8,501 stories from Backstage
Are you not getting enough Broadway-caliber theater on your TV screen? Of course you’re not.
The Lifetime channel’s award-winning morning show “The Balancing Act” wil…
Although the famed Drama Book Shop in Midtown Manhattan will celebrate its centennial in 2016, the exact anniversary is anything but precise.
“It’s a little hard to pick an actua…
In a theatrical landscape as diverse as it is populated, the old saying holds true: If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. With approximately 2,000 productions per year fr…
Rachel Hoffman of Telsey + Co has cast hundreds of actors in Broadway, touring, and regional theater productions. “I’m a puzzle person, my brain has always loved trying to fit to…
Center Theatre Group continues its reign as one of Los Angeles’ most groundbreaking theater companies, particularly with the announcement of a 2015–16 season that includes, among…
Tonight Broadway will purr for a cause at Don’t Tell Mama in New York City.
In efforts to raise money for animal welfare organization the Humane Society, the seventh annual Broadway Me…
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced the lineup for its 27th annual Festival of New Musicals. Taking place Oct. 15–16 at New World Stages in New York City, the fest …
Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone is not exactly known for her tolerance of audience members using cell phones during live performances. At the July 8 evening performance of Lincoln Ce…
Attention Chicago dancers! The Windy City’s longest-running in-house choreography series is back to inspire and amaze July 18–19 at the Athenaeum Theatre.
For the last 14 years, …
We’ve covered some of the production highlights from the 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival, which is celebrating 12 years of bringing new musicals to the stage. Here are some conc…
Are you a musical theater writer looking to follow in the footsteps of successes like “Frozen” Tony winners Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez, and Jeff Marx of “Avenu…
This year’s New York Musical Theatre Festival, running July 7–27, features everything from rock operas to ass-kicking superheroes. Whether it’s the epic or the intimate you…
Broadway got an influx of fresh new talent last night!
Fifty-two musical theater hopefuls made their Broadway debut at the Minskoff Theatre June 29 at the seventh annual Jimmy Awards.
Hosted…
Are you looking for your next weekend getaway? We love summer theater festivals for their rotating rep of high-level productions—think classics, family musicals, and hot new works&mdas…
Part downtown theater, part folk concert, and part 19th-century whaling adventure, the Naked Angels’ “SeaWife” is more than an unusual evening of musical storytelling&mdash…
How many American theater festivals can claim they’ve launched musicals staged in all 50 states and over 20 countries? The New York Musical Theatre Festival can.
This year’s sche…
There are different ways shows move from screen to stage, but the Broadway adaptation of the musical within the show “Smash” is a singular event.
“Bombshell,” the mus…
The superheroines of the theater are back—and better and bolder than ever.
The Kilroys, a group of L.A.-based playwrights and producers dedicated to gender parity in the theater, made …
The American Association of Community Theatre’s AACTFest 2015 kicks off today in Grand Rapids, Mich. Twelve productions from the AACT’s 10 regions will vie for for a chance to ha…
To see some of the most talented stage and screen artists take on new material in development, head on up to the Hudson Valley for the 31st Powerhouse Theater season!
A collaboration between…
San Diego’s biggest biennial theater festival returns this October!
La Jolla Playhouse’s 2015 Without Walls (WoW) Festival, running Oct. 9–11, will join together local, nat…
Attention, California playwrights! There’s still time to submit your unproduced plays and win $5,000 prizes from Humanitas and Center Theatre Group.
From June 1–30, Southern Cali…
Because bad things happen to good actors every single day.
Having to travel to auditions with three pairs of shoes, two outfits, dance clothes, food for the day, your headshot and rés…
A man was accidentally stabbed onstage during a May 31 performance of “The Language of Flowers,” a new play by Gavin Kayner at the Temple of Music and Art’s Cabaret Theatre…
In an effort to raise awareness about water shortages around the world, “One Night for ONE DROP,” in association with Cirque du Soleil, will be screening nationwide, for one nigh…
