Monday, December 26, 2016
Family life is messy in the new hit musical Dear Evan Hansen, and that’s exactly the way Rachel Bay Jones and Jennifer Laura Thompson like it. After years of solid work in Broadway mus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Two of the most beloved supporting characters in modern-day musicals are “the lesbians next door,” kosher caterer Cordelia and internist Dr. Charlotte, in Falsettos. Introduced b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:51PMThursday, October 6, 2016
Of all the frisky felines in Cats, Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer are the biggest mischief-makers, grabbing Sunday dinner from the oven one minute and swiping a string of pearls the next. Thes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:29PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
A glamorous drag queen and a strait-laced shoe manufacturer form an unconventional alliance in Kinky Boots, a relationship that’s both funny and touching thanks to Cyndi Lauper’s…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:33PMFriday, July 22, 2016
The new play Oslo tells the unlikely story of how a Norwegian sociologist and his wife, a foreign minister in the title city, managed to broker the historic 1993 peace agreement between Isra…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PMThursday, June 9, 2016
While earning raves and 2016 Tony nominations for their work on Eclipsed, playwright Danai Gurira and director Liesl Tommy have been living double lives, creatively speaking: Gurira plays zo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:50PMFriday, June 3, 2016
Sisterhood is powerful in Daphne’s Dive, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. In the title role, Vanessa Aspillaga runs a neighborhood bar in North Philad…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:14PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
At 78, three-time Tony winner Frank Langella is enjoying one of his best years ever, with juicy TV roles as a Russian spy in The Americans and a racist Southern senator in HBO’s adapta…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PMMonday, May 16, 2016
Among the many reasons to love American Psycho is the show’s inspired casting of Alice Ripley and Jennifer Damiano in featured roles. The actresses forged a deep bond during multiple a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMMonday, May 9, 2016
Samantha Massell and Ben Rappaport play the coolest couple in Anatevka, a dream come true for the young Fiddler on the Roof stars. As feisty middle daughter Hodel and radical tutor Perchik, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:57PMThursday, April 28, 2016
With a trio of Tony winners and a pair of Tony nominees above the title, Shuffle Along boasts the Broadway season’s starriest lineup. But two of the show’s most celebrated names …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:14PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
“Who is this man?” bellows Ciarán Hinds at the beginning of The Crucible’s sensational second act. Cast as the all-powerful Deputy Governor of Salem, Hinds is starin…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:43PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Here’s a question for your next round of Broadway trivia: Name a pair of musical pros who played small-town spouses in shows that opened almost 20 years apart. The answer, of course, i…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMMonday, March 7, 2016
“Do you remember 15?” Timothée Chalamet asks at the beginning and end of John Patrick Shanley’s irresistible memory play Prodigal Son. “For me, it was a specia…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:14PMSaturday, February 27, 2016
When the sublime clowns Bill Irwin and David Shiner saunter on stage in baggy tailcoats, loose ties and top hats, it’s impossible not to smile. Within seconds, that smile turns into no…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:33AMMonday, February 22, 2016
Growing up on Long Island, Seth Rudetsky developed a youthful obsession with disaster movies and a taste for 1970s pop hits like “Torn Between Two Lovers” and “Sky High.&rd…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:50PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Creating a character on stage is a very personal act of transformation, which makes the double casting of Spring Awakening so unusual. Sandra Mae Frank gives a blazing performance as Wendla …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:34AMThursday, October 1, 2015
Age: 28
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Current Role: A Broadway debut in the megahit musical Wicked as Fiyero, the carefree prince who is transformed by his relationship with Elphaba.
Stage an…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PMThursday, September 24, 2015
Age: 25
Hometown: Centerville, OH
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Cosette, loyal adoptive daughter of Jean Valjean (Alfie Boe) and object of Marius’ affection, in Les Miserables.
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SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PMThursday, September 3, 2015
Age: 26
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Current Role(s): A dual Broadway debut in Hamilton as Peggy, the youngest of the beguiling Schuyler sisters, and Maria Reynolds, whose affair with the title …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PMThursday, August 13, 2015
Age: "Young at heart."
Hometown: Lancaster, PA
Current Role: Phoebe D’Ysquith, the ladylike heiress who vies for the affection of murderous Monty Navarro in the Tony-w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:46PMThursday, July 30, 2015
Age: 33
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Current Roles: A dynamic Broadway debut as French general Lafayette, “the Lancelot of the Revolutionary set,” and future U.S. president Thomas (&l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:20PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Age: 34
Hometown: Troy, MI
Current Roles: An off-Broadway debut in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ dark comedy Gloria as Dean, an editorial assistant at a prominent magazine, whose ambitions…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:09PMThursday, June 11, 2015
Age: 65. “The fact that my crusty old kisser is considered a ‘fresh face’ is a minor miracle.”
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Gabriel, the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:36PMThursday, May 28, 2015
Age: 54
Hometown: Born in Glasgow, Scotland; raised in London
Current Role: A Tony-nominated Broadway debut in The Audience as British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who enjoys bantering wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PMMonday, May 25, 2015
It's been a year of weddings for Celia Keenan-Bolger, including two on stage and her own in real life. In a union of Tony nominees (hers for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; his f…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMThe new boxing drama Lights Out, which premieres on January 11 on the FX network, features a slew of stage actors, including two who are currently appearing in off-Broadway plays: Stacy Keac…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMForty-five years after he directed a Chekhov workshop production in the newly constructed Mitzi Newhouse Theatre (then called the Forum), Stacy Keach is back in Lincoln Center's underground …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMStockard Channing is one of five theatrical all-stars assembled by director Joe Mantello for Lincoln Center Theater's off-Broadway world premiere of Other Desert Cities. Certainly the Tony-w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMBroadway-bound composer Alan Menken spent the morning of January 25 celebrating an amazing feat: his 19th Academy Award nomination. Along with lyricist Glenn Slater (his collaborator on the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PMMaggie Gyllenhaal is a grounding presence in movies, whether she's playing a small-town reporter (an Oscar-nominated turn in Crazy Heart), a struggling addict and ex-con (SherryBaby) or a pe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:58PM 
