Broadway is welcoming four headliners to Gore Vidal's The Best Man, and we’ve got your first look at production photos of the new stars. In this onstage race for the presidency, John Stamos stars as Senator Joseph Cantwell, Kristin Davis plays his wife Mabel Cantwell, Cybill Shepherd stars as Alice Russell, and Elizabeth Ashley plays Mrs. Sue-Ellen Gamadge ...

Stage and screen favorites John Stamos, Cybill Shepherd and Kristin Davis join the cast of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man on July 10. Stamos succeeds Eric McCormack as Senator Joseph Cantwell, Shepherd replaces Candice Bergen as Alice Russell and Davis succeeds Kerry Butler as Mabel Cantwell. The Best Man will play a limited engagement through September 9 at the ...

In the 50 years since its inception, the Delacorte Theatre has hosted some of the greatest actors of the age as part of The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park series. To honor the anniversary, many of these luminaries came together on the Delacorte stage recently, to be photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the July 2012 issue of Vanity ...

The 2012 Tony Awards started off with a bang, well actually a doorbell, as Nic Rouleau, Jared Gertner and the stars of The Book of Mormon began the June 10 ceremony with a star-studded performance of "Hello," ringing the dressing room doorbells of some of the night's biggest nominees, including Cynthia Nixon (Wit), James Earl Jones (The Best Man ...

The biggest stars of the New York stage aligned at the Town Hall on June 3 for the 2012 Drama Desk Awards, a fun, festive event honoring the best of Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway. Two-time Tony nominee Brian d’Arcy James and The Addams Family alum Brooke Shields co-hosted the star-studded ceremony, and stars such as Audra McDonald, James Corden ...

What could be better than hearing the great James Earl Jones ruminate on six of his favorite roles? At age 81, Jones just picked up his fourth Tony nomination for his sly performance as former U.S. President Arthur Hockstader in The Best Man. It’s not easy to edit the reflections of a titanic talent like Mr. Jones, so ...

On May 24, James Earl Jones (The Best Man), Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess), Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow), James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) and a host of other Broadway favorites gathered at Sardis for a very special dinner party. The stars were among the big winners of the previously announced 2012 Outer Critics Circle Awards, which recognizes ...

Broadway.com recently celebrated the slew of talented octogenarians still delivering fantastic performances on the Great White Way (readers named Angela Lansbury their favorite!) and now NBC News is lauding Broadway's set of 80-years-old and over. On May 24, NBC's Chris Jansing sat down with The Best Man's Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones as well as ...

Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Bernadette Peters will serve as presenters at the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards on June 3 at Town Hall. As previously announced Brooke Shields and Brian d'Arcy James will host the ceremony. 

Other presenters set to appear include Martha Plimpton, John Larroquette, Julie Halston, Roger Rees, Alex Timbers, Doug Wright, Rick Elice, Maury ...

The Tony-nominated revival of Gore Vidal's political drama The Best Man has been extended for a second time at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre. Starring two-time Tony winner James Earl Jones, Tony winner John Larroquette, Eric McCormack and five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury, The Best Man was originally scheduled to play a limited engagement through July 8. Directed by Michael ...