Dianne Pilkington enjoyed a long and acclaimed West End run as Glinda in Wicked and starred as Amalia in last year’s Chichester Festival revival of She Loves Me, with a stint in The 39 Steps (her first play) in between. Now, the English actress is back on the West End in yet another American title, Terrence McNally’s Master ...

Since making his Rialto debut as a Roger replacement in Rent, Norbert Leo Butz has gone on create some of the most charming characters on Broadway, winning two Tony Awards in the process. He went dancing through life as Fiyero in Wicked, and then earned Tonys gunning for “Great Big Stuff” as Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and following the ...

Back in the 1990s, comedian and liberal activist Janeane Garofalo became the poster child for jaded twenty-somethings after starring in Reality Bites, The Truth About Cats and Dogs and The Larry Sanders Show. Now, Garofalo is making an ambitious career move in the New Group's premiere production of Russian Transport, a family drama by Erika Sheffer. Garofalo stars as ...

Age & Hometown: 25; Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Current Role: Serving teenage angst and bringing down the house as the young know-it-all Tamika in the off-Broadway musical Sistas.

Catching Up in College: An ardent Paula Abdul fan, young Lexi dreamed of growing up to be a dancer, but her family couldn't afford lessons. It was not until her junior year of ...

Ramin Karimloo spent many years wearing the most famous of musical theater masks, first in The Phantom of the Opera and then its sequel, Love Never Dies, for which he received an Olivier Award nomination as Best Actor. Now the 33-year-old performer has shifted mega-musicals to play Jean Valjean in Les Miserables at the Queen’s Theatre. Broadway.com caught ...

As Trip Wyeth in Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities, Justin Kirk does what Justin Kirk does best, walking the tightrope between providing comic relief and serving as the unlikely voice of reason. After his sister, Brooke (Rachel Griffiths), returns home with a shocking memoir that threatens to tear apart the wealthy, conservative Wyeth family, Trip becomes both a ...

Age & Hometown: 35; Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Lima, Peru

Current Role: A Broadway debut as Billy Flynn, the silver-tongued prince of the courtroom, in Chicago.

All I Care About: Some little boys struggle to find their purpose, but Zunino had no doubt that his life would be played out onstage. “When I started at 14, I didn ...

Before Nick Jonas was an international pop sensation, he was a Broadway baby, performing in Annie Get Your Gun, Beauty and the Beast and Les Miserables. Now he's back on the Main Stem in the hit revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as determined window washer J. Pierrepont Finch. Broadway's newest headliner has graciously ...

Siobhan Dillon has spent a busy few years on West End stages, first in Grease and then as Elle Woods’ rival Vivienne in Legally Blonde. Now she has signed on for a yearlong run as the lovesick Molly in Ghost, replacing Caissie Levy, who is prepping for the musical’s Broadway debut. A few days after joining the cast at ...

As Jimmy Porter, the caustic, charismatic lead character in John Osbourne’s Look Back in Anger, Matthew Rhys is on constant alert, ready to lash out at his young wife, Alison (Sarah Goldberg), and a pair of interlopers in their garbage-strewn flat. For his New York stage debut, Rhys has abandoned the stylish suits he wore as gay lawyer Kevin ...