Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Bill Burr's multilayered show-business resume ranges from stand-up comedy and stream-of-consciousness podcasting to screen acting, writing and directing. Whether he's gunning down a stormtro…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:42PM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2025
Ana Gasteyer calls Brooks Ashmanskas "the funniest man on Broadway," and who are we to argue? In a 30-year career on and off-Broadway, Ashmanskas has lent his comic expertise to farces (The …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2025
One of the nicest surprises in BOOP! The Musical is the Broadway return of Faith Prince. This incomparable comic actress plays astrophysicist (!) Valentina who finds late-in-life love with B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2025
Tatianna Córdoba and Justina Machado (Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com)
There's plenty of drama in the new musical Real Women Have Curves, which centers on Latina seamstresses in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2025
Kara Young is blessed with the ability to jumpstart a scene the moment she steps on stage. This small but mighty actress manages to simultaneously disappear into a role while commanding the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:03AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2025
In his highly anticipated Broadway debut as playwright and star of Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney dramatizes the confrontation between a powerful government official and a pioneer…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Daniel Breaker looks every inch a suave messenger of the gods when he steps on stage to start the action in Hadestown. The long-running musical is in good hands with Breaker singing about th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Any actress would jump at the chance to create a role described by writer/director Tina Landau as "earthy, sensual and spicy," a woman filled with "fire, wit and queen energy." On top of all…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2025
The stovepipe hat looks familiar, but otherwise, the character of Abraham Lincoln in Oh, Mary! doesn't have a lot in common with our 16th president. Billed as "Mary's Husband" in Cole Escola…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2025
Jessica Vosk is an under-the-radar Broadway star, a singer's singer equally comfortable channeling Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall and belting Alicia Keys' "Pawn It All" as protective mom Jers…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2025
When Danny Burstein's casting as Momma Rose's loyal lover Herbie in Gypsy was announced, social media exploded with celebratory posts and comments. After more than three decades on Broadway,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12AM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2025
Zachary Quinto has played so many stoic, ultra-competent characters, it's a jolt to see him embody a man riddled with emotional pain stemming from childhood in a deeply weird family. Leslye …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2024
To say that Alison Luff has had an action-packed year is a whopper of an understatement. Shortly after giving birth to a baby boy, she went into rehearsals as Mrs. Walker in the Broadway rev…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2024
Darrel Curtis, the dutiful eldest brother in the Tony-winning musical The Outsiders, seems like a thankless role: resentful of his responsibilities and unappreciated by his younger siblings.…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone and now Audra McDonald: The Broadway stars of Gypsy represent a Who's Who of stage divas over the past 60 years. One…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Eva Noblezada puts a fascinating spin on "golden girl" Daisy Buchanan in the ultra-luxe Broadway musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. This is no meek heiress, torn b…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42AM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2024
It's a bit startling to hear Michael Mayer admit that he feared the pandemic would put an end to his career as a Tony Award-winning director. "I thought we were done," he says of Broadway, "…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2024
No one needs to wonder how Mandy Gonzalez feels about playing Norma Desmond once a week in the insanely entertaining Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard. Her solo album, after all, is title…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:31PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2024
How to revive the lost art of the Broadway rom-com? A compelling true story by Delia Ephron is a great start, along with five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman as director. But the key, of cour…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2024
What do you get when you toss Hedda Gabler, King Lear, Madame Bovary and many other works of world literature into a chatbot? Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar imagines the resul…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Casting is one of director Kenny Leon's special powers, so when he calls Ephraim Sykes "a superstar in the American theater," it's worth paying attention. Leon first took note of Sykes' tale…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Francis Jue's stage career has been happily entwined with the works of David Henry Hwang for 35 years, since Jue understudied the title role in M. Butterfly. Although they look nothing alike…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2024
The crowd-pleasing Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress lets loose a cast of musical comedy all-stars in scenes involving puppets, leeches, a "facts of life" pantomime and, of course, a …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2024
A psychological thrill ride is a rarity on Broadway, which helps explain why Max Wolf Friedlich's new play JOB (as in work, not the Old Testament book) is attracting an enthusiastic audience…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Joshua Boone wasn't looking for a Broadway musical when he heard about The Outsiders. After nabbing two NAACP Image Award nominations for his sensitive lead performance in Tyler Perry's 2022…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PM[SHARE]Exactly 40 years ago, Betsy Aidem talked her way into John Malkovich's now legendary off-Broadway production of Balm in Gilead alongside future stars Laurie Metcalf, Gary Sinise and Terry Ki…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Imagine a marathon of the plays and musicals that earned Jack O'Brien three Tony Awards and six additional Tony nominations for Best Director. How, we may wonder, did the person who directed…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2024
There's a built-in audience for the new Broadway dance musical Illinoise among fans of Sufjan Stevens' indie rock music and admirers of Justin Peck's choreography for the New York City Balle…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2024
Over the past four years, for obvious reasons, "home" has become a symbol of safety and wellbeing. More than 40 years ago, playwright Samm-Art Williams explored the many meanings of the word…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2024
From aspiring actor to theatrical ad agency executive to four-time Tony-nominated writer of plays and musicals, Rick Elice has seen it all (and then some!) on Broadway. Still boyishly enthus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
On stage, "chemistry" usually refers to a romantic pairing, but in the case of the new musical Hell's Kitchen, it's the perfect description for the teacher-pupil bond between Broadway vetera…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PM[SHARE] 
