"Let's make a pit stop at the wiener stand!" Edna Turnblad said in Hairspray, and on May 22, Edna's originator Harvey Fierstein got to do it in real life, when the Brooklyn Diner in Times Square renamed its 15-bite all-beef hot dog the "Harvey Hot Dog." The occasion? The 30th anniversary of Fierstein's first Tony Award, and ...

Star-crossed lovers Cathy and Jamie are “still hurting,” and fans of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years can’t wait to share their anguish in a new cast recording of the show. Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor gave luminous performances in the recent Brown-helmed revival of the 2001 tuner at Second Stage and the happy collaborators reunited on ...

Once the reality of a Tony nomination sinks in, a new task emerges: looking for the perfect gown to wear to the awards ceremony! In truth, nominees need an entire wardrobe of day and evening dresses for the many events during theatrical awards season—and Best Featured Actress hopeful Annaleigh Ashford of Kinky Boots invited Broadway.com's Jenny Anderson ...

EGOT winner, comedian and The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg became an honorary member of the circus on May 21, when she caught a performance of the Tony-nominated revival of Pippin! After witnessing the magic of the reimagined, circus-themed production, Goldberg went backstage to congratulate headliner Matthew James Thomas, Tony nominees Patina Miller and Andrea Martin and the rest of the ...

Most Broadway actors are hard at work on Tuesday nights, but a few shows have the evening off for various scheduling reasons—which meant that on May 21, the lucky young stars of Annie and Newsies could head to the Broadway Theatre to see Cinderella! After savoring Laura Osnes’ Tony-nominated performance in the title role, the young stage pros stepped ...

Now that Arthur Darvill has swapped time-jumping for guitar thumping in Once, it was only a matter of time before the actor’s former Doctor Who co-stars headed to Broadway to see Darvill’s new digs! Matt Smith, who plays the British sci-fi thriller’s Eleventh Doctor, took in the scene backstage at the Jacobs Theatre with fellow Whovian Jenna ...

Stars of stage and screen unite! Zach Braff, new Wicked sweethearts Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena, Tony nominee Stephanie J. Block and more flocked to the Best Buy Theatre on May 21 to pay tribute to playwright and screenwriter Paul Weitz (Lonely, I’m Not) at the annual Second Stage Theatre spring gala. The soiree, which featured dinner and a ...

A bevy of out Broadway stars came together for an important cause on May 20: the benefit performance of David Drake’s The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. This one-night-only performance at the Gerard W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College raised funds and awareness for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Sero Project. Directed by Tony nominee Robert ...

The competition is over, and now American Idol’s lovely and talented finalists are ready to kick back a little! For Kree Harrison and Angie Miller, who finished second and third in this year’s televised singing contest, that meant a trip to NYC and a night out at the long-running musical hit Chicago. On May 20, Harrison and Miller ...

Broadway and off-Broadway stars collided at Cipriani 42nd Street on May 20 for the Manhattan Theatre Club’s annual Spring Gala. The exciting evening featured performances by from the casts of Annie, Matilda, Cinderella, Motown, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Old Jews Telling Jokes and more. This year's gala also featured special appearances by Tony Award nominees Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana ...