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Charles Busch gets back in the habit of writing and starring in devastatingly funny satires of Hollywood genres in this wacky lampoon of nun movies.
Broadway musical "Fela!" will receive the Actors Equity Association's fourth annual Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs award for outstanding Broadway chorus, the union announced today.
Winners of the 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Awards were announced Monday night in a ceremony hosted by Lisa Kron at Cooper Union.
Colin Quinn's one-man show directed by Jerry Seinfeld is moving up to Broadway.
Director Ivo van Hove's deconstruction of Lillian Hellman's sturdy melodrama comes off as an acting exercise that would probably be very helpful somewhere around the middle of rehearsals.
In 2008, SAG and AFTRA parted ways in one of the more contentious rounds of union negotiations in recent Hollywood history. This time, they're kicking things off with a party.
Lynn Nottage, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her play "Ruined," has been named the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.
In Axis Theatre Company's "Down There," playwright and director Randy Sharp attempts to investigate the circumstances that brought about brutal torture and murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Liken…
Cody Daigle's ambitious and well-meaning new play "A Home Across the Ocean" has talent and a fresh story, but it is ultimately undone by predictability, naiveté, and sentimentality.
Train travel is not the easiest thing to convey on stage, but "Trans-Euro Express" proves to be a brisk, entertaining journey, propelled by Gary Duggan's amusing script and director Chris He…
As denizens of the Jersey Shore go, the characters in "Endless Summer Nights" are a lot more palatable than Snooki and her crew, but by the time intermission rolls around, you may wish they …
In Belinda McKeon's new play, set in the remnants of a Brooklyn restaurant, the menu is decidedly limited.
You haven't really arrived on Broadway until an image of your grinning face goes up on a massive billboard. It is a joy Jordin Sparks has yet to savor.
Judith Ivey is the deeply respected actor who has won Tonys and earned vast screen credits, but as Ivey tells it, Amanda, the iconic mother in "The Glass Menagerie," may be the role of her l…
Performing opposite each other is nothing new for real-life married couple Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley.
Grief works its own miracles, and it is miraculous how much drama author Dermot Bolger packs into "The Holy Ground," considering that it's a one-hour, one-woman story of an empty, thwarted l…
Acclaimed opera singer and Tony-winning musical theater actor Paulo Szot is sticking his toe into the cabaret waters at Café Carlyle.
Playwright Sheila Callaghan examines America's lust for fame and indifference to violence in this on-target multimedia satire.
Steeped in an authentic sense of place, this crime drama is less convincing on the storytelling front.
Never mind the title; David Foley's intriguing new drama is all about the lingering mystery of Lizzie Borden.
Aidan Matthews' "Exit/Entrance," originally produced at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1990, is getting its belated American premiere thanks to Origin Theatre Company and the First Irish Festival.
Samuel D. Hunter's compelling but uneven new character drama is a nice foray into the aftermath of ruin and the beginning of redemption, but it needs to be fleshed out.
The 1,055-seat Broadway theater on West 43rd Street is currently named after actor-producer Henry Miller. It is being renamed Wednesday in honor of Sondheim, who turned 80 in March.
When singer John Mayer, one of Twitter's most high profile users with 3.7 million followers, shut his account on Monday, he was just the latest celebrity to quit the micro-blogging site.
Back Stage talked with some students recently about their experiences in several of New York's musical theater training programs.
