He became a TV star as Laverne and Shirley’s pal Lenny and rocked the big screen as Spinal Tap’s lead singer David St. Hubbins, but for the past five years, Michael McKean’s heart has belonged to Broadway. From musical leading man (Hairspray) and featured player (The Pajama Game) to supporting actor in plays (The Homecoming, off-Broadway’s ...

Delicious! That’s the consensus of celebrity theatergoers Angela Lansbury and Raul Esparza, who attended the October 6 performance of Superior Donuts. The fact that Angela and Raul won acclaim last season in plays produced by Donuts impresario Jeffrey Richards (Blithe Spirit and Speed-the-Plow, respectively) helped, but the stars were genuinely enthusiastic about Tracy Letts’ new play, and it showed ...

Fresh off his triumph as host of the 2009 Emmy Awards, How I Met Your Mother star and Broadway vet Neil Patrick Harris returned to the Big Apple to take in a performance of Tracy Letts’ new comedy Superior Donuts. He was eager to check out the acclaimed performances of Michael McKean and Jon Michael Hill, of course, but Harris ...

Doughnuts, doughnuts, everywhere! When a play is called Superior Donuts, you know there’ll be pastry on stage, though the shop in Tracy Letts’ touching new comedy isn’t particularly well stocked (see it to understand why). But after the opening night performance on October 1, first-nighters had their pick of the most scrumptious selections from the Doughnut Plant—and ...

Chicago-based playwright Tracy Letts really outdid himself with the 2007 Broadway hit August: Osage County--the epic play about a dysfunctional Midwestern family scored five Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Two years later, Letts is back with Superior Donuts, a dramedy about a jaded hippie running a beaten-down Chicago donut shop and the hustling young shop assistant ...

Age: 24

Hometown: Waukegan, Illinois

Currently: Making his Broadway debut as Franco Wicks, a brash young man who goes head to head with Michael McKean as the ex-hippie owner of a rundown Chicago doughnut shop in Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts.

You’ve Got Talent: Hill discovered performing in elementary school and vividly recalls the high school drama teacher who “put ...