Everyone is talking about Motown: The Musical, the electrifying new Broadway show featuring the music of the Supremes, the Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and more. Recording artist Brandy is the latest star to head backstage at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to extend her congratulations to the cast, but there were even more celebrity surprises in store for the Motown ...

One of Broadway’s most in-demand director/choreographers, Warren Carlyle, puts his spin on the classic Rodgers and Hart musical On Your Toes at New York City Center May 8 through May 12. The Encores! production about ballet, love and murder stars Tony winners Christine Baranski, Walter Bobbie and Karen Ziemba and features Broadway vets Shonn Wiley, Kelli Barrett, Dalton ...

The new musical Kinky Boots is not only a fan fave (winning the Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Musical) and a Tony nominators' fave (snatching the most nominations of any show this year), it’s also the hot new celebrity hangout. The latest famous visitors at Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein's joyous musical extravaganza? Broadway veterans Rosie ...

Looking for a reason to be happy this spring? Well, we’ve got four: Jenna Fischer, Leslie Bibb, Josh Hamilton and Fred Weller, the stars of Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Happy. Set three years after LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty, this new companion piece reunites Steph (Fischer) and Greg (Hamilton), and this time around, she’s married ...

Richard Nelson’s latest play Nikolai and the Others, which examines Russian art at the beginning of the Cold War and the creation of the ballet Orpheus, officially opened at Lincoln Center Theater on May 6. Directed by David Cromer, this two-act drama melds together dance, vodka and politics to create a unique evening of thought-provoking theater. The cast of ...

Stars from the Great White Way and beyond united at Avenues: The World School in New York City to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Broadway in South Africa. The organization teams up youth living in poverty in South Africa with professional artists to empower them and inspire change. Hosted by Jay Manuel (America’s Next Top Model), the evening featured ...

The curtain is almost up on the final show of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2012-13 season, Steven Levenson’s world premiere drama The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, and the cast gathered for photos before rehearsal on May 7. David Morse takes on the title role as a man who did time for his white-collar crime but returns home ...

When a play gets six Tony nominations, the celebs start coming, and that’s certainly the case with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. On May 3, comedy icon Joan Rivers and 1950s movie heartthrob Tab Hunter headed to the Golden Theatre to see Christopher Durang’s hit comedy. Rivers, who recently headlined an evening of standup at the ...

Broadway’s brightest stars flooded the red carpet on May 5 for the 13th annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, the season’s only major awards voted on by the fans. Hosted by incoming Chicago star Wendy Williams, the awards took place at the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Time Warner ...

After the 2013 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards ceremony, winners, presenters and guests were ready to have fun—even if it meant donning oversized glasses, mustaches, wigs, hats and other paraphernalia in the second annual BACA photo booth! Photographer Jenny Anderson coaxed partygoers into a quiet corner of Landmarc at the Time-Warner Center for some good-natured mugging, and a wonderful ...