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Irish-born writer Enda Walsh made his name with dark, arresting plays such as Misterman and Bedbound, as well as the screenplay for Hunger, which centered on the life and death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. By his own admission, Walsh’s super-serious resume made him “a very peculiar choice” to adapt the indie movie musical Once ...

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A protégé of Tommy Tune, Jeff Calhoun began his illustrious career as a dancer. He made his Broadway debut in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers before switching gears and finding great success as a choreographer, nabbing a Tony Award nomination for his choreography in the 1994 revival of Grease. Calhoun made his directorial debut in 1992 ...

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Before garnering Tony nominations for Best Original Score and Best Play for Peter and the Starcatcher, Rick Elice made his Broadway debut co-writing the book of Jersey Boys, which won four Tony Awards and earned Elice and Marshall Brickman a Best Book nomination. Quickly establishing himself as the man with the magic touch, the playwright was tapped ...

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Elizabeth A. Davis charms Broadway audiences nightly as part of the triple-threat—make that quadruple threat—ensemble cast of the musical Once. In addition to an alluring performance as Cristin Milioti’s Czech roommate Reza, Davis dances full-out while playing a violin. It’s a big break for the actress, who previously understudied in The 39 Steps ...

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Tony winner Judy Kaye first burst onto the Great White Way as a Rizzo replacement in the original production of Grease, but it wasn’t until the actress turned 29 that she established herself as a comedic Broadway force to be reckoned with. When Madeline Kahn withdrew from Broadway’s On the Twentieth Century, Kaye, her understudy ...

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Emily Mann made her Broadway debut as both writer and director of Execution of Justice in 1986. She repeated that feat in 1995 with Having Our Say, for which she earned two Tony nominations, and went on to direct the Broadway premiere of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics. Mann has served as Artistic ...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park is anything but cuddly: Bruce Norris’ acid comedy, inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, examines racism in America as filtered through the story of what happens in a suburban Chicago house in 1959 and 2009. In one of the happiest surprises of the season, the original 2010 off-Broadway cast has ...

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Art imitates life for television journalist Donna Hanover, who is making her Broadway debut as seasoned reporter Barbara Brinkley in The Best Man, Gore Vidal’s 1960 political drama. Hanover, who served as the First Lady of New York City from 1994 to 2002 as the former wife of Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, has anchored TV programs on ...

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Peter Quilter is a two-time Olivier Award-nominated playwright who is making his Broadway debut with the acclaimed biographical drama End of the Rainbow. Set in London in 1968, End of the Rainbow dramatizes the final months of superstar Judy Garland, portrayed onstage by Tracie Bennett. The play premiered in Australia in 2005 before spawning productions in London ...

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Russell Harvard may be making his off-Broadway debut in Tribes at the Barrow Street Theatre, but this talented New York newcomer is no show-biz rookie. On film, Harvard is best known for his portrayal of the adult H.W. Plainview in There Will Be Blood and wrestler Matt Hamill in The Hammer. In Tribes, Harvard stars as ...