It’s been a week since Audra McDonald and Will Swenson, one of our favorite acting couples, got hitched. Since we feel like we’ve had a front row seat to the couple’s blossoming love story—from falling for each other while both in the cast of Broadway’s 110 in the Shade to a triumphant family outing with ...

The acrobatic and talented cast of Newsies gives it their all eight times a week at the Nederlander Theatre. But before they seize the stage, this company of friends unwinds together, gets silly and performs some pre-show rituals. The Newsies crew recently invited Broadway.com photographer Jenny Anderson backstage to capture life behind the scenes at their hit show. From ...

Every cast member in Bruce Norris’ Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park is doing double duty, playing one character in the first act, set in 1959, and quite another in act two, which takes place in 2009. This time-hopping dark comedy, inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, centers on one house being sold in those ...

Broadway shows take an incredible amount of preparation, not just before opening night but before every performance. Backstage at the Tony-winning musical Once, stars Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti and the entire talented cast not only have to warm up as actors, they have to warm up as the Broadway caliber musicians they are before they bring this Dublin-set story ...

As psychic Oda Mae Brown in the Broadway musical Ghost, Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s get-ups are as eccentric as her over-the-top character. But the Tony-nominated actress is getting ready to rock the red carpet on June 10, and she’s in the market for something a little more glamorous than Oda Mae's multi-colored muumuu or fuchsia skirt suit ...

The pressure to look stunning on Broadway’s biggest night can be daunting, but Celia Keenan-Bolger is up for the challenge. As Molly, the heroine in the Peter Pan prequel Peter and the Starcatcher, the actress is just one of the boys braving the high seas on a quest to save the world. But the real adventure began when the ...

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 ...