8,501 stories from Backstage
"There's no unified front trying to brand Off-Broadway on the road," declares Orin Wolf of Off Broadway Booking, a new agency devoted to raising awareness of and promoting Off-Broadway at ve…
Almost a decade ago, as his play Love! Valour! Compassion! was making its Los Angeles debut, Terrence McNally said, in a Los Angeles Times article, there was no longer such a thing as "gay theatre." What exactly did he mean?
The model for Intar Theatre, a 40-year-old Off-Broadway group committed to producing new plays in English by Latino playwrights living in the United States -- both immigrants and American-bo…
Forget beer goggles. Show goggles are ten times worse.
David Garrison and Carol Kane relish their roles in the Tony-winning musical coming to L.A.
Ross Lacy thrives on quick turnaround, hard-to-meet deadlines, and last-minute changes. It's easy to imagine how he has dealt with the pressures of running his own company, which he started …
With his Bouffon creation Red Bastard, Eric Davis has been tearing up the NYC alt-performance circuit. Now, he's co-created "Absence of Magic."
Costume World Inc. of Deerfield Beach, Fla., has acquired the nearly half-million-item costume inventory of New York's Dodger Costumes.
Costume World has moved the collection to its theatrical center near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to John Capobianco III, the company's Internet marketing manager.
For many actors hoping to make a living at their crafts, auditioning for a commercial can sometimes feel like just that.
"It's a thrill to know that everything that happens on stage has happened because you've said, 'Go,'" comments veteran stage manager Roy Harris, describing the joy of his profession.
