8,501 stories from Backstage
Best known as a deadpan standup comic, Jim Gaffigan is floored to be making his stage debut in the Broadway revival of Jason Miller's "That Championship Season."
Like a Sabbath stew that's been boiled and spoiled, there are too many ingredients in Chana Porter's new play, and the result is theatrical indigestion.
Director Terry Schreiber and his talented actors largely succeed in pulling off David Storey's expansive exercise in plotless naturalism, despite being hampered by a tiny theater.
Director Gregory Mosher's reverent revival of Jason Miller's 1972 mutliple-award-winning drama only succeeds in highlighting the dated script's flaws, despite the efforts of a mostly strong …
This moral fable of contemporary Ireland—written, performed, and accompanied at the piano by Raymond Scannell—is a story that more often bewilders rather than informs.
Before dying on stage, the lead singers in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette" get sick. Really. In startling frequency.
Jacqueline Arnold, one of three Divas in Broadway's "Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Musical," says she found the silvery stuff all over a shirt while unpacking on vacation.
Filmmaker and Monty Python man Terry Gilliam is to direct an opera, signing up for a fresh take on Berlioz's "The Damnation of Faust."
Most of the readers of Back Stage are adults, but here in Highlands Ranch, Colo., a group of high school students is also discovering the wealth of weekly information found in Back Stage.
Broadway/L.A. is offering one of its most tantalizing seasons yet, including several recent Broadway Tony winners and nominees.
By blending live theater, dance, music, multimedia, and video footage, this production explores the complex history of Milledgeville, which was Georgia's capital from 1804–1868.
Organizers said Friday the 80-year-old composer and lyricist would accept the award in person during the March 13 ceremony at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
A mysterious but familiar stranger visits a multigenerational household of struggling black men in Jackie Alexander's sometimes insightful play, which is undermined by a vague, predictable p…
Despite some problematic audibility, here is a rare chance to see a decent production of a watershed but seldom-performed 1677 Restoration comedy—and the price is right: It's free.
Though there' a great deal to like about David Lindsay-Abaire's new play, and director Daniel Sullivan's production is full of fine performances, it's just a tad too well-made for its own go…
The Rude Mechanicals theater company turns ensemble theater into a metaphor for life in this intelligent, funny, and moving new work about an acting guru and her students.
In the second major production of William Shakespeare's classic this season, F. Murray Abraham gives us a subtler Shylock than Al Pacino's.
Elisa Monte Dance launched a weeklong season at the Joyce Theater with an opening-night gala featuring four works choreographed by Monte over a span of 32 years.
Film, television, and stage actor Anne Brownstone died peacefully Jan. 29 in Manhattan. She was 87.
The Grammy-winning musician and star of the 2006 revival of "The Pajama Game" will star this fall in a reworked version of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever."
The Roundabout Theatre Company's production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" will be filmed later this month and broadcast in June to movie theaters across the globe.
Though beautifully designed and dynamically directed and performed, Bryony Lavery's portrait of life among a group of amateur boxers has surprisingly little dramatic punch.
Director Barry Edelstein deftly draws parallels to the current financial crisis in a modern-dress version of this obscure Shakespearean curio, featuring finely shaded work from star Richard…
Nine life-sized puppets and their controllers are being put through their paces to prepare for the U.S. premiere of "War Horse," a play about horses sent to the battlefields during World W…
HBO will air "The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway" on March 19. The special was filmed at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York in January.
