232 stories by "Paul Wontorek"
Two years into their marriage, Broadway vets Megan McGinnis and Adam Halpin are getting an injection of romance every night in the form of the new off-Broadway musical Daddy Long Legs. They&…
No doubt, the amazing Gloria Estefan song catalogue gets the audience going at the just-opened musical On Your Feet!, but so does a certain costume piece in Act One: the super-short white sh…
Darren Criss is exactly what today’s Broadway needs.
The multimedia wonder kid—who became famous for a YouTube musical spoof of the Harry Potter franchise—is clearly the n…
He's the dazzling stage vet whose great looks and even greater pipes served him well leading the Broadway blockbusters Les Miserables, The Lion King and now Aladdin. She's the charmi…
Although he’s been away from the Broadway stage for four years, Aaron Tveit is giving his fans (and trust us, there are many) a steady stream of great roles on the big and small screen…
Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black is back for its third season of girl-on-girl fun featuring a bevy of Broadway stars on lockdown. In fact, the new batch of episodes even includes juic…
Broadway's making a piano man out of Ben Stiller. The Hollywood heavyweight, who returns to the stage next month in The House of Blue Leaves, has taken up singing and piano playing in prepar…
Five weeks ago, married Broadway stars Matt Cavenaugh and Jenny Power had a dream of making an album of romantic songs together. Today they have $15,827, raised from 147 friends, family memb…
If you want to get through a rainy day, search for "Kristin Chenoweth" on YouTube. There are endless videos of Broadway's golden girl: winning awards, yapping it up with the top talk show ho…
Former D-Lister Kathy Griffin has truly hit the big time with her new Broadway stand-up show, Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony. Hot off a very public feud with Sarah Palin and perfect for a world …
Who's ready to obsess over those awesome triple threats that made Broadway's musicals sing and dance (and pierce the heart)?! We sure are! Read on for our picks in the four musical a…
OMG, it's Tony time! We're totally obsessing at the Broadway.com offices over which shows, creatives and stars will wake up to good news on April 28, the morning that this year's…
With the just-opened revival of The King and I, the classic songs of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II are home again on Broadway, something that has occurred for co…
Seventy years old, Carousel remains the rich jewel in the crown of songwriting titans Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, whose collaboration has given birth to 10 Broadway musicals. Alth…
Who can forget the image of Aaron Tveit rocking a pilot uniform with a sexy line-up of stewardesses in periwinkle in the 2011 Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can? Here's a refresher:
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Loving Sondheim is not a choice. It's who we are. And no matter what age he was turning on March 22, we could easily fill up a list of his best songs to match the number. But the musical…
Smash star and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Krysta Rodriguez revealed her fight with breast cancer on this week’s episode of the new Broadway.com cooking series Broadway N…
Robert Askins moved to New York City 10 years ago from suburban Texas with dreams of being a Broadway playwright. And guess what? Dreams come true! His dark comedy Hand to God starts preview…
Even before winning his record label's third Grammy Award on Sunday night, Kurt Deutsch was planning on having a big week. The film version of The Last Five Years that he spearheaded is …
The New Yorker just published 8,000 words about In the Heights Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is currently the talk of the town for his new history-soaked musical Hamilton, now in previ…
Rob Marshall’s starry big-screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical Into the Woods celebrated the biggest opening weekend ever for a movie adapted from a Broadway …
While Broadway fans eagerly await the chance to go Into the Woods on Christmas Day with Disney’s all-star film version of the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, director Rob Marsha…
James Corden is on the brink of real fame in America, with his stint as the host of CBS’ The Late Late Show scheduled to start on March 9, 2015. Sure, that’s fine and all, but wh…
Age: 27—“But I turn 28 next week!"
Hometown: Although she was born and spent a chunk of her childhood in Los Angeles, von Haselberg calls New York City home.
Current R…
Stop waiting around for that Moulin Rouge! musical and check yourself into another bawdy Parisian nightclub currently winning over audiences in the unlikely locale of Millburn, New Jersey. W…