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We sat down with some of the 2013 Drama Desk Award winners after the ceremony on Sunday night and asked them to impart wisdom to aspiring actors!
See what Bertie Carvel, Judith Light, Michae…
The love was definitely in the room at the 58th annual Village Voice Obie Awards, which were hosted by Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos at Webster Hall on Monday night.
The Obie Awards honor …
Two Los Angeles area high school students won a chance to perform on Broadway after claiming the top spots in the regional round of the National High School Musical Theater Awards.
The final…
"Matilda" and "Pippin" took home the top awards for best musical and best musical revival at the 58th annual Drama Desk Awards.
The West End import also received awards for Outstanding Featu…
We asked the 2013 Tony Award nominees to share their best advice for aspiring actors.
Watch our video interview below, or click here to view the slideshow!
“Pippin” and “Kinky Boots” won outstanding revival and new Broadway musical, respectively, at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Winners were announced on Monday mornin…
Theater fans are growing excited about the Tony Awards, but leaders of Actors’ Equity Association may not share their enthusiasm. The New York Post reported that the stage performers u…
The actor’s routine of coming in to read has meant something different to Barbara Bain for the last 20 years.
In 1993, Bain, a film and television actor famous for her portrayal of Cin…
Young actors in Southern California have the chance to spend a few weeks with Shakespeare this summer.
A Noise Within, the area’s only year-round classical repertory company, will be h…
Poly Prep Country Day School’s middle school campus in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, might be a borough away from the Great White Way, but the school’s 360-seat theater, seasoned facu…
Broadway is coming to Los Angeles this summer, giving local musical theater actors the chance to take the stage in productions ranging from a rock musical to a Prohibition-era crime satire t…
"Dogfight," "The Piano Lesson," and "The Whale" took home the top awards for best musical, best revival, and best play at the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, which were presented in a ceremony a…
The New York Drama Critics Circle awarded West-End import "Matilda The Musical" and Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" best musical and best play, respectively, on Fr…
For Backstage’s 2013 Broadway Power List, we asked more than two dozen New York City theater professionals to name the most powerful Broadway players. The results are fairly similar to…
Berry Gordy is probably not having a very good day. Though his autobiographical jukebox tuner “Motown: The Musical” continues to dominate the Broadway box office, the show was sh…
New musicals "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" the musical are neck and neck with Tony Award nominations with 13 and 12 nods respectively. Actors Sutton Foster and Jesse Tyler Ferguson announced t…
"Giant" and "Hands on a Hardbody" lead the 2013 Drama Desk Awards, which were announced on Monday morning by actors Linda Lavin and John Lloyd Young. The Off-Broadway musical, which premiere…
It's that time of year, actors! The final Tony Awards eligibility considerations were announced on Friday, and the verdict is in: The four Matildas have won the Tony.
Well, a special Tony Aw…
I have never been partial to “Pippin.” Originally, I found director-choreographer Bob Fosse’s dark, angry cynicism to be at odds with Stephen Schwartz’s Joni Mitchell…
When comedic genius Tina Fey divulged her hopes to turn her 2004 film “Mean Girls” into a musical during an interview with Entertainment Weekly last September, there were a few r…
John Logan’s solo show “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers” skips as lightly across its subject as a shard of shale whipping across a pond. Bette Midler, maki…
Only three months ago, the Asian American Performers Action Coalition published a report showing the stunning paucity of casting diversity in New York City theater. Looking at Broadway and 1…
The theater business is nothing if not superstitious. But some opening night traditions are kept under wraps—robed, if you will. As another season of Broadway premieres draws to a clos…
The most heart-stopping moment of the Broadway season happens late in Act 2 of Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful.” As Carrie Watts stands once again on the now-sagging …
The 2013 theater awards season is underway and heating up! Actors Patina Miller and Michael Urie announced the nominees for the 79th Annual Drama League Awards on Tuesday morning in a ceremo…
