One of the smartest decisions the creative team of The Fear of 13 made was casting Tessa Thompson in her Broadway debut opposite two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody. This true story of Nick…
Singing vampires have had a tough time on Broadway, but Ali Louis Bourzgui is changing the narrative on creatures of the night with his irresistibly seductive performance in The Lost Boys. …
It is August in Pittsburgh, 1911... From the deep and near South the sons and daughters of newly freed African slaves wander into the city. Isolated, cut off from memory, having forgotten th…
Riff Raff, Dr. Frank-N-Furter's space alien "handyman" in The Rocky Horror Show, is such a juicy part that the musical's composer, Richard O'Brien, played it himself in the 1975 cult classic…
Misbegotten bank robbers Sonny (Jon Bernthal) and Sal (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) are the main attraction in Dog Day Afternoon, but playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis smartly created a no-nonsense tel…
Is it possible to proclaim one American play the greatest ever written? Arthur Miller's 1949 masterpiece Death of a Salesman has been mounted on Broadway seven times, including Joe Mantello'…
One of the most unique elements in the long-running musical Hamilton is the range and variety of performers who portray America's Founding Fathers. Case in point: Korean-born actor Jin Ha, w…
Nobody would claim that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a romance, but Edward Albee's scalding classic spurred the real-life love story of playwright/actor Tracy Letts (a 2013 Tony winner…
Comedy tends to skew high or low, but Simon Rich has successfully found a happy medium. Critics compare his quirky stories to the works of James Thurber and P.G. Wodehouse, while John Mulane…
When Hell's Kitchen composer Alicia Keys stepped on stage at the curtain call of Yolanda Adams' first performance as Miss Liza Jane, the audience realized something special was happening. "H…
"I don't know how to be a person." That heartbreaking line serves as the template for Micah Stock's beautifully nuanced performance in Little Bear Ridge Road, the overdue Broadway debut of p…
Megan McGinnis has played her share of sincere heroines in period-specific musicals (Les Misérables, Little Women, Daddy Long Legs), with a brainy Disney princess thrown in (Beauty and the …
High on anyone's list of unforgettable performances are those of the original Broadway cast of Angels in America, notably Kathleen Chalfant (Hannah Pitt, Ethel Rosenberg, a rabbi and more) a…
Theater people"creators and fans alike"love Ragtime, with its gorgeous score, sweeping book and complex characters. The distinctly American musical is being revived on Broadway's biggest sta…
Since opening at the Westside Theatre almost six years ago, the off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors has established itself as a celebrity magnet, with Evan Rachel Wood, Constance …
More than 30 years ago, French actress turned playwright Yasmina Reza took one look at a piece of modern art purchased by a close friend and burst into laughter. Fortunately, her reaction di…
As Hamilton marks its 10th Broadway birthday on August 6, it's an ideal moment to acknowledge Lin-Manuel Miranda's achievement in making American history relevant, riveting and"here's the am…
Once upon a time, at the end of the last century, The Parent Trap introduced Lindsay Lohan as 11-year-old identical twins, raised on different continents and thrown together at a summer camp…
Sometimes, if an actor is lucky, the role she is playing reflects the kind of person she aspires to be off stage. Lencia Kebede, the first full-time Black Elphaba in the Broadway company of …
Michele Pawk's life in the theater extends far beyond her career as a Tony-winning Broadway actress. Now wowing audiences at Just in Time as Polly, the woman who raised singer Bobby Darin, P…
Momma Rose is a difficult character to say no to. The Gypsy matriarch tramples on her loving enabler Herbie and pushes shy daughter Louise onto the burlesque stage. Only younger daughter Jun…
A character actor's career inevitably has ups and downs, but Stephen DeRosa's staying power can be measured by the list of directors he has worked with over the past quarter century: Jerry Z…
Students of Tony Awards trivia can savor a fun tidbit this year: In the spirit of Fosse and Verdon, husband-and-wife Gabriel Ebert and Danya Taymor are nominated for acting in and directing …
Heading into awards season, Christopher Gattelli already had one Best Choreography Tony in hand for Newsies, plus a trio of nominations for the Lincoln Center Theater juggernauts South Pacif…
Taylor Trensch is Broadway's go-to actor for roles that require sensitivity and depth of feeling"qualities on full display in his Tony-nominated performance as reporter Skeets Miller in Floy…