8,501 stories from Backstage
This new play by Terry Quinn struggles to assert itself both as drama and as farce, in a confused attempt to explore what happens when couples tell the truth.
This riotous romp through "Silence of the Lambs" turns horror into humor, making for a pleasing parody that deliciously highlights the story's most gruesome moments.
The Royal Shakespeare Company begins its ambitious five-play repertory with a rollicking, love-drunk production featuring one of the best Rosalinds in recent memory.
Steps Beyond, part of Steps on Broadway, is presenting on artists series about Jack Cole, who brought jazz dancing to Broadway and inspired Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse.
The Assembly's ensemble-devised work is a familiar celebration of 1970s activism, but for an occasionally inspiring visit to an important moment in liberal history, this production is toug…
This earnest production of Euripides' tragedy about the effects of war on women is too unskillfully acted to achieve director Kristin Skye Hoffman's intended comment on the timelessness of…
A revival of Cindy Lou Johnson's 1989 play, director Adam Fitzgerald's game production nevertheless accentuates the common flaws inherent in writing two-character plays.
An especially encouring trend was the number of new American plays including David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish," Theresa Rebeck's "Seminar," Lydia R. Diamond's "Stick Fly," and the triple pla…
What kind of deranged people watch "The Silence of the Lambs" and think: That would make a killer musical?These people: Jon and Al Kaplan, a pair of brothers from New York with a droll sens…
A dispute over words spoken by a gay character had threatened to derail his new project — a community opera involving 300 children — but officials said Thursday a compromise ha…
The troupe back in Britain had an actor skin a dead rabbit as part of a dinner scene in "As You Like It," but won't do it in New York following an outcry from animal rights activists.
Daniel Radcliffe will miss being an action hero. Emma Watson will miss being a role model. Robbie Coltrane will simply miss getting to play a good guy.
Of the new TV series announced for fall, none has caught the audience's eye (while raising eyebrows) like "The Playboy Club."
Two powerhouse performers turn Karoline Leach's otherwise tepid drama into an acting master class that all aspiring actors should witness.
A hit in Washington D.C.'s 2010 Terrence McNally festival, this production arrives on Broadway in new and improved shape, with Tyne Daly delivering stage magic as opera diva Maria Callas.
Choreographer John Byrne's ambitious contemporary dance fable purports to express the idea of the transcending soul but doesn't find compelling ways to physically illustrate its weighty id…
Logistics eclipse Shakespeare in this self-described "panoramic theater" presentation, but the summer evening ferry ride to faux France (Governors Island), replete with fireflies, is worth…
Peter Brook's minimalist, abridged reimagining of Mozart's penultimate opera intends to bare the work's raw, passionate soul, but his central lovers lack the needed fervor to completely ac…
Daly and Boggess play a chilly teacher and her overawed student in a revival of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning "Master Class."
Combining autobiography and standup, Judy Gold compares her life to her favorite TV shows in this light, fun, yet also heartfelt and touching show.
Yael Farber's South African version of "The Oresteia" is visually and musically thrilling, but her take on the Greek myth dilutes the story's dramatic power and political heft.
The filmmaker also reveals why he isn't happy with the Academy, whether he'd ever cast controversial NBA star LeBron James in a project and what he thinks about President Obama's chances of …
A community opera involving hundreds of children written by "Billy Elliot" playwright Lee Hall has collapsed after he refused a request to remove words spoken by a gay character.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has to be considered a very gracious houseguest. Not only has this English troupe arrived in New York to show off five of its productions with its own actors an…
Director Howard Davies lets us see Chekhov's classic with new eyes in this fresh and sensitive stage production from London's National Theatre filmed live for international audiences.
