Angela Bassett, Star Jones, Tyler Perry, Barbara Cook and more stars of stage and screen are making the journey to Broadway to see Cicely Tyson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Williams and Condola Rashad in the Tony-nominated revival of The Trip to Bountiful! Directed by Michael Wilson, Horton Foote’s 1953 play tells the story of Carrie Watts (Tyson), an elderly ...

The award-winning Broadway spectacular Kinky Boots played host to a trio of very famous faces over the weekend of May 17. First, stage and screen stars Angela Bassett and S. Epatha Merkerson dropped by the Al Hirschfeld Theatre to see their mutual friend Billy Porter’s acclaimed performance as Lola in the Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein tuner. Then on May ...

Nominations for the 78th annual Drama League Awards have been announced. The awards ceremony will take place May 18 at the Marriot Marquis, hosted by Stockard Channing and John Larroquette. The Drama League Awards recognize distinguished productions, performances and exemplary career achievements in musical theatre and directing. As previously announced the Drama League's 2012 Distinguished Contributions and Achievements in ...

After enduring its share of offstage drama, Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park is headed to Broadway on March 26. This racially charged dark comedy charts the fate of a suburban Chicago home in 1959 and 2009, with the talented cast of seven taking on different roles in each act. On a recent trip to Los Angeles, Broadway.com ...

From rolling down the river as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got To Do With It to witnessing the moonwalk as Katherine Jackson in the miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream and picking up the pieces after her husband's assassination as Betty Shabazz in Malcom X, Angela Bassett has made a film career out of portraying real women ...

Broadway audiences enjoyed a bevy of spectacular musicals and plays in 2011. While each show had its special moments, Broadway.com's editors compiled a list of 10 showstopping scenes that brought us to our collective feet. Scroll below to relive these electrifying moments, presented alphabetically.

“Anything Goes” (Anything Goes)
Anything Goes returned to the Rialto this year starring Broadway ...

Samuel L. Jackson has dodged bullets, bombs and snakes on a plane, but the Guinness Book of World Records' highest grossing movie actor of all time could not escape a birthday celebration held in his honor at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Following the December 21 matinee performance of The Mountaintop, the Oscar-nominated actor, who plays civil rights leader Dr ...

Samuel L. Jackson is a world famous movie star and now he's taking Broadway by storm as Dr. Martin Luther King in The Mountaintop. Life is pretty good for Jackson and he's not afraid to admit it. On December 12 Jackson stopped by The Colbert Report where funnyman Stephen Colbert asked the acclaimed actor exactly how it feels ...

Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett welcomed a special guest to the Martin Luther King Jr. drama The Mountaintop on December 6: Grammy winner and all-around music legend Aretha Franklin. After the performance, Franklin, a close friend of the late Dr. King, headed backstage at Broadway's Jacobs Theatre to congratulate the starry duo on their performances as King (Jackson ...

He's best known as an Oscar-nominated actor, but Samuel L. Jackson is also a die-hard sports fan (and frequent host of ESPN's ESPY Awards), so The Mountaintop star was more than excited to welcome New York Knicks favorite Carmelo Anthony to the Jacobs Theatre on November 1. Joined by his wife La La Anthony (who recently finished a ...