Any doubts Danny Rubin had about his dream project were vanquished by Stephen Sondheim, who said "Groundhog Day" would make a good musical. That was in 2003. By then, Rubin and Harold Ramis'…
Loved the movie? See the show! Broadway hopes you'll do just that this spring, when the curtains rise on "Groundhog Day," "Anastasia," "Amélie" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" " the…
In 1974, Reed Birney dropped out of Boston University and came to New York at 19, to become an actor. "I was ambitious and I wanted to get going," he tells BARBARA HOFFMAN. "I've been here e…
He was born in Georgia and lives in Pennsylvania, but Justin Guarini's spiritual home is Broadway. "I was probably 11 when I saw 'Les Miz,' " the first "American Idol" runner-up tells…
Nazis, adultery, betrayal. The story behind Solomon Guggenheim's first museum touches on all three " and the paintings are pretty good, too. You'll find the art at Chelsea's Leila Heller Gal…
No matter how big you are in Hollywood, you don't get a trailer when you play Broadway. Heck, you're lucky if you have your own bathroom. Ask Jake Gyllenhaal. He and his "Sunday in the Park …
Whether stealing the show from under Richard Burton's nose or entertaining at home with his pet mountain lion, George Rose always seemed bigger than life. Perhaps the only thing more sensati…
Chazz Palminteri is living proof that you can take the boy outta The Bronx, but you can't take The Bronx outta the boy. His autobiographical play "A Bronx Tale" morphed into a movie and is n…
Oh, to be young, on Broadway and getting notes from Robert De Niro. In other words, how nice to be Hudson Loverro, who plays the kid in "A Bronx Tale," the hit musical directed by De Niro an…
This was the year "Hamilton" and "The Humans" got what they deserved " multiple Tonys, including those for, respectively, Best Musical and Best Play. So let's put them aside for this list an…
Yes, Virginia, there are people who work Christmas Day without kicking up a fuss. Like the Rockettes " who kick, period. Since Radio City Music Hall's "Christmas Spectacular" began in 1933, …
She’s a slut, he's a cad " and you can't take your eyes off them. They're Hélène and Anatole, the hot couple of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812." Those who go to see J…
What has more than 700 MetroCards but can't get you on the subway? That would be the dress Moya Angela wears in Broadway's "In Transit," opening Sunday night. When she sashays onstage in it …
Three hundred kicks per show, four shows a day, six days a week. You don't need a calculator to imagine the toll that might take on anyone, even someone as athletic as a Rockette. But that b…
It started as a sketch. But Michael Urie believed Drew Droege's riff on gay weddings was more than stand-up shtick. "I thought, 'This is a full play with an idea, and it's hilarious!'â€ 
Decades before he made J. Peterman an urban-sombrero legend on "Seinfeld," John O'Hurley starred in "The Fantasticks." The year was 1974, and O'Hurley, a junior at Rhode Island's Providence …
Most of us know him as an actor, stand-up comedian and playwright, but off-Broadway's new "Othello: The Remix" boasts the talents of John Leguizamo, producer. Born in Colombia, raised in Que…
They were the It girls of their day: fabulous, famous, well-educated and wealthy. No wonder the Schuyler sisters turn heads in "Hamilton" " they're as revolutionary as their male counterpart…
She’s sometimes called Clara, other times Marie. But by any name, she's still the sweetheart of that great holiday classic "The Nutcracker." No matter what form it's taken over time " …
Call him "the reindeer whisperer." That pretty much sums up Jimmy Smagula's work on the Theater at Madison Square Garden's "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Based on the 1964 animated TV cl…
In the heart of Lincoln Center, "A Chorus Line" is still kicking, its sequined top hats just a stone's throw from Rafiki, "The Lion King" sage, and clips of a pre-"Hamilton" Lin-Manuel Miran…
He was born in Miami, raised in Brooklyn and says he currently lives "in a suitcase" " but Ben Vereen seems most at home on Broadway. The Tony-winning star of "Pippin" is back in town, perfo…
“That’s me," says Robert Morse, smiling at his caricature in Sardi's. "It's like I'm looking in a mirror!" Well, not quite. Sketched some 55 years ago, when "How To Succeed in Bu…
After giving Alexander Hamilton the gift of rap, Lin-Manuel Miranda's written a song for The Rock. Disney's "Moana," out Wednesday, features original music by Miranda and the vocal stylings …
In off-Broadway's "A Life," David Hyde Pierce's 54-year-old character realizes he's forgotten what he was talking about. That's no big deal, says Pierce, 57: "It's the kind of forgetting we …