The sassy ladies of Steel Magnolias first came to life off-Broadway 25 years ago—and on December 3, Robert Harling’s beloved play returned to the Lucille Lortel Theatre for a one-night-only reading benefitting the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. And what a cast: Jan Maxwell as M’Lynn, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Shelby, Annie Potts as Truvy, director Judith Ivey as ...

It's officially December, which means that there's a whole month of fun and exciting Broadway events ahead of us! Read on to see what we've picked as the cream of the crop from the week ahead, which includes opening nights for Golden Boy and Bare, a thrilling Assassins reunion and a slew of stars bringing their talents ...

There’ll be no shortage of star power at the upcoming Gypsy of the Year competition, the annual Broadway talent show benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Now in its 24th year, this year’s ceremony will be held on December 3 and 4 at the New Amsterdam Theatre and include a slew of talent from across the board serving ...

Comedy icon Joan Rivers, her daughter Melissa and grandson Cooper ditched the red carpet to walk the plank of Peter and the Starcatcher’s Neverland Ship. The duo took a break from filming season three of Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best to catch the November 21 performance of the whimsical play, starring Adam Chanler-Berat, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Matthew Saldivar ...

Talk about an amicable separation! TV icons and theater vets Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman proved that exes can remain friends by attending the November 14 performance of Peter and the Starcatcher together. (Perlman had a special reason for being there: Cast member Eric Petersen will join her and Kirstie Alley in TV Land's upcoming comedy pilot Giant Baby ...

Sutton, Kristin, Idina, Lea, Beyonce, Cheyenne… could this week’s lessons be any more star-studded? Hurricane Sandy may have wreaked havoc over the last several days, but it didn’t wash away all the nifty Broadway lessons we learned!


The American Songbook Teases a Diva Trifecta
Imagine our delight and subsequent devastation when we learned that Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel ...

Who knew that Broadway alum Stanley Tucci has a thing for moustaches? The talented actor, who recently appeared in the blockbuster The Hunger Games, took a break from preparing for the impending storm caused by Hurricane Sandy to bring his family to Peter and the Starcatcher on Saturday afternoon at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Tucci, who is a newbie cookbook ...

Starcatcher’s Celia Keenan-Bolger and Newsies’ Andrew Keenan-Bolger chat about bad auditions, laundry disasters and which sibling is the biggest “attention whore.” Watch the adorable sibs answer your questions and even sing!

A flock of fabulous women are assembling to gossip down at Truvy's beauty shop. Annie Potts, Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger, Tony winner Blythe Danner and more will take part in a 25th anniversary reading of Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias. The Heiress star Judith Ivey will direct the one-night-only event at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on December 3. 

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After an acclaimed run as adventurous tween Molly in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher, Celia Keenan-Bolger is excited to grow up for her next role. The two-time Tony nominee will take on painfully shy dreamer Laura Wingfield in American Repertory Theater's upcoming revival of The Glass Menagerie, opposite Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield, Zachary Quinto as Tom ...