8,501 stories from Backstage
Minnesota Legislature Approval Would Secure $125M Complex
As 2003 began, advocates in many states began organizing grass-roots efforts against funding cuts for the arts, especially as many governors and legislatures toyed with the total elimination…
In springtime the National Endowment for the Arts's Challenge America program announced it would launch, this September, "the largest theatrical tour of Shakespeare in American history."
Site-specific theatre, as one practitioner put it, is concerned with "exploring the boundaries of theatrical experience," which often includes nonlinear narratives awash in multimedia elements.
Depending on whom one asks, traditional cabaret is either a dead or dying art form, a durable commodity, or a beleaguered stepchild to more lucrative showbiz ventures.
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner's unique artistic collaboration is founded on never giving up the search.
In an apparent slap at Actors' Equity Association, this year's National Broadway Theatre Awards (NBTAs) have eliminated the four best-actor honors.
To what extent there is a loss of audience for plays is debatable, but some publishing insiders weighed in with a gloomy spin when Stage & Screen Book Club recently announced it was closing …
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) has selected Adam Belcuore, an early-career director from Chicago, as the first recipient of the Mike Ockrent Fellowship in Musical T…
Does cold submitting ever lead to your play getting produced by an L.A. theatre company?
Where does L.A. fit into the New York and "regional" actor's life? Is there work to be had? Is the business really so different out there? We take a look in today's feature.
The original king of comedy, Mel Brooks, is basking in his newfound glory as creator of Broadway's biggest hit.
Jason Alexander and Martin Short, poised to open in L.A.'s Producers, dish about Canada, the Colonel, and Mel.
Wishing you were in Equity? Well, there are a growing number of touring companies -- mostly producing mega-musicals -- that employ non-Equity actors.
In days of yore, the theatre season began in fall and ended in spring. On Broadway, that's still largely true, but not so for Off-Broadway.
Developing the autobiographical solo show has many pitfalls, including the fear of collaboration.
The collective impulse, among the theatre community nationwide, is to maintain (if not boost) audiences for the future -- and thus the need for quality children's theatre.
Institutions with City-Mandated Funding Plan for the Worst
Rehearsing a scene for "The Gin Game," a PBS production that has reunited the stars of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" as acting partners after 37 years, they're recapturing the magic they shared.
The tabloids may be sniping and the Internet chat rooms chirping, but director Sam Mendes has more important things to worry about -- getting "Gypsy," starring Bernadette Peters, ready for B…
Rob Marshall's acclaim for "Chicago" signaled something heartening for stage directors: More and more, big studios and independent producers are offering them their first opportunities to di…
