Age & Hometown: 30; Birmingham, England

Current Role: A Broadway debut as the poetic, brokenhearted, guitar-playing Guy in the Tony-winning musical Once.

Keeping the Beat: The son of a puppeteer and a musician, Arthur Darvill made his first onstage appearance at age eight. “My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back,” says Darvill ...

Rufus Hound has made a sizable name for himself as a comedian on the British stand-up circuit and recently starred on screen in The Wedding Video. Now, the 34-year-old Englishman is spending the summer as the title Man in the long-running West End hit One Man, Two Guvnors, Richard Bean’s commedia dell’arte rewrite of A Servant of Two ...

It took just six years for musical theater powerhouse Lindsay Mendez to conquer Broadway. Mendez made her debut in 2007 as funny second banana Jan in Grease (opposite Laura Osnes), and now she takes center stage at the Gershwin Theatre as the 10th anniversary Elphaba in the blockbuster Wicked. In the meantime, of course, she's recorded the jazz album ...

Age & Hometown: 38; Lovingston, VA

Current Role: Carly, a hardworking single mom with an unfaithful boyfriend and a heartbreaking dilemma in MCC Theater's off-Broadway premiere of Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Happy.

Virginia is for Leslie: Growing up in a “tiny country town,” Bibb dreamed of following in the footsteps of her mother, a political campaign manager, but ...

Tony winner Tonya Pinkins has the distinction of a Broadway resume consisting entirely of new works, from Merrily We Roll Along and Jelly's Last Jam to The Wild Party, Caroline, or Change and Radio Gulf. More recently, Pinkins has discovered a passion for cabaret, and she will debut her latest show Tonya Pinkins Unplugged on June 3 at Joe ...

Australian composer/singer/comedian Tim Minchin received a 2013 Tony nomination for the playful, witty and infectious score of Matilda, but he still fancies himself a modern day rock star. He's gone from performing in small cabaret venues in Perth to playing big arenas across the globe to portraying the drugged-out, washed-up rocker Atticus Fetch on the hit Showtime ...

After a seven-year wait, Audra McDonald fans finally have a new solo CD to enjoy, Go Back Home (Nonesuch), and the five-time Tony winner is previewing the eclectic collection in a PBS concert set to air on May 24. (McDonald does double duty, hosting as well as headlining her concert on Live From Lincoln Center.) Broadway.com chatted with the ...

Musical fans have watched with pride as Annaleigh Ashford climbed the Broadway and off-Broadway ladder from Legally Blonde, Wicked and Hair to Rent, Dogfight and now a Tony-nominated performance as down-to-earth shoe factory chick Lauren in Kinky Boots. It's high time for this super-talented young actress to take a seat on the Broadway.com couch and answer burning questions ...

Age & Hometown: 28; Queens, NY

Current Role: Giving a Tony-nominated performance as Spike, the simple, lovable and nearly naked boy-toy to Masha (Sigourney Weaver) in Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

Where the Girls Are: Billy Magnussen discovered his passion for theater after pulling a hamstring and shifting from sports to an acting class. “It’s ...

The fast-rising Broadway actor Seth Numrich began the season in Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy, and now the Juilliard-trained 26-year-old is getting set to star in the eagerly awaited London revival of Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic. Numrich plays gigolo Chance Wayne opposite Kim Cattrall as aging movie star ...