8,501 stories from Backstage
Autographs from stage stars, show tickets and posters and the chance to win walk-on roles in some of Broadway's biggest musicals helped rake in almost $550,000 for charity.
If you have any doubt about the magnitude of the loss we suffered when playwright Lanford Wilson died this past March, this heart-stopping Keen Company production makes it all too abundant…
Fearless, whip-smart, and hyperarticulate, Jeff Talbott's incendiary political comedy-drama asks hard questions about our supposedly post-racial world and will likely make audiences uncomf…
The casting directors of Broadway's "The Book of Mormon" and "The Normal Heart" were among the honorees at the Casting Society of America's 27th annual Artios Awards.
Paper Mill Playhouse deserves great credit for turning this troubled property into something that could have a long life. There's still work to do, but I smell a hit.
Even if the Pearl Theatre Company doesn't quite sound all the notes of Eugene Ionesco's "anti-play" that laments the limits of language, it's well worth your time and attention.
Inconsistent staging and uneven acting in this fumbling revival mar Robert Lowell's eloquent indictment of the tragic legacy of slavery.
This ambitious inside-out opus literally takes it to the streets by presenting action outside of the theater's floor-to-ceiling windows, but it isn't nearly as entertaining as the reaction…
Supervision Media and Broadway Worldwide have signed a deal to bring four hit Broadway musicals to cinema screens across the globe.
Charles A. Taylor's 1903 melodrama is very much a compendium of clichés, but Alex Roe's impish direction and a strong cast make it fly by in a breeze of entertainment.
Though its composer and librettist, Paul McCartney, was the biggest celebrity in the house at the premiere, the real star of this simplistically choreographed ballet is costume designer St…
Director Stephen Brackett keeps the suspense coursing through Chad Beckim's simultaneously moving and humorous piece about a wronged man embarking on a new life.
On Wednesday at New World Stages in Manhattan, the New York Musical Theatre Festival offered a special preview of this year's slate of new musicals.
Actor-author Troy Deutsch is clearly a font of talent, even if his two-hander about a pair of estranged and disaffected high school seniors in rural Minnesota is full of incompletely reali…
The Parents Television Council is urging members to send letters, call and visit Chrysler/Dodge dealerships calling out their support of the NBC series.
The "South Park" creators say that while they'd like to pursue a feature film version in the future, there are no immediate plans to expand their Tony Award-winning musical to the big scre…
"I want to write an original movie for Gwyneth and Maya Rudolph, both of whom I'm great friends with," says Murphy.
Two of the entertainment industry's leading advocates of marriage equality are combining forces Monday night in New York for a chamber reading of Dustin Lance Black's new play "8."
Rich people have problems too, including an unhealthy dependence on alcohol and banal truth telling, in Molly Moroney's new play that's an endless sea of wine and whine.
Language and understanding are core concepts of Broadway-bound "Chinglish." But when a quarter of the play is in Mandarin, how does the performance translate for both actors and audiences?
The Gallery Players' "The Drowsy Chaperone" and T. Schreiber Studio's "Balm in Gilead" took home the top prizes—for outstanding production of a musical and outstanding production of …
Friend and director Rodrigo Garcia handed Close the award on the same day that they presented their latest work "Albert Nobbs."
The annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction celebrates its 25th year on Sunday, offering items far from the typical knickknacks elsewhere.
This collection of nine 10-minute plays penned by women of color creates a mosaic of contemporary life from authorial voices heard all too infrequently on our stages.
How the inescapable sores of the Irish rebellions affect generations is told in this pair of thoughtful but mundane one-acts about the lives of two women.
