Age & Hometown: “Too old for Gavroche but not quite ready for Jean Valjean”; Los Gatos, CA

Current Role: A Broadway debut as Christine’s loyal beau Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny in the 25th anniversary cast of The Phantom of the Opera.

Renaissance Raoul: Raised in “a little slice of heaven” in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kyle Barisich grew up ...

Age & Hometown: 29; Los Angeles, CA

Current Role: A Broadway debut juggling three intentionally ambiguous roles in Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of The Other Place, a haunting drama about a woman suddenly affected by a mysterious illness.

Mother Always Knows Best: The only child of Steppenwolf Theatre Company members and TV stars Jeff Perry and Laurie Metcalf, Zoe Perry ...

Age & Hometown: 26; Spring, TX

Current Role: Alan Seymour, a rich suitor who pines for the beautiful Madge (Maggie Grace) in Roundabout Theatre Company’s sexy revival of Picnic.

Juilliard Reunion: Making a Broadway debut is nerve-wracking, but luckily for Ben Rappaport, the classically trained actor is collaborating with a familiar face: “[Director] Sam Gold and I go way back ...

Age & Hometown: 14; South Salem, NY

Current Role: Pulling double duty as Deputy, the sharp-eyed assistant to a bumbling gravedigger, and Master Nick Cricker, a Victorian music hall child star, in Roundabout Theatre Company’s acclaimed Broadway revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Training With Tony Winners: Like most 14-year-olds, Nicholas Barasch hasn’t actually read Charles Dickens’ The ...

Age & Hometown: 28; New York, New York

Current Role: Starring as the title character, a sensitive art prodigy in the acclaimed stage adaptation of Chaim Potok’s classic novel My Name Is Asher Lev.

A Father/Son Story: New York native Ari Brand feels a special bond with Asher Lev, a Hasidic Jew who, because of his work as an ...

Age & Hometown: 23; Antioch, California

Current Role: An off-Broadway debut as Jason, a popular Catholic school jock who gets caught in a love triangle with the boy he loves and the girl he wishes he could love in the pop-rock musical Bare.

Easy A: Growing up in the suburbs of San Francisco, “sports kid” Jason Hite split his time between ...

Age & Hometown: 30; Sydney, Australia

Current Role: A Broadway debut as Lorna Moon, “the tramp from Newark” who wins the heart of Golden Boy Joe Bonaparte (Seth Numrich) and his manager (Danny Mastrogiorgio).

10 Rounds in Lipstick: Australian screen star Yvonne Strahovski is diving into Broadway head first with a starring role in Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Clifford ...

Age & Hometown: 12; Chicago, IL

Current Role: Holiday-obsessed nine-year-old Ralphie Parker, whose desperate quest for a Red Ryder BB Gun is chronicled in the classic movie-turned-Broadway musical A Christmas Story.

Catching the Theater Bug: Johnny Rabe’s love of theater began at age two, when his mother took him to see community productions of Peter Pan and Cinderella (the latter ...

Age & Hometown: 11; Los Angeles, CA

Current Role: Anchoring the big Broadway revival of Annie as the show’s title character, an optimistic yet tough red-headed orphan.

Tale as Old as Time: It may be hard to believe that at age 11, Lilla Crawford has already appeared in two Broadway shows—but then again, this pint-sized belter has known she ...

Age & Hometown: 37; Detroit, MI

Current Role: Steely ex-wife Jenny, who has unfinished business with her husband (played by Norbert Leo Butz) in Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy Dead Accounts.

"Aren’t You That Actress?" That’s the question frequently asked to Judy Greer, the film and TV veteran who has spent the past decade stealing scenes in everything from ...