Broadway favorites Santino Fontana (Cinderella) and Tony nominee Tony Shalhoub will both appear as iconic writer/director Moss Hart in Lincoln Center’s upcoming production of Act One. …
Santino Fontana ("Frozen") and a third actor still to be cast will also stand in for the legendary writer-director in James Lapine's Broadway adaptation of Hart's classic showbiz autobiograp…
Santino Fontana, Tony Award-nominated for his performance in Cinderella, and Tony Shalhoub, a two-time Tony nominee for Golden Boy and Conversations with My Father, will star in Act One, a n…
Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Producing Artistic Director André Bishop) has announced that actors Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub will both be featured as the legendary w…
Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Andre Bishop has announced that actors Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub will both be featured as the legendary writ…
Tony Shalhoub and Santino Fontana are to portray the playwright and theater director Moss Hart in a stage adaptation of "Act One," based on Mr. Hart's 1959 autobiography. &n…
The number that ends the first act of a Broadway musical is a magical time for theatergoers. It can leaves audiences on a high that carries through intermission and beyond. Who doesn’t…
One of the most exciting moments in any Broadway musical is the big act one finale. Many shows treat audiences to the night’s biggest, baddest showstopper right before intermission (he…
When the Playbill Vault launched in December 2011, it included information on over 10,000 shows and 120,000 actors, creative teams and crew members who have worked or are currently working o…
Lincoln Center Theater has announced four productions to be produced in the Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi E. Newhouse Theaters during the 2013-2014 season the world premiere ofDomesticated, a n…
Lincoln Center Theater has confirmed that Tony Award nominee Ethan Hawke will star in a new production of Macbeth at the Vivian Beaumont Theater this fall. The LCT season also includes Act O…
Is there anything better than a perfectly written and performed Act One closing number — that thrilling high that sends you off to intermission in a euphoric state of satisfaction mixe…
Twenty-five years ago, when INTO THE WOODS played its first preview in New York, many audience members walked out after the first act. They weren't necessarily dissatisfied; they'd simply as…
According to its website, the Vineyard Arts Project just held two in-progress readings on July 18 and 20 of Moss Hart's Act One, adapted for the stage by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright an…
Tony Shalhoub, Debra Monk, Chuck Cooper and David Turner took part in a recent Martha's Vinyeard reading of Act One, the new play based on Moss Hart's autiobiography of the same titl…
James Lapine has reportedly been commissioned for a stage adaptation of Moss Hart's landmark autobiography, ACT ONE, by Lincoln Center Theatre's artistic director Andre Bishop.
The Broadway team behind Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park has created a pair of intriguing video clips featuring on-screen "pop-up" facts that illuminate the theatre-making process of the Tony A…
My musical theatre professor Stephen Kitsakos teaches his classes about various song types heard in musicals. He would start at the very beginning with the overture and progress in sequence …
Lisa talks to composer and lyricist Alexander Bermange about his new album, Act One, that features a staggering 26 current West End stars - ranging from Oliver Tompsett to Dianne Pilkington;…
