8,501 stories from Backstage
Producers of "Driving Miss Daisy" said Monday that Jones, Vanessa Redgrave and Boyd Gaines will reprise their Broadway roles when the production shifts to London this fall.
Thanks to a cunning use of genre conventions, this Western-zombie mash-up is a rip-roarin', gut-spillin' good time, with makeup and gore effects that elicit groans of morbid delight.
This elegant and wearying Korean-language version of "Hamlet" includes artful Korean dances, costuming, and music, but these cultural flourishes ultimately hinder rather than enhance the p…
Director Daniel Talbott's lighthearted open-air production succeeds with its casual and improvised nature, though the poor sound amplification makes it difficult to enjoy at times.
Alicia Keys is following Jay-Z and Will Smith into the world of Broadway producers. Keys, whose hits include "Fallin'" and "A Woman's Worth," will help produce the play "Stick Fly."
Baba Brinkman's playful and imaginative romp through Darwin and modern culture is a great idea delightfully staged, but its mishmash of themes and arguments overwhelms as much as it clarif…
Daniel Sullivan's straightforward staging of one of Shakespeare's problem plays fails to overcome the fanciful plot machinations, but the supporting cast delivers many pleasures.
The heart of "Some of Our Parts" beats fervently as these seven profound and affecting 10-minute plays disable preconceived notions about the human experience.
Scott Bakula, Josh Charles, Michael Shannon, Michael Cudlitz and Donnie Wahlberg make ensemble acting its own art form.
Theatre for a New Audience has broken ground on its first permanent home, which will be the first new classical theater performance space built in New York City in almost 50 years.
So mammoth is the stage for "Zarkana," the latest Cirque du soleil show that opens later this month, that it threatens to swallow up a $50 million production of 11 acts and 75 performers.
The second powerful play in a year to tell the story of a horrifying 1920 purge of gay students at Harvard, the Plastic Theatre's communally written show is a triumph.
When there's as much talent on display as there is in Daniella Shoshan's new play, it's dispiriting to have to report that the show comes across as one hot mess.
Duncan Stewart, director of casting at the National Artists Management Co., has partnered with colleague Benton Whitley to form a new casting office, Duncan Stewart and Co., located in New…
While it's always a treat to hear a Bessie Smith song set, and Miche Braden has the chops to deliver this one believably, Angelo Parra's biographical musical unfolds too sketchily.
It's clear that a refreshingly original sensibility is at work in Michael Mitnick's consistently inventive and surprising comedy-drama about love and commitment.
Production elements are slight in this tale of Hurricane Katrina, but the writing, direction, and performances succeed in making you tense and emotionally involved as the water rises.
Author-actor Jeff Key's intelligent, evocative, psychologically shrewd solo show about serving as a gay Marine in the Iraq war is one of the finest of its genre I have ever encountered.
"Love Never Dies" opened in March last year to mixed reviews at the Adelphi Theatre as the first musical sequel to open in London's West End. The show will close in August.
An Americana folk opera based on a teenage Bill Clinton debuts this weekend in New York, featuring some of the exaggerated Southern characters who surrounded him growing up, such as his fun-…
"It's incredibly difficult to be under a shot-glass and a microscope like that," she said of the public scrutiny that came with her involvement in the project.
Amy Herzog's new play is a companion piece to her captivating "After the Revolution," but it's more successful as character study than as a fully realized dramatic work.
These supposedly "unproduceable plays" prove to be imaginative and produceable, but the production's time constraints impede their effectiveness. These budding works need more time to germ…
The familiar marital-battlefield scenario is given new life in Michael Weller's insightful two-hander, with Joely Richardson and Cotter Smith as a pair of formidable combatants.
The Gershwin Awards celebrate the outstanding achievement in musical theater performance of high school students throughout the New York City metropolitan area.
