An ingenue with a rock edge, Caissie Levy first burst onto the Broadway scene in Hairspray before going green in Wicked, taking it all off in Hair and headlining Ghost in the West End and on Broadway. Now, she’s reuniting with Hair love interest Will Swenson in off-Broadway’s Murder Ballad, the gritty rock musical opening May 23 at ...

Age & Hometown: 31; Chapel Hill, NC. “Go Heels!”

Current Role: Stealing the show as Arielle, the sexually adventurous talent booker for Brooklyn Bowl, in off-Broadway’s F#%king Up Everything.

Part of Her World: When Lisa Birnbaum steps on stage at the Elektra Theatre, the new rock musical F#%king Up Everything becomes a little more electric. Her character is ...

Merrily We Roll Along may have flopped on Broadway in 1981, but the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical—the story of a three-way friendship that begins at the end and rewinds to the beginning—seems to lead a charmed life in London. Michael Grandage’s 2000 production won the Olivier Award for best musical, while Maria Friedman’s latest staging ...

Lauren Ward first impressed New York theater audiences with her performance as the title character in Violet, the 1997 off-Broadway musical that continues to be staged around the country. The rising star jumped to 1776 as Martha Jefferson, but her career took a turn after she played Young Sally in the 2001 Broadway revival of Follies and fell in love ...

Age & Hometown: 30; Honolulu, Hawaii

Current Role: Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos, whose catapult to stardom and subsequent fall into infamy are chronicled in the Public Theater’s groundbreaking new musical Here Lies Love.

Monster of a Show: When audience members dance around the stage in Here Lies Love, there’s one person they can’t take their eyes off ...

It’s been 22 years since Robert Sean Leonard last appeared on stage in London as George Gibbs in Our Town. Half a lifetime later, the 44-year-old star of TV’s House is back in town prepping to play Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch in Christopher Sergel’s stage version of To Kill a Mockingbird. Timothy Sheader’s production of the ...

Cinderella stars Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana are many things: Audience Choice Award winners for Best Onstage Pair, host and co-star of the popular video blog The Princess Diary, friends to Herman the Fish and 2013 Tony nominees for Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Actor in a Musical. With all this going for them, it’s quite magical ...

After two decades in the theater, Kristine Nielsen finds herself a first time Tony nominee for her hilarious and touching performance as spinster sister Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Nielsen has previously stood out in Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them, Miss Witherspoon and Betty’s Summer Vacation, as ...

Age and Hometown: 41; Stockholm, Sweden

Current Role: Bringing the Music of the Night to the Majestic Theatre as Broadway’s newest masked man in The Phantom of the Opera.

My Favorite Things: Born and raised in “the cleanest city on earth,” Joback raves that Stockholm is “romantic, cultural” and “open-minded.” Early on, he fell in love with movie musicals ...

Annaleigh Ashford made a memorable Broadway debut in 2007 as ditzy sorority sister Margot in Legally Blonde. In the six years since then, Ashford has become one of NYC's most dependable and talented young stage stars with standout performances in Hair, Wicked, Rent and Dogfight. Now, Ashford is reteaming with her Legally Blonde director, Jerry Mitchell, as Lauren loyal ...