When Platt opened his mouth to sing, the crowd's eyes widened and mouths silently formed "wows." Playing an anxiety-ridden teenager in Dear Evan Hansen, Platt, 25, won a Tony for performing …
With its record-breaking 11 Tony nominations " the most for a play in Tony history " and star-studded cast led by Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, the new production of Tony Kushner's two-pa…
Julie Taymor can still recall the day nearly 30 years ago when she saw M. Butterfly for the first time. She'd heard about "this fabulous new play by this Asian-American wonderful writer" tha…
On November 4, 2015, David Hallberg posted a photograph of himself on Twitter, though the person in the photo did not much resemble the David Hallberg his thousands of followers knew. In the…
When Marin Ireland graduated from drama school in 2000, she had to choose between two jobs: She could go to Vermont to play Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, or she could join the cast of t…
The "High School Musical" star straps on his tap shoes for "Holiday Inn," a new musical take on the 1942 film.
Nearly 40 years ago, Diane Lane acted in Joseph Papp's production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; this fall, at 51, she returns to the play as tragedy-beset heroine Madame Ranevskaya. Thoug…
When a musical storms the Tonys as thoroughly as Hamilton did last month, the idea of replacing key members of the original cast " especially if they won the Best Actor award over the show's…
The choreographer Mia Michaels springs from Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" (and more) to the latest Radio City Music Hall spectacular.
When Prince died last week, two of the most extraordinary shows on Broadway immediately paid tribute: Hamilton with an onstage "Let's Go Crazy" dance party and The Color Purple with a specta…
When Rent began rehearsals in December 1995, it hardly looked like a phenomenon in the making. Composer Jonathan Larson had only recently quit his job at a Soho diner, its stars for the most…
"For the first quarter of an hour, I was thinking, Here I am, this boy from Belgium, sitting opposite David Bowie," director Ivo van Hove recalls of his initial meeting with the ro…
At 74, choreographer Twyla Tharp is overdue for a breather. Over a 50-year career, she's continually evolved, making dances that blend the rigor and technique of ballet, the loose insoucianc…
To hardcore ballet fans, Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky are two of the greatest male dancers of the past decade, both of whom retired after storied careers at American Ballet Theatre. To …
Star Trek alum George Takei may be best known these days for his delightful online presence, but he's completely serious about his latest project: Allegiance, a new Broadway musica…
In "On Your Feet!," a musical take on Gloria and Emilio Estefan's rise to fame, the choreographer has found his most personal project yet.
At ages 60 and 27, Bruce and Rumer Willis find themselves, oddly, experiencing the same career first: a Broadway debut. Rumer, Bruce's eldest daughter with Demi Moore, is strutting Chic…
Hopefully, you've had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you're looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we'll …
Hopefully, you've had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you're looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we'll …
In Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton (which opens on Broadway on August 6 after a much-praised run this past winter at the Public Theater), the founding father emerges as an immigrant st…
How the classic film Brief Encounter became a wonder onstage.
The women of Women.
NBC's musical series Smash was widely panned and only lasted two seasons, but two years after its final episode, its small but devoted contingent of fans are just as invested in it…
It seemed preordained that Robert Fairchild would one day play Jerry Mulligan, the World War II vet and expat artist portrayed by Gene Kelly in the 1951 film An American in Paris. "Without G…
Into the Woods is a musical that many people care about. A lot. But perhaps you are not one of those people! With Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's twist on fairy tales opening on Christma…