8,501 stories from Backstage
Alicia Silverstone (“Clueless”) joins Henry Winkler, Cheyenne Jackson, Daniel Breaker, and Ari Graynor on Broadway in “The Performers,”
Love the movie, then see the play. Sony is banking on its catalog of films finding new life on the boards. In a new deal with “The Color Purple”
Brooklyn’s Steiner Studios is already the largest site of film and television production outside Hollywood, and a proposed plan for expansion would
I’m honestly not sure what Sam Shepard is up to with “Heartless,” his new play at Signature Theatre. It is visually arresting, beautifully
A cougartini is made of pomegranate juice and vanilla vodka. It is sugary and sticky, and the flavors attack rather than complement each other. The composition
A musical that pokes fun at Mormonism? How could that ever succeed?
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Brooklyn may be mining for a bit of the same
Most theater companies don’t lack for brilliant ideas—it’s the funding that can prove more difficult. For five companies, that troublesome
The heart of “Dreamgirls” is Effie White, the opinionated, talented singer whose dreams are thwarted when her stubbornness gets the best of her and
“How dangerous can slugs be?” asks the nasty yet naive small-town mayor (Artem Kreimer) in Colby Day’s “Giant Killer Slugs.” Oh,
Actor-playwright Michelle Ramoni’s “June and Nancy” is her first full-length play, and I’m afraid it shows. This 80-minute
What is “Hanafuda Denki”? The title alone, referring to a traditional Japanese card game, makes one worry that this import fromTokyo’s
The New York Innovative Theatre Awards will present honorary awards to Five Lesbian Brothers, the Theatre Development Fund, and Astoria Performing Arts Center
After eight years without a home, the VS. Theatre Company has signed the lease on its first permanent space. The group announced Aug. 22 that it will be taking
In “City of Shadows,” an hourlong award-winning song cycle from Australia, a series of photographs flashes on a large screen as writer-director
Actor-writer Vincent James Arcuri’s “Becoming Butch,” his one-man show in the New York International Fringe Festival, is a familiar tale of a
When 20-somethings don’t know what to do, they like to write about themselves. They tweet about their breakfast, blog about their boyfriends, and update
In “My Date With Troy Davis,” actor-author Daniel Glenn faces us in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs from an existential death row to talk about
Watching “SleepOver,” it becomes clear that high school senior Max W. Friedlich is a talented writer, with a sharp ear for dialogue and a good eye
Don’t expect any easy meanings or explanations from “<the invisible draft>,” an aesthetically superb but vexing performance collage
“Non-Equity: The Musical!,” while more than a bit rough around the edges, is a fairly enjoyable 100 minutes, thanks to its breezy humor and gamely
Auditions have been announced for "Dead Accounts," a new original five-character comedy by Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck ("Smash," "Seminar," "The
On its journey to production at the Fringe, “Dogs” seems to have lost its subtitle, “A Biting Comedy.” That’s probably just as
A slow, heavy-handed movement exploration of sensuality, torture, rape, identity, oppression, and the power of the written word, “Oasis: Everything You
The program note for DC Moore’s “Honest” invokes Occupy Wall Street and claims the monologue “reignites the fire that was set off by
There’s no two ways about it. Author-director-actor James Fluhr’s “Our Lady” is as stunning a piece of performance art as you’re
