Wednesday, November 28, 2012
In the 25 years since Robert Harling spent 10 days writing a play in honor of his late sister, Steel Magnolias has become an enduring story of female friendship told with an irresistible mix…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:17PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Audra McDonald is coming full circle: The Juilliard graduate will head back to her old stomping ground to host the popular PBS series Live From Lincoln Center. The five-time Tony w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:57AMMonday, November 26, 2012
Martin Richards, a colorful Oscar- and Tony-winning producer whose entertainment career spanned seven decades, died at his home in New York City on November 26 after a long illness, a family…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:12PMFriday, November 23, 2012
There’s no place like New York for the holidays! And no December visit to the big city would be complete without taking in at least one holiday show. This year, six festive theatrical …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:21AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Sometimes it only takes one great role to turn a respected actor into an in-demand stage star—and in the case of Danny Burstein, that role happened to be an over-the-top Latin lover na…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:14PMWhen Actors’ Equity decided to publish a history of its first 100 years, the union turned to an artist perfectly suited to capturing the great stars of the past century: Broadway.com&r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
On November 14, 1996, a sexy, stripped-down version of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse’s Chicago opened at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre after a much-lauded Encores! deb…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:05PMMonday, November 12, 2012
History comes to life in the best possible way in Checkers, Douglas McGrath’s fascinating new drama about the scandal that almost pushed Richard Nixon off the ticket as General Dwight …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:10PMThursday, November 8, 2012
Bernadette Peters was nominated for a Tony as Gypsy’s Rose and drove her TV daughter Megan Hilty nuts in Smash, but neither of those diva turns compares to the mayhem she causes in the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMAge & Hometown: 29; Alexandria, VA
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Christian, the tongue-tied heartthrob who needs help from the title character to woo fair Roxane, in Roundabout Th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:48AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
As an Oscar nominee for both acting (Training Day) and writing (Before Sunset)—not to mention a Gen X icon for Dead Poets Society and Reality Bites—Ethan Hawke could fill a coupl…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PMWednesday, October 31, 2012
Every week, theater fans look to Broadway.com for the best and most entertaining stage-related video features available anywhere. This week's most-watched videos include a laugh-filled d…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:29PMAs the fall season gets into full swing, great theater is happening all across the USA! This week’s Countrywide Guide spotlights the California world premiere of a musical penned by th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:09PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Theater fans too young to have seen George Hearn on stage at the height of his Broadway career can catch up via film versions of Sweeney Todd and Putting It Together. (Click below to savor H…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:09PMMonday, October 22, 2012
Sister Act alum and former Broadway.com video blogger Sarah Bolt married technology lawyer David John Crowell on October 20 in St. Louis. Appropriately enough, the former Sister Mary Patrick…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
Mega-selling British singing sensation Susan Boyle is set to release her latest album, Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage, on November 13, featuring a duet with original Pha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:25AMWednesday, October 10, 2012
For almost four decades, Judith Ivey has morphed into good-time gals, matriarchs, monsters and saints, showing off her range in comedy, tragedy and everything in between. No wonder this two-…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:56PMThursday, October 4, 2012
It’s not unusual for real-life couples to co-star on stage and screen, but this fall, family togetherness has become an epidemic on and off Broadway. Four current or forthcoming produc…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:31PMAge and Hometown: “Whatever the role requires”; St. Louis, MO
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Rosie, the sweet and outgoing Dynamo who joins her gal pals in belting “D…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:53PMMonday, October 1, 2012
The jeans-clad brunette on the cover of Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir bears little resemblance to the 80s superstar who sang “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” while skipping down the street…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:27AMWednesday, September 26, 2012
There’s a lot more to Amy Spanger than the shrewd, sassy girls she has played in Broadway musicals. “I’m not from ‘the other side of the tracks,’ but for some r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:10PMMonday, September 17, 2012
Since winning a Tony Award—his fourth!—as the best Herbie ever in Gypsy, Boyd Gaines has embraced his Atlanta roots as Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy on Broadway and in London and …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:51AMWednesday, September 12, 2012
When it comes to classic roles in musical theater, nobody does it better than Hugh Panaro. Although he insists that he thinks of himself as a character actor, Panaro possesses the rich tenor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:58PMWednesday, August 29, 2012
Marin Mazzie’a musical star turns have run the gamut from screwball comedy in Kiss Me, Kate and Spamalot to the riveting dysfunctional moms she played in Next to Normal and Carrie. &ld…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:41AMMarin Mazzie’s musical star turns have run the gamut from screwball comedy in Kiss Me, Kate and Spamalot to the riveting dysfunctional moms she played in Next to Normal and Carrie. &ld…
SOURCE: austin.broadway.com at 11:41AMMonday, August 27, 2012
Robert Cuccioli understands the demands of a dual role, having achieved Broadway stardom in 1997 with a Tony-nominated performance in Frank Wildhorn's good vs. evil musical Jekyll & …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:43PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Nobody know more about Jekyll & Hyde than Robert Cuccioli: Not only did he nab a 1997 Best Actor Tony nomination for playing the dual roles, he has since directed multiple productions of…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:56PMDecades before vampire fans fell in love with Lois Smith as “Gran” Adele Stackhouse on True Blood, this great American stage actress was starring in plays by Williams, O’Ne…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:35PMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Lillias White deserves to be on Broadway every season, and if all goes well, the Tony-winning star of The Life and Fela! will make her Main Stem return in 2013 in Big Maybelle: Soul of the B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:38AMMonday, August 6, 2012
If you’re over 40 (okay, 50), John Davidson needs no introduction. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the handsome, dimpled actor jumped from musicals and Disney movies to headlining in Las V…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:27AMWednesday, August 1, 2012
Elizabeth Ashley is endlessly entertaining in conversation, but don’t let her self-deprecating chitchat fool you: After more than 50 years in the theater, this lady knows plenty about …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:30AM 
