Happy birthday, Actors’ Equity Association! The oldest performing arts union in the country celebrated its magnificent 100th birthday in May, and actors from across the entertainment industry gathered on June 17 to celebrate the festive occasion at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Broadway, TV and film stars gathered at the gala event to pay tribute to the organization that ...

Daniel Pearle’s drama A Kid Like Jake, about the quest of NYC parents to place their precocious four-year-old in private school, officially opened at Lincoln Center Theater’s Claire Tow Theater on June 17. The LCT3 production stars Carla Gugino and Peter Grosz as Jake’s tireless parents, Caroline Aaron as his progressive preschool teacher and Michelle Beck as ...

Filming for Richard LaGravenese’s big screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years is underway! The movie’s leading lady Anna Kendrick Instagrammed a photo of her and co-star Jeremy Jordan on set writing, “Cathy and Jamie 4ever #LastFiveYears #DayOne.” Agreed! The duo looks adorable (loving the blonde locks, Ms. Kendrick!). Our guess is Jordan and ...

Judd Apatow, the comic genius behind the films Bridesmaids, Anchorman, This Is 40 and Knocked Up and the TV shows Girls, Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, took a family outing to see the Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots on June 16. Apatow arrived at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre with his wife Leslie Mann and the couple’s daughters, Maude and ...

The Tony-winning Best Play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, welcomed two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda to the Golden Theatre on June 15. Fonda, who appeared on the Great White Way in 2009 in 33 Variations, took in the matinee performance of the Christopher Durang play about an aging movie star who travels the world and her bitter siblings ...

Adam Lambert had “nothin’ but a good time” at Broadway’s Rock of Ages on June 16: The singer-songwriter and American Idol alum headed to the Helen Hayes Theatre to support a dear friend—Rock of Ages swing Jennifer Rias, who was also his high school prom date! After the show, Lambert joined Rias on a backstage tour, where he ...

My Big Gay Italian Funeral, the off-Broadway sequel to Anthony J. Wilkinson’s wacky comedy My Big Gay Italian Wedding, has arrived at St. Luke’s Theatre, with more wild hijinks and zany characters. The sequel, playing in repertory with Wedding, opened officially on June 16, starring Wilkinson, Marissa Perry, Brett Douglas, Donna Castellano, Brian Murphy and more. Directed by ...

There’s something exciting brewing down at the Public Theater, and it’s called Venice! The new rap-rock musical officially opened on June 13, and stars Jennifer Damiano, Leslie Odom Jr., Claybourne Elder and more rejoiced on the big night at the Public’s downtown home. The futuristic tuner is a collaborative effort between composer and actor Matt Sax, and ...

The stars from Broadway’s Tony-nominated musical Cinderella celebrated the release of the show’s original Broadway cast recording on June 13 with a performance and CD signing at Barnes & Noble. Tony nominees Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana joined co-stars Harriet Harris, Ann Harada and Marla Mindelle onstage to sing selections from the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein score and then ...

John Guare is one of the American theater’s most important dramatists, and now he has a new credit on his resume: actor! Guare’s latest drama, 3 Kinds of Exile, a trio of short plays centering of real stories of emigres, opened on June 11 at the Atlantic Theater Company with Guare in a cast that includes Martin Moran ...