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Back Stage theater critics cast their votes and make their forecasts for the top winners, including "Once," "Newsies," and "Other Desert Cities"
Athol Fugard's 1989 play on South African apartheid doesn’t quite balance the political with the personal, but Ruben Santiago-Hudson's production is passionate and strong.
Back Stage spoke with some of the 2012 Tony Award nominees about their performances and what advice they have for actors.
An academic exercise in opaque theatrical symbolism, "Here I Go" is 60 minutes of the rambling thoughts of a suicidal grandmother who idolizes Dolly Parton.
Lily Rabe will play Rosalind in "As You Like it," directed by Daniel Sullivan, for Shakespeare in the Park's 50th.
Back Stage chats with actors from "Porgy and Bess," "One Man, Two Guvnors," "Stick Fly," "Ghost the Musical," "Once," and "End of the Rainbow."
You have to be a real nit-picker to find anything wrong with American Ballet Theatre's lavish production of "La Bayadere," choreography by Natalia Makarova.
Catch a free reading series of new plays, sponsored by the Araca Group. which has produced such hits as "Wicked" and "Boeing-Boeing."
See Judy Garland impersonator Peter Mac and tribute artist D.J. Schaefer for a double celebration of what would have been Bea Arthur's 90th birthday.
Los Angeles theaters are opening their stages to one-person shows as a growing list of actors use the format to further their careers.
Tom Edden, Jayne Houdyshell, and Elizabeth A. Davis are three actors who were recognized by the Tonys for impactful performances in limited stage time.
Union stagehands from New York's Local One of IATSE protest Speigelword's nonunion labor force for its "Empire New York" tent show.
Will Eno wrote his existential play, "Title and Deed" for married actor-director team Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett.
"Cymbeline," "Traces," and "Stinkykids" also top winners from Off-Broadway Alliance Awards.
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting honored producer Daryl Roth with the Harold Clurman Spirit Award at the Stella by Starlight gala on Sunday.
Many know him as the voice of Darth Vader from “Star Wars,” but before he was a star, Earl Jones was another struggling actor.
"Once," "An Iliad," and others honored at the 57th annual Village Voice Obie Awards for 2011-12 Off- and Off-Off-Broadway season at Webster Hall.
New musical "February House," at the Public Theater, traduces the lives of Carson McCullers, George Davis, and W.H. Auden, among others.
Before the show, Back Stage caught up with a few of the performers and asked them what advice they would give to aspiring actors.
The Born for Broadway event on Monday night benefitted the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
The accomplished actor will be seen this summer in Shakespeare in the Park's production of "As You Like It," directed by Daniel Sullivan.
The winners of the Gershwin Awards and New York City’s Gershwin candidates for the Jimmy Awards, were determined on Saturday.
Helming Roundabout Theatre production, experimental artist Moises Kaufman moves outside his comfort zone in tackling realistic play.
The Disney musical stays ahead of "Wicked" while the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice revival soars to the number-three spot.
The Stella by Starlight Gala honored James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, and others on Sunday at The Players Club in New York City.
