They’ve brought a landmark play to Broadway, earned Tony nominations for their efforts, and now The Normal Heart stars Joe Mantello, John Benjamin Hickey and Ellen Barkin received a milestone from Broadway landmark Sardi’s: the unveiling of their caricatures! These three acting powerhouses were surrounded by their friends and supporters as they posed with their portraits, which will ...

Good vibes were everywhere on May 5 when the starry cast of The Normal Heart, with a little help from Broadway.com, welcomed an enthusiastic group of teens from the Ali Forney Center backstage for a green room photo op. The play, about the early days of the AIDS epidemic in New York City’s gay community, has a special ...

It’s already pretty starry backstage at the Golden Theatre, with A-list actors like Ellen Barkin, Joe Mantello, Jim Parsons and Lee Pace calling it home during the run of their Tony-nominated play, The Normal Heart. On May 4, the star wattage got even higher when Oscar winner Holly Hunter and late night funnyman Jimmy Fallon stopped in to show ...

After a full 24 hours to let the news of their Tony nods sink in, the 2011 Tony Award nominees got gussied up and stepped out to meet the theater press at the Millennium Broadway Hotel on May 4. Stars like Ellen Barkin, Edie Falco, Patti LuPone, Whoopi Goldberg, Sutton Foster, Joe Mantello, Donna Murphy and many, many more accepted ...

The cast of The Normal Heart couldn’t have been prouder to rally around producers Daryl Roth and Paul Boskind on May 3 when they presented a check for $10,000 to Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage rights for same-sex couples nationwide. The donation is the result of a Facebook Rally launched to raise the profile of ...

The morning the Tony nominations are announced, phones start ringing off the hook for the happy few who get nods. As usual, Broadway.com is among the callers offering congratulations and getting responses. Here are the first reactions from 2011 Tony nominees. Congrats to all!

Joe Mantello
Nominated for Best Actor in a Play, The Normal Heart

"It’s a ...

Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart has made it to Broadway 26 years after it first opened at the Public Theater, with an A-list production helmed by Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe, and starring Joe Mantello, Ellen Barkin, John Benjamin Hickey, Jim Parsons, Lee Pace and more. The emotional play centers on Ned Weeks, a gay writer who turns ...

John Benjamin Hickey has been a warm and humane presence onstage since his Broadway debut performance in 1995’s Love! Valour! Compassion! Since then, Hickey has appeared on Broadway in Cabaret, The Crucible and Mary Stuart, as well as in films ranging from Flags of Our Fathers and Transformers to Freedom Writers and the current Showtime hit The Big C ...

The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s landmark play about love amid the terrifying early days of the AIDS pandemic in New York City’s gay community, bowed on Broadway on April 27, more than 25 years after it’s explosive world premiere at the Public Theater. Broadway.com Word of Mouth panelists Ameil, Jared and Lorin headed to the Golden ...

The Normal Heart burst into off-Broadway’s Public Theater in 1985 with a fury befitting its subject, and now Larry Kramer’s landmark play about the early days of the AIDS crisis in New York City’s gay community is finally readying for its Broadway debut. The revival stars Tony-winning director Joe Mantello, appearing on stage for the first time ...