Broadway.com readers love How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying star Christopher J. Hanke, host of our popular Frump Tower vlog and top vote-getter in a recent poll asking which Broadway star you’d like to take to the beach. We figured that the dog days of summer would be a great time to chat with Hanke about ...

For 22 seasons and counting Yeardley Smith has delighted TV audiences as bubbly brainiac Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons. Aside from her studies at Springfield Elementary, Smith has maintained a variety of side projects including a theatrical one-woman show [off-Broadway’s Yeardley Smith: More in 2004] and guest spots on Mad Men, The Big Bang Theory and the upcoming rom-com ...

Jenn Harris made a splash at the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival with her take on Jodie Foster's all-business FBI agent Clarice Starling in Silence!, a musical spoof of the Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs. Now Silence! is receiving its first fully staged New York run at off-Broadway's Theatre 80, and Harris has returned to ...

Film fans with a taste for quirky roles know Beth Grant as the pageant official in Little Miss Sunshine, the Sparkle Motion dance teacher in Donnie Darko, the town drunk in To Wong Foo and the West Texas matron who intoned, “It’s not often you see a Mexican in a suit,” in No Country for Old Men. Now the ...

It’s just another night at work for Richard H. Blake when he sings “Dancing Through Life” on the Gershwin Theatre stage, but the song title is apt. Blake, who is currently playing Oz-ian heartthrob Fiyero in Wicked, got his start as a youngster in dance competitions and has put those twinkletoes to good use throughout his career, stepping into ...

As a horse-loving German officer in the Tony-winning play War Horse, Peter Hermann immerses himself in the horrors of World War I eight times a week. Away from the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the 6’5” actor’s life is a lot rosier, thanks to the addition of daughter Amaya Josephine to his family. Hermann and his wife, Law & Order SVU ...

Since making the move from modeling to acting, Krysten Ritter has enjoyed a steady rise, graduating from quirky TV guest spots (Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls), to big screen best friends (Confessions of a Shopaholic, She’s Out of My League) to a jaw-dropping turn as a junkie on AMC smash Breaking Bad. During a summer vacation from the screen, Ritter ...

Marla Maples may be best known as the ex-wife of celebrity businessman Donald Trump, but she is also a Broadway vet, having appeared in the hit musical The Will Rogers Follies. After spending more than a decade in Los Angeles raising daughter Tiffany Trump, Maples has returned to the New York stage as a summer cast member in off-Broadway's ...

Nobody can say Sierra Boggess isn’t up for a challenge. After making her Broadway debut encased in fins and rolling footwear as Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, the golden-voiced actress headed to London to give an Olivier Award-nominated performance as unlucky-in-love Christine Daae in Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much-scrutinized (and later rejiggered) sequel to ...

Theatrical jack-of-all trades Julian Ovenden is known to West End fans for Merrily We Roll Along and Annie Get Your Gun, to British music aficionados for his concerts with every major U.K. orchestra, to TV lovers for the popular mini-series Foyle’s War and Cashmere Mafia. New York theatergoers were introduced to Ovenden in his debut performance opposite Nathan ...