8,501 stories from Backstage
Now in its second year, ESPA Drills, a program of the theater's Einhorn School of Performing Arts, gives four playwrights a fully staged reading of their work.
Under the direction of original "Rent" helmer Michael Greif, the revival brings a brand-new cast of young actors to the stage, many of them making their Off-Broadway debut.
Katharine Houghton is still most known for her role in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." But Houghton has spent most of her career on stage. Her heart is very much in the theater.
Anyone who thinks doing 85 performances of "Lear" over two years for one of the world's premier classical theater companies might make one cocky should talk to Greg Hicks.
Michael Greif keeps the early '90s alive in his reinvention of Jonathan Larson's rock epic, and though the set and costumes have changed, the heart of the show still beats.
Watching the magnetic energy and smart staging brought to this rendering of Shakespeare's buoyant history is like being courtside at a great basketball game—and there's great languag…
Rehearsing Edith Wharton's "Autres Temps" in her 19th-century Massachusetts drawing room takes site-specific theater to a whole new level.
The jokes sometimes have a familiar ring, but they come fast and funny enough in this one-man show, which despite its title is simply 90 minutes of well-hewn standup.
"Visceral," "intimate," and "intense" don't begin to describe this stimulating and sometimes scarring production of two radically carnal plays that expose the visceral nature of the human …
The Festival of New American Plays gives a voice to playwrights, new and established, and in four insightful short productions provides a compelling evening of theater.
This top-notch San Francisco–based contemporary dance troupe is presenting a stimulating program that shows the opposite choreographic strengths of its artistic directors, Brenda Way…
Strong singing and acting mitigate unfortunate attempts to modernize Noël Coward's 1929 operetta. Still, this is a welcome chance to hear the lovely score sung in dramatic context.
Rosemary Harris and Carla Gugino will star in a production of "The Road to Mecca" on Broadway this winter.
England today enacts a new law whereby those who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe or BAFTA can become British citizens quickly and bypass the country's immigration crackdown.
More than 900 people dressed like the late "I Love Lucy" star gather in upstate New York, setting a world record.
Anna Moench's world premiere play takes nonlinear theater to its hilt, and David F. Chapman's direction cannot make this schizophrenic script comprehensible on stage.
This month, Chanler-Berat is fulfilling a childhood dream by joining a new off-Broadway revival of the show just three years after "Rent" tearfully closed up shop on Broadway.
Forty-five years after making a splash as the princess-to-be in "Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella,'" Lesley Ann Warren has found renewed success in two TV shows and a recent art-hous…
Doing skateboard tricks on a theater stage is usually deeply frowned upon. But at the Union Square Theatre these days, they're not only encouraged — they're a big part of the show.
Always on the lookout for a new opportunity, Anderson reflects on his past efforts and the hurdles he faced.
Producers said Wednesday that the show about pioneering record executive Florence Greenberg and The Shirelles will end its Broadway run on Sept. 4.
The actor will play Perry White in Zack Snyder's take on Superman, Warner Bros. announced Tuesday.
Tennessee Williams' centenary is being used as the pretext for trotting out this "long-buried" piece, an early sketch for "The Glass Menagerie," but it seems more an act of exploitation th…
The dance world iconoclast and Tony-winning choreographer says reality television turns dance into "sport."
Brooklyn's old Bushwick neighborhood has quickly become a new world-class arts mecca — with music, dance, sculpture and theater bursting from defunct warehouses and desolate streets …
