Landing a challenging role that allows you to stretch as an actor is every performer’s dream, but having those risky choices pay off is icing on the cake. Laura Osnes, known for her Broadway work in Grease, South Pacific and Anything Goes, shook off her ingénue image last fall to play legendary outlaw Bonnie Parker in Frank Wildhorn ...

The sultry heat of New Orleans’ French Quarter will soon be transplanted to the Broadhurst Theatre, where a revival of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Streetcar Named Desire begins performances on April 3. Broadway newcomer Blair Underwood is already heating up the rehearsal room as Stanley Kowalski, a working-class man who clashes with his Southern belle sister-in-law Blanche DuBois ...

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock—or wandering the desert outside the Capitol of Panem—you’re aware that a big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ mega-best seller The Hunger Games will be released on March 23. This addictive tale centers on teen heroine Katniss Everdeen, who uses her skills as a hunter to outwit 23 competitors in a ...

Two-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel is embracing his rock side in the new CD Get Out, featuring original songs written by Creel and producer Ben Cullum. The Broadway favorite celebrated the release of this self-described “epic, loud and full of jams” album on March 19 with a pair of sold-out concerts at Joe’s Pub. Broadway.com’s Jenny Anderson ...

The stars will align on March 28 as the stirring and scintillating new play Peter and the Starcatcher, based on the best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, flies onto the Great White Way. Broadway.com photographer Jenny Anderson got an exclusive preview of the show's fantastical land of mystery and mayhem as the company of 12 actors ...

We are so giddy for the return of Mad Men! After a year and a half break, the AMC drama returns on March 25. In anticipation of (finally!) sitting down for an evening with Don Draper and co., we've dreamed up a crackerjack cast for a musical version of the popular '60-set show. Now that we're (almost) over ...

Hail the future Kings of New York! Beginning March 15, Broadway will be invaded by rabble-rousing, singing, dancing newsboys. From Bottle Alley to the harbor, New Yorkers can’t stop talking about Disney’s Newsies, the new musical based on the 1992 film, starring Jeremy Jordan, Kara Lindsay, Ben Fankhauser and Andrew Keenan-Bolger. Though they debuted the show last year ...

Ever since the mesmerizing British period drama Downton Abbey ended its second season on February 19, we've been going through severe withdrawal. If you are like us, you were immediately hooked by the award-winning series about the aristocratic Crawley family and the servants who tend to them. To quell our hankering for more upstairs-downstairs intrigue, Broadway.com editorial staffers ...

What’s the buzz? On Broadway, it's all about Jesus Christ Superstar, that’s what. Word of the forthcoming revival has been spreading for months, since show creators Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice heaped praise on the production at Stratford Shakespeare Festival. After acclaimed runs in Canada and California, the Jesus Christ Superstar company has arrived in New ...

Joshua Henry is one of Broadway’s brightest up-and-coming stars. The 27-year-old actor already has four Broadway credits, including In the Heights, American Idiot and a Best Actor Tony nomination for The Scottsboro Boys, plus a star turn in The Wiz at Encores! (Not bad for someone whose first stage credit was in 2006!) Henry is currently back on the ...