67 stories by "Leigh Scheps"
When you enter the Circle in the Square Theatre to see Once On This Island on Broadway, you immediately feel transported into another land just ravaged by a storm. There is not only livestoc…
First there was Grease You're the One That I Want On NBC in 2007. Then on MTV came Legally Blonde The Search for the Next Elle Woods on Broadway in 2008. Soon, theater fans will be excited t…
Before his guest starring role on Young Sheldon, last season's off-Broadway production of The Portuguese Kid and of course nearly a decade as George Costanza on Seinfeld, Jason Alexander was…
The musical, The People in the Picture, is getting a makeover as a new production is being mounted at 3Below in San Jose, California with performances beginning April 26th. Making its west c…
Steve Kazee and Samantha Barks are not Richard Gere or Julia Roberts. And they're not trying to be, as they rehearse for their starring roles as Edward and Vivian in the world premiere of th…
She's the Marcia Fing Brady of the Upper East side and proud of it. 'For me, I get to play my first villain,' actress Lauren Zakrin tells BroadwayWorld's Leigh Scheps. 'This time I get to pl…
Broadway shows have been preserved for decades thanks to one pioneer with a passion. Betty Corwin was working in a hospital in 1969 when she came up with a brilliant idea to record them for …
There's not a day that goes by when someone doesn't mention The Birdcage to Nathan Lane. It's become such a loving film for so many people. This week, the Broadway veteran is getting ready…
She was given months to live. So now, five years later after being diagnosed with an incurable disease, Valerie Harper isn't letting life slip by. I am feeling good today, Harper, 78, tells…
At 21-years-old and fresh out of college, Cheech Manohar's got it pretty grool. He's about to make his Broadway debut as suave virgin North Shore mathlete, Kevin Gnapoor, in the new musical…
It's a story about a plus-sized girl, a one-eyed guy and a closeted gay teen. Some describe it as 'John Hughes-esque.' But Molly Ringwald isn't in this modern day ugly duckling love affair.
'It's a gift to come back. Shakespeare's hard,' Grant says of her return to theater. She hasn't performed Shakespeare since 2011 and hasn't been on a stage since 2014. 'I feel like an artist…
While Roger Bart is known for his comedic chops in shows like Disaster, Young Frankenstein and The Producers, he knows how to make people laugh even in some of his more serious roles.
It's been nothing but 'memories' for Betty Buckley this theater season. She won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Grizabella, the glamour cat, in Cats when it opened in 1982 and replaced Gle…
'It's possible.' Especially for Broadway's original Cinderella, Laura Osnes, who is busier than ever these days rehearing for multiple shows and benefit concerts. On Sunday, February 19, th…
Christian Borle, the original William Shakespeare in Broadway's Something Rotten!, and three-time Tony Award-winning director Jack O'Brien have spent 45 minutes on the second day of rehearsa…
The inspiration behind the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company says he's never actually eaten there. Mykelti Williamson, the actor who played Forrest Gump's best friend Bubba in the 1994 Academy Award…