8,501 stories from Backstage
"I like to come here and write sometimes," playwright Rajiv Joseph says, laughing. "I feel like one big cliche: The writer and the legion of moms and their kids colliding at a coffee shop."
Author-director Derek Ahonen and a dynamite four-person cast deliver this surreal black comedy of co-dependent lesbians and their teenage cannibal daughter with precision and panache.
Jeremy Lawrence seems born to play the great Tennessee Williams, but this one-man show stitched out of the playwright's journals and works is too diffuse and lacking in dramatic purpose.
This time, Sue Sylvester couldn't stop the music. Matthew Morrison, who plays the glee club teacher Mr. Schuester on Fox's "Glee," announced a nationwide summer concert tour Friday.
Brooke Shields will replace Bebe Neuwirth in Broadway's "The Addams Family" this summer. Shields' performances will begin June 28; Neuwirth's last performance is June 26.
A new musical dreamed up by rocker John Mellencamp and horror writer Stephen King will make its world debut in Atlanta next year.
This is a largely commendable script-in-hand staging of the 1945 Broadway musical, which is driven by glorious Sigmund Romberg music and set against the backdrop of Tammany Hall politics.
Triple-threat author Laurence Mark Wythe proves a talented new musical theater artist, but his musical, though smart and pleasant from moment to moment, suffers from unoriginality.
Opera star Nathan Gunn is making his Café Carlyle debut with a beguilingly intimate set that feels as if you're sharing an evening salon of song in his home.
The comedian's latest one-man show never reaches the heights of his earlier "Sleepwalk With Me," too often feeling like a mishmash of generic romantic anecdotes.
Robin Williams focuses his manic energy in a fiercely intense performance, but it's not enough to save Rajiv Joseph's weird and confusing play.
Famed Martha Graham impersonator Richard Move is stupendous in this re-creation of a 1963 interview with the modern-dance genius, with Lisa Kron masterful as Graham's interviewer.
The SAG/AFTRA contracts covering work done for corporations and educational institutions, which was to expire April 30, has now been renewed through April 30, 2014.
Christian Borle is enjoying a star turn in the Off-Broadway hit "Peter and the Starcatcher," based on Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's novel, a prequel to "Peter Pan."
Hundreds of British arts organizations had their public funding slashed or eliminated Wednesday, the result of government spending cuts aimed at tackling the country's deficit.
Last week, screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday, March 23, at 79; character actor Helen Stenborg died just a few hours earlier at age 86.
Actors and teachers are required to get up in front of an audience, hold its attention for a time, and leave it wanting more. It also seems both professions are threatened.
"Brothers and Sisters" actor Luke MacFarlane and Patrick Breen (Broadway's "Next Fall") have been cast in the Broadway play, "The Normal Heart."
Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor's heartfelt family drama is a bit too lean, which blunts its emotional impact, despite director Judson Jones' absorbing production.
James Franco will start teaching a third-year graduate class on directing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The 32-year-old actor and director is expecting his own MFA in May.
Sharr White's taut, incisive puzzle play, beautifully directed by Joe Mantello and featuring a raw and riveting Laurie Metcalf, tells a harrowing and moving tale.
Almost a year later, the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of the Jerry Herman–Harvey Fierstein musical retains its raw appeal, and Fierstein admirably fills Douglas Hodge's pumps.
The proliferation of film work in Boston has greatly benefited area stage actors, many of whom have been quietly toiling in theater companies for years.
Thousands of union workers marched the streets of downtown L.A. to protest efforts to weaken public-employee unions. Among those marchers were members of the Screen Actors Guild.
Dancing drama: The ballerina who worked as Natalie Portman's double in "Black Swan" says the actress' actual dancing in the movie has been highly exaggerated.
