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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Lights Up! Chart It's Only a Play's 36-Year Journey to the Great White Way by Helaina Hovitz

Places, everyone! Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are reuniting on Broadway in It’s Only a Play, an ultra-meta comedy about what happens after the curtain goes down on opening n…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:37AM

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Snakes, Ballet & Fireworks: How You Can’t Take It With You Made Sparks Fly on Stage & Screen for 80 Years by Helaina Hovitz

The wacky Sycamore family is inviting you to dinner! You Can’t Take It With You has seen multiple incarnations, from stage, screen, smaller screen and back again, and now it’s ba…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PM

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Pageant Standout Seth Tucker on Dressing Like Barbie, Wardrobe Malfunctions & His Creepy First Apartment by Helaina Hovitz

Age: “I'm about, mmm, mid-20s.” Hometown: Tempe, AZ Current Role: The airheaded and “100% female” Miss West Coast Karma Quinn in the off-the-wall, off-Broad…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AM

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Fashion Roundup! Broadway.com Ranks the Best-Dressed Ladies & Gents at the 2014 Tony Awards by Helaina Hovitz

Get ready to "ooh" and "ahh" over the dazzling ladies and most dapper men of the 2014 Tony Awards, who wore the hell out of these dresses, suits, bangles and kinky boots …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:56PM

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Here Lies Love's Conrad Ricamora on Teen Angst, Wacky Audiences & Why He Wants to Play a Villain Next by Helaina Hovitz

Age: “However old you need me to be.” Hometown: “I have a lot of hometowns, but I was born in Santa Maria, CA.” Current Role: Ninoy Aquino, the real-life opposi…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AM

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Of Mice and Men’s Jim Parrack on His Con-Artist Past, True Blood Addicts & Mooning James Franco by Helaina Hovitz

Age: 33 Hometown: Allen, TX Current Role: A superb Broadway debut as Slim, a stoic and respected mule driver who earns the trust of George (played by James Franco) in Of Mice and Men. …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:34PM

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Neil Patrick Harris & the Hedwig Creators on Getting Tongue, Giving Birth & Embracing the 'Random Sh*t' by Helaina Hovitz

What did we learn at the New York Times talk on May 20 with Hedwig and the Angry Inch star Neil Patrick Harris, book writer John Cameron Mitchell and composer Stephen Trask? When you go arou…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:30AM

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Kinky Boots Star Jeanna de Waal on Wicked Tattoos, Prom Shoes & Her Brush with Prince Harry by Helaina Hovitz

Age: 25 Hometown: Solihull, Birmingham, UK Current Role: A hilarious turn as Lauren, a kooky factory girl who has bad luck with guys in the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots. Stage C…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:46PM

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Why Cabaret Star Michelle Williams Feels Like a Baby & How Alan Cumming Almost Got Bitch-Slapped by Helaina Hovitz

Tony winner Alan Cumming, Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams, and co-director and choreographer Rob Marshall spoke to an audience on the edge of their plush red seats at The New Yo…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AM

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Cole Horibe on Staying Single, Dancing In Rhinestone Underwear & Paying Tribute to Bruce Lee in Kung Fu by Helaina Hovitz

Age: 28 Hometown: Honolulu, HI Current Role: A karate-kicking off-Broadway debut as a young, ambitious Bruce Lee in the world premiere of Kung Fu, a tribute to the martial ar…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:05PM

Monday, February 3, 2014

Annie Potts on Channeling Pink, Wowing Kristin Chenoweth & Joining the Pippin Circus by Helaina Hovitz

Quirky comedy queen Annie Potts has officially moved to the kingdom of Charlemagne! The Designing Women, Ghostbusters and GCB favorite is swinging high in the air as sassy granny Bertha…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05AM

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