8,501 stories from Backstage
Intended as growth, Qui Nguyen's new play for Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company instead feels like an ambitious misstep.
Director-choreographer Rob Ashford talked Daniel Radcliffe into trying his hand at musical comedy. Alas, the likable and undeniably talented lad is in over his head.
On the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, "Fabric, Flames and Fervor: Girls of the Triangle" makes its New York debut a short walk from where the tragic fire took place.
Director Arin Arbus, star John Douglas Thompson, and a uniformly fine cast electrify this no-frills, no-sense production of the Bard's most psychologically satisfying play.
Efforts to merge the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are moving ahead, though not quite so fast as some have suggested.
This ultimately winning production of John Cecil Holm and George Abbott's keenly crafted Depression-era comedy is slow out of the starting gate but soon racing along to the finish line.
The gleefully sophomoric sensibilities of "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone perfectly mesh with the Broadway brio of Robert Lopez and Casey Nicholaw in this raw and riotous …
On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 7:30 p.m., casting directors from today's top children's programming will discuss all aspects of casting kids.
Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright of such plays as "The Hot L Baltimore," "Burn This," "Fifth of July" and "Talley's Folly," has died. He was 73.
Theater marquees will go dark at 8 p.m. Friday for one minute in memory of the actress, who succumbed to congestive heart failure at age 79 Wednesday.
Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars, died Wednesday at age 79.
Consisting of slim, movielike scenes and built on a situation so unique that it squelches any wider resonance, "Boy" never gathers enough steam to generate appreciable dramatic force.
Back Stage recently spoke to alumni and employees of three summer theater camps, as well as two acting schools that offer summer programs for kids and teens.
Dale Morris is a Republican, and he has at times gone to such great lengths to hide that fact that he even pretended to be a Democrat when he ran a theater company.
The American Theatre Wing is now accepting applications for its 2011 National Theatre Company Grants. Applications must submitted online by May 8 or postmarked by May 15.
The actress, who is leaving ABC's medical series at the end of this season, says she will star in a new production of the George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward opera "Porgy and Bess."
As founder and director of the American Theatre Wing's SpringboardNYC, Randy Ellen Lutterman runs a two-week training course every June for 35 college juniors and seniors.
This possible long-lost play by Shakespeare is given a flat staging by Classic Stage Company. At least it's providing work for reliable veterans Philip Goodwin and Jon DeVries.
"Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark" lead actress T.V. Carpio suffered an injury that will leave her out of the troubled Broadway production for two weeks.
John Leguizamo is in top form in "Ghetto Klown," his fifth solo effort, an entertaining combination of standup routine, autobiography, and Hollywood gossip fest.
Last week, the Atlanta Shakespeare Company achieved its claim of becoming the first in the U.S. to perform all 39 of the plays written at least in part by William Shakespeare.
The audience thought Conor Madden, who was playing the title character, was still acting when he collapsed on stage with a gash beneath his eye, the Associated Press reports.
Bathsheba Doran's funny-sad new play skillfully traces the myriad strands connecting a disparate group of people when a Keats scholar and a personal trainer get together.
Daniel Radcliffe has been involved with the organization, which provides crisis support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youths, since 2009, when he began appearing in PSAs.
Bill Harris' new play, based on the life of jazz great Charlie "Bird" Parker, feels surprisingly empty, dragged down by its deference to history.
