8,501 stories from Backstage
I’m afraid that playwright Arlene Hutton, author of the wonderfully restrained, emotionally acute “Last Train to Nibroc,” is a bit stymied by
A five-piece ensemble sits prominently onstage for Alkis Papoutsis’ staging of Elizabeth Chaney’s “Dark Hollow: An Appalachian
With “Ticket 2 Eternity,” Matthew Ethan Davis wants to say something about spirituality, servitude, career happiness, the corrupting pursuit of
For the past seven years Tim Intravia has painted his face silver and stood like a statute inTimes Square, occasionally moving like a robot. This is how he
What happened after the von Trapp, forgive me, the van Klapp family fled the Nazis inAustriaand climbed every mountain in the Alps to get toSwitzerland? Sure,
A thoughtful play previously presented by the Yale University Dramatic Association, “Phantomwise” is exquisitely performed and boasts a creative
So much goes on in Jason Atkinson’s “A Short Trip,” yet so little happens that we’re left wondering what the fuss is about. The
Emma Dean and Jake Diefenbach are alarmingly unique, talented vocalists fromAustralia, and their show “An End to Dreaming” showcases their range as
There are 17 “approaches” that the United States Army trains its interrogators to take with detainees, none of them involving physical violence;
“#MormoninChief” begins with a ridiculous premise: An unassuming Mormon named Connor becomes a national political celebrity because of his single
What will it take for an unambitious party guy like John Darrian to get his act together? In “The Apocalypse of John,” a scatterbrained comedy
Every grandmother should have a grandchild like Onalea Gilbertson. The Canadian songwriter-singer-pianist was so besotted with Grandma that she concocted a
The lovely Tara Grammy proves that she’s a very talented woman with “Mahmoud,” which examines the lives of several Iranian expatriates living
The events behind the creation of the atomic bomb practically beg to be put on stage. There’s J. Robert Oppenheimer’s moral struggle with his
Naomi Grossman, the writer and star of “Girl in Argentine Landscape,” grew up in a normal middle class American family, but she craved a more
In the mid-1800s, before motion pictures, photography, or even film, painted panoramas were the spectacle of choice, and John Banvard was a master of the form.
The Tony-winning Broadway musical "Once" has recouped its $5.5 million investment after only 21 weeks and 169 performances, which means that the show has
Daredevils who didn't qualify to join the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team in London have another chance to showcase their skills this week.The producers of
"Glengarry Glen Ross," David Mamet's Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play about desperate Chicago real estate agents, is returning to Broadway this fall.
Dani Vetere’s “Hadrian’s Wall” really isn’t about the ancient Roman fortification in northernEngland. Instead, it’s a
Actor-author Ryan Kipp’s “REDlight” is a brief (at 36 minutes) collection of monologues linked by the character of Gavin, a hunky young
Gay actor-author Josh Mesnik's autobiographical 75-minute comedy "Have I Got a Girl for You" details his adventures working for a Florida prostitution ring
Taking place across the first 10 months of 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Josh Billig's convoluted new drama "After the Circuit" details the
Are you one of those conspiracy theorists who believe that the capture and killing of John Wilkes Booth was a myth concocted by the government to appease a
Playwright Gary Morgenstein may have pungent points to make about racism, politics, the Middle East, and other matters of current interest in "Right on
