André De Shields, the Tony-winning star of "Hadestown," is no stranger to hell: He's been living in Hell's Kitchen since 1983. Back then, the 73-year-old says, it was a frightening place. "…
It started seven years ago, with a favor: One of Robyn Lynne Norris' friends had signed up with OkCupid and asked her to review her online dating profile. Back then, Norris, a 20-something "…
Before Jake Gyllenhaal appears in "Sea Wall/A Life" " even before the house lights dim " co-star Tom Sturridge is onstage for a pre-show that consists mainly of him drinking beer. The brew i…
Dim all the marquee lights on Broadway " Harold Prince, the producer and director behind many of the American theater's greatest musicals, died Wednesday at 91, after a brief illness. In a c…
Annie Golden plays a mute on "Orange Is the New Black," but over a recent lunch, the show's Norma Romano is a regular chatterbox. How, after a breathless talking tour through her childhood, …
When she accepted the Golden Globe for "Les Misérables," Anne Hathaway thanked her mother. The star was 8 when she saw Kate McCauley Hathaway play Fantine in the musical's national tour " a…
There go the pies. The Sara Bareilles musical "Waitress" will end its Broadway run on Jan. 5, the Hollywood Reporter announced, after nearly four years and countless turns by many guest acto…
Having been "bored s - - tless" the first time he saw "The Magic Flute," Barrie Kosky hoped never to suffer through it again. Granted, he was only 11 at the time but, th…
Rare is the play whose title tells you exactly what to expect. "The Ferryman"? There's not even a ferry. "To Kill a Mockingbird"? No bird. But "Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson" delivers eve…
Hao Jiang Tian saw his first opera in 1983. It was the day he arrived from China with four words of English (hello, OK, bye, yes) and $35 in his pocket. An aspiring singer, he spent $8 of it…
Given her six Tony Awards, two Grammys, an Emmy and a National Medal of Arts, Audra McDonald has nothing left to prove. Yet there she is in "Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune," havin…
Long before "Mad About You," Helen Hunt was mad about a musical. She was 8 years old when her father, the late director and acting coach Gordon Hunt, took her to "Godspell" off-Broadway. Tha…
Theatergoers can watch Debra Messing age before their eyes next spring. In Noah Haidle's new play, "Birthday Candles," the star of "Will & Grace" " both past and rebooted " starts off as…
Broadway's next Atticus Finch has blue eyes. Ed Harris, a four-time Oscar nominee and star of TV's "Westworld," will take over from Jeff Daniels in Broadway's "To Kill a Mockingbird" this fa…
She got expelled from school after punching another kid " and wound up moving to New York.
Disney's new "Lion King" won't roar into movie theaters until July 19 " but the Broadway musical's still feeling the love: Wednesday it plays its 9,000th performance at the Minskoff Theater.…
Fake it till you make it. And Derrick Baskin ain't too proud to admit he did just that: submitting a résumé of nonexistent theater credits two decades before landing the lead in "Ain't Too…
Santino Fontana is no stranger to competition. He's been up for plenty of awards, including a Tony this year for his starring role in "Tootsie." But he didn't expect his wife, actress Jessic…
The name is Fleming. Lucy Fleming " and as Ian Fleming's niece, she's had a front-row view of the creation and continuation of Bond, James Bond, the most fantastic fictitious spy ever. For n…
When you want to be an actor and your last name's Uranowitz, well " you might want to change it. Brandon Uranowitz's father thought so. Just before he left for college, his dad suggested he …
Never mind where the bodies are buried: Let's talk about the mountain of corpses onstage these days at the Booth Theatre. As soon as that blood-red curtain parts and theatergoers get a gande…
"I wanted a real life as a dancer, so of course I came to New York," says Mark Morris, who at 19 left Seattle for this city in 1976, and " except for the six months a year he's on tour " has…
Soon after the killing started, Immaculée Ilibagiza's parents and brothers begged her to save herself. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda had begun, and a friend of her father's,…
Soon after the killing started, Immaculée Ilibagiza's parents and brothers begged her to save herself. The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda had begun, and a friend of her father's,…
He was the green meanie of Broadway's "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" and the Green Goblin of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." Now Patrick Page has gone to hell " as the overlor…