Marco Pennette's road to the 2025 Tony Awards is paved with golden show business stories. A first-time nominee for his expertly crafted and hilarious adaptation of the 1992 film comedy Death…
Among the many first-time 2025 Tony nominees, only Jeb Brown can boast of having made his Broadway debut more than 50 years ago. The Dead Outlaw star began his theatrical career at age 10 as…
When you've leaped across rooftops in Mary Poppins and tap-danced wearing two fake legs in SpongeBob SquarePants, dipping into the song catalog of a musical genius is a cinch. For Gavin Lee,…
In the bustling CBS newsroom of the hit drama Good Night, and Good Luck, Don Hollenbeck is a loyal lieutenant to superstar broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. Clark Gregg takes on the small but pi…
The Broadway revival of Othello is the starriest of star vehicles, so it's a pleasure to report that the supporting cast"notably Kimber Elayne Sprawl as Emilia"more than holds up its end of …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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 …
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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, "…
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…
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…
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…