In an age when big celebrities seem to be all that populate the Broadway boards, it’s rare to watch a performer become a star right before your eyes. That’s what’s happening eight shows a week at the St. James Theatre when Colton Ryan shows up on stage. In the new musical ... More

Linedy Genao, the 31 year-old Dominican American star of the new Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Bad Cinderella, currently at the Imperial Theater, started preparing for the role the day she was cast. “Almost an entire year before our first day of rehearsal,” Genao says. She still takes ... More

Andrew Burnap, 32, has been most known for excelling in dramatic works. He’s done his share of Shakespeare, including Troilus and Cressida and King Lear at the Delacorte in Central Park, and he won a Tony for his leading role in The Inheritance, which he originated at London’s Young ... More

Jessica Chastain, who made her Broadway debut in the 2012 revival of The Heiress, had been looking to return to her theatre roots (she studied acting and repertory theater at Juilliard in New York) despite having had a wide breadth of choice roles in her career. As she told writer ... More

Having grown up a “massive” fan of the singer, Will Swenson has always kept a pretty good Neil Diamond impression in his back pocket. “I’ve been known to break it out at parties or the occasional cabaret night,” says the actor. “I guess word got around.” Swenson will get his ... More

While he was writing his play Ain’t No Mo’, Jordan E. Cooper never imagined it opening on Broadway. “Hell, I thought it was too bold and blunt to be produced anywhere,” he says. “It initially was just an exorcism of my own laughter, pain and confusion.” ... More

At home in South Korea, Luna is not only a pop star with 1.5 million Instagram followers, she has also starred in a number of musical theater productions, including Legally Blonde and In the Heights. This October, the 29-year-old singer and actress brings both of those ... More

Candace Bushnell’s Is There Still Sex in the City?, based on her most recent book, comes to the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Saturday July 9. Bushnell, who lives in Sag Harbor, talked to More