Tuesday, May 14, 2013
We asked the 2013 Tony Award nominees to share their best advice for aspiring actors.
Watch our video interview below, or click here to view the slideshow!
Linked From Backstage at 05:10PMMonday, May 13, 2013
“Pippin” and “Kinky Boots” won outstanding revival and new Broadway musical, respectively, at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Winners were announced on Monday mornin…
Linked From Backstage at 07:37PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Poly Prep Country Day School’s middle school campus in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, might be a borough away from the Great White Way, but the school’s 360-seat theater, seasoned facu…
Linked From Backstage at 01:19PMThe actor’s routine of coming in to read has meant something different to Barbara Bain for the last 20 years.
In 1993, Bain, a film and television actor famous for her portrayal of Cin…
Linked From Backstage at 01:19PMYoung actors in Southern California have the chance to spend a few weeks with Shakespeare this summer.
A Noise Within, the area’s only year-round classical repertory company, will be h…
Linked From Backstage at 01:19PMTheater fans are growing excited about the Tony Awards, but leaders of Actors’ Equity Association may not share their enthusiasm. The New York Post reported that the stage performers u…
Linked From Backstage at 01:19PMBroadway is coming to Los Angeles this summer, giving local musical theater actors the chance to take the stage in productions ranging from a rock musical to a Prohibition-era crime satire t…
Linked From Backstage at 09:51AMMonday, May 6, 2013
"Dogfight," "The Piano Lesson," and "The Whale" took home the top awards for best musical, best revival, and best play at the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, which were presented in a ceremony a…
Linked From Backstage at 10:29AMFriday, May 3, 2013
The New York Drama Critics Circle awarded West-End import "Matilda The Musical" and Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" best musical and best play, respectively, on Fr…
Linked From Backstage at 02:10PMThursday, May 2, 2013
For Backstage’s 2013 Broadway Power List, we asked more than two dozen New York City theater professionals to name the most powerful Broadway players. The results are fairly similar to…
Linked From Backstage at 07:42PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Berry Gordy is probably not having a very good day. Though his autobiographical jukebox tuner “Motown: The Musical” continues to dominate the Broadway box office, the show was sh…
Linked From Backstage at 02:27PMNew musicals "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" the musical are neck and neck with Tony Award nominations with 13 and 12 nods respectively. Actors Sutton Foster and Jesse Tyler Ferguson announced t…
Linked From Backstage at 02:27PMMonday, April 29, 2013
"Giant" and "Hands on a Hardbody" lead the 2013 Drama Desk Awards, which were announced on Monday morning by actors Linda Lavin and John Lloyd Young. The Off-Broadway musical, which premiere…
Linked From Backstage at 12:23PMFriday, April 26, 2013
It's that time of year, actors! The final Tony Awards eligibility considerations were announced on Friday, and the verdict is in: The four Matildas have won the Tony.
Well, a special Tony Aw…
Linked From Backstage at 03:33PMThursday, April 25, 2013
When comedic genius Tina Fey divulged her hopes to turn her 2004 film “Mean Girls” into a musical during an interview with Entertainment Weekly last September, there were a few r…
Linked From Backstage at 06:08PMI have never been partial to “Pippin.” Originally, I found director-choreographer Bob Fosse’s dark, angry cynicism to be at odds with Stephen Schwartz’s Joni Mitchell…
Linked From Backstage at 04:31PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
John Logan’s solo show “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers” skips as lightly across its subject as a shard of shale whipping across a pond. Bette Midler, maki…
Linked From Backstage at 04:21PMThe theater business is nothing if not superstitious. But some opening night traditions are kept under wraps—robed, if you will. As another season of Broadway premieres draws to a clos…
Linked From Backstage at 12:54PMOnly three months ago, the Asian American Performers Action Coalition published a report showing the stunning paucity of casting diversity in New York City theater. Looking at Broadway and 1…
Linked From Backstage at 12:54PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
The most heart-stopping moment of the Broadway season happens late in Act 2 of Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful.” As Carrie Watts stands once again on the now-sagging …
Linked From Backstage at 04:11PMThe 2013 theater awards season is underway and heating up! Actors Patina Miller and Michael Urie announced the nominees for the 79th Annual Drama League Awards on Tuesday morning in a ceremo…
Linked From Backstage at 09:40AMMonday, April 22, 2013
That Fiona Shaw is a force of nature is indisputable. As a very human Virgin Mary in playwright Colm Tóibín’s 90-minute monologue “The Testament of Mary,” Sha…
Linked From Backstage at 04:27PMThe reviews and audiences may have yawned when “Chaplin” debuted on Broadway last summer, but the bio musical received some love this morning when Robert Cuccioli and Laila Robbi…
Linked From Backstage at 09:09AMSunday, April 21, 2013
There’s plenty of sound and fury in Alan Cumming’s near-solo adaptation of “Macbeth,” but it signifies a great deal more than nothing. This startlingly fresh approach…
Linked From Backstage at 03:48PMThursday, April 18, 2013
When I saw the original Off-Broadway production of Lyle Kessler’s “Orphans” back in 1985, I found the play to be a tiresome mix of pilfered Pinter and stolen Shepard, notab…
Linked From Backstage at 04:49PMThe bill for stage smoke must be a big one over at the Marquis Theatre. The stuff billows forth in unrelenting profusion during director-choreographer Jeff Calhoun’s expressionistic, w…
Linked From Backstage at 04:15PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Richard Greenberg’s touching comedy-drama “The Assembled Parties” isn’t saying much of anything new: change is constant, the universe is random, time takes its toll o…
Linked From Backstage at 04:08PMBroadway’s “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has finally disentangled itself from the 17-month legal dispute between former director Julie Taymor and the show’s current…
Linked From Backstage at 04:37AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Roundabout Theatre Company adds to Broadway’s Clifford Odets renaissance with the first Main Stem revival of his 1949 drama about Hollywood, “The Big Knife.” If the show do…
Linked From Backstage at 05:03PMMonday, April 15, 2013
Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Nance” is a bold, brave play, in which this eminent theatrical boulevardier reaches for something deeper and darker. Chronicling Mayor Fiorello …
Linked From Backstage at 04:15PMSunday, April 14, 2013
According to the Playbill for “Motown: The Musical,” the show stuffs 67 songs into its two-hour-and-45-minute running time. Such abundance suggests that impresario Berry Gordy&md…
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