Broadway veteran Benjamin Walker may star in director Ron Howard's upcoming big screen adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea, according to Deadline.com. Produced by Warner Bros., the Charles Leavitt-penned film has already cast Chris Hemsworth (Thor) and Tom Holland (The Impossible).

In the Heart of the Sea tells the fact-based tale of the ...

Benjamin Walker and his wife Mamie Gummer have called it quits after nearly two years of marriage, according to Us Weekly. No reason was given for the split, but Gummer's publicist said the separation is "very new" and "very amicable."

Gummer and Walker were engaged in 2009 after meeting on the Broadway stage during a 2008 production of Les ...

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the third time this season to decide the eligibility of two Broadway productions from the 2012-13 season: Cinderella and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The committee has made the following determinations

Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by a Leading Actress/Actor in a Musical ...

T.G.I.F., Broadway fans! Before we head out for happy hour, we’re revisiting the most important lessons we learned over the last seven days on the Great White Way. From Taydina dream casting to Banana Joe’s Broadway debut, check out a few of the crazy, weird and downright awesome things we learned this week.


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To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we dream-cast 15 of our favorite real-life couples in musicals we’d like to see them do together. From Sierra Boggess and Tam Mutu in Evita to Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs in Sunday in the Park with George, our list of stage pairings would be an endless treat for Broadway lovers! Read on, and ...

Bill Pullman, Benjamin Walker, Gabourey Sidibe, Dylan Baker and more stars of stage and screen were bowled over on February 4, when they played a few rounds at Lucky Strike Lanes in support of off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre. At the company's 26th annual All-Star Bowling Classic, the stars (who bowled alongside Second Stage supporters) made quite a fashion ...

As we prepare to say sayonara to another week on the Great White Way, we're looking back at some of the headlines that really grabbed our attention this week. From Taye Diggs’ home invasion to the surprising music Barry Manilow uses for inspiration, this week was full of WTF moments. Read on below to recount these stories and more ...

Broadway.com’s resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson recently took a trip to the Richard Rodgers Theatre to meet Maggie, Brick, and the rest of the Pollitt family of Mississippi. In this summery portrait of the Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Squigs captures the fiery relationship between the sex-starved Maggie (Scarlett Johansson) and her alcoholic, former ...

Benjamin Walker appeared in two Broadway plays before breaking out as sexy bad-boy Andrew Jackson in the edgy rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Walker has since returned to his dramatic roots with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but that doesn’t mean Walker’s next project won’t be another musical. “I wouldn’t mind doing a little ...

After earning the nickname “Sexypants” as our seventh commander-in-chief in the outrageous rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Walker delivered a heroic performance as yet another president onscreen in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. But luckily for Broadway audiences, this theater vet didn't stay away from the stage for long: Walker is co-starring with Tony winner Scarlett Johansson in ...