8,501 stories from Backstage
Nina Arianda, a newly minted Tony winner for her performance in "Venus in Fur," is set to portray Janis Joplin for director Sean Durkin.
New York Women in Film & Television's board of directors announces the election of Alexis Alexanian as its president; five new board members also elected.
Alan Cumming's almost one-man "Macbeth," in the Lincoln Center Festival, is undone by its undercooked conceit of being delivered by a psychiatric patient.
Lincoln Center Festival's "DruidMurphy," a collection of three plays by Irish literary legend Tom Murphy, directed by Garry Hynes, marks his American debut.
Dan Fishback's absurdist musical "The Material World," at Dixon Place in the Hot! Festival, may not make a whole lot of sense, but it sure is amusing.
The star of "Retired at 35" was inspired by James Earl Jones' Tony-winning performance in August Wilson's drama.
"Terminator Too: Judgment Play," a parody of James Cameron's 1991 blockbuster film, "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," is an earnest and dumbly fun evening.
The Flea Theater presents new and youthful Ethikos Productions in three short works by veteran dramatist Israel Horovitz, with "Beirut Rocks" the highlight.
With the annual SketchFest NYC on hiatus until 2013, the Peoples Improv Theater introduces its first annual New York City Sketch Festival this fall.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival has fresh and innovative talent to offer at its nine annual festival.
Now in its ninth year, the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) continues to expand as it fulfills its mission of incubating fresh musical productions.
When author-actor Cheryl Howard's "The Sensational Josephine Baker" debuted Off-Off-Broadway in 2010, it had promise, but the right work hasn't been done.
From the first rehearsal to opening night, observers learn strategies of professionals in creating, developing, or reviving a production of a show.
Spanger plays Gwendolyn in David Hyde Pierce’s interpretation of “The Importance of Being Earnest" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
A day after “Salesman” closed, Wittrock started rehearsals for “The Blue Deep,” in which he makes his Willliamstown Theatre Festival debut.
Any video you make of yourself has to look good. One thing that can help: Gomite's Tiltpod.
"The Book of Mormon" breaks the house record again and Tony-winner "Once" takes in another $1 million.
Harry Groener, Manoel Felciano, and Roslyn Ruff on bringing William Peter Blatty's best-selling horror classic to the stage at the Geffen Playhouse.
Tony Award-winner Marissa Jaret Winokur on Patti LuPone's performance in "Gypsy," and wrapping your baby up like a "baked potato."
An amateurish book and a nondescript score fail to animate "Captain Crash vs. the Zzorgwomen: Chapters 5 & 6," a parody of Saturday afternoon movie serials.
Summer offers chances to leave NYC behind for the Great Plains Theatre Conference and a barn full of puppets.
Pourfar plays Sylvia in "Tribes," and for the part, she needed to speak with a British accent, plus learn American Sign Language and the piano.
Shantala Shivalingappa is a beguiling dancer, and though her evening of four solos includes a work by Pina Bausch, the modest program leaves one wanting.
Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh will produce the stage version of "Magic Mike"; "30 Rock" star headlines "Orphans"
Jess Barbagallo and Chris Giarmio's "Good Year for Hunters," about a gay brother and sister, part of Ice Factory 2012, is confusing yet has a certain charm.
