200 stories by "Michael Appler"
Robert Redford, a classic Hollywood actor who dominated the screen through the 1970s and swept America off its feet with a knee-weakening smile and penchant for romantic leading roles, di…
Joan Plowright, a veteran stage-and-screen actor who won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy, died on January 16. In a statement, her family said Plowrig…
Age: 32
Hometown: Boston, MassachusettsÂ
Current Role: Nik Walker joined the cast of Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations as Otis Williams on February 28, 2020, rep…
Adam Schlesinger, the alt-rock bassist and songwriter whose unique knack for storytelling begot a successful career in composing for the stage and screen, has passed away on April 1, accordi…
Kathryn Gallagher, who was starring in Jagged Little Pill on Broadway before the COVID-19 shutdown, had a childhood few could imagine. Her father is film and television star (and '90s …
Broadway alums and former Jean Valjeans Ramin Karimloo, Alfie Boe and John Owen-Jones, as well as a host of West End Les Misérables veterans, sang "Bring Him Home" on the UK chat s…
The lyric "Have you ever felt like nobody was there?" somehow rings especially true these days, and original Evan Hansen Ben Platt, as well as the role's current star, Jordan Fisher, gathere…
Leslie Odom Jr., the original and Tony-winning Aaron Burr of Hamilton, is going crazy"though not why you'd think so. Odom's so-named new song, featured on his recent album Mr.…
Even Tony winners and Broadway legends have bills to pay. "I realized, I can't make a living at all, unless I have people," Tony-winning soprano Kelli O'Hara said on #LiveAtFive: Ho…
"We had basically come to the conclusion, without ever having said it, that we will never really work together," Sarah Jessica Parker said on an episode of CBS Sunday Morning on March 29.…
Mark Blum, an esteemed character actor and staple of the off-Broadway scene, has died at age 69. According to SAG-AFTRA, Blum passed away due to complications from coronavirus, a viral pa…
Ben Crawford, The Phantom of the Opera's current leading man"and former Broadway.com vlogger"is starting to go a little stir-crazy. "I made a boat out of some cardboard boxes, and I take the…
Broadway.com illustrator Tug Rice has been thinking up what our favorite Broadway characters are doing while theaters are closed and they're at home social distancing. For instance, what is …
Here's a silver lining: Broadway pets might be the only adoring fans happy to see their owners self-isolating. Used to saying goodbye to their loving theater parents eight times a week, t…
Reneé Rapp knows what Regina George is doing in quarantine. While the Mean Girls star has spent her time away from the stage traveling to Michigan"with her Broadway boyfriend, fellow Jim…
Kelli O'Hara appeared on the one-night-only return of The Rosie O'Donnell Show to benefit The Actors Fund, and recalled what brought her to New York City 20 years ago. "I didn't …
Matt Doyle, who plays Jamie in Company, shared a confident message when he appeared on #LiveAtFive: Home Edition on March 23: "Company has every intention of coming back," he told Broadwa…
To Lea Salonga, the COVID-19 pandemic feels familiar. By the time Salonga made her Broadway debut in Miss Saigon (1991), earning a Tony Award, the AIDS crisis had already taken root on…
Tony winner Stephanie J. Block and Broadway-alum hubby Sebastian Arcelus were supposed to appear on the one-night-only return of The Rosie O'Donnell Show in support of The Actors Fund, bu…
What better use for Crosby, Stills & Nash's three-part harmonies of peace and good times than the Lopez family?
The Academy Award- and Grammy-winning Frozen composers Kristen Ande…
Kelli O'Hara appeared on the one-night-only return of The Rosie O'Donnell Show to benefit The Actors Fund, and recalled what brought her to New York City 20 years ago. "I didn't …
There was plenty to make us smile or even laugh out loud in the one-night-only return of The Rosie O'Donnell Show on March 22, which served as a benefit for The Actors Fund. O'Donne…
"I'm so nervous right now. I've been watching this whole damn show," said Darren Criss. The Golden Globe winner (whose Broadway play American Buffalo was postponed) joined the st…
Moulin Rouge! leading man Aaron Tveit announced on Instagram March 23 that he has tested positive for coronavirus. He is the first Broadway star to publicly announce a positive test re…
Oh, to be a fly on Patti LuPone's basement wall. If you tuned in to Broadway.com's one-night-only return of The Rosie O'Donnell Show on March 22 and caught LuPone's basement a cappella pe…