A decade ago, the Juilliard-trained Scottish actress Gayle Rankin starred in the 2014 revival of Cabaret as Fräulein Kost, with Alan Cumming as the Emcee. This spring, she returns to the show in a new production as the show’s star, Sally Bowles, opposite Eddie Redmayne. Eagerly awaited from ... More

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ first show at the Public Theater, The America Play, went up in 1994. Three decades later, she’s there presenting her 12th: Sally & Tom, a backstage story of a troupe producing a play about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Their relationship “has ... More

In 2018, when Second Stage Theater opened its new Broadway home at the Helen Hayes, Tony award–winning actress Celia Keenan-Bolger reconnected with playwright Paula Vogel, who won the Pulitzer in 1998 for How I Learned to Drive. “She mentioned she was writing something for me,” Keenan-Bolger recalls. “I tried not ... More

Many theatergoers might not know that Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish art deco painter. “But they will recognize her art,” says Eden Espinosa (Rent and Wicked), who plays the artist in a new musical, Lempicka, directed by Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown). “Lempicka’s story is so layered and ... More

To prepare for his role as the Pinball Wizard himself in this season’s revival of The Who’s Tommy, Moroccan American actor Ali Louis Bourzgui watched every live performance by and interview with The Who that he could find on YouTube. As dedicated as that may sound, Bourzgui ... More

“It’s always been a dream to originate a role on Broadway,” says Virginia-born Grant Gustin, who had a nine-year run as the superhero the Flash on the CW series of the same name. In a musical version of Sara Gruen’s novel Water for Elephants, Gustin gets to ... More

Most people recognize Michael Imperioli from The Sopranos and, more recently, from the second season of The White Lotus. But the actor started in theater. “I founded a company, Studio Dante, and produced my first play when I was 22,” he says. Though he’s acted in many Off- and Off-Off ... More

“Writing for a musical is a marathon, not a sprint,” says Zach Chance, one-half of Jamestown Revival, the folk duo behind the music for this season’s stage adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders (with Justin Levine). “You have to be able to re-approach the work over and over, to ... More

Singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson tackles writing her first musical with a stage adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ romantic bestseller The Notebook, debuting this season at the Schoenfeld Theatre. What sealed the deal for Michaelson to sign on to such a well-known tear-jerker, which was famously made into a 2004 ... More

When she read that the Roundabout announced a Broadway revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) felt a light bulb flash. (The play won the Pulitzer and the Tony in 2005; three years later, Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman ... More