The mood was light but the excitement was palpable at the 12th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, which four-time Tony winner and presenter Audra McDonald dubbed the "Golden Globes of Broadway.” Before the May 15 ceremony, Broadway.com chatted with nominees like Daniel Radcliffe, Sutton Foster, Nick Adams and Patina Miller and presenters like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gavin Creel and ...

Broadway’s brightest stars headed uptown to the Allen Room at the Time-Warner Center on May 15 to celebrate the latest and greatest event of the 2011 theater awards season, the 12th annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards! Before the awards—voted on by theater lovers everywhere—were handed out, the stars like nominee Daniel Radcliffe and host Vanessa Williams ...

Broadway.com wasn't the only Twitter page blowing up during the first ever Audience Choice Awards ceremony on May 15. Presenters Lin-Manuel Miranda and Audra McDonald, nominee Kerry Butler and host Vanessa Williams made sure to take time during the event to let their fans in on the fun. With a starry red carpet, swanky pre-show cocktail reception, hilarious ...

Ready to enjoy a ringside seat at the 2011 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards? Staff photographer Jenny Anderson was front and center (at the Sister Act table, no less!) in the Allen Room on May 15 to capture all the excitement, from host Vanessa Williams teasing the crowd and introducing starry presenter pairings to the happy winners of 16 fan-choice ...

Lombardi’s Judith Light was ecstatic to take the stage to accept her Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Best Actress in a Play, especially since she was presented the trophy by former Ugly Betty co-star Vanessa Williams. “This is so much fun,” Light gushed backstage after picking up her award. “My close friend Vanessa Williams is hosting, and she ...

Sister Act fans raised their voices to name the show Favorite Musical at this year’s Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, and leading lady Patina Miller had nothing but fabulous things to say about the crowds. “We hear them all throughout the show and you see their faces at the end, from eight years old to 85, they’re just ...

At any awards show, a few special moments from hosts, presenters and winners stand out—and the 2011 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards were no exception. Here are five special moments we won’t forget from the May 15 ceremony, held at the Allen Room in the Time-Warner Center. (For a complete list of winners, click here; for an overview ...

How to Succeed star John Larroquette had the audience cracking up as he accepted his Audience Choice Award trophy for Favorite Funny Performance at this year’s ceremony, but the actor delivered a sincere thanks to the musical’s fans after leaving the stage.

“There are ways to judge if fans like you if you’re on a television show ...

Broadway buddies Sutton Foster and Gavin Creel took home the 2002 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Onstage Pair for their work in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and when these old pals took the stage at the 2011 Awards ceremony on May 15, they reminded everyone why! After Anything Goes star Foster snagged the evening's award for Favorite Actress ...

Judith Light and Vanessa Williams may have played enemies on TV's hit series Ugly Betty, but the beautiful Broadway ladies had nothing but love for each other at this year's Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards. Williams, who served as the ceremony's host, was thrilled to present Light with the Best Actress in a Play award for her ...