200 stories by "Michael Appler"
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater-makers who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor those…
The highly anticipated Broadway revival of The Music Man has announced an open casting call for the role of Winthrop Paroo, leading lady Marian's shy younger brother whose excitement i…
Casting is complete for the upcoming New York production of Blue, writer Charles Randolph-Wright and composer Nona Hendrix's musical play of class and race. Tony winning actress Phy…
Jonny Beauchamp plays a Broadway wannabe turned drag queen in the new TV show Katy Keene, The CW's Riverdale spin-off. The actor"who's yet to have a Broadway credit, but who has …
The Academy Awards is the biggest night in Hollywood"but more than a few Broadway favorites were hanging around the Dolby Theatre on February 9. Lin-Manuel Miranda rolled up to the cer…
Darling Grenadine, which opens off-Broadway on February 10, marks Roundabout Theatre Company's first debut of a new musical in 10 years. A Manhattan love story between a charming so…
While Antonio Banderas was busy last week preparing for the Oscars, Myra Lucretia Taylor, who currently plays a loving grandmother in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, was reminiscing about …
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater artists who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor t…
Elton John, the Tony-winning composer of Aida, triumphed at the Academy Awards on February 9, winning an Oscar for Best Original Song. John, who also composed the scores to Broadway'sÅ
Kevin Conway, a veteran actor who embodied the role of George in the first Broadway revival of Of Mice and Men and led The Elephant Man on and off-Broadway, died on January 4 in New York Cit…
Orson Bean, the beloved funny man of late-night television, game shows and light-hearted Broadway comedies, died on February 7. According to police, he was hit and killed by a car outside th…
Kevin Del Aguila says he's the "Forrest Gump of New York City." While the Broadway actor has been inviting Arendelle denizens into his "hygge" Frozen sauna for two years, Del Aguila's …
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater artists who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor t…
Girl From the North Country, Tony nominee Conor McPherson's new musical set to Bob Dylan's songbook, starts previews February 7 on Broadway, but it wasn't the first musical to bring Dylan…
This year, designer Jason Sherwood joins the likes of theater artists Derek McLane, David Korins and David Rockwell as the set designer for the Academy Awards. On Sunday, February 9, viewers…
This year, designer Jason Sherwood joins the likes of theater artists Derek McLane, David Korins and David Rockwell as the set designer for the Academy Awards. On Sunday, February 9, viewers…
Terry Hands, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and founder of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre, died at the age of 79 on February 4. According to his management, Hands …
Jared Grimes is practically a vaudevillian. He's a Broadway talent who's tap danced his way through After Midnight and associate choreographed a musical about Tupac Shakur, Holler I…
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com asked actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about black theater artists who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor t…
The latest world premiere from Tony-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath falls somewhere between documentary and theater. A one-woman drama about the harrowing five-week kidnapping of Hnath's…
Off in the Berkshire in western Massachusetts"a crowded artistic hub that's home to the Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group, Shakespeare and Company, Tanglewood and Jacob'…
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is asking actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about a black theater artist who inspired them. Stars jumped at the chance to honor…
There's something terrifying happening at a bar near you"and no, it wasn't your last blind date. The Woman in Black first premiered at a theater bar in 1987 in Scarborough, England.…
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is asking Broadway actors, directors and playwrights to tell us about a black theater artist who inspired them. From Alvin Ailey to Aud…
Jordan Fisher just took his first bow as Evan Hansen, joining Ben Platt, Taylor Trensch and Andrew Barth Feldman as the fourth actor to play the title role of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's To…