The actor and playwright David Cale has had a busy few months. After a rave review in The New York Times, his monologue Blue Cowboy was extended again and again at the Bushwick Starr last fall. Cale starred as a version of himself, a writer who has an ... More

When Kristin Chenoweth showed up in the 1999 revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown as Charlie’s grumpy sister Sally, you knew you were in the presence of a musical theater tornado. She won a Tony for the role, and a star was born—one that jumped regularly from stage ... More

When Academy Award–winning actress Mira Sorvino joins the cast of Chicago on Broadway next month, she will be fulfilling a lifelong dream. “Theater was where I first fell in love with performing as a child—in school plays, musicals, and the New Jersey Classic Ballet’s professional ... More

For the second half of the new musical Dead Outlaw at the Longacre Theatre, Andrew Durand has to stand “dead” in a coffin for 45 minutes straight, staring right into the audience. That’s because Duran plays Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw killed in a shoot-out after robbing a ... More

She broke box office records in Chicago and played Audrey opposite Corbin Bleu in Little Shop of Horrors. Now Jinkx Monsoon, a two-time winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, plans to conquer Gilbert and Sullivan in the Roundabout Theatre’s new Pirates! The Penzance Musical. She plays Ruth, ... More

“I love learning about women in music who paved the way,” says Gracie Lawrence, who stars on The Sex Lives of College Girls and leads the pop-soul band Lawrence with her brother Clyde. So, researching her role as Connie Francis in the new musical Just in Time ... More

American playwright and author Lila Raicek is bringing her new play, My Master Builder, to London's West End Wyndham’s Theatre April 17 through July 12 under the direction of Michael Grandage.  Set over the course of one scandalous night in the Hamptons, My Master Builder explores the ... More

Prior to auditioning for a role in Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Gabrielle Nevaeh had watched the Netflix series multiple times. “Stranger Things is my favorite show,” says the 19-year-old actor, known for her role on Nickelodeon’s That Girl Lay Lay. So when she was offered the ... More

Could there be a more fun way to make your Broadway debut than in the iconic role of Betty Boop in BOOP! The Musical? That’s what Jasmine Amy Rogers gets to do this spring, around the same time she turns 25. “At our core, we’re very similar ... More

The 29-year-old Irish actor Paul Mescal may be the big draw as Stanley Kowalksi in Rebecca Frecknall’s electric production of A Streetcar Named Desire, playing for a few more weeks at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. But his two female co-stars certainly hold their dramatic weight. You ... More