8,501 stories from Backstage
Elizabeth Ashley, Cybill Shepherd, John Stamos, and Kristin Davis join the cast of Michael Wilson's riveting production of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man."
Erin Mallon on "Untitled Play About Brecht's Girlfriends," the Brooklyn Generator, and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest.
Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten shepherds artists through the festival's programs.
Starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and overflowing with sublime images, haunting music, and subtle comedy, "In Paris" is nonetheless dramatically unengaging.
Bill Russell and Peter Melnick's loud, unoriginal musical "The Last Smoker in America" doesn't deliver on a shallow premise.
New York's independent theater community attempts to sustain itself with a new collective fundraising initiative, which officially launched Aug. 1.
Join New Voices Playwrights Theatre as it debuts eight plays written by local playwrights in its Summer Voices 2012 showcase.
IATSE Local 764 and the Broadway League ratified the first collective bargaining agreement for Child Actor Guardians, who oversee Broadway child actors.
Re-connecting with the stage in the Shakespeare Center of L.A.'s production of "As You Like It."
"Bring It On: The Musical," "inspired" by the Universal Pictures' franchise about cheerleaders, is generic but vigorous and aimed squarely at teenage girls.
Wendy Kesselman's "Spit" and James McLure's "Drive-in Dreams" have modest charms, but Nancy Giles' "The Accidental Pundette" standup routine is hilarious.
An actor turns writer and develops a musical at the Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival.
Arts education organization and local musicians union team up to offer Broadway Boot Camp for NYC public school students in August.
Jason Biggs, who can currently be seen in the film "Grassroots," shared the stage with Judd Hirsch in "Conversations With My Father."
A Latino-flavored staging of the Neil Simon–Cy Coleman–Dorothy Fields classic "Sweet Charity," from New Haarlem Arts Theatre, is a sadly uneven affair.
"Tin Bucket Drum," the Imbewu Trust's South African fable of a girl born with rhythm who challenges a police state, is told lyrically by Mpume Mthombeni.
A few stirring songs sandwiched among uninspired playwriting comprise "Shelter," a NYMF show about the plight of women and families in homeless shelters.
his New York Musical Theatre Festival offering has beguiling elements, but the fairy tale "Le Cabaret Grimm" spins is distressingly inane.
"The Groove Factory," at NYMF, dredges up with little charm the last days of disco as the titular club celebrates the threatening Y2KNew Year's Eve in 1999.
The Araca Project gives young artists the opportunity to produce shows Off-Broadway.
Uneven casting and wrong-headed revisions sink Irish Rep's revival of "New Girl in Town," a 1957 musical adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie."
Most of the important elements are in place for "Zapata!," a promising and highly original musical at NYMF by Peter and Ana Edwards. But there are problems.
"A Letter to Harvey Milk," at NYMF, mixes the Holocaust, political assassination, cute Yiddish humor, and earnest Hallmark sentimentality to queasy effect.
Tracy Letts, the writer behind "Killer Joe" and "August: Osage County," muses on balancing his acting and writing career.
Playwright John Clancy and composer Tim Brinkhurst's revue in the Ice Factory festival puts society's ills under the microscope with mixed results.
