Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Jonathan Groff is the latest addition to director Ryan Murphy’s star-studded film adaptation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, according to EW.com. Groff will play Craig, the HIV-positive lover of Bruce Niles, who will be played by the previously announced Taylor Kitsch. Tony winner Joe Mantello (who nabbed a Tony nomination ...

Laurie Metcalf is currently starring on Broadway as Juliana Smithton in The Other Place, but the Emmy winner and Tony nominee is well known for her roles as Jackie Harris on TV's Roseanne and, more recently, as Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory. Metcalf plays the devout Texan mother of Jim Parsons' Dr. Sheldon Cooper on the popular ...

It’s been quite the year for Other Desert Cities playwright Jon Robin Baitz. The play marked his Broadway debut, he earned a Tony nomination, won a Drama League Award and on May 31, he received his very own portrait at Sardi’s. His show's stars Stockard Channing, Judith Light, Stacy Keach and Thomas Sadoski, as well as the ...

Other Desert Cities stars Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths and Stacy Keach received yet another feather in their caps when they were honored with coveted caricatures at Sardi’s. On February 16, the performers, who form the tightknit Wyeth clan in the show, were joined by onstage family members Justin Kirk and Judith Light as well as playwright Jon Robin Baitz ...

Broadway attracts the best stage actors on earth, performing at the peak of their powers. In a year filled with great dramas and scintillating musicals, Broadway.com's editorial staff came to a consensus on five 2011 performances we won't forget.

Bobby Cannavale in The Motherf**ker With the Hat
He’s tall, dark, handsome and funny, which means ...

Weeds star and theater vet Justin Kirk will assume the role of Trip Wyeth in the Broadway production of Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities on January 10, 2012, replacing Thomas Sadoski, who will play his final performance on January 8. Directed by Joe Mantello, Other Desert Cities is currently running at the Booth Theatre.

Kirk joins a cast ...

Jon Robin Baitz’s acclaimed new play Other Desert Cities may be headed for the big screen, according to Deadline.com. Producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, the team behind the film adaptation of Sweeney Todd and stage production of Catch Me If You Can, acquired film rights to the play, which opened at Broadway's Booth Theatre on November ...

Lincoln Center Theatre has indefinitely extended the Broadway run of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities at the Booth Theatre. Directed by Joe Mantello, the production was originally scheduled to conclude its run on January 8.

Other Desert Cities centers on the Wyeth family, who have gathered for Christmas at the modernist Palm Springs home of the prominent parents ...

One of the most acclaimed plays of 2011 is making the jump to Broadway: Tickets are now on sale for Other Desert Cities, a fascinating family saga by Jon Robin Baitz, creator of TV’s Brothers & Sisters. Original cast members Stockard Channing, Stacy Keach and Thomas Sadoski will be joined by Brothers & Sisters star Rachel Griffiths and 2011 Tony nominee ...

Tony winner Joe Mantello will direct the one-night-only world premiere of 8, chronicling the historic trial in the federal legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8 and presented by American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact as a fundraiser for AFER. The play, written by Oscar winner and AFER founding board member Dustin Lance Black, will be performed on ...