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Oscar-winner Judi Dench will receive this year's lifetime achievement award, the Crystal Globe, at the 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Currently in the middle of a four-month run of "Born Yesterday" on Broadway, the 26-year-old actress says that when the run ends on July 31 she might spend a week at the beach but then go …
The Cuban National Ballet heads to the United States next week for a month-long tour that director and ballet legend Alicia Alonso hopes will bring happiness to U.S.-Cuba relations.
In her varied career, Michelle Forbes has played her share of authority figures. Asked why she's never cast in such parts, Forbes says with a laugh, "I think it's the eyebrows."
The U2 frontman, who composed the music for problem-plagued $70 million Broadway production with the Edge, says the revamped show "will be there by opening night."
Actor Jeff Conaway, who starred in TV's "Taxi" and the movie musical "Grease," has died.
This musical homage to spectacular mediocrity, staged in a gallery installation, is a visual achievement, but the script is dramatically disappointing and the songs forgettable.
Christopher Fry's blank-verse comedy-drama about the meaning and purpose of life won't be everyone's cup of tea, but this scrappy production succeeds in making a case for it.
High-definition technology "has democratized these art forms and made them available to all the people who can't afford to travel and pay the 300 dollars a ticket," said Giovanni Cozzi, pr…
The playwright's "Cradle and All" is a cut-to-the-bone look at how babies can sometimes more easily resemble grenades, exposing secrets their parents want hidden and straining relationshi…
His first staging venture will be "It Shoulda Been You," a new musical starring Tyne Daly, set for the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J., this fall.
The stories of the women behind the gunslingers of the O.K. Corral could have made for a fascinating musical. Unfortunately, this isn't it.
This year Back Stage celebrates this amazing season with one of our biggest Tony Awards Spotlights ever. The Tonys will be presented Sunday, June 12, at 8 p.m. EDT in a live telecast by CBS …
The American Guild of Musical Artists, the union representing New York City Opera's singers and production personnel, filed unfair labor practice charges against City Opera on Thursday
Get ready for the awards on June 12 and brush up on your knowledge of the 39 acting nominees with Back Stage's annual Tony Awards voters guide.
Lookingglass is the fifth Chicago-based company to receive the Regional Theatre Tony Award. What started as eight acting students rebelling against the Establishment has grown into a 22-mem…
Founded in 1917 by the Drama League, the Drama Book Shop became an independent store in 1923. On June 11, the store will receive a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre.
Proof indeed that there is magic in the theater, a horse puppet made of cane, plywood, and mesh has captured the hearts of theatergoers, and its creators are being honored this year with a…
These four first-time Tony nominees are a pragmatic lot. They are deeply gratified to receive a Tony nod—and, with one exception, to be making their Broadway debut.
The 2010-11 Broadway season has been one of the busiest and most diverse in recent memory. This year Back Stage celebrates this amazing season with one of our biggest Tony Awards Spotlights …
In an ambitious mixed bill, American Ballet Theatre is presenting an enlightening display of masterful choreography that demonstrates why the creators are considered great dance makers.
Sutton Foster has earned a Tony Award and a host of other prizes to enhance bragging rights, but the thrill in being recognized yet again for a Tony has not diminished at all for the star …
Paige is currently appearing in the star-studded Kennedy Center revival of "Follies" in Washington, D.C. Surprisingly, Paige has done relatively little work in America until recently.
In two agile, amusing comedies about the joys and disappointments of marriage and parenthood, Daniel Goldfarb offers an excellent showcase for a pair of 30-something actors.
Celebrities may have taken over the Great White Way, but the effect on theater actors is up for debate.
