8,501 stories from Backstage
Writer-director Dan Kay's movie "Way Off Broadway" is a festival favorite focusing on five fresh-out-of-college artists and their struggles in New York City.
At "The Art of Directing -- An Insider View," a lively and informative 90-minute panel discussion sponsored by the Drama Desk, directors Scott Elliott, Susan H. Schulman, Doug Hughes, Charlo…
Actors find that temp jobs fit the bill.
Actors based in New York City will, in the not-too-distant future, have more chances to be seen for (and perhaps cast in) television series being developed for NBC.
The Tony-nominated actor and 'American Idol' alum reveals that the producers "implemented several Act 2 changes" and are doing "everything they can to make the environment safe."
The actor badly hurt at the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" plans to go back to the show this week — as a spectator.
Two actors pick up where Sophocles'' "Antigone" left off, in a stimulating and innovative theatrical experience that deconstructs the power contests of the play and applies them to father-so…
One has to admire the Belarus Free Theatre for its dedication and courage, but its offstage story of getting to the Under the Radar festival is more gripping than its Harold Pinter program.
The first act of this satire on American political extremism sizzles and is as irreverent as "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," but the fire is soon snuffed out in Act 2.
"Legally Blonde—The Musical" was the big winner as the prizes for the 35th Laurence Olivier Awards were given last night in London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Charlie Sheen wants you to know the tickets are gone for his pair of live appearances next month. The outspoken actor has tweeted: "Fastball; Detroit/Chicago sold out in minutes..."
Hulu is planning a major push into original content. The video hub is looking to expand its audience, and perhaps protect itself against a possible partner defection down the road.
Matt Pelfrey's dramatization of novelist Clifford Chase's satire of all things current scores some salient points but undercuts itself by plunging too deeply into absurdity.
Virginia Woolf is not afraid of anyone as she takes her audience and readership to task in this wearying but fascinating solo show from director Anne Bogart.
Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia" circles round and round from past to present, and as it revolves, the characters grapple with love, romance, science, Algebra, literature — and gardening.
Actors playing joint-puffing hippies in a Spanish adaptation of the musical "Hair" are not violating a new law banning tobacco-smoking in enclosed public places, an official said.
Broadway's much-delayed production of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has a new opening date -- June 14.
An open casting call is being held March 26 to fill the role of Drew Boley, who falls for Julianne Hough's character, Sherrie, in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical "Rock of Ages."
Metropolitan Playhouse's assured production of William Vaughn Moody's groundbreaking psychologically nuanced melodrama features strong acting as it flies by in a taut two hours.
As the mother of a teenage son with autism, Janet Grillo had explored the developmental disorder as an executive producer of the Emmy-winning documentary "Autism: The Musical."
This romantic comedy may have been a riot in 1965, when it was a hit on Broadway, but today it's a broken-down clunker.
On Wednesday, Actors' Equity Association named actress Lynne Soffer as the winner of the 2011 Lucy Jordan Humanitarian Award.
In this prequel to "Peter Pan," directors Alex Timbers and Roger Rees and playwright Rick Elice create an imaginative and wildly entertaining Victorian-music-hall spoof.
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" producers Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris announced Wednesday that Julie Taymor will step down as director to make way for a new creative team.
