8,501 stories from Backstage
David Bar Katz can't decide if he wants to be Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Woody Allen, or comic-book creator Stan Lee in this gloppy mess of a play.
Joel Rooks understudied Frank Gorshin in the 2002 Broadway production of Rupert Holmes' solo bio-play about George Burns. Nearly a decade later, his performance is as studied as the produc…
Stella Adler Studio of Acting does itself proud with this powerful rendering of Israel Horovitz's drama, the school's first Off-Broadway production.
Musicals Tonight!'s concert staging of this 1962 Mel Brooks–Charles Strouse–Lee Adams Broadway flop has a few moments but is too shaky, unfocused, poorly adapted, and woefully …
The studio's artistic director Tom Oppenheim, Adler's grandson, took over the school 15 years ago with a mission to bring vibrant, professional-level theater to the studio.
Despite resemblances to "The Big Bang Theory" and a weak plot line, actor-playwright Jesse Eisenberg's character study of three disparate people seeking to connect is funny and insightful.
A tidy production of a compelling A.R. Gurney play, this is the kind of show that sends a critic to her thesaurus seeking synonyms for the word "perfect."
David Henry Hwang's latest play is a smart and uproarious comedy examining the difficulties in bridging the different cultures of contemporary China and America.
The actor previously shot down rumors of an album, though he has contributed musically to the "Twilight" and "How to Be" soundtracks.
Ivo van Hove brings Ingmar Bergman's masterful examination of death, family, and faith to the stage in a searing staging that brilliantly employs video, sound, and unflinching acting.
A world premiere choreographed by Luca Veggetti, this engrossingly experimental work combines a bit of puppetry, slippery text, flute and electronic sounds, and gorgeous contemporary dance.
After performing a medley of Menken's songs at Monday's Billboard/Hollywood Reporter TV & Film Music Conference, Criss revealed that he once received a $100 tip from the maestro of mov…
This "new American musical" from Charles Strouse and Leslie Lee about Martin Luther King Jr.'s formative years neglects to tell us that it is really a piece of reworked children's theater.
Director Joe Barros stages Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's musical adaptation of Roger Corman's 1961 film faithfully, and a crafty design team and talented cast round out a hauntingly good…
There are deeply affecting passages in Alan Lester Brooks' drama of Holocaust survivors, but it's burdened with a twisty plot that strains credibility to the breaking point.
This tasting platter of African-American music from blues to gospel to hip-hop reduces black female history to an educational lecture and fails to achieve a heartfelt personal message.
Odysseus' 10-year struggle to get home from Troy to Ithaca is fodder for this new musical that highlights Homer's great adventure without finding a fresh way to tell the tale.
The "Aladdin" and "Tangled" composer will be feted at THR/Billboard's Film & TV Music Conference Monday.
New York City Center, proudly inaugurated by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1943, is being reintroduced this week following a renovation to the tune of $56 million.
Look out, Elaine Stritch: You've got competition for the most glamorous golden-years gams in town, and French chanteuse Yvonne Constant is currently flashing them with style at the Metropo…
McDonald is currently in the middle of her first concert tour in four years, which lands in New York's Carnegie Hall on Saturday.
Kelsey Grammer makes it clear from the start: He's not playing Mayor Richard M. Daley in the new dramatic series "Boss" that debuts Friday night.
Stephen Karam is not afraid to ask hard questions and blend humor and sorrow in this moving and funny play about a Lebanese-American family in a small Pennsylvania town.
Woody Allen is as funny as ever, contributing a riotous farce that's equal parts Marx Brothers and Freud, but Ethan Coen and Elaine May get mixed results in this program of three one-acts.
Choreographed by Wang Yuanyuan, this ultimately unsatisfying 70-minute contemporary ballet piece is danced on a spongy mat and proves mesmerizing, beautiful, and fun for the first half-hou…
