8,501 stories from Backstage
A new performing arts complex in Bellevue, Washington will encourage the use of cell phones during shows.
Jessica Hecht and Charles Kimbrough will co-star in the limited-run engagement set to begin May 18, 2012.
The 26-year-old actress is now starring in her fourth Broadway show, and originating a role for the first time, only four years after landing in New York by way of an unlikely vehicle: a r…
Southern California theater has become a bona fide local industry, with increasing audiences and numbers of union contracts.
It's hard to believe that such an iconic American title hasn't had a New York staging since 1927, but Metropolitan Playhouse's sturdy production demonstrates the play's continued relevance.
A musical stage version of the classic film "A Christmas Story" has begun a five-city tour with hopes that it might stick around a little longer, like a tongue on a frozen flagpole.
Thomas Higgins' naive and glib comedy-drama about a sexually confused Boy Scout suggests that Higgins would be more at home on the small screen than in a small theater.
John Strasberg's didactic but muddled play fails to focus on any issue, and though he employs many actors, it's hard to discern who is capable amidst the disorganization.
"To me, it was a gift to have this intense love for someone that I'd never felt before, for a child, that makes you feel better than anything else you've done."
LuPone and Patinkin are two unique talents, and when they combine in this powerhouse concert, it's theatrical magic. Excerpts from two Rodgers and Hammerstein classics are particularly exc…
Playwright J.T. Rogers takes a bracing, multisided look at how America came to be mired in a war against fundamentalism in Afghanistan in this gripping and absorbing drama.
The song-and-dance take on the actor's 1976 film will premiere in Hamburg, Germany next November.
Billed as "a new political drama," Robert L. Hecker's play is replete with the best of intentions regarding just causes, self-sacrifice, and political protest but devolves into muddle-head…
Twelve speculative backstage scenes depicting Elizabeth Taylor, Lena Horne, and Greta Garbo as deeply self-involved, neurotic, foulmouthed harridans don't add up to much insight, just to a…
Sean McNall's finely nuanced performance in the title role, abetted by Grant Goodman's strong account of Richard's nemesis, lead this uncommonly clear-eyed production of Shakespeare's pro…
In this new play, a disjointed multimedia ghost story, writer-director Bryan Santiago's ambition exceeds his craft, resulting in a promising but baffling exercise in inarticulate creepines…
The writer's hand is too obvious in Theresa Rebeck's play about writers, but Alan Rickman's stingingly understated performance almost makes up for the play's shortcomings.
More like a ballet than a play or a traditional puppet-theater presentation, this uneven choreography-driven show features a hodgepodge cast of people and puppets.
More than just a joyous musical revue, "Cotton Club Parade" is permeated with a sense of legacy, of hometown performers honoring a fabulous past while creating their own ecstatic present.
Rickman, 65, may admit to being uncompromising as an actor, but during an interview at the Golden Theatre he says he has nothing but respect for playwrights such as Rebeck, who create new …
Carla Ching's update of the Hansel and Gretel tale attempts to articulate the perils of growing up but hides the real emotion of adolescence behind unnecessary modernizations.
The veteran cabaret star celebrates her silver anniversary at the Oak Room with an elegant and naughty hour of familiar travel songs and neglected curios.
While John Malkovich portrays a real-life serial killer, sopranos sing arias from composers such as Mozart and Beethoven between his monologues, lifting the jukebox musical to rarified hei…
Since putting down her last cosmopolitan in the second "Sex and the City" movie, Cattrall has politely been trying to shake off Samantha and remind people that she's also a veteran theater…
Actor-playwright Dael Orlandersmith delivers a fascinating word picture of an African-American nanny, but the world of her drug-addicted white boss is two-dimensional.
