Colin Quinn, Christine Ebersole, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey are among the winners of the 9th annual Nightlife Awards which cover cabaret, comedy and jazz.
In 75 minutes, actors Thomas Jay Ryan and Christina Rouner recapitulate the 95-minute film's screenplay, voicing all the characters (though not inhabiting them) in a rapid and sometimes conf…
Director Travis Chamberlain's staging of Tennessee Williams' obscure 1970 one-act in a claustrophobic room at the Hudson Hotel on West 58th Street is a tiny, pitch-perfect triumph.
Writer-director John Jahnke's visually arresting but dramatically obscure accounting of the story of a minor figure in Greek mythology is mostly concerned with sex and spectacle.
Inventive, amusing staging often trumps the consistency of content here, but the multiple subplots in search of a through-line are frequently witty and never dull.
Radiohole's spoof of Douglas Sirk's film "All That Heaven Allows" plays like a bunch of kids putting on a show in their backyard and feels just a bit redundant.
Barbra Streisand is in talks to star in Gypsy, a new film adaptation of the 1959 Broadway play. Joel Silver is producing. No writer or director is attached yet.
Believe it or not, jobs in film, television and other media were relatively safe in 2010, but the same can't be said for jobs at movie theaters and theme parks.
Adam Bock's new play seeks to inflate its small naturalistic tale via a mysterious central metaphor and ends up as neither fish nor fowl, despite the efforts of a fine cast and Tripp Cullman…
If someone told you that the amount of time you spend working on your acting is directly proportional to the quality of your career, would you invest more time in it?
This expansive musical tribute to Judy Garland by her daughter suffers from being truncated and crammed into a room that's too small, but it succeeds in communicating the love they shared.
Hoping to cash in on the "Twilight" craze, the producers of this inept Off-Broadway revival of a horror classic have cast a hunky Italian heartthrob as the king of the vampires. The results …
Though the show's roots as a concert are always on view, Daniel Alexander Jones' heartfelt performance in the title role, offbeat and delicious, grounds this entertaining musical as theater.SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑
Actors' Equity President Nick Wyman says he was "disturbed and distraught" by the stage accident on Dec. 20 which left actor Chris Tierney seriously injured.
Elizabeth Ashley is one of 20 actors saluted by Back Stage critics David Sheward and Erik Haagensen for delivering memorable performances on New York stages in 2010.
As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's "The Mikado" is as fresh and funny as the night it premiered at London's Savoyard Theatre in 1885.SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑
