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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Vietgone Scribe Qui Nguyen on Why His Plays Include Kung Fu Fighting, What He Geeks Out Over & What Inspired His New Play by Beth Stevens

Qui Nguyen is a playwright, screenwriter, fight choreographer, co-founder of the theater company Vampire Cowboys and self-professed geek. A Los Angeles-based writer for Marvel Studios, …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:06AM
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Alex Brightman on His 'Rip-Roaring' Time in School of Rock and Why He's Leaving by Beth Stevens

In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway perfor…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PM
Friday, October 28, 2016

Les Liaisons Dangereuses Scribe Christopher Hampton Shares His Inspiration, Favorite Lines & Secret to Being Prolific by Beth Stevens

Christopher Hampton is an award-winning writer, screenwriter, director and producer. He is perhaps most famous for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses (based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos d…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:12PM

Marvin on Marvin: Michael Rupert Catches Christian Borle at Falsettos Opening by Beth Stevens

On opening night of the first-ever Broadway revival of William Finn and James Lapine’s Falsettos, there was one member of the audience who was perhaps more nervous than the stars …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:06PM
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Carrie St. Louis on the Friendship, Costumes & Dance Parties She'll Miss as She Exits Broadway's Wicked by Beth Stevens

In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway perfor…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PM
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

All the Ways to Say I Love You Scribe Neil LaBute on the Secret to Being Prolific & How His Characters Are Alike by Beth Stevens

Neil LaBute, known for his daring, often controversial plays, is getting ready to premiere his 10th full-length work at MCC Theater, where he is the playwright-in-residence. The new piece, t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:27PM
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Wicked Star Rachel Tucker on the 'Unrepeatable' Experience of Playing Elphaba on Broadway & Missing Her Green Team by Beth Stevens

In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway perfor…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:52AM
Friday, July 1, 2016

Longtime Lion King Star Chantel Riley on How the Show Changed Her and Saying Goodbye to Pride Rock by Beth Stevens

In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway perfor…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:39AM
Monday, June 20, 2016

Shannon McDowell on Dressing Rafiki, Going on 'Vocal Rest' & The Lion King Song She Cannot Escape by Beth Stevens

Shannon McDowell became a dresser on the Great White Way when she worked on Ragtime in 1998. Since then she has worked on 42nd Street, Follies, Spamalot, Hair, Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:26PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

An Act of God Scribe David Javerbaum on Comedy Gods, Daily Show Lessons & Almighty Tweets by Beth Stevens

David Javerbaum says he’s the “adaptor” of Broadway’s An Act of God (claiming the Almighty wrote the text), but we’re going to go out on a limb and call him the…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:15PM
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Phillip Rolfe on 19 Years of Laughs as Fiddler on the Roof Star Danny Burstein's Friend and Dresser by Beth Stevens

Phillip Rolfe, who hails from Montana, trained as a classical pianist and dancer. He went to college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he was a dance major/music minor. Because of…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:55PM
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Incognito Scribe Nick Payne on Being ‘Mr. Science Playwright' & Why It’s Healthy Not to Be Interested in Theater by Beth Stevens

British playwright Nick Payne made a splash on Broadway in 2015 with Constellations, an entertaining piece about quantum physics that starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson. The scribe, who…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:08PM
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Quiara Alegria Hudes on Why She Wrote Daphne's Dive & How Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Like Seinfeld's Kramer by Beth Stevens

Quiara Alegría Hudes is an award-winning writer whose works include the Tony-winning musical In the Heights (for which she wrote the book), the children's musical Barrio Grrrl! an…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:25PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Five Wicked Cool 2016 Tony Nominations Facts by Beth Stevens

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Yes, it's awards season. You can call it HamilTony time if you must, and though mega-hit Hamilton nabbed a record-breaking number of nods, t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:46PM
Friday, April 29, 2016

Tony History Has Its Eyes on Hamilton; Can the Musical Beat the Nominations Record? by Beth Stevens

Will Broadway juggernaut Hamilton break a Tony Awards record? Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about the ten-dollar-founding father looks poised to make Tony history…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:45PM
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Tony Winner Kelli O’Hara on Why Leaving The King and I Feels ‘Strange and Heartbreaking’ by Beth Stevens

In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway perfor…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:48PM
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Beautiful Star Chilina Kennedy's Dresser Samantha Newby on What Happens When Carole King Goes Rogue & More by Beth Stevens

Samantha Newby hails from a small town in Colorado. She moved to New York for college where she graduated cum laude from Hofstra University with a degree in costume design. Newby started dre…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:14PM
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Hold On to Me Darling Playwright Kenneth Lonergan on Being Inspired by Matthew Broderick's Mom & Why Writing Manuals Are Nonsense by Beth Stevens

Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold On to Me Darling, starring Timothy Olyphant as a spiraling country superstar, is enjoying an extended engagement at the Atlantic Theatre Company. Lonergan had b…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:54PM
Thursday, March 24, 2016

An American in Paris' Garen Scribner on Dancing with Chelsea Clinton & Touching J.Lo's Butt by Beth Stevens

Age: 30 Hometown: Arlington, Virginia Current Role:  Taking over the dance-heavy leading role of Jerry Mulligan, an ex-GI now struggling to make it as a painter in post-WW II Par…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:31PM
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Eclipsed's Zainab Jah Reveals Her AK-47 Muscles, Guilty Pleasures & Adorable Nicknames by Beth Stevens

Age: "That’s for me to know and you to find out." Hometown: "I have two: Freetown in Sierra Leone and London, England." Current Role:  Making a stunning…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:20PM
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Exclusive: Look Now at the Luminous Barbara Cook! by Beth Stevens

As Barbara Cook prepares to return to the New York stage in Barbara Cook: Then and Now at off-Broadway's New World Stages this spring, we have a first look at the incandescent Tony winne…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:16PM

41 Elphabas and Counting! Longtime Wicked Dresser Kathe Mull on the Secrets of Dressing Star Rachel Tucker and More by Beth Stevens

Kathe Mull has been a proud member of Wardrobe Local 764 since 1987. Her first dressing job was the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, and since then she has worked on such shows as…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:58AM
Friday, March 4, 2016

Star Wars Hunk Oscar Isaac to Headline Hamlet in Brooklyn by Beth Stevens

Oscar Isaac, famous for playing fighter pilot Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is going back to his roots. The actor is eyeing a return to the New York stage in Hamlet, directed …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:36PM
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Wicked's Zachary Noah Piser Shows Off His Amazing Bird-Calling and Karaoke Skills by Beth Stevens

Age: 22 Hometown: Piedmont, California Current Role: Piser is making his Broadway debut in the role of Boq, who is Nessarose's love interest though he pines for G(a)lind…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:21PM
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Tony Nominee Jarrod Spector on Never Losing That Lovin' Feeling for His Time in Beautiful by Beth Stevens

In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway perfor…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:31PM
Thursday, February 11, 2016

The Humans' Cassie Beck on Bathroom Reading Material, Dream Celeb Co-Stars & What Not to Talk About at the Family Table by Beth Stevens

Age: "Born in the '70s" Hometown: "I was a military baby; I grew up everywhere, but primarily the West Coast." Current Role: Playing Aimee, a lawyer deali…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:07PM
Monday, February 8, 2016

The Fans Have Spoken! Top 10 Picks for a Broadway Carpool Karaoke with Tony Host James Corden by Beth Stevens

With the recent announcement that The Late, Late Show host James Corden will be hosting the Tony Awards this year, we are already fantasizing about how the Tony winner and all-arou…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:43PM
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Smart People Playwright Lydia R. Diamond on Why She Needs a Dictionary App & How Obama Made Her Up Her Game by Beth Stevens

Lydia R. Diamond is probably best known to New York audiences for her play Stick Fly, which was produced on Broadway during the 2011-2012 season. Her other award-winning plays—includin…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:13AM
Monday, February 1, 2016

The Fans Have Spoken! Your Top 10 Aaron Tveit Roles Revealed by Beth Stevens

You watched Grease: Live, you squealed at "Greased Lightning," you told your friends at your Grease viewing party (you did have a Grease viewing party, didn't you?!) that …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:44PM
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Broadway Favorite Matthew Morrison on Gratitude, Magic and the Impending 'Cry-Fest' of Leaving Finding Neverland by Beth Stevens

In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through an exit interview with HR about their time at the company. That concept doesn’t exist for Broadway perfor…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:50PM
Thursday, January 14, 2016

School of Rock's Brandon Niederauer Describes His Hair and Offers Sage Advice by Beth Stevens

Age: 12 Hometown: Dix Hills, NY Current Role: A standout Broadway debut as Zack, who has the look and musical prowess of a pint-sized Jimi Hendrix in School of Rock.  …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:44PM

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