8,501 stories from Backstage
Washington Irving's legendary tale gets weighed down with a lot of philosophical pondering, but this musical has a rewarding score that's impressively realized by a talented cast.
In honor of the controversial book's 50th anniversary, a theatrical version with music will be performed in the author's hometown of Manchester, England.
In this sequel to "In High Germany," Dermot Bolger returns to the same characters 20 years later, effortlessly adapting poignant scenes of homecoming, friendship, and renewal for the next …
Director Amon Miyamoto adapts a Kafkaesque Japanese psychodrama for his newest production, serving up an occasionally earnest but terribly beautiful, epic, and unsettling theatrical feast.
The Flea Theater announced Friday the launch of a new program that will give a home to Off-Off-Broadway theater companies seeking production space. The Anchor Partner program is set to kic…
Enterprising DIY actress Felicia Day reveals how she built her popular web series "The Guild" into a real business with corporate sponsorship -- all from her kitchen.
Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon is returning to live theater.The "Sex and the City" actress will be seen with the Manhattan Theatre Club in January 2012.
The the execs and stars of HBO's "Entourage," starting its eighth and final season, dish (finally!) on its history as a lens into Hollywood -- and the candid stories behind its stories.
A lack of dramatic action, underwritten characters, and an overwritten score combine to sink this musical fantasy from Broadway vets Maury Yeston, Thomas Meehan, and the late Peter Stone.
It's not magical Shakespeare, but a big, ebullient cast; smart timely embellishments; and rambunctious, rustic high jinks make this outdoor show a lot of fun to watch.
Writer-performer Robert Chionis' sincere almost-one-man jukebox musical about a young gay boy from the sticks in NYC at the start of the AIDS epidemic is poorly scripted and awkwardly deli…
This whirlwind musical tour through Wonderland, while not particularly well-wrought, does convey a childlike wonder and benefits from an imaginative small-scale staging and short running t…
It was a rainy Wednesday and I decided to check out a matinee of "Cloud Nine," a play described as "a cautionary expedition into the cuckooland of sexual role-playing." My life was forever …
As Fredo, Cazale almost shrinks himself. The lips are thin, the mustache is thin, the clothes are too big. He embodies that chair like a praying mantis on his back, flailing on the ice, th…
You can't talk about Sidney Poitier's performance in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"—really, you can't talk about Sidney's entire career—without acknowledging the major historic…
We asked respected industry professionals to share their favorite performances by an actor or a cast in a movie, TV series, or stage production. The response was tremendous.
Lunt filled his performance with the genuine inner agony that gave birth to his performance. I understood that in acting, no matter how vivid the external form, if it lacks inner content, …
Mark Rylance is an ideal example of what a stage actor should be. Not only is he truthful and courageous in his own character development; he is also generous and supportive to the actors …
The whole stage available, he stood in the center, and while delivering Hamlet's monologue, he was still. Using only subtle expressions, and the power of his voice, he commanded an entire …
The most exciting evening I've had in the theater was a preview of the original production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and the most exciting aspect of that glorious production was…
If you're an actor, watching a master teaches you how to be smoother, more honest, and more trusting. Sometimes when actors audition, we're a little too big, and we don't realize that bein…
Robert Duvall's performance as Mac Sledge in "Tender Mercies" took my breath away and embodied what I consider the ultimate goal of an actor: to simply live in the skin of the character.
Vanessa Redgrave. Her work is metaphysical. I swear to God, when she drops into character, her molecules get rearranged.
She carried "Girlfight" with believability and a relentless consistency that far surpassed that of many more-experienced actors.
She was that character. There was something so vulnerable about her. She was so convincing, she made me actually squirm in my seat. It was like being a child again.
