Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Jim Parsons and Kristin Chenoweth announced the 66th annual Tony Award nominations on Tuesday.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:48AMTimothy Scott Harris’ lukewarm drama, “Protected,” at WorkShop Theater Company, never moves past a promising premise and fails to raise the stakes.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:27AMMonday, April 23, 2012
Director Matthew Warchus turns the touching 1990 film “Ghost” into a showbiz musical extravaganza with a loud pop score from Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:45AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Broderick and O'Hara create a new classic in "Nice Work If You Can Get It," directed by Kathleen Marshall.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PMBrett C. Leonard’s “Ninth and Joanie,” directed by Mark Wing-Davey at Labyrinth Theater Company, struggles to establish compelling action.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
The songs have long been standards, but O’Hara is excited about offering a fresh take on the material.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:00AMFriday, April 13, 2012
Playwright-director David Harrower’s “A Slow Air,” part of Scotland Week at 59E59 Theaters, is a charming though slight family tale.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:41AMThursday, April 12, 2012
José Rivera’s “Massacre,” at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, can’t escape its shallow premise or director Brian Mertes’ reliance on stereotypical scares.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Blair Underwood makes his Broadway debut as Stanley in the revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire."
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PMEric Simonson and Thomas Kail unsuccessfully translate basketball to the stage with “Magic/Bird,” based on the rivalry between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMMonday, April 9, 2012
Meg Sturiano capably directs a large cast in “Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary,” at Under St. Marks, but Larry Kunofsky’s words can’t escape cliché.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:25AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
The “Gilmore Girls” star discusses the difference between theater and film and how she overcame her shyness.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PMMonday, March 26, 2012
NY Post’s Michael Riedel and producer Susan Haskins have been gathering the best of Broadway on PBS’ “Theater Talk” since 1992.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:29AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Ethan Lipton’s “No Place to Go,” at the Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub, captures the artist’s complaint, but the whining gets tiresome after a while.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMMonday, March 19, 2012
The veteran Broadway actor discovers the child inside while working with the young cast of Disney’s “Newsies.”
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:02AMSunday, March 18, 2012
"Lucky Duck," with songs by "Side Show" authors Bill Russell and Henry Krieger, aims to teach children important life lessons but muddies its messages.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:08AMFriday, March 16, 2012
"Jesus Christ Superstar," "Godspell," "Leap of Faith" join last season's "Book of Mormon" and "Sister Act" for a faith-centric Broadway season.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AMThursday, March 15, 2012
Capathia Jenkins looks to her ancestors to create her character Medda, a burlesque theater owner, in Disney’s “Newsies.”
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PMWednesday, March 14, 2012
“Newsies” stars Jeremy Jordan, Kara Lindsay, Ben Fankhauser, and Andrew Keenan-Bolger are living their childhood dream on Broadway.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:00PMLyricist Jack Feldman and composer Alan Menkenhad not one but two chances to rework “Newsies.”
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:30AMBegonya Plaza can’t balance her roles of playwright and actor in the muddled “Teresa’s Ecstasy,” an opposites-attract romance at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:01AMMonday, March 12, 2012
Julia Roberts talks with director Mike Nichols for Vanity Fair's April issue about performing onstage and her upcoming film, "Mirror Mirror."
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:27AMThursday, March 8, 2012
New York University, Northwestern University, and University of California at Los Angeles professors discuss balancing their acting and teaching careers.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:11AMPlaywright Jacob M. Appel fails to make a convincing argument in his estate-dividing comedy “Thirds.”
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMPlaywright Michel Wallerstein’s “Flight,” from Alchemy Theatre Company, loses steam in mid-takeoff and putters to an unsatisfying conclusion.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:41AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Playwright Heather Hill struggles to find divine inspiration for "Heathens," a rambling play about chronic sinners in rural Kentucky.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:36AMMonday, March 5, 2012
Laura Eason delivers a charming adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" that will appeal to children and adults alike.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:16AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
Actor Sandy Rustin, in her writing debut, clings to stale parenting scenarios in the musical revue "Rated P for Parenthood" at the Westside Theatre.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Leslye Headland examines the overly ambitious New York culture in her sharp workplace satire "Assistance" at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMThursday, February 16, 2012
William Shatner discusses "Star Trek," Priceline, and other career highlights in his one-man show on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre through March 4.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
The Asian American Performers Action Coalition and Fordham University presented RepresentAsian on Monday night.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:33AM 
