After completing the first season of the ballet-centric series Bunheads on ABC Family, two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster can now add “TV star” and “role model” to her overflowing resume. Foster, whose Broadway credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, Young Frankenstein and The Drowsy Chaperone, made her TV debut this summer as Michelle Simms, a former Vegas showgirl who ...

John Gallagher Jr. rose to Broadway fame playing troubled heroes in Spring Awakening (winning a Tony as suicidal Moritz) and American Idiot (as a druggie musician). These days, the talented young star is immersed in the wordy world of Aaron Sorkin as producer Jim Harper in HBO’s new drama The Newsroom. And this time around, it looks like his ...

When the sitcom Retired at 35 returns to the TV Land network for its second season on June 26, Broadway fans can look forward to seeing Tony Award winner Marissa Jaret Winokur as the romance-challenged daughter of bickering parents played by stage and screen stars George Segal and Jessica Walter. To say that the effervescent Winokur is thrilled about her ...

Three-time Tony winner James Lapine (Into the Woods, Passion, Falsettos) is keeping himself quite busy these days. Lapine directed the Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along, which played its final performance on February 19; he is gearing up to helm a fall 2012 Broadway revival of Annie, and he's the man behind the book and direction of the ...

After a stint as Simba on the national tour of Disney's The Lion King, Adam Jacobs recently roared into the long-running musical's Broadway production. This has been a Disney-filled year for the young star: He also originated the title role in the mouse house's musical adaptation of Aladdin in Seattle this summer. Broadway.com recently chatted ...

If you’ve turned on a television any time in the last 15 years, chances are you know Zach Grenier. The talented character actor has appeared on everything from 24, Law & Order, HBO’s Deadwood and The Good Wife to films like Fight Club, Zodiac and the upcoming J. Edgar. Grenier is equally accomplished on stage. His Broadway credits include ...

Being a good father is its own reward, but for actor Daniel Jenkins it pays off professionally as well. The actor made his last Broadway outing as stuffy patriarch Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins, and now he’s back on the boards as a very different Dad in the long-running hit musical Billy Elliot. Jenkins, who grew up with an ...

TV fans know Zuzanna Szadkowski best as Dorota, the devoted maid of Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) on the scandalous hit Gossip Girl. While Szadkowski may spend her Gossip days in a uniform, she's currently discussing more fashionable outfits during her second engagement in off-Broadway's Love Loss and What I Wore. Broadway.com recently caught up with Szadkowski to ...

Though she is a self-professed “girly girl,” Sally Mayes looks positively gleeful to be wearing a severely tailored pants outfit in the new off-Broadway musical Play It Cool. Cast as the lesbian proprietor of Mary’s Hideaway, a Hollywood nightclub catering to gay patrons forced to live in the shadows circa 1953, Mayes tears into the show’s jazzy original ...

Since MiG Ayesa is a rock musician and recording artist, you’d think playing rock star Stacee Jaxx in Broadway’s Rock of Ages wouldn’t be a stretch. But the self-professed "un-badass" Ayesa, who recently renewed his wedding vows with wife Simone de la Rue, never set out to be a musical theater star. After a big break in ...