Max Crumm won our hearts (and the role of Danny Zuko) in the TV reality competition You’re the One That I Want. After making his Broadway debut in Grease opposite Laura Osnes, Crumm returned to California, where he appeared in the teen comedy Easy A with his childhood pal Emma Stone. Now, the 27-year-old is back on the New ...

Iowa native Edward Watts spent years working off-Broadway and in regional theater, but his career is now taking off faster than a speeding bullet! After playing Robert Semple and David Hutton in Broadway’s Scandalous last fall, Watts has scored the leading role of Superman in the Encores! revival of the 1966 comic-inspired musical It’s a Bird… It’s ...

It's been a heck of a year for Mickey Sumner, who has completed five forthcoming movies, appeared in Showtime's The Borgias and now co-stars with Carol Kane in The Lying Lesson, the latest play by Craig Lucas. This Atlantic Theater Company production is cloaked in mystery, but we do know it's a two-hander in which Kane channels ...

From prime real estate to primal serial killers, Annie Parisse has seen it all. The Broadway veteran and Clybourne Park alumna is currently taking names as kick-ass police chief Debra Parker on FOX's pulse-pounding thriller The Following, co-starring Kevin Bacon. Parisse is one of a handful of Broadway actors who appear on the show, which is all kinds of ...

Ashley Brown is best known for originating the role of Mary Poppins in Disney’s long-running family musical Mary Poppins. Now, Brown is one of four stars participating in the one-night-only Songs For a New World concert at XL Cabaret on March 11. We caught up with the talented soprano to chat about working on the Jason Robert Brown musical ...

At the center of Smash there’s a whole lot of heart, and it’s got a name: Megan Hilty. The Broadway alum is the best part of the NBC musical dramedy, and her fabulous performance as troubled stage hopeful Ivy Lynn continues on the new Bombshell album (featuring songs from the Marilyn Monroe-themed show-within-the-show). Also coming down the pipeline ...

Tony-nominated actress Cristin Milioti has been bringing heart and soul to the smash hit Broadway musical Once since the show’s tryout run in Boston, and now she’s got even more of a reason to love the Tony-winning tuner. The show took home the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album at the February 10 ceremony, including individual trophies ...

For the past decade, Tom Wopat has been getting in touch with his jazzy side in a series of four studio recordings. The latest, I’ve Got Your Number (due for release on February 12), finds Wopat singing a mix of tunes by Jerome Kern, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and more, backed by a swinging 30-piece orchestra. As ...

Nicolas Dromard has worked his way up from ensemble to lead in two high-flying musicals: Wicked, in which he jumped from swing in the first national tour to an acclaimed run as Fiyero in the San Francisco production, and Mary Poppins, in which he progressed from swing in the original Broadway cast to a star turn as Mary’s chimney ...

When Tony-nominated Book of Mormon alum Andrew Rannells first appeared as Elijah on HBO's hit comedy Girls, his ex-girlfriend Hannah (played by show star/producer/director/writer Lena Dunham), accused him of giving her HPV. By the end of the season Hannah made amends with her now openly gay former flame, and the duo will begin season two as ...