8,501 stories from Backstage
Actors are always looking for more ways to challenge themselves. Check out stage stars like Linda Lavin, Lily Rabe, and Patti LuPone are tackling off-stage and on your television screen--and…
After 16 years, Los Angeles’s Reprise Theatre Company has called it quits.
The company went on hiatus in early 2012 because of financial strain and was unable to raise enough money to …
Sarah Lynn Marion of Fullerton, Calif., and Taylor Varga of Norwich, Conn., took home the awards for best actress and best actor at the National High School Musical Theater Awards on Monday …
Since its Broadway premiere in 1977, “Annie,” the musical about a young orphan on a quest to find her birth parents, has become a musical theater icon. Through songs like “…
Thinking about producing a one-woman show, or maybe getting a group of colleagues together to stage a play in Los Angeles? Then mark July 6 on your calendar.
Prae Se Ferre/The Producing Scho…
“I was not allowed back,” actor Melissa Errico wrote on her personal blog in May. In her post, she described her shock on hearing that Classic Stage Company terminated her contra…
I’m passionate about the lifelong process of learning your craft. Even considering I got an MFA from Yale, it’s important to keep yourself sharp even if you have a job—beca…
Prospect Park has resolved a labor dispute with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Locals working on the sets of "All My Children" and "One Life To Live." The tif…
Just because the Broadway season is over, that doesn't mean there isn't any new and exciting theater to be seen in New York City! Check out 5 summer theater fesitvals where hits like "Next t…
It’s been nearly two weeks since the Tonys—long enough for us to discern the implications of this season’s nominees and subsequent winners. As Neil Patrick Harris aptly san…
Whether you're soaring high above Broadway audiences, throwing knives at your wife on stage, embodying a upper middle class Jewish woman, or donning a pair of fabulous red boots and dancing …
Everybody say yeah! The Cyndi Lauper tuner “Kinky Boots” pulled what many saw as an upset over the West End hit “Matilda” for the best musical trophy at the 67th annu…
The Tony Awards featured emotional speeches from the actors who took home Broadway's biggest honor last night. From Tracy Letts’ impassioned call to actors, to Patina Miller’s mo…
Broadway's biggest night is coming up this Sunday, June 9 with the Tony Awards! Several actors' careers are about to be made with the coveted statuette, and Backstage will be there on the gr…
With the 2013 Tony Awards coming up on Sunday, we look back on what past Tony Award winners had to share about their craft, their journey, and advice they had for other actors.
Katie F…
We asked the honorees at the 69th annual Theatre World Awards: What is one lesson you learned making your Broadway debut?
See what "Golden Boy's" Yvonne Strahovski, "The Nance's" Johnny Orsi…
We chatted with some of the creative teams behind New York Stage and Film's upcoming 2013 Powerhouse Season at Vassar College.
See what directors Michael Mayer, Tommy Kail, Michael Wilson an…
We chatted with some of Broadway's best dancers and choreographers at the 2013 Astaire Awards Award on Monday night!
See what Bebe Neuwirth, Charlotte d'Amboise, Billy Porter, Jerry Mitchell…
"Pippin” and “Motown” split the top prizes at the 30thAnnual Frred and Adele Astaire Awards, presented at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University…
Tom Hanks might have two Oscars and A-list celebrity status, but he had never performed on a Broadway stage until this year.
"Can you be an actor in this world and not want to make a Broadwa…
Hundreds of students took to the Broadhurst Theater stage Monday morning, making their Broadway debut before their peers, educators and supporters, as part of Broadway Junior Celebration.
Ho…
Going through three lead actors on a five-week run of “Slipping” was a crash introduction to Los Angeles for Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, according to Artistic Director David…
As the 2013-2013 theater season draws to a close, the Broadway League released some surprising data on production grosses and attendance over the past year. According to the League, Broadway…
The economic realities of the theater world have hit artists hard. Even rehearsal spaces are no longer free from the vagaries of New York City rent, falling prey to outrageous fees or total …
The REDCAT has received a major grant that will help it expand Radar L.A., an international contemporary theater festival set for late September.
The Los Angeles interdisciplinary contempora…
