8,501 stories from Backstage
One thing "Show Boat " must never, never be is two hours and fifteen minutes. But once one got used to this breakneck pacing, there was much to enjoy, most of it vocal.
Actors Fund Honors Tommy Tune's 50-Year Career
Omar Prince bears a strong physical resemblance to Montgomery Clift, and once his acting portrayal kicks in, it becomes an extraordinary reincarnation of a real person and film icon of some …
Although "Marathon 2008 Series C" is hardly gemlike, its five contributions still illustrate that variety is the spice of lively theatre.
In the new Broadway tuner, Alli Mauzey is nuts with joy.
Shortly after Emily Skinner began the second of two Sunday nights adorning Feinstein's at Loews Regency, I wrote down Mae West's name.
In this often hilarious but also overlong and rambling solo show, Steve Hayes not only recounts the exploits he has with a friend in L.A. but also investigates how his beloved film noir godd…
Though unevenly cast, conventionally staged, and scarred by amateurish performing by some chorus members, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' rollicking production of the 1879 comic ope…
"Three on a Couch" is a better comedy than one has any right to expect, considering that the playwright is a professor emeritus of chemistry at Stanford who gave us the birth control pill.
In this lively production, Ike Schambelan's smart direction captures the nuances, wit, and heart of A.R. Gurney's finely chiseled writing.
It would be pretty astounding at this point in time to dredge up new insights into Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," but the Flux Theatre Ensemble certainly has tried.
It looks like the indignities committed against Orson Welles just won't end. Director-adaptor Ian W. Hill offers up an exceedingly unintelligent theatrical reworking of Welles' epic tale of …
Liza Lentini has crafted an insular narrative that does nothing to forward the debate of assisted suicide and only serves to reinforce a feeling of ambivalence.
Producer-director Bart DeLorenzo reaches for adventure.
Steppenwolf actors talk Broadway, balance, and letting loose in Letts' play.
There's a sex symbol, a secret weapon, and forbidden romance. Then why is "Frequency Hopping" so frequently uninteresting?
Playwright Edward Allan Baker, known for gritty depictions of the lower-middle-class denizens of Providence, R.I., doesn't hesitate to pile on the drama.
Albee is questioning once again the obsession with biographical facts that he finds get in the way of an artist's work, but this time he closes off dramatic conflict in favor of a biographic…
A "pirate puppet rock odyssey" sure sounds like a gimmick, but -- avast ye readers -- it's a gimmick that works.
Annie Baker's new play, superbly staged by Karen Kohlhaas for Atlantic Theater Company, is all about the struggle to face one's deficiencies.
With Summerworks, Clubbed Thumb stamps actors as equals
Fischer is not a naturally funny woman. She's a smiling woman and smiles through just about everything she sings, but she's not funny.
