experimenting, the top video destinations on the Web are suddenly flush with original programming: documentaries, reality shows and scripted series.
The Public Theater will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Shakespeare in the Park series this summer with a little Bard and a little Sondheim.
Cynthia Nixon successfully challenges the memory of Kathleen Chalfant's original cast performance in a sterling revival of Margaret Edson's unflinching drama about a frosty academic facing…
Under Pedro Pascal's studied, overly deliberate direction, Daniel Talbott's opaque play keeps its audience at such arm's length that we finally throw ours up in exasperation.
The celebrated English pop singer and actor is making her first NYC nightclub appearance since 1970. Still in superb physical and vocal shape, she delivers an unmissable evening of great s…
