Previews have begun for the Signature Theatre revival of Athol Fugard’s Blood Knot, and Broadway.com has a first look at co-stars Colman Domingo and Scott Shepherd in this dark family drama. Blood Knot tells the story of Zach and Morris, two multiracial brothers struggling with poverty in South Africa. While the light-skinned Morris passes for white, Zach feels ...

Porgy and Bess is a celebrity hot spot with the likes of Rosie O’Donnell, Joan Rivers and Chelsea Clinton all recently making their way to the show and backstage to congratulate its stars. This week, Tony nominee Vanessa Williams made her way down to Catfish Row to support her former Sondheim on Sondheim co-star Norm Lewis and catch up ...

World-class traveler William Shatner descended to the Roundabout rehearsal studios on February 10 to meet the earthlings (well, press people) before his one-man show, Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It, lands on Broadway on February 14. With a career spanning over six decades and TV roles in Star Trek, Boston Legal and T.J. Hooker, the two-time Emmy ...

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 ...

Before Michael Urie was taking coffee breaks as Bud Frump in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, he played the scheming assistant to Wilhelmina Slater, the fashion magazine editor played by Vanessa Williams on TV’s Ugly Betty. On February 7, Williams took a trip to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre to support her former co-star in his Frump-tastic ...

Frank Strausser’s kinky new comedy Psycho Therapy opened off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre on February 7. The show follows an unusual three-way relationship and the therapist who helps the parties maneuver it. After the curtain came down, shows stars Angelica Page, Jeffrey Carlson, Jan Leslie Harding and Laurence Lau got cozy at Sushi Samba and celebrated their opening ...

Two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz and screen star Elizabeth Reaser are hitting the off-Broadway boards in Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, and we've got a first look at these A-list actors in action. Reaser stars as Li’l Bit, a young girl growing up in rural 1960s Maryland, whose bond with her Uncle ...

Merrily We Roll Along is a rarely seen but well-loved Stephen Sondheim musical which traces the career choices and friendship of three artists over a span of 20 years. Encores! begins its season with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Colin Donnell and Celia Keenan-Bolger starring as the trio of “old friends” Charley Kringas, Franklin Shepard and Mary Flynn, respectively. The production, directed by ...

In 1988, Carrie cemented its place in Broadway history when the $8 million musical flopped after five performances. Since then, Carrie has been not been seen in New York…until now. MCC presents an updated revival of the musical about a bullied girl with telekinetic powers featuring new music, new book and an overhauled vision by director Stafford Arima. Get ...

One Broadway opening wasn't enough for Venus in Fur and its acclaimed stars, Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy: After the sexy play's limited engagement ended at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theater, a team of producers stepped in to give the production a second life at the Lyceum Theatre. Centering on a playwright/director and the ...