200 stories by "Michael Appler"
Michelle Williams, Sam Rockwell and Renée Zellweger brought performances to the screen this year that resurrected three of musical theater's greatest stars. Williams and Rockwel…
Adam Driver just received his second Oscar nomination. This time it's for playing Charlie in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story"one of the four major films the actor released this year. But Driv…
Al Pacino just received his first Oscar nomination in 27 years for playing Jimmy Hoffa, and getting de-aged, in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. And while the Oscar winner's roles in Th…
When Charles Fuller won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1982 for A Soldier's Play, he was only the second African-American playwright to do so. A Soldier's Play, which gave Denzel Washington…
Between the Lines, a new musical based on Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer's teen novel of the same name, makes its New York premiere off-Broadway at the Tony Kiser Theatre in …
Broadway is currently getting its own marriage story. Grand Horizons, Bess Wohl's new play about a husband and wife divorcing after 50 years of marriage, opens on Thursday, January 23.…
Rachel Bay Jones, Brandon Victor Dixon and the cast of the Kennedy Center's upcoming production of Next To Normal gathered for a rehearsal at the 42nd Street Studios on January 16. …
Between the Lines, a new musical based on Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer's teen novel of the same name, makes its New York premiere off-Broadway at the Tony Kiser Theatre in …
Antonio Banderas earned his first Oscar nomination this year for playing a film director struggling to reckon with middle age in Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory, a role that's likely ear…
Why have one Natalie Portman when you can have them all? All the Natalie Portmans, a new coming-of-age comedy by playwright C.A. Johnson aboout a young, queer black woman who becomes i…
Matthew Morrison, the Tony- and Emmy-nominated actor loved for his role as Will Schuester in Glee, has released the first single and video from his upcoming album, Disney Dreamin' W…
Cynthia Erivo, who scored two Oscar nominations for her starring role in Harriet, will become the youngest and fastest EGOT winner ever if she succeeds at the Academy Awards. Erivo ear…
John Riddle, The Phantom of the Opera's newest Raoul, has been singing Andrew Lloyd Webber's songs of love and loss for 25 years. Phantom was the first show he ever saw, he said to Beth S…
Jonathan Pryce was just nominated for his first Academy Award for playing Pope Francis in Netflix's The Two Popes (Twitter must be satisfied), but the veteran British stage actor has already…
Simply the best! Adrienne Warren shimmied her way up to the Ed Sullivan Theater on January 13 to perform on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Warren, who plays Tina Turner in t…
Laura Linney, the four-time Tony nominee, is back on Broadway. This season, Linney takes on a solo drama based on Elizabeth's Strout bestselling novel, My Name Is Lucy Barton, which is a…
A Soldier's Play, Charles Fuller's 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a sergeant's murder and the sacrifices of being black and in uniform, opens on Broadway January 21. While Fuller…
This year's Oscar field is crowded with Broadway alums. Cynthia Erivo, who won a Tony Award in 2016 for her turn as Celie in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, and Adam Driver, a thre…
Jimmy Fallon attended the opening day of the The Inheritance on Broadway, and Matthew Lopez found him in tears after the curtain fell, the playwright said on The Tonight Show. Lo…
This year's Oscar field is crowded with Broadway alums. Cynthia Erivo, who won a Tony Award in 2016 for her turn as Celie in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, and Adam Driver, a thre…
Dawnn Lewis knows her character in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical is hard to love. Lewis currently plays Zelma Bullock, Tina Turner's mother, in the Broadway bio-musical about the rock 'n' ro…
Joaquina Kalukango currently stars as Kaneisha in Slave Play on Broadway, Jeremy O. Harris' exploration of race and trauma. Slave Play's intricate discussions about the lingering prese…
Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale are gearing up for the first preview of their innovative stage adaptation of the Euripidean tragedy Medea. The new production at Brooklyn Academy of Music b…
These must have been taken before the acid trip began. The first cast photos for the new musical Flying Over Sunset has been released. With music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Michael Korie, …
LisaGay Hamilton and Nina Grollman in "To Kill a Mockingbird."Â (Photo: Julieta Cervantes)
LisaGay Hamilton may be playing Calpurnia in the record-breaking To Kill a Mockingbird on…