8,501 stories from Backstage
A leaner, shorter "Zarkana" returns to Radio City Music Hall as less "Magic Flute" and more Harry Potter.
From casting unknown Diego Boneta over Zac Efron to Tom Cruise singing at Malin Ackerman's ass, director Adam Shankman's new musical has been a wild ride.
Director Scott Ellis' production of Mary Chase's classic comedy "Harvey," at Roundabout Theatre Company, starring Jim Parsons, is a hell of a lot of fun.
"Space//Space," the latest mind-bender from Banana Bag & Bodice, at the Collapsable Hole, sends gender politics over the moon.
Eliza Clark's disturbing play "Recall," at The Wild Project, examines moral questions in a refreshing and frightening way.
Theater Resources Unlimited continues its series of free readings of new plays June 18 with "The Sin Eater" by Michael Bettencourt.
Take in a play and an ocean view with Shakespeare by the Sea.
On June 15 and 23, Tartaglia will be offering puppeteering classes at Pearl Studios. Back Stage caught up with Tartaglia and discussed creating a career in puppetry.
Patti LuPone christens the snazzy new nightclub 54 Below with an evening of songs structured loosely on the idea of travel, and the result is magic.
Abi Morgan's exploration of life's risks, "Tiny Dynamite," fizzles at 59E59 Theaters in a stylishly designed but poorly calibrated production.
The cast of “Jersey Boys” talks with Back Stage about sustaining a show’s run.
How Jim Morrison and online fundraising helped Brad Burgess and founder Judith Malina keep the downtown theatrical institution alive.
Martin Platt, co-director of Perry Street Theatricals and founder of Alabama Shakespeare Festival, takes charge at Olney Theatre Center in Maryland.
Playwrights Horizons has another winner with Gina Gionfriddo's "Rapture, Blister, Burn," a caustic and moving examination of the state of feminism today.
Neil Patrick Harris, Bernadette Peters, Jim Parsons, Kelli O'Hara, Matthew Morrison, Jessica Chastain, and others walk the Tony Awards red carpet.
Judith Light, Christian Borle, Audra McDonald, Nina Arianda, Steve Kazee, James Corden, Michael McGrath, and Judy Kaye win acting Tonys.
Hugh Jackman, Jessica Chastain, Mandy Patinkin, Jeremy Jordan, Alan Menken, and others give advice to aspiring actors at the Tony Awards.
At the Actors Fund’s L.A. Tony party, Jason Alexander received an award while Annie Potts, Lorna Luft, Scott Bakula, and Bryan Cranston cheered him on.
Ethan Lipton's enigmatic send-up of urban life, "Luther," in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, needs more decisiveness.
John Patrick Shanley lays on the symbolism too thickly in "Storefront Church," part three of his "Church and State" trilogy, but there's still much to like.
Audra McDonald, James Corden, Nina Arianda, Steve Kazee, and others tell newcomers to say yes to every opportunity and enjoy the struggle.
"Wicked," "The Lion King," "Book of Mormon," "Spider-Man" all show increases in the week leading up to the Tony Awards.
"Peter and the Starcatcher," "Porgy and Bess," and "Death of a Salesman" also among winners.
Untitled Theater Company #61's adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science-fiction novel, "The Lathe of Heaven," is entertaining but flawed.
Mickie Maher and Mark Messing's chamber opera "The Hunchback Variations," at 59E59 Theaters, turns a quirky premise into a treasurable theatrical treat.
