Joe DiPietro, the Tony Award-winning librettist and co-songwriter of Memphis, gets in touch with his screwball-comedy passion for Broadway's "new" Gershwin musical Nice Work If…
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn returns to Broadway with The Columnist, a biographical character-study of the powerful journalist Joseph Alsop.
The lyrics of Tom Jones have been heard on New York stages continuously for the past half century with only a brief hiatus — something no other lyricist can claim, not even Stephen Son…
Charles Edwards plays King George VI in the premiere production of David Seidler’s The King's Speech, which opens at the West End’s Wyndham’s Theatre this week (27 March 20…
Joshua Bergasse, a dancer who performed in Broadway's Hairspray and The Life, is suddenly in charge of some of the most high-profile choreography in America — on TV's "Sma…
Scott Shepherd is closing the chapter on Blood Knot at Signature Theatre and opening the book of "The Great Gatsby" — literally — in Gatz at The Public Theater. He talk…
Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's 2010 follow-up to The Phantom of the Opera, is released on DVD and Blu-ray next week (12 March 2012). The production was filmed in Australia, where Lo…
In the new NBC musical series "Smash," Megan Hilty stars as Ivy Lynn, a veteran Broadway chorus girl hungry to break out of the rank and file of the ensemble and nab the spotlight …
Sam Gold began his life in theatre as a young actor, appearing as a replacement understudy in Broadway's The Diary of Anne Frank in 1997-98. What a difference 15 years has made. He's…
Phil Cornwell plays Len in David Eldridge's new play In Basildon, which opened last night (22 February 2012, previews from 16 February) at the Royal Court. Cornwell returns to the Court ha…
Her first prom night didn't go as planned, and neither did her 1988 Broadway debut, but Carrie is back in a new Off-Broadway production under the wing of Altar Boyz director Stafford Ari…
James Houghton, founding artistic director of Signature Theatre Company, talks about the expanded mission of the Off-Broadway company now that it has a new three-venue complex on West 42nd S…
Michael Urie, also known as Marc St. James from the ABC sitcom "Ugly Betty," takes on his first musical — not to mention, his first Broadway credit — by stepping into t…
Dori Berinstein, when she's not producing Broadway shows, directs feature film documentaries that celebrate theatre. Her latest, "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," premieres t…
Lisa Dillon plays Katharina in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of The Taming of the Shrew, which begins previews in the new-look RST tonight (19 January 2012, opens 25 J…
The character actor Robert Creighton, currently playing the Purser (and Joel Grey's understudy) in Broadway's Anything Goes, talks about his new album of songs from the early 20th ce…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist of In the Heights, has borrowed from the life of American founding father Alexander Hamilton for a new hip-hop-flavored musical s…
Writer Abi Morgan first made a name for herself back at the very start of the noughties with her acclaimed plays Tiny Dynamite and Tender, the latter earning her an Olivier Award nomination …
Writer Abi Morgan first made a name for herself back at the very start of the noughties with her acclaimed plays Tiny Dynamite and Tender, the latter earning her an Olivier Award nomination …
Holland Taylor, the actress known for playing salty and strong women on TV's "Bosom Buddies" and "Two and a Half Men," has crafted a one-woman play called Ann, about …
It's been a very good year for Tony Award winner John Logan. His London and Broadway hit, Red, is now one of the most-produced plays in regional theatre, and films of his screenplays for…
Indhu Rubasingham's new production of Marie Jones' award-winning comedy Stones in His Pockets opens at the Tricycle Theatre this week (20 December 2011, previews from 15 December). Rubasingh…
Meet David Turner, who stars as the lovestruck florist David Gamble in the reimagined Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
Alan Alda, the actor of stage, television and film, is also known as a filmmaker, but not as a playwright. Until now.
Canadian film, television and stage actor Paul Gross, star of the cult-hit TV series "Slings & Arrows," has slipped into the sleek evening jacket of Elyot to make his Broadway …