Thursday, 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: houston.broadway.com at 12:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 11:01AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 10:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 04:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 12:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 06:01PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 09:47AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 10:36AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 01:53PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:01PM[SHARE]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: austin.broadway.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:07PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 11:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:05AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 10:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 12:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 02:05PM[SHARE]Monday, 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[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2011
Theater fans are eagerly awaiting the February 6 premiere of Smash, the hour-long NBC series centering on the creation of a Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe. “It&rsquo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess are on the home stretch in preparation for playing the Phantom and Christine in the 25th anniversary performance of The Phantom of the Opera, to be broadcas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2011
Broadway vet Margo Martindale began her week as a 2011 Emmy winner for playing a murderous moonshiner on Justified, and she’ll end it with the September 23 premiere of A Gifted Man, th…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:17PM[SHARE]Age & Hometown: “Old enough not to have to discuss it!”; Levittown, PA
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Piangi, the larger-than-life tenor and object of the title charact…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The chatter hasn’t stopped since Lauren Ambrose was cast as Fanny Brice in director Bartlett Sher’s forthcoming revival of Funny Girl. So, when Broadway.com had the chance to cha…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The September 19 premiere of Dancing With the Stars included the debut of a new set that looks vaguely like an opera house, new pros (including Peta Murgatroyd of Broadway’s Burn the F…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2011
Though she is a self-professed “girly girl,” Sally Mayes looks positively gleeful to be wearing a severely tailored pants outfit in the new off-Broadway musical Play It Cool. Cas…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Television producers have begun to wise up: The best TV actors come from the stage. From The Good Wife and True Blood to 30 Rock and Glee, Emmy-bait series tend to be top-heavy with theater …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Friday, September 2, 2011
Broadway.com readers love How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star Christopher J. Hanke, host of our popular Frump Tower vlog and top vote-getter in a recent poll asking which B…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2011
Age & Hometown: 20; Newark, NJ
Current Role: An off-Broadway debut as Angel, the endearing drag performer and emotional cornerstone of Rent.
Born to Sing: Though his first public p…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2011
Age & Hometown: “Old enough to drink”; Morrisville, Vermont
Current Role: A Broadway debut as Sophie Sheridan, the feisty bride-to-be who belts “Honey, Honey” …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:11AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2011
Film fans with a taste for quirky roles know Beth Grant as the pageant official in Little Miss Sunshine, the Sparkle Motion dance teacher in Donnie Darko, the town drunk in To Wong Foo and t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PM[SHARE] 
