Brevity is the soul of wit but Tony winner Cynthia Nixon left a lasting impression at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on the January 26 opening night of Wit. The actress, who stars as Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English obsessed with the Holy Sonnets of John Donne and diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, delivered a heart-wrenching performance that ...

Sutton Foster and Gavin Creel became overnight Broadway stars in 2002, when they teamed up as young lovebirds Millie Dillmount and Jimmy Smith in the Tony-winning musical comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie. Now the two stars, who have remained close friends, are dreaming up a reunion.

“We will work together again,” Creel told Paul Wontorek on a Show People interview that ...

The New Normal, the previously announced NBC pilot from Glee creator Ryan Muprhy and starring The Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells, has officially been greenlit, according to Deadline.com. As previously reported, Rannells will star as a gay dad in the sitcom which would mark Rannells' first major television role. No further casting has been announced at this time ...

There has been a resurgence of the work of Stephen Sondheim this season as New York audiences are treated to revivals of Follies, Passion, Into the Woods and the cult favorite Merrily We Roll Along. Encores! kicks off its 2012-2013 season with a new Merrily, directed by longtime Sondheim collaborator James Lapine. The musical, which features a book by George ...

CBS This Morning celebrated Phantom of the Opera’s 24th anniversary on Broadway with a candid interview with the musical's composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on January 27. Co-host Gayle King even admitted she's seen the Tony-winning musical nine times! In the interview, Lloyd Webber opens up about the problems with the original Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar ...

West Side Story tour veteran Grant Gustin, who made a splash as Sebastian, Glee’s trouble-making Dalton Academy Warbler, will guest star as twin brothers on the CBS' hit CSI: Miami on January 29. When a skydiver is murdered, the 100 plus children he fathered as a sperm donor become potential suspects, including the brothers played by Gustin. The young ...

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons brought some romance to Imus in the Morning on January 27 when the cast of the hit musical Jersey Boys made a guest appearance. Jarrod Spector (Frankie) made the audience swoon with the Valli classic, “You’re Too Good to Be True.” Afterwards, Spector was joined by fellow Four Seasons members Andy Karl, Quinn ...

Broadway saw Darren Criss do J. Pierrepont Finch, now watch him take on the King of Pop. In the January 31 episode of Glee, simply titled “Michael,” the New Directions perform the music of the late Michael Jackson. In the clip below, Criss (who recently made his Broadway debut in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) shows off ...

Looks like Glee’s resident heartthrob Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) is getting an equally hunky branch added to his family tree. Matt Bomer is in negotiations to appear as Criss’ older brother on the hit FOX series, according to TVline.com.

Bomer is best known for his role on USA Network’s White Collar. He also starred opposite Justin Timberlake ...

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has responded to public criticism about his newly announced Jesus Christ Superstar reality casting show, Superstar, from his collaborator Tim Rice.

Rice, who called the television search for a lead in a revival of Webber-Rice rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar “tacky,” said his qualms lay in the particular show being cast in that format. “Andrew wants ...