We've all heard "No... wire... hangers. No wire hangers, ever!" Now we can hear all the gory details. Christina Crawford—actress and author of the autobiographical book Mommie Dearest—is covering 100 years of showbiz history and detailing the turbulent relationship between her and her movie legend mother, Joan Crawford, in off-Broadway's Surviving Mommie Dearest. Featuring film clips ...

There’s not much time left to get in your vote for the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, but maybe this will jolt you non-voters into action! Some of our favorite nominees are doing their part to spread the word by showing off their awesome #VoteBway buttons. We’ve got Annie’s darling duo Lilla Crawford and Sunny the ...

Theater fans were up bright and early on April 30 to see whether their favorite Broadway shows and stars made the list as 2013 Tony nominees! Broadway.com headed to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to see two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster and three-time Emmy nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson do the honors. Foster looked fabulous in ...

What could be better than a movie about a talented kid who dreams of appearing on Broadway, filled with a cast of real-life Broadway actors? On April 28, Mark Oxman presented his new short film, Sing Along, at a screening attended by many of the cast members. The film centers on Stephen (Miles Erlick), a 14-year-old whose theater dreams might ...

Broadway and R&B star Fantasia Barrino is celebrating the April release of her latest solo album, Side Effects of You. During a visit to New York over the weekend of April 27, the Color Purple vet and American Idol champ got a very special honor: a handprint ceremony at Planet Hollywood Times Square. Broadway.com dropped by to nab ...

This Hot Shot is best appreciated by longtime Broadway fans: Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark title star Reeve Carney celebrated his birthday on April 24 at the Jekyll & Hyde Club in Times Square and, appropriately enough, one of the revelers was the Tony-nominated original star of Jekyll & Hyde! We’re referring, of course, to Robert Cuccioli, who is now delighting ...

Get to know the lay of the land in the new off-Broadway production of The Drawer Boy, Michael Healey’s 1999 drama about life in the Canadian countryside. After a gripping performance on April 24, stars Alex Fast, Brad Fryman and William Laney took their opening night bows at the Soho Playhouse. Directed by Alexander Dinelaris, The Drawer Boy tells ...

Tony and Emmy winner Cynthia Nixon may not be on stage currently, but the loyal theater enthusiast is never far from the stage. On April 24, Nixon took in the powerful off-Broadway drama My Name is Asher Lev at the Westside Theatre. Based on the best-selling coming-of-age novel by Chaim Potok, the play explores one young man’s balance between ...

Actress Lindsay Lohan enjoyed a night on Broadway on April 23, when she stepped out to see Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge in Orphans. Lyle Kessler's drama centers on a pair of Philadelphia brothers whose lives are turned upside-down when a crime boss enters their closed-off world. After the curtain came down, Lohan headed backstage at the ...

There’s a new spider woman in town, Christina DeCicco, who proved she can deliver a Broadway-style anthem during her stint as the alternate Eva Peron in last season’s hit revival of Evita. On April 23, DeCicco joined the cast of Spider Man, Turn Off the Dark as the mysterious Arachne, and Broadway.com stopped by the Foxwoods Theatre ...