8,501 stories from Backstage
"The Book of Mormon," "Anything Goes," "War Horse," and "Good People" are just a few of the productions nominated for both Drama League Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards.
Belushi and Leonard — two actors more famous these days for their roles on TV than stage — seem to have already gotten their chemistry down as they work on a revival of "Born Y…
Director David Cromer emphasizes the darkness in John Guare's 1971 sad-funny farce, while leading man Ben Stiller fails to convince as a schlubby would-be songwriter.
Ms. Winfrey told Chris Rock that appearing on Broadway is "the one thing" she wants to do. "It's my dream," she said on last Friday's show.
Anne Bogart and a brave company of nine manage to make some sense out of Charles Mee's bizarre collage of a play about an ever-changing America.
"American Idiot," based on the songs by Green Day off its album of the same name, will tour North America, producers announced Monday.
If you can't come to Broadway, Broadway is going to come to you.That's the philosophy behind the upcoming nationwide movie theater showings of two current Broadway shows.
The pugnacious Nina Arianda claims Billie Dawn for her own in director Doug Hughes' loving and intelligent revival of Garson Kanin's classic comedy.
If Alisha Silver's play has trouble connecting its dots and feels more like a series of characters sketches than a complete work, it still marks her as a writer to watch.
"Being an actor in L.A. and New York is so competitive," says Claire Winters. "It's really special to have relationships with actors where they know you are invested in their success, too."
Christopher Tierney, who fell 35 feet into the orchestra pit in front of a shocked preview audience on Dec. 20, got permission from his doctor to rejoin rehearsals beginning Monday.
The lead producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" said they had no choice but to shake up the creative team after realizing the musical simply wasn't working.
Jez Butterworth's play falls in the tradition of works lionizing the nonconforming outsider whose outrageous behavior masks a pure heart that by contrast proves the mendacity of the socie…
John Kelly combines performance art with the baroque in this stirring exploration of the limits of an artist's life centering on Caravaggio.
Karen Mason seamlessly merges the worlds of cabaret and musical theater in the recently opened Broadway musical "Wonderland."
Patina Miller has taken her role as a nun in "Sister Act" very seriously. How seriously? Her life these days is pretty cloistered.
A ramshackle yet agreeable film comedy with plausibility issues has here become an even more ramshackle and outlandish musical comedy that consistently diminishes its source.
The talented Christopher Shinn seems to have set himself a difficult task with this irritating offering: writing a play largely devoid of dramatic conflict.
Stephen Schwartz's first opera, though not without its flaws, proves him to be a first-rate musical dramatist and is a welcome addition to the modern opera canon.
This joint effort of a playwright and a historian about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire is both sketchy in its history and lacking in dramatic tension.
The European company has returned to the Public Theater and through May 15 will perform three works in repertory at La MaMa ETC.
Consummate character actor Philip Baker Hall returns to the stage in "I Never Sang for My Father," his first play since his turn in 2002's "The Guys."
A new version of the $70 million Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" with music written by U2's Bono and The Edge will open June 14.
There are 20 names in the producing credits for Matthew Lombardo's poorly written drama, starring Kathleen Turner. All I kept thinking was, "Didn't any of them see 'Looped'?"
One has to admire the Belarus Free Theatre for its dedication and courage, but its offstage story of getting to the United States is more gripping than its Harold Pinter program.
