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On the heels of his major FEC victory, get to know the man behind the Colbert character.
Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier are slated to star in a revamped version of the Gershwin classic "Porgy and Bess" on Broadway.
There are both new winners and repeat victors from previous years.We gratefully thank those of you who voted. We hope you'll vote again next year, joined by other readers who want to be a …
Since 2006, we've asked our readers for their top choices among headshot photographers, acting teachers and coaches, reproduction houses, etc. For New York, there are both new winners and r…
Rylance took the stage in two tour de force roles this past season. Both performances received more votes from our readers than any other, so we're awarding Rylance a double honor.
The "Sex and the City" is reprising her role in Noel Coward's "Private Lives" when the comedy hits New York this fall following a run in London last year.
Bernadette Peters and the rest of the stars of the Kennedy Center production of "Follies" will be moving north to Broadway.
For two years, Peter Michael Marino has taught Levels 1 and 2 of his Flying Solo course - helping actors, comedians, and others create their own one-person shows - at the Peoples Improv Th…
Gorenstein has photographed actors such as Josh Sussman, Mindy Kaling, Michael J. Burg, Alana De La Garza, Seth Gabel, Jason Tam, Troy Metcalf, Jeff McCarthy, Tina Maddigan, and Natalie Co…
David Esbjornson's production is split between a complex examination of sexual politics and a light comedy but somehow still satisfies. Danai Gurira and Michael Hayden lead a powerful cast.
This brand-new professional company is a bit ahead of itself attempting James Baldwin's complex 1964 drama about race in America, but it deserves points for the attempt.
Václav Havel's porcine parable, a combination media circus, rural operetta, and political critique, may be one of the more playfully rewarding offerings of New York's summer season.
This delightfully light and entertaining comic contemplation of modern philosophy lovingly mocks and challenges six figure's groundbreaking ideas without reducing their scope.
Back Stage is working on a story about how actors who just moved to New York afford to live in the city. The story will run in our upcoming "Welcome to New York" issue.
Underneath all the wondrous acrobatics, costumes, and sets and the cacophonous score, Cirque du Soleil's dark new show has a romantic heartbeat generated by two terrific performers.
Among L.A.'s most daring companies, Sacred Fools was formed 14 years ago, when current board member John Sylvain gathered a handful of friends in his living room to brainstorm.
Neil LaBute may be among the most polarizing figures in American theater, but Back Stage readers was united in its praise for VS. Theatre Co.'s recent mounting of "The Mercy Seat."
Michelle Clunie faced a tall order taking on Abby in "The Mercy Seat," a role that proved emotionally exhausting for no less a stage and screen veteran than Sigourney Weaver.
Glen Alexander, Nelson Domingo, and Catherine Love, who met as classmates at the Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio, collaborated to form this ambitious company in May 2010.
Andrew Frank and Doug Silver's delightful musical salute to Greenwich Village's history and denizens is a refreshing breeze of a show—tuneful, literate, sassy, and sharp.
The Tony Award-nominated star of the just-closed revival of "Born Yesterday" will return to Broadway in the fall by reprising her old role in "Venus in Fur."
Elaine Stewart, an alluring leading lady of the 1950s who went on to serve as a co-hostess of two hit game shows in the '70s, died Monday at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 81.
Full of rich voices, J.C. Hanley and James Olm's new musical feels like a high school play or a church production, and its easy-listening score would be more at home as an inspirational al…
Director Will Pomerantz firmly holds the reigns of Victoria E. Calderon's slow-moving drama, but a looser grip might have allowed the somewhat contrived material to breathe.
Rickman, who won a Tony Award in the 2002 production of Noel Coward's "Private Lives," will star in the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's new play "Seminar" this fall.
