Age & Hometown: 28; Evanston, Illinois Current Role: A Broadway debut as Melinda Wells, a 1940s big-band singer who is summoned back to life in 1974 via hypnosis by a lovestruck psych…
Age & Hometown: “You’re as young as you feel, and I still feel pretty immature”; Wayland, MA Current Role: A Broadway debut performance as Izzy, a smart and sexy asp…
When Harry Connick Jr. called his Broadway co-star Jessie Mueller “a super freak” in a December 5 Today show interview, he meant it in the best possible way: Connick and Mueller …
As Broadway-loving TV fans are undoubtedly aware, the new NBC series Smash (premiering February 6, 2012) will take viewers behind the scenes of the creation of a musical biography of Marilyn…
You’ve seen Johnny Weir showing off his balletic form as a champion figure skater, starring in his own reality series (Be Good Johnny Weir) and judging the short-lived Skating With the…
Stockard Channing began Thanksgiving week on the operating table at Roosevelt Hospital having arthroscopic surgery on her right knee. By Friday, November 25, she was back onstage at the Boot…
Check the bookcase of any musical theater fan, and you’ll almost certainly find a copy of Finishing the Hat, Stephen Sondheim’s best-selling collection and discussion of the lyri…
Check the bookcase of any musical theater fan, and you’ll almost certainly find a copy of Finishing the Hat, Stephen Sondheim’s best-selling collection and discussion of the lyri…
Acting couple Dylan Baker and Becky Ann Baker have appeared separately on Broadway in La Bete, Mauritius and God of Carnage (him) and Good People, Assassins and All My Sons (her), but they&r…
At first glance, it’s surprising to see Jerry O’Connell onstage in Seminar as a fast-talking young novelist who trashes Kerouac and brags about his stint at the MacDowell writers…
After theme weeks devoted to movies, TV, the ’80s and personal sob stories, Dancing With the Stars finally got around to a salute to Broadway. On October 24, the seven remaining season…
Rachel Griffiths made such an indelible impression as a world-class neurotic in the TV dramas Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters, it’s a jolt to discover that the Australian-bor…
Age & Hometown: 25, as of October 23: “I get to spend my birthday on Broadway!”; Ukiah, California Currently: Making his Broadway debut as composer Bob Gaudio, the brainie…
Film fans think of Jerry O’Connell as a Hollywood guy, with roles in TV shows like The Defenders and Crossing Jordan and a high-profile marriage to actress Rebecca Romijn. But O’…
In person, Hugh Dancy is polite, mild-mannered and blessed with the kind of handsomeness that doesn't scream for attention. So, what’s this low-key leading man doing starring in wh…
Theater fans are eagerly awaiting the February 6 premiere of Smash, the hour-long NBC series centering on the creation of a Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe. “It&rsquo…
Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess are on the home stretch in preparation for playing the Phantom and Christine in the 25th anniversary performance of The Phantom of the Opera, to be broadcas…
Broadway vet Margo Martindale began her week as a 2011 Emmy winner for playing a murderous moonshiner on Justified, and she’ll end it with the September 23 premiere of A Gifted Man, th…
Age & Hometown: “Old enough not to have to discuss it!”; Levittown, PA Current Role: A Broadway debut as Piangi, the larger-than-life tenor and object of the title charact…
The chatter hasn’t stopped since Lauren Ambrose was cast as Fanny Brice in director Bartlett Sher’s forthcoming revival of Funny Girl. So, when Broadway.com had the chance to cha…
The September 19 premiere of Dancing With the Stars included the debut of a new set that looks vaguely like an opera house, new pros (including Peta Murgatroyd of Broadway’s Burn the F…
Though she is a self-professed “girly girl,” Sally Mayes looks positively gleeful to be wearing a severely tailored pants outfit in the new off-Broadway musical Play It Cool. Cas…
Television producers have begun to wise up: The best TV actors come from the stage. From The Good Wife and True Blood to 30 Rock and Glee, Emmy-bait series tend to be top-heavy with theater …
Broadway.com readers love How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star Christopher J. Hanke, host of our popular Frump Tower vlog and top vote-getter in a recent poll asking which B…
Age & Hometown: 20; Newark, NJ Current Role: An off-Broadway debut as Angel, the endearing drag performer and emotional cornerstone of Rent. Born to Sing: Though his first public p…