Thursday, August 18, 2011
The matinee performance on Aug. 27 will mark the musical's 6,138 show, meaning it vaults over the original version of "A Chorus Line" to become the fourth longest-running show in Broadway …
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Families of autistic children have a new place to engage their sons and daughters -- Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2011
This month, Chanler-Berat is fulfilling a childhood dream by joining a new off-Broadway revival of the show just three years after "Rent" tearfully closed up shop on Broadway.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2011
Doing skateboard tricks on a theater stage is usually deeply frowned upon. But at the Union Square Theatre these days, they're not only encouraged — they're a big part of the show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:41PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, who first teamed up together in the musical "Evita," are coming back to Broadway....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:45PM[SHARE]Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, who first teamed up together in the musical "Evita," are coming back to Broadway.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:50PM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2011
It seems like whatever gets thrown at Shields, she gamely returns. Few actresses seem as approachable, as sweet or as genuine.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2011
Transforming popular children's' books into musicals — as opposed to making them up from scratch — has some advantages, namely in immediate brand recognition.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Early in her career, Shirley Alston Reeves got a piece of advice no singer wants to hear.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2011
Early in her career, Shirley Alston Reeves got a piece of advice no singer wants to hear. The advice: Don't go out there thinking you've got some fabulous voice.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:49AM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2011
Barrett and Doyle help run the British theater company Punchdrunk, which specializes in putting on immersive, genre-bending shows with high-impact modern dance moves that let audiences roa…
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Some of the first gay marriages in New York will literally be a theatrical event.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:30PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- Some of the first gay marriages in New York will literally be a theatrical event....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2011
His dark, 90-minute off-Broadway comedy, about four strangers in a beach house in the dead of winter, represents Braff's first piece of writing that's 100 percent original since he wrote a…
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:17AM[SHARE]Zach Braff is standing in the green room of Second Stage Theatre and staring at the walls.
They're covered in posters from the company's previous productions, each one framed and signed by …
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com at 07:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 9, 2011
NEW YORK - What kind of deranged people watch “The Silence of the Lambs’’ and think: That would make a killer musical?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2011
What kind of deranged people watch "The Silence of the Lambs" and think: That would make a killer musical? These people: Jon and Al Kaplan, a pair of brothers from New York with a droll sens…
SOURCE: ABC News at 08:19PM[SHARE]What kind of deranged people watch "The Silence of the Lambs" and think: That would make a killer musical?These people: Jon and Al Kaplan, a pair of brothers from New York with a droll sens…
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Daly and Boggess play a chilly teacher and her overawed student in a revival of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning "Master Class."
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 2, 2011
The Royal Shakespeare Company has to be considered a very gracious houseguest. Not only has this English troupe arrived in New York to show off five of its productions with its own actors an…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2011
A teenager from Minnesota and one from New York won top honors at the National High School Musical Theater Awards on Monday night, sweeping to glory at the "Glee"-type competition by masteri…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:50AM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2011
Teenagers from Minnesota and upstate New York have won the top honors at the National High School Musical Theater Awards.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- Teenagers from Minnesota and upstate New York have won the top honors at the National High School Musical Theater Awards....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:28PM[SHARE]Alicia Keys is following Jay-Z and Will Smith into the world of Broadway producers. Keys, whose hits include "Fallin'" and "A Woman's Worth," will help produce Lydia R. Diamond's play "Stick…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:30PM[SHARE]Alicia Keys is following Jay-Z and Will Smith into the world of Broadway producers. Keys, whose hits include "Fallin'" and "A Woman's Worth," will help produce the play "Stick Fly."
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2011
The musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will go on as scheduled Thursday night, a day after the cast and crew were shaken by a death backstage that scrubbed a performa…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:51AM[SHARE]So mammoth is the stage for "Zarkana," the latest Cirque du soleil show that opens later this month, that it threatens to swallow up a $50 million production of 11 acts and 75 performers.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:26AM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- The musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will go on as scheduled Thursday night, a day after the cast and crew were shaken by a death backstage tha…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Angela Bassett has signed on to star opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Broadway production of the play "The Mountaintop."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2011
Producers of the once trouble-plagued musical made good on their promise to right the $70-plus million ship, opening the reboot on time and happily watching the once-feuding creative team …
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2011
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" opens Tuesday. Where have we heard that before? But this time -- the sixth scheduled opening, for those keeping score -- producers mean business. The $70 mill…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:51PM[SHARE] 
