8,501 stories from Backstage
This fringe-festival favorite might have cut a little deeper, but it's still a frantically inventive showcase for the comedic skills of its two lead actors.
The musical has earned $809,000 over five preview performances that were at 95% capacity, Broadway League reports.
The 2011 Astaire Award Nominees spoke to Back Stage about their dance training and how to make it as a performer in New York.
Kristoffer Diaz's "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" was honored as the best new American play of the 2010-2011 season at the 56th annual Obie Awards on Monday night.
At NBC's upfront event on Monday, attendees were treated to a first look at the new series "Smash," a musical drama that goes behind the scenes of the making of a Broadway musical.
"War Horse," "The Book of Mormon," and "Anything Goes" led the 61st annual Outer Critics Circle Awards on Sunday with four wins each.
Julliard, New York Philharmonic join coalition to speak out against "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," "West Side Story" for cutting live performances.
“Squealer” feels like a concerted effort on the part of playwright Jonathan Blitstein and director Daniel Talbott to approximate an early play by Adam Rapp or Tracy Letts.
This 70-minute drama, about a baseball player refusing to sing the national anthem after the death of his brother in Iraq, promises provocation but winds up largely an unsurprising sports …
Lynne Taylor-Corbett's "The Seven Deadly Sins," featuring Patti LuPone, is musically and visually stunning, but choreographically it's less eventful than expected.
The married Broadway stars deliver a professional and polished set in this cabaret tour through their romance, but there aren't many surprises.
A lyricist and composer on the forthcoming Broadway musical adaptation of "Tootsie"claim in a lawsuit filed in NY Supreme Court that the producer is trying to cut them out of the project.
A revamped version of musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" had its first preview Thursday evening with just a few glitches and a new original song from U2's Bono and the Edge.
A minister with a terminal illness presides over a Christmastime gathering of his estranged family in a play with appealing characters but marred by an overly slow pace.
This experimental piece is a full-blown digital barrage, using projections and sound to bring the horrors of war to the home front.
Daniel Beaty's energetic new musical about gentrification, sex, friendship, religion, and poetry is heady but unwieldy. In telling of a second Harlem Renaissance, its lively cast raises the…
Passionate arias and shaky playwriting combine to tell the story of a nun murdered for her courageous defense of the Amazon rainforest.
Iris Rainer Dart says she is relieved to be home on the West Coast following the grueling experience of writing her first Broadway musical, "The People in the Picture."
On May 12 and 13 Actors' Equity Association will present a festival of short plays by Asian-American female playwrights. Asian-American theater company Leviathan Lab will co-present.
On Monday night some of entertainment's elite did their best to bring William Shakespeare to Southern California with an all-star reading of "The Merry Wives of Windsor."
Mabou Mines returns the storybook tale of Peter Pan to its more grown-up roots, in a production that manages to inspire a childlike sense of wonder in those big or small.
Michael P. Kramer's wooden-beam set provides the contours of the many settings the musical requires, while also providing an open central area where the ensemble sits throughout.
All that's missing from John Strasberg's play inspired by Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" are sets, most props, a uniformly competent cast, and relatable characters. But it is "modern."
Overacting and a too-frantic pace do not entirely obscure the charms of Norman Krasna's smart, easygoing World War II comedy.
Neil Patrick Harris is coming back for a Tony encore. The Emmy winner and star of CBS's "How I Met Your Mother" was announced today as the host of the 65th annual Tony Awards.
