8,501 stories from Backstage
This dance-theater offering is an inauthentic employment of flamenco dance, set against hip-hop sensibilities, in the service of a pummeling, percussion-driven music and movement spectacle.
More trouble for "Spider-Man" on Broadway. Choreographer Daniel Ezralow, who designed the show's intricate flying sequences, will be replaced, two sources tell Bloomberg News.
Despite director Jack Cumming III's puzzling decision to stage the musical in a cavernous SoHo loft, it's a pleasure to re-encounter MIchael John LaChiusa's bracing take on "La Ronde."
Dan Wackerman's uninspired direction, hackneyed ensemble performances, and unsuccessful rewrites hobble this attempt to fix a worthy but flawed musical.
The Pearl Theatre Company has brought a gem of a play to New York, featuring a trio of entertaining fellows—Hamlet, Dr. Faustus, and Martin Luther—cutting up on campus.
The stage version of the 1994 cult film comedy is a gut-busting ride through the outback that will be keeping a lot of chorus boys in sequins and feathers for many a season.
Playwright-director Arthur Laurents regrets giving Warner Bros. permission to adapt "Gypsy" for the big screen.
Composer Ivor Novello's debut West End musical proves at best an interesting curio in Thomas-Sabella Mills' scattered concert production for Musicals Tonight!.
A 12-year-old dancer in London West End's "Billy Elliot" was "living her dream," before she was struck and killed in a tragic bus accident.
Neil LaBute's "Fat Pig" will be delayed a year on Broadway after investors unexpectedly pulled out, the production company announced Thursday.
Tom Shillue's new show deserves a subtitle: "I Love the '80s." No, he's not spewing witticisms about Chia Pets and Members Only jackets, as they do on the popular VH1 program.
Josh Beamish is a Canadian dance artist whose work deserves much greater and more widespread recognition in the U.S. than it has yet received.
Director Danny Boyle and playwright Nick Dear eschew horror-movie clichés to make an adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic that's both a thriller and an intellectual debate.
West Los Angeles College located in Culver City (near Sony Studios) has a black box theatre and supporting office space that are currently not being used.
Encores! concert version of George Abbott and Frank Loesser's 1948 musical based on "Charley's Aunt" is a highlight of the current theatrical season.
"This is something you can only do once in the lifetime of a theater, this save-the-theater campaign," said managing director Lara Smith of Atlanta theater Actor's Express.
Under Lenny Leibowitz's strong direction, Marvell Rep's fully realized production gives compelling new life to S. Ansky's classic ghost story of the Yiddish stage.
Propeller propels Shakespeare's classic mistaken-identity romp into the comic stratosphere with a riotously funny production set in a contemporary South American city at carnival time.
After competing on CBS's "The Amazing Race," Jonathan Schwartz began playing Professor Cobwell, one of the Geek Chorus who serve as narrators for "Spider-Man" on Broadway.
Despite several topflight turns, director David Leveaux's production of Tom Stoppard's eloquent play is just fuzzy enough to keep us out of "Arcadia."
Best known for "South Park," creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have joined forces with "Avenue Q" co-creator Robert Lopez to forge a musical, "The Book of Mormon."
The Broadway and film star's legendary voice may be a bit dimmed by time, but her superb musicianship and serious acting chops insure that the lady is still a champ.
Recording star Dionne Warwick and legendary musical theater performer Carol Channing are among the honorees at the 26th Annual Bistro Awards, which celebrate excellence in cabaret.
Role-playing turns ludicrous in Robin Rice Lichtig's stilted new take on Jean Genet's "The Maids," here reset in suburban New Jersey.
I was both intrigued and dismissive when Justin Moran announced that he would create "The Spidey Project," a "guerrilla theater" musical based on the "Spider-Man" comic books.
