Friday, May 20, 2011
From "Good People" to "Ghetto Klown" to "Lombardi," it was a bumper year for dramatic writers. Of the 25 plays that made it to Broadway for the 2010-2011 season, a robust 14 productions we…
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- Nikki M. James isn't about to let the fact that she grew up idolizing Patti LuPone stop her from trying to beat the Broadway icon at the Tony Awards....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 02:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2011
Performances were cancelled and stunts went awry, leaving actors trapped hanging over the audience. One actor fractured his skull and shoulder blade.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]Taking a page from the comics, producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man" musical are hoping their battered hero can somehow return from the dead.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:20AM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- Taking a page from the comics, producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man" musical are hoping their battered hero can somehow return from the dead....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 06:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- Neil Patrick Harris will return as host for the upcoming Tony Awards....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 12:56PM[SHARE]Neil Patrick Harris will return as host for the upcoming Tony Awards. Producers of the show announced Tuesday that the star of the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" and a stage veteran would ta…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2011
"The Book of Mormon" nabbed a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, earning the profane musical nods for best musical, best book of a musical, best original score, two leading a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 09:53AM[SHARE]"The Book of Mormon" nabbed a leading 14 Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, earning the profane musical nods for best musical, best book of a musical, best original score, two leading a…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 03:10AM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- When the Broadway season began last year, a big brash musical about Spider-Man was supposed to muscle its way to multiple Tony Award nominations. Instead, a pair of goof…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:08AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2011
"The People in the Picture" features Murphy as an actress in a spunky Yiddish theater troupe and her character decades later as an ailing 79-year-old grandmother in 1970s New York.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donna Murphy remembers coming across a blog post this winter reporting that she was returning to Broadway in a Holocaust musical....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:47AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- The profane musical "The Book of Mormon" and the zany revival of "Anything Goes" received the most nominations Friday from the Drama Desk, which honors both Broadway and…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:25PM[SHARE]The profane musical "The Book of Mormon" and the zany revival of "Anything Goes" received the most nominations Friday from the Drama Desk.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2011
When most successful actors thank their moms for helping their careers, few are as literal as Ben Stiller.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:36AM[SHARE]When most successful actors thank their moms for helping their careers, few are as literal as Ben Stiller.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Producers of "Baby, It's You!" were slapped with a lawsuit Wednesday only hours before opening night by musicians claiming their names and likeness were used without permission.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
An actor seriously injured at the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has returned to work only four months after he plummeted 35 feet from an onstage platform.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:40PM[SHARE]Belushi and Leonard — two actors more famous these days for their roles on TV than stage — seem to have already gotten their chemistry down as they work on a revival of "Born Y…
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2011
The long-suffering lead producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" said they had no choice but to shake up the creative team after realizing sometime around Christmas that Broadway's most …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:29PM[SHARE]Christopher Tierney, who fell 35 feet into the orchestra pit in front of a shocked preview audience on Dec. 20, got permission from his doctor to rejoin rehearsals beginning Monday.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:26AM[SHARE]The lead producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" said they had no choice but to shake up the creative team after realizing the musical simply wasn't working.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
An actor whose back was badly hurt when he tumbled from the stage at the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has been cleared to return to the revamped show and hopes to be swin…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:01PM[SHARE]NEW YORK (AP) -- A lead producer of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" says an actor badly hurt when he tumbled from the stage in December is expected be back rehearsin…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:51PM[SHARE]Patina Miller has taken her role as a nun in "Sister Act" very seriously. How seriously? Her life these days is pretty cloistered.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:13AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2011
The play "Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' riff on "A Raisin in the Sun" that examined race relations and the effects of modern gentrification, won the Pulitzer for drama prize.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2011
A fedora has never looked quite so menacing as it does resting on a side table when Stephen Adly Guirgis' gritty new play, "The Motherf----- with the Hat," opens.
SOURCE: The Columbia Daily Tribune at 11:18AM[SHARE]Kathleen Turner is as confused as anyone about this heavenly detour when she makes her first appearance as a Roman Catholic nun in the play "High," opening this month on Broadway.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:30AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2011
Kathleen Turner is as confused as anyone about the heavenly detour her roles have taken lately.
SOURCE: ABC News at 09:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2011
It doesn't take long for an interview with Broadway veterans and Tony Awards winners Sutton Foster and Joel Grey to evolve into something more like a vaudeville routine.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2011
"I like to come here and write sometimes," playwright Rajiv Joseph says, laughing. "I feel like one big cliche: The writer and the legion of moms and their kids colliding at a coffee shop."
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PM[SHARE] 
