This week's jam-packed episode offers up awesome fantasy casting, a perfect reason for a road trip and a lot of awards season hubbub.

"Let's make a pit stop at the wiener stand!" Edna Turnblad said in Hairspray, and on May 22, Edna's originator Harvey Fierstein got to do it in real life, when the Brooklyn Diner in Times Square renamed its 15-bite all-beef hot dog the "Harvey Hot Dog." The occasion? The 30th anniversary of Fierstein's first Tony Award, and ...

Nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play, The Assembled Parties star Judith Light shares which Broadway shows she'd love to see, how she gets red carpet ready and her favorite fan moment.

Star-crossed lovers Cathy and Jamie are “still hurting,” and fans of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years can’t wait to share their anguish in a new cast recording of the show. Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor gave luminous performances in the recent Brown-helmed revival of the 2001 tuner at Second Stage and the happy collaborators reunited on ...

On Sunday, May 26, Broadway will bid a bittersweet goodbye to the struggling Smash, a should-have-been-great series that, over the course of two seasons, tackled all the hard-hitting subjects that plague the theater industry, things like peanut allergies, dramaturgical betrayals and chorus girls who sing a little too loud.

But we’ll put aside all of Smash’s ridiculous moments ...

Two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz officially became Doctor Butz on May 11, when he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at his alma mater, Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. After accepting the honor, the Big Fish star delivered a commencement address to the class of 2013 that’s equal parts moving, inspirational and silly. Click below ...

After starring together in Broadway's Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Tony nominees Amy Morton and Tracy Letts will reunite on season three of Showtime's Homeland, according to TVLine.com. Morton will play the recurring role of Erin Kimball, Carrie’s attorney appointed by the CIA. Letts will take on the role of Senator Andrew Lockhart, an authoritative ...

Broadway's Jackie Hoffman (The Addams Family) and drag artist John “Lypsinka” Epperson will star in a one-night-only concert performance of the 1959 musical Once Upon A Mattress on June 17 at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre. The event, directed by Jack Cummings III, will benefit the Transport Group and will feature a talkback with composer Mary Rodgers after the ...

Broadway.com is hitting the road to bring you the best regional theater offerings all across the country. From a high flying new production of The Little Mermaid in New Jersey to the world premiere of Sleepless in Seattle in California, this week’s schedule is packed! Read on to discover more great shows from coast-to-coast.


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Expect lots of Sunshine this fall! A musical adaptation of the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine is heading to off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre in October, according to The New York Times. Helmed by Tony winner James Lapine, the musical features music and lyrics by Tony winner William Finn and a book by Lapine. No official premiere date or casting ...