8,501 stories from Backstage
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright lectures on life, love, and Hollywood.
Broadway's Tovah Feldshuh brings her wit, wisdom, and wrinkles to L.A
Negotiations to Resume After a Month's Break
Our local creative artists continually find themselves struggling to explode a nasty myth perpetuated by know-it-alls from other cities, or by the elitist snobs from within. It's that irrita…
How do you get into the pool of actors called in for the possibilities of pilot season?
Interviews with Stephen Root and Harriet Harris on how theater roles led to TV roles.
Creatures kept in dark enclosed spaces develop all sorts of compensatory skills. Bats learn to find things in the dark with echolocation. Fish in caves lose their eyes and interpret the worl…
No matter how new you are to the city, you have probably already deduced that the value of mass mailings is debatable.
Affects Over 80 Regional Nonprofit Theatres
As we always do once a year, Back Stage takes a look at today's musical productions with an eye toward filling you in on what you need to know to get cast in them.
"Belfast Blues," evocatively subtitled "One Wee Girl's Story About Family, War, Jesus, and Hollywood," is ultimately a coming-of-age memoir.
When Frances Sternhagen auditioned for the film "Network," her performance moved Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky to tears. Despite her excellent audition, however, the part was given to Bea…
Recently, playwright Edward Albee, actor Richard Thomas, and producers Elizabeth I. McCann and Martin Richards gathered at a midtown restaurant to talk. The freewheeling conversation covered…
As the economic realities of Broadway make it harder and harder for new musicals by contemporary writers to reach the Great White Way...
As part of our Welcome to New York spotlight, five Back Stage writers profile organizations that serve the performing arts community in NYC.
To bring pet projects to fruition, self-starting actors sometimes find themselves rolling up their sleeves and getting involved in nitty-gritty business details, particularly when negotiatin…
"It was the red seats," admits Charlayne Woodard, on a break from rehearsals for the premiere of her first multicharacter play, Flight, opening this weekend at Center Theatre Group's new Kir…
Back Stage West spoke to Eva Marie Saint and Jeffrey Hayden during their lunch break about working with one's spouse, the demands of glamour, and the latest of many collaborations during the…
Reviewed By Madeleine Shaner
In this one-man show, so many aspects of Mario Burrell are on display that it's never quite clear who the central character is. Is it the sweet-voiced, appealing young man of obvious talents whose bio includes the Broadway company of Rent, and several regional theatre, TV, and movie credits?
In a show of support for Canadian Equity, Actors' Equity Association has ordered its members not to perform in the Canadian production of Blue Man Group.
