Benjamin Walker on his worst audition experience: “When I auditioned for college, I was in a hotel room in Chicago. I think it was called the Palmer House Hotel. And when you walked in…
Backstage readers are invited to attend a screening of "Les Misérables," followed by a Q&A with director Tom Hooper and cast members Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne an…
Most theater aficionados can recall with delight their first theater experience—and on Jan. 24, Broadway’s Palace Theatre will be filled with more than 2,500 New York City public…
It will be quite a while before I forget the image of Liza Colón-Zayas as Odessa Ortiz, broken and alone, sitting on the floor of her threadbare Philadelphia home while ladling spoonf…
Desiree Burch’s solo show “Tar Baby” is a rare thing: a work about blackness intended, at least nominally, for white people. It’s a pointed decision that’s at o…
Amateurishly presented in the dingy, depressing environment of the American Theater of Actors’ Chernuchin Theater, the bitter musical “Kikki & Grandpa & Baby” is a …
The Actors’ Equity Association today is beginning major renovations and improvements to its building on West 46th Street in New York City. The first phase of construction includes reno…
Scene: Three red pandas perch themselves in triumph on the stage of the theater at St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery. With promises of doom for all mankind, they join their voices for a …
With its surreal interludes, flickering projections of Henry Fuseli’s paintings, and sudden, unexplained nudity, Buran Theatre’s “Nightmares: a demonstration of the Sublime…
Of the eight new plays and musicals that opened on Broadway this fall, all will be closed by Jan. 6. Not even headliner Katie Holmes could keep Theresa Rebeck’s critically panned &ldqu…
For those of you who haven’t gotten around to seeing “Peter and the Starcatcher” at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, now might be your last chance to see it on Broadway. The pr…
Most theater aficionados can recall with delight their first theater experience. On Thursday, Jan. 24, Broadway’s Palace Theatre will be filled with over 2,500 New York City public sch…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences may have moved too quickly this year in its efforts to replace traditional paper ballots with online voting for the 2013 Academy Awards.Voting…
When discussing a song he wrote for the new videogame “Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two,” composer Jim Dooley refers to it as “the opening number.” “We ta…
Patti Page should have written an autobiography, and not just because her small-town American origins and rapid rise to the top of show business make a sweet and inspiring story. Her career …
The Red Poppy Ladies, an all-female percussion troupe from China who have performed in venues ranging from opera houses to the closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games, have brought thei…
There is a kind of performance during which every offstage noise, every coughing audience member, feels as if it might have some kind of serious significance within the context of the show y…
Just when it seems that there are no new ways to experience theater, the BAM Next Wave Festival finds an innovative company ready to reinvent the communal event. Dublin’s Pan Pan Theat…
What does “home” sound like? In “Where (we) Live,” the quartet of performers who make up SÅ Percussion attempt to answer this question through various clattering a…
There’s a lot going on in “The Holiday Guys in Happy Merry Hanu-Mas,” starring Marc Kudisch and Jeffry Denman. Between celebrating Christmas and wrapping up Hanukkah, the p…
Branching out from the Theater District, Broadway will soon be making a debut in the living rooms of Manhattanites and New York residents. According to a release from the Broadway Channel, t…
HBO is planning to bring more Broadway to your television.The Hollywood Reporter reported that the pay cable channel has given a script commitment to an hourlong television adaptation of &ld…
The Guthrie Theater, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary season in Minneapolis, Minn., ended its 2011-12 fiscal year in August with a small surplus, the theater reported at its annual…
Make it three in a row for playwright Amy Herzog. Following in the wake of the excellent “After the Revolution” and “4000 Miles” comes “The Great God Pan,&rdquo…
Christmas came a bit early for Broadway theater owners and producers, who might have worried they’d been put on the naughty list last week when the union representing theater staff thr…