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NY Review: 'The Best Is Yet To Come: The Music Of Cy Coleman' by Erik Haagensen

David Zippel's beautifully structured, exquisitely executed revue is a dry-martini delight that should leave everyone, from aficionados of Broadway's coolest composer to the uninitiated, d…

SOURCE: Backstage at 8:05am on May 25, 2011☆⚑

Daniel Radcliffe, Catherine Zeta-Jones to Present at Tony Awards by Lindsay Powers

Daniel Radcliffe, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Whoopi Goldberg will present Tonys during the June 12 ceremony. Also slated to appear: Chris Rock, Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer.

SOURCE: Backstage at 12:16pm on May 24, 2011☆⚑

'Book of Mormon,' 'Anything Goes' Top Drama Desk Awards by Kimberly Nordyke

Each wins five awards at Monday's ceremony, including the top musical prizes; "War Horse" and revival "The Normal Heart" top the best play categories.

SOURCE: Backstage at 10:59am on May 24, 2011☆⚑

John Benjamin Hickey Juggles Stage Role, TV Show by Mark Kennedy

Hickey is starring on Broadway as an AIDS-stricken journalist in a much-praised revival of Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" and playing Laura Linney's troubled brother on Showtime's "The …

SOURCE: Backstage at 10:47am on May 24, 2011☆⚑

WTC View by Nicole Villeneuve

Eight years after its premiere in the New York International Fringe Festival, Brian Sloan's play still captures the elegiac but persevering mood that continues to shape the city after Sept…

SOURCE: Backstage at 7:30am on May 24, 2011☆⚑

Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2011, Series A by David A. Rosenberg

Ensemble Studio Theatre's one-acts about displaced people trying to connect are only intermittently diverting. Though they're well-acted and presented with care, the evening rarely catches…

SOURCE: Backstage at 3:48am on May 24, 2011☆⚑

No Problemo Amigo by Mitch Montgomery

Jaime Espinal's satiric but overly silly play, which offers a tale of a superhero Latino immigrant adjusting to American culture, is embellished with nifty projections and a precise sound …

SOURCE: Backstage at 3:45am on May 24, 2011☆⚑

Arena Theater Takes Grisham Novel to the Stage by Brett Zongker

It's the first theatrical adaptation of a Grisham novel after a series of hit movies made from his legal thrillers, including "The Pelican Brief," "The Firm" and others.

SOURCE: Backstage at 3:27am on May 24, 2011☆⚑

A Song From 'Wicked' a Popular Choice on Tuesday by Mark Kennedy

"For Good," from the hit Broadway musical "Wicked," will be heard during two high-profile goodbyes: the season finale of "Glee" and the second-to-last airing of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

SOURCE: Backstage at 3:24am on May 24, 2011☆⚑

Equity Elects New Council Members by Daniel Holloway

Actors' Equity Association has elected 14 new members to its National Council, the union announced Monday. The new council members won five-year terms.

SOURCE: Backstage at 12:38pm on May 23, 2011☆⚑

DC Review: 'Follies' by Erik Haagensen

While it's always a pleasure to encounter James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's woundingly beautiful, vibrantly theatrical meditation on mortality, director Eric Schaeffer's wham-bam-thank-…

SOURCE: Backstage at 2:49am on May 23, 2011☆⚑

Playwrights Bask in Attention on Broadway by Mark Kennedy

From "Good People" to "Ghetto Klown" to "Lombardi," it was a bumper year for dramatic writers. Of the 25 plays that made it to Broadway for the 2010-2011 season, a robust 14 productions we…

SOURCE: Backstage at 11:05am on May 20, 2011☆⚑

"War Horse," "Anything Goes," "Mormon" Win Drama League Awards by Frank Nestor

The 77th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony was hosted by Kathleen Turner. The show's presenters gave out prizes in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:54am on May 20, 2011☆⚑

NY Review: 'Knickerbocker' by David Sheward

A play consisting of nothing but two-person conversations in the same restaurant booth could be static, but this is a moving and funny rumination on fatherhood.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:07am on May 20, 2011☆⚑

Cut by Suzy Evans

Crystal Skillman's poetic dialogue suffuses this moving new play, which expertly explores deep human issues while chronicling the petty problems of reality television stars and writers.

SOURCE: Backstage at 4:14am on May 20, 2011☆⚑

Under the Blue Sky by Mark Peikert

What director Paula D'Alessandris and her cast have created in this New York premiere is a low-fi production that puts the emphasis firmly on the fine performances.

SOURCE: Backstage at 3:00am on May 20, 2011☆⚑

Just Cause by Suzy Evans

Zack Russell's commentary on the fate of Generation Y in the wake of omnipresent technology adequately makes its point, but his argument seems somewhat redundant and at times, unfathomable.

SOURCE: Backstage at 9:00am on May 19, 2011☆⚑

NY Review: 'Lucky Guy' by David Sheward

The story is silly and contrived, but Willard Beckman's campy little musical is a hilarious spoof and bravo for Varla Jean Merman.

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:45am on May 19, 2011☆⚑

Board of Troubled NYC Opera Meets To Talk Future by Verena Dobnik

The New York City Opera, a pillar of American culture that has for decades built daring new productions along with the careers of stars like Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and Beverly Sill…

SOURCE: Backstage at 5:06am on May 19, 2011☆⚑

Producing a Solo Show by Simi Horwitz

Michael Bonnabel's solo show "The Good Boy" is now running at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and it has been quite a journey for the writer-performer.

SOURCE: Backstage at 1:29am on May 19, 2011☆⚑

How to Create Your own Feature, Short, Pilot, or Web Series by Jessica Gardner

Before you embark on a production that might cost you thousands of dollars, you need to weigh why you want to shoot something, how you are going to do it, and what the potential rewards mi…

SOURCE: Backstage at 1:18am on May 19, 2011☆⚑

Putting a Show Up Against the Odds by Ginger Reiter

While nonunion talent in Florida is scarce, the overwhelmingly talented and trained actors who make their way to New York are saliva-inducing to a playwright-composer like I am.

SOURCE: Backstage at 12:47pm on May 18, 2011☆⚑

Woody Allen To Return to Broadway This Fall

Three one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May are being bundled together and heading to Broadway this fall.

SOURCE: Backstage at 11:00am on May 18, 2011☆⚑

NY Review: 'The Sphinx Winx' by Marc Miller

This new Antony and Cleopatra musical comedy wants to be a burlesque laughfest in the style of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," but it's deficient in pretty much every dep…

SOURCE: Backstage at 8:00am on May 18, 2011☆⚑

NY Review: 'Woman Before A Glass' by Robert Windeler

Despite a clearly committed solo performance, the staging of this 95-minute bioplay about art collector Peggy Guggenheim is cramped and literally artless.

SOURCE: Backstage at 1:30am on May 18, 2011☆⚑
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