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

Before newlywed actor Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother) even read a word of The Ally, he knew he wanted to be a part of it. “It felt like a no-brainer. A new Itamar Moses play at The Public directed by Lila Neugebauer. Sign me up!” ... More

Taylor Schilling may be best known as Piper Chapman on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, but her real love is theater. “Getting on stage is always on my mind,” she says. She currently has the opportunity to do so at the Tony Kiser Theater at Second ... More

While she was making Russian Doll, the critically acclaimed Netflix series she created and starred in, Natasha Lyonne had an epiphany. She realized that making art in Hollywood didn’t have to be a competition between herself and her peers. It could be collaborative. “It could be a team sport,” Lyonne says. “You ... More

Dove Cameron likes to divide the career she’s had so far into two parts. There’s the old version of Dove Cameron. That Dove burst onto the scene a decade ago in the Disney Channel hit Liv and Maddie. She played both Liv, a teen actress who returns home from Hollywood to ... More

In 2020, influencer Tina Chen Craig started U Beauty because of what she calls "cosmetic confusion." Craig had tried probably every skincare brand on the market and nothing worked. "I was using 15 products a day, twice a day," she explains. "I was tired ... More

Hollywood is not necessarily a town known for everlasting friendships. Still, somehow, the actors Ian Somerhalder, 44, and Paul Wesley, 41, made it through eight seasons of bloodsucking on The Vampire Diaries and they still want to hang out every day. What’s more, they now work even longer hours every ... More