Thursday, June 13, 2013
Whether you're soaring high above Broadway audiences, throwing knives at your wife on stage, embodying a upper middle class Jewish woman, or donning a pair of fabulous red boots and dancing …
Linked From Backstage at 08:20AMMonday, June 10, 2013
Everybody say yeah! The Cyndi Lauper tuner “Kinky Boots” pulled what many saw as an upset over the West End hit “Matilda” for the best musical trophy at the 67th annu…
Linked From Backstage at 09:45PMThe Tony Awards featured emotional speeches from the actors who took home Broadway's biggest honor last night. From Tracy Letts’ impassioned call to actors, to Patina Miller’s mo…
Linked From Backstage at 09:45PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Broadway's biggest night is coming up this Sunday, June 9 with the Tony Awards! Several actors' careers are about to be made with the coveted statuette, and Backstage will be there on the gr…
Linked From Backstage at 05:34PMWith the 2013 Tony Awards coming up on Sunday, we look back on what past Tony Award winners had to share about their craft, their journey, and advice they had for other actors.
Katie F…
Linked From Backstage at 09:45AMWe asked the honorees at the 69th annual Theatre World Awards: What is one lesson you learned making your Broadway debut?
See what "Golden Boy's" Yvonne Strahovski, "The Nance's" Johnny Orsi…
Linked From Backstage at 09:45AMWe chatted with some of the creative teams behind New York Stage and Film's upcoming 2013 Powerhouse Season at Vassar College.
See what directors Michael Mayer, Tommy Kail, Michael Wilson an…
Linked From Backstage at 09:45AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
We chatted with some of Broadway's best dancers and choreographers at the 2013 Astaire Awards Award on Monday night!
See what Bebe Neuwirth, Charlotte d'Amboise, Billy Porter, Jerry Mitchell…
Linked From Backstage at 05:48PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
"Pippin” and “Motown” split the top prizes at the 30thAnnual Frred and Adele Astaire Awards, presented at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University…
Linked From Backstage at 09:56PMTom Hanks might have two Oscars and A-list celebrity status, but he had never performed on a Broadway stage until this year.
"Can you be an actor in this world and not want to make a Broadwa…
Linked From Backstage at 04:23PMMonday, June 3, 2013
Hundreds of students took to the Broadhurst Theater stage Monday morning, making their Broadway debut before their peers, educators and supporters, as part of Broadway Junior Celebration.
Ho…
Linked From Backstage at 09:24PMThursday, May 30, 2013
Going through three lead actors on a five-week run of “Slipping” was a crash introduction to Los Angeles for Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, according to Artistic Director David…
Linked From Backstage at 09:01PMAs the 2013-2013 theater season draws to a close, the Broadway League released some surprising data on production grosses and attendance over the past year. According to the League, Broadway…
Linked From Backstage at 07:33AMThursday, May 23, 2013
The economic realities of the theater world have hit artists hard. Even rehearsal spaces are no longer free from the vagaries of New York City rent, falling prey to outrageous fees or total …
Linked From Backstage at 07:37AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
The REDCAT has received a major grant that will help it expand Radar L.A., an international contemporary theater festival set for late September.
The Los Angeles interdisciplinary contempora…
Linked From Backstage at 09:21PMWe sat down with some of the 2013 Drama Desk Award winners after the ceremony on Sunday night and asked them to impart wisdom to aspiring actors!
See what Bertie Carvel, Judith Light, Michae…
Linked From Backstage at 04:29PMThe love was definitely in the room at the 58th annual Village Voice Obie Awards, which were hosted by Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos at Webster Hall on Monday night.
The Obie Awards honor …
Linked From Backstage at 02:29PMTwo Los Angeles area high school students won a chance to perform on Broadway after claiming the top spots in the regional round of the National High School Musical Theater Awards.
The final…
Linked From Backstage at 06:37AMMonday, May 20, 2013
"Matilda" and "Pippin" took home the top awards for best musical and best musical revival at the 58th annual Drama Desk Awards.
The West End import also received awards for Outstanding Featu…
Linked From Backstage at 01:25PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
We asked the 2013 Tony Award nominees to share their best advice for aspiring actors.
Watch our video interview below, or click here to view the slideshow!
Linked From Backstage at 08:10PMMonday, May 13, 2013
“Pippin” and “Kinky Boots” won outstanding revival and new Broadway musical, respectively, at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Winners were announced on Monday mornin…
Linked From Backstage at 10:37PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Poly Prep Country Day School’s middle school campus in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, might be a borough away from the Great White Way, but the school’s 360-seat theater, seasoned facu…
Linked From Backstage at 04:19PMThe actor’s routine of coming in to read has meant something different to Barbara Bain for the last 20 years.
In 1993, Bain, a film and television actor famous for her portrayal of Cin…
Linked From Backstage at 04:19PMYoung actors in Southern California have the chance to spend a few weeks with Shakespeare this summer.
A Noise Within, the area’s only year-round classical repertory company, will be h…
Linked From Backstage at 04:19PMTheater fans are growing excited about the Tony Awards, but leaders of Actors’ Equity Association may not share their enthusiasm. The New York Post reported that the stage performers u…
Linked From Backstage at 04:19PMBroadway is coming to Los Angeles this summer, giving local musical theater actors the chance to take the stage in productions ranging from a rock musical to a Prohibition-era crime satire t…
Linked From Backstage at 12:51PMMonday, May 6, 2013
"Dogfight," "The Piano Lesson," and "The Whale" took home the top awards for best musical, best revival, and best play at the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, which were presented in a ceremony a…
Linked From Backstage at 01:29PMFriday, May 3, 2013
The New York Drama Critics Circle awarded West-End import "Matilda The Musical" and Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" best musical and best play, respectively, on Fr…
Linked From Backstage at 05:10PMThursday, May 2, 2013
For Backstage’s 2013 Broadway Power List, we asked more than two dozen New York City theater professionals to name the most powerful Broadway players. The results are fairly similar to…
Linked From Backstage at 10:42PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Berry Gordy is probably not having a very good day. Though his autobiographical jukebox tuner “Motown: The Musical” continues to dominate the Broadway box office, the show was sh…
Linked From Backstage at 05:27PMNew musicals "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" the musical are neck and neck with Tony Award nominations with 13 and 12 nods respectively. Actors Sutton Foster and Jesse Tyler Ferguson announced t…
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