8,501 stories from Backstage
Despite being written by the most modern of the Greek tragedians, Euripides’ “The Trojan Women” might be the hardest of the classic tragedies to stage. Set immediately afte…
Mike Tyson’s one-man Broadway show is hitting the road in February for a 10-week, 36-city tour that will take him to Los Angeles’ Pantages Theatre on March 8 for three performanc…
Adapting a novel to the stage is a tricky proposition, especially one told in the first person. You can wind up with long monologues delivered by a narrator standing center stage with nothin…
David Mamet’s “The Anarchist” on Broadway, Los Angeles Ballet’s “The Nutcracker,” a “Book of Mormon” coffee table book, David Yazbek in concer…
Broadway actor Christian Borle, producer Sue Frost, and hair designer Paul Huntley will be honored at Transport Group's annual gala, "Gimme A Break!," the theater company announced Wedn…
Earlier this year, Theatre Communications Group released its “Theatre Facts 2011” report, which provides an in-depth look at the financial health of theaters across the country. …
Staying financially solvent while studying acting can be a challenge for many, but students of the Theatre Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and the Classic Stage Com…
Last Broadway season, we took a look at the prevalence of religious musicals. However, it looks like the trend is anything but dead. With new shows like "Scandalous" and "My Name is Asher Le…
While major theater awards organizations focus on the best lead and supporting performances each year, at least the stage actors' union recognizes its own hardworking chorus members who toil…
In "The Boss" we have a 100-year-old play that resounds with contemporary echoes. It is a study of rugged and unscrupulous individualism run amok. Sound familiar? The author, Edward Sheldon,…
Director Tom Hooper had a lot to be thankful for this holiday—as he told the audience at a screening of “Les Misérables” at the Alice Tully Hall in New York, he had …
In "The Boss" we have a 100-year-old play that resounds with contemporary echoes. It is a study of rugged and unscrupulous individualism run amok. Sound familiar? The author, Edward Sheldon,…
Finding the right faces to embody the iconic parts that make up the world of musical phenomenon “Les Misérables” proved to be quite a feat for casting director Nina Gold. …
Casting director Victoria Burrows has been working with Robert Zemeckis for more than 18 years, so the decision to cast the drama-thriller “Flight” wasn’t a difficult one. …
Since the first parade in 1980, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has included Broadway numbers almost every year. This year, the casts of “Annie,” “Bring it On,&rdq…
By the time they have children of an age to see Theaterworks USA’s latest production, parents will likely have forgotten an important aspect of the story of “The Velveteen Rabbit…
If there was ever any question that Hunter Foster, Alexandra Silber, and Arielle Jacobs are Broadway stars, “Inner Voices,” a trilogy of one-person chamber musicals, squelches al…
Bruce Graham’s affecting family drama “The Outgoing Tide” might have been pitched as “On Golden Pond” meets “’Night, Mother.” It is, you may g…
Due to some famous alumni (Natalie Portman, Lea Michele, Michael Ian Black) and a documentary, you might already be familiar with the upstate New York performance training program Stagedoor …
There's a moment late in “Radiance,” Cusi Cram's diffuse world premiere one-act play about the consequences of the atomic bomb, in which reporter William Laurence (played by a go…
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Mario Cantone, George Hearn, and more were on hand to honor beloved music director Paul Gemignani at the 21st annual Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala, benefi…
“A Christmas Story: The Musical” is yet one more attempt to mine Broadway dollars out of a popular holiday tale. There’s really no reason that the largely narrative-free 19…
Are you new to the theater world and sometimes find yourself asking, "What does SRO mean? What is a breakaway? And where, exactly, is 'out front'?"
To answer these questions and more, the Th…
The super storm that devastated the East Coast last month didn't halt the elections to the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society's national board.
Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall i…
“S 16–Luna Nera” is not a show for the fainthearted, claustrophobic, insomniacs, or those with an aversion to the making of a big mess. For all others, though, it promises …
