8,501 stories from Backstage
Tor Hyams' and Adam LeBow's musical about a reunion at a musical theater camp plays by the rules and does everything competently, but without excitement or individuality.
Nicky Silver's latest dysfunctional-family comedy may be a tad familiar, but it's still wildly funny and deeply touching. Linda Lavin miraculously makes a monstrous mother sympathetic.
Stacey Weingarten and David Levinson's depressing musical feels like an attempt to recreate "Les Misérables," and despite some pleasant voices, the show never fully takes flight.
Lavin took a strong part in Nicky Silver's new play "The Lyons," which opens off-Broadway this week at the Vineyard Theatre.
With the robot fighting feature "Real Steel" in theaters this weekend, star Hugh Jackman has several movies coming down the pipeline.
There are poetic pretensions aplenty, but Sylvan Oswald's drama tells an arresting story of an unlikely love affair set against the racial strife of 1960s Philadelphia.
In this 17th century comedy, a compulsive liar disrupts an entire community and almost destroys his family before he is reined in and order is restored.
James Lantz paints a stereotyped view of middle America. Though the leading actors deliver moving performances, the characters feel like tools to prove a point.
Carl Kissin and Rob Baumgartner Jr.'s cliché-laden musical takes us through trite, fluffy dating scenarios. However, the charismatic performers, peppy score, and generally insightful …
Yet another one-woman show about Marilyn Monroe offers no new information or insight despite the author's quirky attempts to offer a different take on his subject and a game performance by…
Mac Wellman is known for his experimental theater making, but "3 2's; or AFAR" takes obscurity to a new level. The piece never makes a semblance of sense.
T. Sivak and E. Gelman's riffing on a 1962 bad-movie classic is mostly bad puns and feeble joking, partly redeemed by well-crafted music and an excellent cast.
Jenn Colella achieves the impossible with her magical portrayal of a four-year-old in this smart new musical.
James Earl Jones is the recipient of Actors' Equity Association's 2011 Paul Robeson Award, the union announced Monday. The award, created 40 years ago, is given annually.
A mash-up of "Macbeth," "Dracula," and the "Twilight" vampire novels, this improvisation-based musical bristles with delirious ideas and jokes that seem minted on the spot.
This revival of a lesser-known Terence Rattigan melodrama about an international tycoon has an uneven balance sheet, but Frank Langella's performance is one of its stronger assets.
Dan Collins and Julianne Wick Davis' score provides generally easy listening, but the story of a community of transgender individuals in Georgia is hard to hear at times. The complicated c…
A sprightly and effective cast of eight, a couple dozen charming and apt songs and topflight direction and choreography comprise an enjoyable look at a not-always-enjoyable institution.
Avant-garde legend Robert Wilson stages Brecht and Weill's satirical 1928 masterpiece as a cold clown show with brilliant and haunting performances from the Berliner Ensemble.
Dancers interested in earning a college degree often struggle with the decision to give up four of their prime performing years to academic studies.
In September, Pace University, in Lower Manhattan, kicked off a new degree program: a Bachelor of Arts in theater arts with a specialized track in commercial dance.
This show invites comparisons with "Company," but that's the least of the problems afflicting this musical tale of an unhappily single Manhattanite and his concerned pals.
Powered by a sterling performance from Donna English, "Madame X" tickles us with campy silliness at first and then satisfies us emotionally in the end.
"Friends With Kids," the feature directorial debut of Westfeldt, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was subsequently picked up by Lionsgate.
Playwright Dan Fishback honors some of its lesser-known heroes of the AIDS epidemic, in a production that's half personal history, half artistic tribute.
