Wednesday, February 22, 2012
When your first professional job becomes a career-defining smash hit, where do you go from there? In the case of Adam Pascal, who created the role of Roger in Rent at age 25, the answer has …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:05PMTuesday, February 21, 2012
Five of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage roles…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:27PMMonday, February 20, 2012
Five of Broadway’s finest actors are in the running for 2012 Academy Awards! In honor of their stellar work onscreen, Broadway.com is looking back at the most unforgettable stage …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:46AMThursday, February 9, 2012
Tonya Pinkins is always on the lookout for big career challenges. “I have this incredible curiosity and I get bored easily, so I want to do something different,” says the Tony-wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:52AMThursday, February 2, 2012
The 1981 Broadway premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along lasted a total of 68 performances (52 of them previews!), but it’s a production that lives on in memory and…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:03PMTuesday, January 31, 2012
Everybody loves Carol Channing, and aren’t we lucky that this great star is still active and energetic on her 91st birthday? Born in Seattle on January 31, 1921, Channing is revered by…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:33PMThursday, January 26, 2012
The Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera is officially headed into its 25th year at the Majestic Theatre, where it opened on January 26, 1988. To mark the latest milestone of the …
SOURCE: portland.broadway.com at 05:21PMWednesday, January 25, 2012
To borrow a lyric from Barnum, the colors of Jim Dale’s theatrical life are bountiful and bold—which makes the Tony-winning star, now celebrating his 55th year in show business, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:11PMMonday, January 23, 2012
As Jimmy Porter, the caustic, charismatic lead character in John Osbourne’s Look Back in Anger, Matthew Rhys is on constant alert, ready to lash out at his young wife, Alison (Sarah Go…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:07AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
It’s never too early for Broadway fans to start handicapping the Tony Awards, and the announcement that Pulitzer Prize winner Clybourne Park will open at the Walter Kerr Theatre in Apr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:45PMThursday, January 12, 2012
Good news for theater fans who missed the 2009 off-Broadway production (and subsequent national tour) of Let Me Down Easy: Anna Deavere Smith’s tour-de-force solo show, which examines …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:51PMThursday, January 5, 2012
Age & Hometown: “Timeless”; Cleveland, Ohio
Current Role A Broadway debut as Christine Daae, golden voiced protégée of the title character in The Phantom of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:46PMAge & Hometown: “Timeless”; Cleveland, Ohio
Current Role A Broadway debut as Christine Daae, golden voiced protégée of the title character in The Phantom of …
SOURCE: houston.broadway.com at 12:46PMWednesday, January 4, 2012
Douglas Sills made a splashy Broadway debut 14 years ago in the title role of Frank Wildhorn’s musical version of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Tall, dashing and hilarious, the big-voiced act…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:33AMThursday, December 22, 2011
Broadway attracts the best stage actors on earth, performing at the peak of their powers. In a year filled with great dramas and scintillating musicals, Broadway.com's editorial staff ca…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:01AMMonday, December 19, 2011
Lily Rabe has worked nonstop—and at the highest professional level—in 2011, jumping from her Tony-nominated performance as Portia in The Merchant of Venice to a summer run as Nor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:20AMThursday, December 15, 2011
Age & Hometown: 28; Evanston, Illinois
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Melinda Wells, a 1940s big-band singer who is summoned back to life in 1974 via hypnosis by a lovestruck psych…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:50PMThursday, December 8, 2011
Age & Hometown: “You’re as young as you feel, and I still feel pretty immature”; Wayland, MA
Current Role: A Broadway debut performance as Izzy, a smart and sexy asp…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:44PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
When Harry Connick Jr. called his Broadway co-star Jessie Mueller “a super freak” in a December 5 Today show interview, he meant it in the best possible way: Connick and Mueller …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:01PMMonday, December 5, 2011
As Broadway-loving TV fans are undoubtedly aware, the new NBC series Smash (premiering February 6, 2012) will take viewers behind the scenes of the creation of a musical biography of Marilyn…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:47AMFriday, December 2, 2011
You’ve seen Johnny Weir showing off his balletic form as a champion figure skater, starring in his own reality series (Be Good Johnny Weir) and judging the short-lived Skating With the…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AMMonday, November 28, 2011
Stockard Channing began Thanksgiving week on the operating table at Roosevelt Hospital having arthroscopic surgery on her right knee. By Friday, November 25, she was back onstage at the Boot…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:53PMMonday, November 21, 2011
Check the bookcase of any musical theater fan, and you’ll almost certainly find a copy of Finishing the Hat, Stephen Sondheim’s best-selling collection and discussion of the lyri…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:01PMCheck the bookcase of any musical theater fan, and you’ll almost certainly find a copy of Finishing the Hat, Stephen Sondheim’s best-selling collection and discussion of the lyri…
SOURCE: austin.broadway.com at 12:01PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Acting couple Dylan Baker and Becky Ann Baker have appeared separately on Broadway in La Bete, Mauritius and God of Carnage (him) and Good People, Assassins and All My Sons (her), but they&r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:07PMMonday, November 7, 2011
At first glance, it’s surprising to see Jerry O’Connell onstage in Seminar as a fast-talking young novelist who trashes Kerouac and brags about his stint at the MacDowell writers…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:15AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
After theme weeks devoted to movies, TV, the ’80s and personal sob stories, Dancing With the Stars finally got around to a salute to Broadway. On October 24, the seven remaining season…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:05AMMonday, October 17, 2011
Rachel Griffiths made such an indelible impression as a world-class neurotic in the TV dramas Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters, it’s a jolt to discover that the Australian-bor…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:53AMThursday, October 13, 2011
Age & Hometown: 25, as of October 23: “I get to spend my birthday on Broadway!”; Ukiah, California
Currently: Making his Broadway debut as composer Bob Gaudio, the brainie…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:21PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Film fans think of Jerry O’Connell as a Hollywood guy, with roles in TV shows like The Defenders and Crossing Jordan and a high-profile marriage to actress Rebecca Romijn. But O’…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:05PMMonday, October 3, 2011
In person, Hugh Dancy is polite, mild-mannered and blessed with the kind of handsomeness that doesn't scream for attention. So, what’s this low-key leading man doing starring in wh…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:17AM 
