Danny Burstein, lauded for his work as a musical theatre character actor, works up a sweat as Golden Boy's boxing trainer in a new Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' American classi…
Inspired by the correspondence of 20th-century poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, playwright Sarah Ruhl shapes Dear Elizabeth, starring Mary Beth Fisher and Jefferson Mays.
Sweet Smell of Success, Shrek and "Smash" star Brian d'Arcy James steps into the cowboy boots of Texas rancher Bick Benedict in the new musical Giant at the Public Theater.
Christopher Plummer, the octogenarian Oscar winner, talks about his theatrical roots in Canada, his plays and movies, and his recent return to a favorite character — John Barrymore —…
Tony and Oscar nominee Kathleen Turner was so intrigued by Frank Marcus' The Killing of Sister George that she's directing and starring in it in New Haven. So, why did she also order…
Meet the scenic designer who created stark whites for The Scottsboro Boys, blacks and grays for Chaplin, flood-drenched chaos for If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet and a kinetic sparene…
Meet John Miller, the longtime musical coordinator who helps match the right musicians to Broadway and touring musicals.
The acclaimed director of Off-Broadway's Our Town and Tribes gives wing to Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
In writing for the voice of the infamous 18th-century French noblewoman Marie Antoinette, playwright David Adjmi hears the echoes of today. His new play has two New England dates this fall.
Meet Joey and Terri Kveragas, longtime long-haul drivers who truck national touring sets and equipment across North America, from Alberta to Tulsa and beyond.
Oscar Wilde's Victorian classic is placed in Prohibition-era Noo Yawk in an Earnest new staging conceived by David Hyde Pierce, starring Tyne Daly, at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain star in a stage version of William Peter Blatty's demon-rich novel, "The Exorcist," adapted by Broadway's John Pielmeier and directed…
Meet Phyllis Newman, the Tony Award-winning Broadway, film and TV star who is also a busy women's health advocate and fund-raiser.
Beloved for playing a quirky social outsider on TV's "The Big Bang Theory," Jim Parsons talks about his passion for the stage as he begins crafting the equally odd misfit Elwoo…
The Realistic Joneses, the new play by acclaimed writer Will Eno (Middletown, Thom Paine) considers the Big Questions. Parker Posey and Tracy Letts are among its stars at Yale Rep.
Meet octogenarian actress Estelle Parsons, the "Bonnie and Clyde" Oscar winner currently tying up loose ends of the plot in Broadway's Nice Work If You Can Get It.
Tony Award winner Nathan Lane takes on the role of Hickey in The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O'Neill's epic about booze and illusion, April 21-June 17 at the Goodman Theatre.
Meet Abe Jacob, the veteran theatrical sound designer whose credits include the original productions of Hair, Evita, Chicago, A Chorus Line, The Rocky Horror Show and more.
John Steinbeck's California coastal community of Cannery Row was described by the novelist as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise." Learn how Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstei…
Octogenarian actor Alvin Epstein, recently of Off-Broadway's The Cherry Orchard, has worked with Orson Welles, Bert Lahr, Robert Brustein and more in a lifetime of roles around the world.
Puckish Tony Award winner Joel Grey, the original Emcee from Cabaret, is youthful as ever after eight decades on the stage. Catch him as a comic fugitive in Broadway's Anything Goes.
Lookingglass Theatre Company won the 2011 Tony for Regional Theatre for its commitment to ensemble and community. Its current season touches on major historical incidents.
Meet groundbreaking playwright-director Athol Fugard, the major theatrical voice of South Africa who is the 2012 resident writer with Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre Company.
Science buff, actor and filmmaker Alan Alda has turned to playwriting to bring one of his heroes to life.
Quiara Alegría Hudes, the Pulitzer Prize finalist who penned Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue and the book to In the Heights, continued Elliot's story in Hartford Stage's recent …