8,501 stories from Backstage
In theater, a revival is the bringing back to life of a play that has not been performed recently. "Touch," the 41-year-old musical, strains the definition of revival, because it is in no …
Julie Gilbert and Frank Evans' new play about the lifelong love affair between Marlene Dietrich and German writer Eric Maria Remarque is diverting, but it needs a greater purpose.
The producers of the Broadway of production of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" are considering a sixth delay of the musical's opening night, according to the New York Times.
Jeffrey Tambor has pulled out of Broadway's latest revival of "La Cageaux Folles," citing complications from a recent hip surgery.
Budding playwright Michael Henry Harris doesn't give birth to a championin this play about pregnancy and other marital pressures, but theproduct has promise.
The former Beatle announced on Thursday that he was collaborating with NYC Ballet's ballet master in chief Peter Martins on a new work to be premiered by the company on Sept. 22.
Kelsey Grammer married 29-year-old Kayte Walsh on Friday at Broadway's Longacre Theatre -- the same place where the actor had been headlining "La Cage aux Folles."
"Finally, a 'bromance' for the stage," reads the press release describing "Fucking Girls," as if the idiotic genre that has invaded feature films was a desirable element for the theater.
Paul Taylor Dance Company proffered an uneven triple bill that sandwiched off-putting "Brief Encounters" between enchanting "Black Tuesday" and uncomfortable "Arden Court."
For many of us, our lifelong love affair with the theater first blossomed in summer. Summer theaters provide on-the-job training for young actors.
In "White People," playwright Neil Cuthbert turns the clock back to 1975 to take a peek at a comfortably middle-class New Jersey family as its façade of respectability crumbles.
Strong performances help this trilogy of plays set in the hallway of a Lower East Side tenement over 150 years, but playwright Adam Rapp takes on too many themes and characters.
Broadway veteran Paul Bogaev has joined the troubled production, whose cast and crew reportedly expect yet another delay of the official opening.
The Academy Award-winning director returns to the British stage after 15 years with "Frankenstein," a new adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic chiller.
The former talk-show host, who retired last year after 25 years at CNN, will be taking the stage in seven communities to dish about his storied career in a one-man show.
Canadian circus company Cirque du Soleil will invest a record $57 million in a new show in Moscow next year to test the ground before launching a permanent show in Russia by 2015.
The Ohio Theatre has found a new—and hopefully permanent—home. The new space will be dubbed Ohio West.
The Wooster Group's phantasmagorical production of this autobiographical Tennessee Williams work has arresting moments but doesn't really tell us anything new.
The case for a single guild seems obvious. SAG and AFTRA share overlapping jurisdictions over television and new-media work, and about 45,000 performers are members of both.
Target Margin's newest devised play captures the frustrations of learning a new language in a new culture, but it feels more like a series of exercises than a theatrical event.
This multilayered riff on Act 3, Scene 6 of "King Lear" wants to be anarchic fun, but its core is just a collection of donnish theater-geek in-jokes.
Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri's witty satire plays with common perceptions of the Arabic male and has theatrical and political ideas bouncing off each other like pinballs.
Caridad Svich's stage adaptation of Julie Alvarez's poetic and sorrowful novel chronicling the real-life story of the murder of the revolutionary Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic do…
An analysis of the high-risk, high-reward strategy of using first-time helmers on movies such as "Tron: Legacy" and "47 Ronin."
Austin Pendleton's one-step-above-a-stage-reading production of Tennessee Williams' play, short on poetry and atmosphere, never resonates.
