8,501 stories from Backstage
Anchored by Bekah Brunstetter’s expert script, this funny-sad production takes the audience on an emotional whirlwind through the mourning process via its rich characters.
Metropolitan Playhouse hits a high note with director Alex Roe's swift and vivid account of Arthur Arent's 1938 Living Newspaper play on the subject of substandard housing in America.
David Ives puts a modern spin on a classic of weight and size, and you'll never find a more enchanting "School for Lies."
Clocking in at a bloated two and a half hours, this tribute to New York City nightclubs never manages to escape from meander mode, despite a few high points.
The profane musical "The Book of Mormon" and the zany revival of "Anything Goes" received the most nominations Friday from the Drama Desk.
More than six decades after her professional debut in 1947, Julie Andrews remains popular with all generations
Fred Newman and David Truskinoff's hokey, underdeveloped 50-minute musical only skims the surface in its exploration of cultural clashing at a dance camp for city kids in the Hamptons.
The British company Punchdrunk creates a hypnotic nightmare of a show suggestive of Hitchcock and "Macbeth" from which you won't want to wake up.
The Obie Awards, which honor the best in Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theater, have announced the lineup for the upcoming awards ceremony.
The art and the business of acting are often at odds; in order to get work, or even agent representation, one must learn to "sell oneself"—that is, represent oneself as a business.
When most successful actors thank their moms for helping their careers, few are as literal as Ben Stiller.
Book writer and lyricist Iris Rainer Dart tries too hard for our tears and laughter in this melodramatic musical about a former Yiddish theater star.
Laurel Haines' new black comedy about a dystopian future makes for a reasonably diverting 80 minutes, though one can't help noticing that the script is awfully thin.
Chester Gregory is quite serious when he says he won't sign on for any project without "integrity, heart, and a message that inspires."
New York City Opera and the American Guild of Musical Artists, the union representing singers and production personnel at the company, will return to negotiations in either May or June.
"Newsical the Musical: Full Spin Ahead" and "Freud's Last Session" took home the prizes for best new musical and best new play at the first Off Broadway Alliance Awards on Monday.
Bob Kelly, a Broadway makeup artist and wig maker, died on Monday, April 18. He was 87 years old.
Four productions were canceled when the Intiman board shut down the season. Three of those plays were fully cast.
Producers of "Baby, It's You!" were slapped with a lawsuit Wednesday only hours before opening night by musicians claiming their names and likeness were used without permission.
Despite a brace of impassioned performances, Vince Melocchi's play suffers from a contrived plot that ultimately makes it difficult to take seriously.
Larry Kramer's towering American tragedy is getting a letter-perfect production from directors Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe. If you see only one play this year, make it "The Normal Heart."
Beth Leavel strives mightily to save this mishmash of a jukebox musical, but she can't perform miracles.
Joseph Sousa's affecting dysfunctional-family drama observing a love-hate sibling relationship in a middle-class Jewish family doesn't entirely escape the genre's common pitfalls.
The Broadway musical "Catch Me If You Can" garnered the most nominations, with six. "The Book of Mormon" and "War Horse" were also among the nominees.
Broadway musical producer John Cossette, who also followed in his father's footsteps to stage the Grammy telecasts and other entertainment award specials, has died at age of 54.
