With a Broadway resume that includes Elphaba in Wicked and Irish chieftain Grace O’Malley in The Pirate Queen, it’s no wonder Stephanie J. Block laughingly declares, “Peopl…
Steven Sater has two musicals in pre-production and is actively developing two other shows, while nudging Spring Awakening toward the big screen. Oh, and he’s written a nifty little bo…
Steven Sater has two musicals in pre-production and is actively developing two other shows, while nudging Spring Awakening toward the big screen. Oh, and he’s written a nifty little bo…
In our youth-obsessed culture, the stage career of Kathleen Chalfant offers an important lesson: Great talent attracts great roles, at every age. Chalfant was almost 50 when she had her offi…
A subway rider sings of her lover in China in “Beautiful Eyes,” the newly released single from Alice Ripley and her eponymous band. The Tony-winning actress wrote the song hersel…
Five of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage roles…
Get ready, Phantom of the Opera fans: The super-lavish Australian production of Love Never Dies will debut at movie theaters across America on February 28 and March 7 in screenings sponsored…
Five of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage roles…
Five of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage roles…
When your first professional job becomes a career-defining smash hit, where do you go from there? In the case of Adam Pascal, who created the role of Roger in Rent at age 25, the answer has …
Five of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage roles…
Five of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage …
Tonya Pinkins is always on the lookout for big career challenges. “I have this incredible curiosity and I get bored easily, so I want to do something different,” says the Tony-wi…
The 1981 Broadway premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along lasted a total of 68 performances (52 of them previews!), but it’s a production that lives on in memory and…
Everybody loves Carol Channing, and aren’t we lucky that this great star is still active and energetic on her 91st birthday? Born in Seattle on January 31, 1921, Channing is revered by…
The Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera is officially headed into its 25th year at the Majestic Theatre, where it opened on January 26, 1988. To mark the latest milestone of the …
To borrow a lyric from Barnum, the colors of Jim Dale’s theatrical life are bountiful and bold—which makes the Tony-winning star, now celebrating his 55th year in show business, …
As Jimmy Porter, the caustic, charismatic lead character in John Osbourne’s Look Back in Anger, Matthew Rhys is on constant alert, ready to lash out at his young wife, Alison (Sarah Go…
It’s never too early for Broadway fans to start handicapping the Tony Awards, and the announcement that Pulitzer Prize winner Clybourne Park will open at the Walter Kerr Theatre in Apr…
Good news for theater fans who missed the 2009 off-Broadway production (and subsequent national tour) of Let Me Down Easy: Anna Deavere Smith’s tour-de-force solo show, which examines …
Age & Hometown: “Timeless”; Cleveland, Ohio Current Role A Broadway debut as Christine Daae, golden voiced protégée of the title character in The Phantom of …
Age & Hometown: “Timeless”; Cleveland, Ohio Current Role A Broadway debut as Christine Daae, golden voiced protégée of the title character in The Phantom of …
Douglas Sills made a splashy Broadway debut 14 years ago in the title role of Frank Wildhorn’s musical version of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Tall, dashing and hilarious, the big-voiced act…
Broadway attracts the best stage actors on earth, performing at the peak of their powers. In a year filled with great dramas and scintillating musicals, Broadway.com's editorial staff ca…
Lily Rabe has worked nonstop—and at the highest professional level—in 2011, jumping from her Tony-nominated performance as Portia in The Merchant of Venice to a summer run as Nor…