8,501 stories from Backstage
Over the last few theatre seasons, a new kind of family has entered the picture onstage. Happy it isn't; indeed, it's as flawed as its earlier counterpart.
Modern women may need new understanding to play pre-feminist characters.
Booking an Act on the College and Small Theatre Circuits
Council Tells Members to Gather with Broadway/Tour Casts
Mark Bramhall traveled the country in search of a place to call home. He finally found A Noise Within, a classical repertory theatre company in Glendale.
Ellie Kanner offers advice, caution, and encouragement with her new book, How NOT to Audition: Avoiding the Common Mistakes Most Actors Make.
Particularly in the theatre, period pieces never go out of style, never wear out their welcome, and never grow old.
"Traditionally, you are supposed to prepare the audience for what will happen," remarks actor-singer Edelman. "But in this piece it just doesn't work."
Looking for some great gift ideas for actors? Back Stage West reviews the best new books coming out for the holidays.
Melissa Leo made the casting process work for her, with an active role in getting herself seen
Agent H. Shep Pamplin of Agents for the Arts said he couldn't stand it when an actor calls him and asks, "'Can I send you a picture?' I'm not the post office. I can't stop you," Pamplin quip…
Arthur Miller believes that if a young playwright wrote "Death of a Salesman" today, it wouldn't have a chance of getting produced.
Loy Arcenas helms an acclaimed Laguna Playhouse production of 'The Romance of Magno Rubio.'
Laura Breckenridge, though a sophomore at Princeton University, has appeared on Broadway in "The Crucible" and is currently the star of a new Off-Broadway hit, "The Moonlight Room."
Awards Embrace New and Old Companies Alike
Lambda Legal has criticized a letter allegedly issued by Cirque du Soleil saying it fired Matthew Cusick, an acrobat who had HIV, for safety -- not discriminatory -- reasons.
What to Do This Week? Our Theatre Geek Has a Suggestion, or Five
Puppets of various types have been being used vividly, albeit differently, in several recent productions. In the 9/11-related "Recent Tragic Events," novelist Joyce Carol Oates makes an appe…
In the same way that playwrights often give their characters drinking scenes as an excuse for them to express hidden feelings, so do playwrights sometimes build plays around card games, an a…
One myth about not-for-profits is that they cannot make profits. Many groups, in fact, operate in the black, including theatres.
Margo Martindale asserts that her Southern accent, mature years, and corpulent figure have served her well in theatre, now more than ever.
The North Carolina native, who began his career on the stage, understudied Robert Morse in Broadway's "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," then went on to star in "Love Me Lit…
Even in a show like "The Boy From Oz," a musical clearly aiming for biographical accuracy, the depictions of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli have been a tad reinvented for dramatic purposes.
