Tony Award nominees Victor Garber, Jan Maxwell, Malcolm Gets, Chad Kimball and Josh Young will round out the ensemble of stars to be featured at the eighth annual Broadway Backwards benefit. Proceeds from the March 18 event, which will be held at the Palace Theatre, go towards Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center ...

Tony winners Michael Cerveris (Evita) and Tonya Pinkins (Caroline, or Change) and five-time Tony nominee Jan Maxwell (Follies) will perform as part of Atlantic Theater Company’s 2013 gala, Songs in Celebration of a New Day. The annual spring gala will be held on February 25 at 583 Park Avenue.

In addition to Cerveris, Pinkins and Maxwell, Songs in Celebration ...

It may still be winter, but the spring awards season is starting to show signs of life in New York. Drama Desk winners John Lloyd Young and Jan Maxwell are set to announce nominations for the 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards on April 26.

Young and Maxwell will reveal this year’s nominees (which recognize Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off Broadway ...

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 ...

Five-time Tony nominee Jan Maxwell will star as southern matriarch M’Lynn in Judith Ivey’s starry 25th anniversary reading of Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias. The one-night-only event takes place at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on December 3 and proceeds will benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Maxwell joins an all-star cast, which includes Celia Keenan-Bolger as Maxwell’s ...

T.R. Knight, Jan Maxwell and Richard Thomas and will appear in the Red Bull Theater's benefit reading of Moliere's The Miser. Doug Hughes is staging the October 22 benefit at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, which will also include Richard Kind, John Procaccino, Reg Rogers, Steven Boyer and Nicole Lowrance.

The comedy of manners follows the feisty children ...

Celebrity guests including Jeremy Jordan, Bernadette Peters, Steve Kazee, Cheyenne Jackson, Harvey Fierstein, Laura Osnes, Jan Maxwell, Bebe Neuwirth and more will appear at the autograph table of the 26th annual Broadway Flea Market. The event, which benefits Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS, is scheduled for September 23 in Shubert Alley. Further participants will be announced at a later date ...

On June 10, a select group of theater professionals will get to take home Broadway's biggest honor: a Tony Award. Although we're eager to congratulate the Best Actors and Best Featured Actresses, Broadway.com's editors feel it's high time to bestow awards in some less-obvious categories! Below is our list of 25 fictional Tonys we ...

Jan Maxwell has built a stellar theatrical career her way, mixing high-profile Broadway plays and musicals with off-the-radar projects in New York and elsewhere. Since 2005, Maxwell’s Main Stem work has netted an impressive five Tony nominations, including a 2012 Best Actress nod for her performance as glamorously unhappy wife Phyllis Rogers Stone in Follies. Chatting with Broadway.com ...

Nominations for the 30th Annual Fred and Estelle Astaire Awards, which recognize outstanding achievement in dance on Broadway, have been announced. Seven cast members from Newsies received nominations (including show stars Jeremy Jordan and Kara Lindsay), in addition to the musical's choreographer Christopher Gatelli. Also among the nominees are Nice Work If You Can Get It stars Kelli O ...