200 stories by "Michael Appler"
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, both the 1969 film by Paul Mazursky and the new off-Broadway musical from Duncan Sheik, Jonathan Marc Sherman and Amanda Green, is a comedy of manners,…
Age: 38
Hometown: Born in Lafayette, Louisiana to Nigerian parents, raised in Los Angeles, California.Â
Current role: Nnamdi Asomugha is making his Broadway debut as Private First Cl…
Get ready for a trip! The company of Lincoln Center Theater's new Broadway musical, Flying Over Sunset, held their first day of rehearsals on January 30. Created and directed by …
Thomas Schumacher, the president of Disney Theatrical Productions, has ushered beloved Disney properties like The Lion King, Aladdin and Frozen to the Broadway stage after beginning work …
The cast and creators of Hadestown have added another award to their crowded shelf. The Tony-winning Best Musical just took home a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. On January 29, th…
Tony nominee Antonio Banderas might be campaigning for an Oscar this season, but he's also been high-kicking in A Chorus Line for the past year. Banderas opened a theater and school…
Maree Johnson plays Madame Giry, the inscrutable and mystifying ballet mistress curiously familiar with the opera's more rowdy downstairs tenant, in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. …
The cast of Alanis Morissette's jukebox musical Jagged Little Pill performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers on January 27. Led by Celia Rose Gooding and Lauren Patten, the ensemble …
Roundabout Theater Company's world premiere play 72 Miles to Go..., set to being performances at the Laura Pels Theatre on February 13, is now in rehearsals. Featuring Elena Rami…
In the late fall of 1981, a handful of little-known actors gathered on the stage of a 300-seat off-Broadway theater on West 55th St. in Manhattan. The actors"among them were Denzel Washingto…
Alex Boniello is tired. The two-time Broadway alum took his final bow as Dear Evan Hansen's Connor Murphy"the troubled, outsider teen whose suicide places Evan in an impossible moral dilemma…
The Inheritance has a cast of 13 men, each engaged in telling Matthew Lopez's cross-generational study of gay life, community and the legacy of AIDS in America. For the actors who t…
Oh, the argyle. Take a look at the first photos released from the New Group's world premiere Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, set in 1969 Los Angeles as the sexual revolution swept up …
Grand Horizons, Bess Wohl's comedy about a wife who wants to divorce her husband after 50 years of marriage, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater on January 24. Directed by Tony …
The cast and creatives of Roundabout Theatre Company's new off-Broadway production of 72 Miles to Go... posed for pictures with the press on January 23. Written by Hilary Bettis and direc…
A Soldier's Play, Charles Fuller's 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that never came to Broadway, has finally received its due. The Kenny Leon-helmed production made its opening night Broadw…
Sundance Film Festival has released the first trailer of the upcoming documentary We Are Freestyle Love Supreme, a 15-year retrospective of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail's hip-…
Tony nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Broadway producer Justin Mikita are expecting their first child. Ferguson, who will appear on Broadway this season in a revival of Take Me Out, annou…
The 2020 Oscars will feature performances from each of the songs nominated in the Best Original Song category. Cynthia Erivo, who was nominated for two Academy Awards this year as the sta…
A Soldier's Play celebrated its Broadway opening night at the American Airlines Theatre on Janaury 21, 38 years after it first opened off-Broadway. Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winn…
Blue, writer Charles Randolph-Wright and composer Nona Hendrix's musical play, will receive a 16-week engagement at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Tony-winning actress Phylicia Rashad wil…
Emojiland, off-Broadway's newest confection, opened on January 19 at the Duke on 42nd Street theater. The new "textistential" musical tells the story of a band of emojis"living, obviou…
Lesli Margherita, who Broadway.com fans might remember from her lovable backstage vlogs Looks Not Books and Ship Happens, is playing an emoji in Keith Harrison and Laura Schein's new off-…
Audiences of The View were already moved by the Martin Luther King Jr. Day appearance of the Cardinal Shehan School community and Krieger Schechter Day School choirs. The cele…
Emojiland, off-Broadway's newest confection, opened on January 19 at the Duke on 42nd Street theater. The new "textistential" musical tells the story of a band of emojis"living, obviou…