8,501 stories from Backstage
Multimedia should never be used to paper over a weak script, but that's just what happens in Ivana Catanese and Kameron Steel's new drama.
Only Young Jean Lee's perverse imagination could turn a song called "I'm Gonna Die" into a rousing sing-along anthem—and get away with it.
Cheryl King and Joe Hutcheson have expanded their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender–oriented theater series while staying true to the mission they conceived four years ago.
Except in Kyle Abraham's fine "The Corner," the dancers far outshine their material in this latest offering from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's junior company.
With "The Escort," playwright Jane Anderson takes on attitudes toward sex workers, as escort Charlotte enters the lives of ex-spouses Rhona and Howard and their 13-year-old son.
The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have been courting each other for months. They are now ready to ask for permission to marry.
"Starting your own company and producing your own plays in a major market is a viable alternative to sitting in a theater lobby all day, waiting for someone to give you a shot."
David Askayar pleads no contest to two counts of violating the Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act.
Thanks to Kathleen Marshall's sleek staging and joyous choreography and a heaven-sent cast, this Roundabout revival of Cole Porter's classic is just about perfect.
This 2007 Olivier Award–winning play from Debbie Tucker Green is a thoroughly disquieting, relentlessly penetrating work of art. It's essential and stunning theater.
Police drummer Stewart Copeland and Monty Python star Terry Jones are the unlikely pair in a new operatic double bill which opens in London on Friday.
In a recent interview, Daniel Radcliffe claimed that he had three successive actors dismissed from the role of Rosemary in "How to Succeed..." before Rose Hemingway got the part.
Playwrights Athol Fugard and Eve Ensler will receive special honors at this year's Tony Awards. Fugard will get a lifetime achievement award; Ensler will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Awar…
Ever since Lauren Pritchard was a teenager, she dreamed of becoming a singer-songwriter — a goal she pursued with singular determination, even passing up an opportunity to achieve i…
ACTRA, Actors' Equity , AFTRA and SAG announced the launch of a new I AM PWD video titled "Inclusion in the Arts & Media of People With Disabilities."
A man dressed as a woman on a Broadway stage is not even a hot topic anymore. Where is the praise, however, for the female actors playing male characters?
Marisa Tomei and Frank Whaley find subtle shadings in Wallace Shawn's battling couple, but this 1979 dispatch from the frontlines of marital discord is too bleak to bear.
Despite a questionable surreal twist in plotting, Derek Nguyen's drama builds in power as it examines, on an intensely personal level, the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Carl Forsman's production of Michael Frayn's 1984 drama isn't perfect, but it's intriguing enough to hold your interest and keep you thinking.
Mexican singer and actor Diego Boneta has nabbed the lead role in "Rock of Ages," New Line and director Adam Shankman's adaptation of the Broadway musical.
Christine Toy Johnson spends a good chunk of her time on the inclusion of groups that are traditionally underrepresented in theater—among them performers with disabilities.
In this one-man show, NPR host Al Letson proves that he can make words spellbinding yet somehow never fully connects with his audience.
Inventive, funny, and a consistent kick to watch, the Mad Ones constitute a remarkable team that's full of anarchic high spirits and brawling energy.
We meet another Miss Brodie from Scotland in Douglas Maxwell's compelling if overwrought character study, and Joanna Tope shines in this one-woman play.
These true stories of sexual assault within the U.S. military, highlighting the institution's inadequate response, serve as effective advocacy but less successful drama.
