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On Thursday, Backstage spoke with the stars on the red carpet of the "Cyrano de Bergerac" Broadway opening.
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After the Broadway opening of "Cyrano de Bergerac" on Thursday, the show's stars shared their acting advice, character choices, and more.
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The Public Theater in New York’s Astor Place revealed the fruits of its $40 million revitalization project at a star-studded rededication ceremony on Oct. 4. But don’t think the …
I must confess that I’ve never been a great fan of Edmond Rostand’s “Cyrano de Bergerac,” though it is indisputably a beloved classic. I generally find Roxane to be a…
Saluting tomorrow’s female superstars, including Jenn Harris of “Gayby,” Emayatzy Corinealdi of “Middle of Nowhere,” comedian Amy Schumer, Mamie Gummer, starrin…
The prolific A.R. Gurney is a favorite playwright of mine, but he seems to have gotten ahead of himself with “Heresy,” his latest piece of political raillery written expressly fo…
Tom Hanks will make his Broadway debut in the late Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy," it was announced today.
The two-time Academy Award winner (and former "Bosom Buddy") will play real-life journal…
Rachel Hauck’s layered set beautifully illustrates what Simon Stephens’ “Harper Regan” only attempts to achieve. The play opens with an office scene in which the titl…
A strikingly staged three-character play about the celebrated aviator Charles Lindbergh; his mousey wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh; and “Little Prince” author Antoine de Saint-Exup&…
This winter, Holly Golightly will be having her breakfast on the Great White Way.
Playwright Richard Greenberg has adapted Truman Capote’s 1958 novella, “Breakfast at Tiffany&rsq…
In “Helen & Edgar,” storyteller–performance artist Edgar Oliver weaves together a patchwork of incidents from his rather gothic upbringing in Savannah, Ga. It was far f…
A selection of Broadway's young stars will put on an evening of song and dance for the second annual "Artists for World Peace on Broadway" benefit, according to Playbill.
The non-profit orga…
Asian American actors need more opportunities on Los Angeles-area stages. That's the message that Tim Dang, producing artistic director at East West Players, hopes four artistic directors fr…
It wasn’t too long ago that Broadway audiences were enjoying Horton Foote’s portrait of a Texas family’s struggles with its history and future in “Dividing the Estate…
Daryl Roth Productions (DRP) is already known for a wide range of stellar productions, including seven Pulitzer Prize and six Tony winners. On Oct. 8, DRP announced they will be forming a ne…
It's been quite a year for Paul Rudd. First we saw him in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," and now he's starring in Broadway's "Grace." Let's take a look back at some of Rudd's most …
Don’t look for any great revelations about things to come in “On the Future,” the new offering from the New York Neo-Futurists. What it does deliver is some 80 minutes of u…
Gone is the ad-hoc weirdness that interestingly deformed nearly everything La MaMa has done since I’ve been reviewing theater in New York City (2005, admittedly, but frequently at the …
We caught up with the cast of "The Performers" at the show's meet and greet. Cheyenne Jackson, Ari Graynor, Jenni Barber, and Alicia Silverstone share their porn star names, while Henry Wink…
The job of a lighting designer often goes unnoticed. Only when a spotlight fails to follow the belting starlet or the stage isn’t illuminated on cue does a typical audience member real…
The Group Theatre, whose existence from 1931-1941 overlapped the Great Depression, stated its aim as “propaganda for a better life.” Playwright Clifford Odets, along with Stella …
Potatoes tied up with twine. A handful of melted Japanese samurais. Tree roots that grow from pipes. Half of a cow. Streetlights you can drink. The other half of the cow. It’s amazing …
“Red, Hot and Blue” contains a Cole Porter score that begs to be rediscovered. Originally a Broadway vehicle for Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope, Porter’s 1936 fo…
Eugene Ionesco's 1959 absurdist masterpiece has been performed over the years as both a high comedy and a dark tragedy. In Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota’s viscerally charged new staging, the t…
Theatre West is pushing an ambitious fundraising program in the hopes of scheduling two full seasons in the coming years.
The theater company, which boasts that it is the longest conti…
