As a complement to our semi-annual spotlight on acting schools and coaches, Back Stage focuses on the specific challenges of creating an original role from the ground up.
Includes interviews with Brian Murray and Sally Murphy.
Portraying the real-life sociologist Morrie Schwartz in "Tuesdays with Morrie" poses a number of potential stumbling blocks for actor Alvin Epstein. "It's a great responsibility playing some…
Twelve plays have reached final nomination for the 25th Susan Smith Blackburn Awards, given annually to women who deserve recognition for having written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.
Actors discuss the fellow performers they admire most.
Following a quartet of acclaimed roles in high-profile films, John C. Reilly is no longer Hollywood's best-kept secret.
Casting directors recall the most memorable auditions they've witnessed.
Kazimierz Dejmek, a stage director whose work sparked a student-led revolt against the communist government, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 78.
As we continue our search for who will pass the torch of good music and who will be the next generation of movers and shakers, Back Stage takes a look back at the year in cabaret.
Back Stage West catches up with up with the writer/director who took on the impossible-- adapting the script for the hit musical Chicago into a feature film.
Theatre in NYC made a welcome recovery from the traumatic events of 2001, and a selection of our Back Stage critics survey the smorgasbord and recall the tastiest treats of a nourishing year.
The Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP has announced its nominees for its Thirteenth Annual Theatre Awards.
Financial woes are closing Richmond's only professional nonprofit theater.
Despite the devastating effect of historic terrorist attacks in New York and Washington coupled with a recessionary economy, Actors' Equity Association members still maintained fairly level …
Actor Michael Nouri and his fellow cast members collected more than applause during a recent national tour of the musical "South Pacific."
How to deal with the director from hell.
Once the real world has been entered, becoming a theatrical director takes timing and patience; a gift for networking also doesn't hurt.
Backstage at Radio City Music Hall, past the Rockettes' dressing rooms, three camels, six sheep, two donkeys and a horse keep a woman awake each night.
Some things in life are simply irreplaceable--close friends, family, and, yes, a spectacular night at the theatre. Yet in the theatre, actors replacing one another are just about an everyday…
Gordon Calls Eisenberg 'Dedicated' but with 'Faulty Reasoning'
As a gasoline-sniffing widower in Love Liza, the fearless Philip Seymour Hoffman makes an unlikely -- and unforgettable -- leading man.
Playwright Janusz Glowacki won't go so far as to say that Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" is ripe for satire, despite the over-the-top parody in his "The Fourth Sister."