8,501 stories from Backstage
More than any Shakespeare play, perhaps save “Hamlet,” “King Lear” requires a compelling, empathetic performance in the title role. The full name of this work is, aft…
Welcome to Logan County, USA, a Southern backwater whose white redneck residents are fed up with the communist evolutionists running the country and which is overrun by Nigerians and bean-ea…
Until now, the University/Resident Theatre Association (URTA) has hosted auditions that match undergraduate theater students with representatives from 40 graduate (MFA) programs in the US an…
How would you like to perform on Broadway without having to audition? Broadway Fantasy Camp could be your opportunity.
On Saturday, a group of theater lovers will participate in “All D…
The book is always better than the movie, as they say. Taking a novel, an essay, or a historical record and translating it to a dramatic form requires harsh cutting and can alter the essence…
“The wounds are all surface.” So reads the stage direction that begins Act 2 of Jon Kern’s “Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love The…
Paul David Young’s compassionate drama “In the Summer Pavilion” was a highlight of the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival. An imaginative exploration of the variou…
Playwright-lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green and composer Jule Styne hand-tailored “Fade Out–Fade In” to the considerable abilities of Carol Burnett, who in 1964 was …
How am I going to stretch this out into a full review? There’s so little to say about “How to Be a New Yorker,” the nonmusical revue of New York facts, sketches, and stereo…
When the movie version of “Love in the Time of Cholera,” starring Javier Bardem as a man lovesick for 50 years, was released in 2007 to generally unfavorable reviews, critic Roge…
The Pasadena Playhouse is accepting submissions for roles in its upcoming staged readings.
The venerable 686-seat theater is experiencing a financial renaissance after a successful fundraisi…
“Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” feels like a Russian novel. This is good, because the musical is based on Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” a book …
Tony Award winner Tyne Daly and producers Jamie deRoy and Ted Snowdon will be honored at Primary Stages' annual gala Nov. 14, at the Edison Ballroom.
Primary Stages, an Off-Broadway theater …
Welcome to October, friends! You know, the time of year when we're so keyed up about Broadway that we consider having our paychecks direct-deposited into the Shubert/Nederlander/Jujamcyn acc…
Mention Harold Pinter to a knowledgeable theatergoer, and he or she will likely think of the Nobel Prize–winning author of such dark masterpieces as “The Caretaker,” &ldquo…
Celebrating excellence in Chicago-area Equity theater, the 44th annual Joseph Jefferson Award winners were announced Oct. 15 at a gala event. The evening’s top winners included the Goo…
Josh’s favorite activity is tilting open a cardboard box full of white feathers that’s perched on a wall shelf just above his head and letting the contents fall on his face. It i…
Though playwright-performer John Jiler deals provocatively with the subject of death in his 80-minute one-man play “Ripe,” the show is vibrant with life. And the principal life s…
Any production of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize–winning “Doubt” playing in Manhattan these days inevitably falls under the shadow of the original 2005 Broadwa…
Nearly five decades after a musical adaptation of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was one of the biggest flops in theater history—even with a book by Edward Albee and starri…
Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” may be 50 years old, but you’d never guess it from Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s jolting revival at Broad…
Stephen Belber’s new drama “Don’t Go Gentle” begins promisingly with a tension-filled meeting between Lawrence (Michael Cristofer), a retired judge, and Tanya (Angela…
The work of Brian Friel, Ireland’s most prolific and successful contemporary playwright, is not often overtly political. But his “The Freedom of the City,” first produced a…
“Positions,” by Owen Dunne, is most noteworthy as being the first original play to move to New York from Red Barn Studio, a 50-seat community theater in Wilmington, N.C., founded…
Next week, a lucky group of Los Angeles-area students will get to see their own plays brought to life by some of their favorite television stars: the cast of "Glee."
The exciting occasion is…
