8,501 stories from Backstage
Eric Simonson is working on "Magic/Bird," a new play that will chronicle the lives of basketball Hall of Famers Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird.
Geoffrey Rush astonishes as he shifts from Chaplinesque clown to heartbroken lover to raving lunatic in this circuslike adaptation of the Gogol masterpiece.
Playwright Chuck Mee and the companies Witness Relocation and Ildi ! Eldi combine to offer a refreshing anecdote to apocalypticism: So what if the world's over? Let's dance.
This is a rare chance to see Francis Beaumont's groundbreaking Jacobean comedy about the theater, but Richard Mazda's production is spoiled by strained contemporary pop-culture references.
Walk like an Egyptian straight past this comically bad revival of Clarinda Karpov's 1989 play.
Kyoung H. Park's new play about the trials of the Korean immigrant in America is too heavy-handed, with dialogue awash in soapy clichés, to sustain interest.
The producers of the troubled Broadway musical have asked Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, a playwright who has written Spider-Man stories for Marvel, for help.
The Google-owned video site is reaching out to agencies to sign talent to produce genre-specific, branded channels featuring original short-form content.
Two theatergoers are suing a Broadway musical for millions after claiming they were injured during a performance of "Billy Elliot: The Musical."
Mandy Patinkin's insufficiently shaded, over-the-top performance undercuts Rinne Groff's intriguing new play about author Meyer Levin and his obsession with "The Diary of Anne Frank."
David Hay's new comedy-drama is thin but reasonably entertaining for an act and a half, then goes spectacularly off the rails, over the cliff, and smashes to bits on the rocks below.
This modest, somewhat clichéd play with a few Latin songs takes place in a barbershop in Washington Heights and is told almost entirely in Spanish and from a Dominican perspective.
Kevin Spacey and Daniel Day-Lewis were among the friends and family who paid tribute to Pete Postlethwaite at a memorial service Wednesday in London, reports the AP.
"You shouldn't have to read a story five times to get the meaning," she says after the paper explains it was only focusing on winners post-2002.
Theatre Development Fund TDF, the not-for-profit organization that runs TKTS Discount booths, delivers its second contribution to the app world.
Melissa Ross' tailor-made vehicle for LAByrinth Theater Company embraces the company's edgy aesthetic but fails to supply the depth necessary to let it breathe.
Actor-playwright Rob Benson's overly studied three-hander, about two brothers clearing the rubbish-strewn flat of their long-estranged, recently deceased father, feels awfully insular.
Betty Garrett, the vivacious Broadway star who played Frank Sinatra's sweetheart in two MGM musicals and recurring roles on TV, has died in Los Angeles Sunday. She was 91.
The veteran character actor with a flair for German-type accents also starred as the Nazi playwright in "The Producers."
The Steven Spielberg musical drama revolves around a cross section of characters who come together to mount a Broadway musical inspired by silver screen icon Marilyn Monroe.
92nd Street Y's Lyrics and Lyricists series serves up the songs of this classic film and stage composer with wit and style.
The actor will play Jaxx, who sings Bon Jovi's 'Wanted Dead or Alive' in the theater production from which the film is adapted.
Jackie Schram moved to New York just last fall to pursue her acting career, but she's already planning to leave town. She's been cast in the nonunion national tour of "The 39 Steps."
This American premiere of a dark and dense Finnish play feels botched, too shoddily stage for the script's impact to register fully.
Kathy Griffin is coming to Broadway, and she's made her intentions clear: Her one-woman show is called 'Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony.'
