8,501 stories from Backstage
Producers will use the extra time to re-write scenes and consider adding more songs from U2's The Edge and Bono.
Actress is dismissed four days before first performance following disagreement between her father and another actor.
Donny and Marie Osmond both work hard for the holiday cheer in this Vegas-style entertainment; the trouble is that we can see them sweat. Kudos to Marie for a supple and versatile voice.
For some reason, practically every critic's group decided this was the weekend to announce their winners.
Director Charlotte Moore's staging of Dylan Thomas' classic yuletide memoir is like unspiked eggnog—sweet but not very strong.
This piece of extremely English comic frippery is lightweight yet undeniably funny. Fans of "Fawlty Towers" and "Little Britain" should have a fine time.
Vocal pyrotechnics and a deft script make for a lively retelling, framed in an old-time radio format, of this classic science-fiction tale.
Choreographed in 1991 by Mark Morris and being presented in New York for the first time since 2002, "The Hard Nut," performed by Mark Morris Dance Group, is as tickling as ever.
Legendary Hollywood TV and film actor Dick Van Dyke has had to cancel the planned run of his autobiographical stage show "Step in Time! A Musical Memoir" due to an achilles injury.
It seems a natural fit: the movie director behind blockbuster "Avatar" that changed cinema forever, teaming with Cirque du Soleil, the Canadian performance troupe, to make a movie.
For this National Theatre production, broadcast to cinemas worldwide, Nicholas Hytner finds a new interpretation of the most famous play in Western history and creates an Elsinore based on c…
This high-energy gospel fest tries to tell the story of the birth of Christ in a creative way, but its overambition crams the spectrum of the black cultural experience into 75 minutes and le…
Edna O'Brien is a celebrated novelist, particularly in her native Ireland and the United Kingdom, whose play, "Haunted," is equal parts exasperating and enveloping.
Comedian Robin Williams will make his Broadway acting debut next year in the title role in "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo." And the production will be auditioning for his understudy.
John Kelly is performing in his inspired dance biography of painter Egon Schiele for the last time.
Despite some dazzling stagecraft and amusing moments, the central premise of this 70-minute piece palls about halfway through its presentation.
Shakespeare's play about abuse of power, miscarried justice, and sexual intrigue has surprisingly little heat in this production that's been touring to community groups throughout the city.
This confused Christmas tale from author-actors Megan Hill and Joshua Conkel can't decide whether to be sincere or snide and ends up as nothing more than a thin sketch.
Epic in scope yet intimate in characterization, this 7-hour collection of 12 one-acts is smart, absorbing, and deeply affecting. It's also easy to follow and full of impressively versatile a…
Oprah Winfrey has come a long way since her childhood years in a Mississippi shack with a poster of The Beatles on her bedroom wall. Sunday, she was honored with one of the Beatles she so lo…
Spike TV has landed Neil Patrick Harris as host of its annual Video Game Awards.
Playwright: 'I think there's going to be a lot of blood.' A full bloody draft of the script is expected by early next year.
The team behind Wakka Wakka Productions breathes unexpected life into a scientific theory in this visually stunning and emotionally soaring creation.
Rachel Bonds' new drama, which speaks of damaged lives, is strong on sensitivity but weak on structure. Still, she's a playwright to watch.
Karina Casiano wears a lot of hats on this dystopian piece set in a nightmarish New York, but she has the chops and clarity of vision to pull it off.
