For anyone who loves or has appeared in a production of Into the Woods, Joanna Gleason is iconic for her Tony-winning role as the Baker’s Wife in the original 1987 Broadway production, canonized in a filmed version by PBS. “My favorite memories are just how wonderful and loving and hilarious ... More

After making a splash in last season’s Appropriate opposite Sarah Paulson, which she calls a “masterclass,” 24-year-old Ella Beatty joins a starry cast for Lincoln Center Theatre’s production of a new version of Ibsen’s Ghosts. It includes Billy Crudup, Lily Rabe, Rabe’s partner Hamish Linklater ... More

“Writing a play isn’t hard per se,” says the playwright Abe Koogler, “but it’s rare. Like, good plays don’t come along every day, every week or every year. You don’t get that many good plays in your life. I just try to stay ready.” This season, Clubbed Thumb stages Koogler’s ... More

Blue Man Group will conclude its history-making residency in New York City on February 2. As part of the farewell celebration, Blue Man Group co-founders Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton will return to the stage as Blue Men for two special performances on January 9 ... More

Because of her iconic role on the short-lived television series Smash, it only seems like Megan Hilty is a permanent mainstay on Broadway. She actually hasn’t trod the boards on Broadway since a production of Noises Off back in 2016. This fall, after a long absence, she returned to New ... More

The pop singer Nicole Scherzinger is giving the performance of a lifetime as Norma Desmond in the sensationally entertaining revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the St. James Theatre. (Just engrave the Tony Award now.) But the well-deserved mid-show standing ovations occasionally eclipse that her ... More

It’s only the start of the new theater season, but it’s fairly certain that Laura Donnelly is giving one of the best performances of the year in The Hills of California, a new play by her partner Jez Butterworth. The two met when Donnelly, now 42, ... More

It’s a cause for celebration every time Sutton Foster decides to return to the Broadway boards. Luckily, since the end of the pandemic, audiences have had multiple opportunities to experience her—as Marian the Librarian opposite Hugh Jackman in a 2022 revival of The Music Man and as Mrs. ... More

After 17 months playing the Beggar Woman in the recent revival of Sweeney Todd, Ruthie Ann Miles moves to yet another Stephen Sondheim show—a concert production of A Little Night Music this June, at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. (The actress also appeared with More

The choreographer Justin Peck first pitched Ricky Ubeda the idea for Illinoise, a dance piece set to the music of Sufjan Stevens, on a walk in Riverside Park. Ubeda, a 28-year-old dancer who won season 11 of So You Think You Can Dance, had worked ... More