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If you're a Broadway director looking to cast a non-human role, Tony-winner Shuler Hensley is your go-to guy.
Director-choreographer Susan Stroman further burnished her already golden reputation in the musical theatre this summer when she added to her resume that rarest of credits: an original Steph…
Angela Christian's title character in The Woman in White couldn't be more different than Miss Dorothy, the downwardly-mobile rich girl she created in Broadway's Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Ernie Hudson's casting in the new revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone makes more sense than you might think.
It seems as if actress Laura Bell Bundy has been legally blonde for some time now.
Martin Sherman, the librettist for the new Broadway musical about the life of entertainer Peter Allen, The Boy From Oz, remembers when he first saw the show's star, Hugh Jackman.
This ingenious multimedia import from Britain, now receiving its U.S. premiere at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, pays homage to the movie by translating the romantic fab…
It's not easy to assume a leading role in a play that has already won every prize in the book.
Desmond Heeley, the 1968 Tony Award winner for designing sets and costumes for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is back on Broadway, Earnest-ly displaying his penchant for painterly wo…
When the cast of the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's ghoulishly gripping The Pillowman was announced, the name that took many people by surprise was Jeff Goldblum.
The tart and funny playwright Nicky Silver is now a Broadway librettist with his book for the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Boys From Syracuse. The zippy George Abbott-Rodgers-…
Don't recognize the name Ira Weitzman? If you're at all interested in the American musical theatre, you should.
Audiences around the country over the past year saw a new side of Alan Ruck, the actor best known for "Spin City" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
When actress Marie Mullen came to the Atlantic Theater Company in 1998 as one of the stars of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, few people in the U.S. had heard of playwright Martin McDonagh.
Collaborations as enduring as that of playwright David Ives and director-actor Walter Bobbie are hard to come by.
Fran Weissler freely admits that she had little exposure to theatre as a kid, and that she was not good at counting out change. That didn't stop her from being one of Broadway's major produc…
Composer Marc Shaiman has a talent to stir up controversy, be it a live kiss with his partner on the Tony Awards or a public spat with fellow composer Michael John LaChiusa. But nothing tops…
For the new year, one of Broadway's few hit plays, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, is getting a new cast Jan. 1.
The playwright of Shrek the Musical, Fuddy Meers and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole drew on his old neighborhood to write Broadway's Good People.
For choreographer Rob Ashford, it all began in Beckley, WV, when he joined the local outdoor musical drama, Hatfields and McCoys, as a teenager. He was hooked. Flash forward more than 20 yea…
Actor Jeffrey Carlson - of Taboo and "All My Children" fame - is growing up.
