The morning the Tony nominations are announced, phones start buzzing with texts and calls for the happy few who get nods. As usual, Broadway.com is thrilled to be among the callers offering congratulations and getting responses. Here are the first reactions from 2013 Tony nominees. Congrats to all!

Douglas Carter Beane
Best Book of a Musical, Cinderella

“I came ...

The morning the Tony nominations are announced, phones start buzzing with texts and calls for the happy few who get nods. As usual, Broadway.com is thrilled to be among the callers offering congratulations and getting responses. Here are the first reactions from 2013 Tony nominees. Congrats to all!

Laura Osnes
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role ...

Little girls and Cinderella are a perfect match, so it’s no surprise that Broadway vet Brooke Shields planned a Broadway birthday celebration at the magical Rodgers & Hammerstein musical for her seven-year-old daughter, Grier Henchy. On April 27, mother and daughter and two of Grier’s lucky friends headed to the Broadway Theatre for a matinee performance, then got the ...

“You’re the Twilight Saga, you’re Lady Gaga, you’re Google Chrome!” If these lyrics don’t sound immediately like Cole Porter’s classic “You’re The Top,” that’s because they’re from Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana’s new interpretation of the song, performed at the Huntington Theatre Company's 2013 Spotlight Spectacular. The Cinderella duo and ...

In the season one finale of The Princess Diary, Cinderella stars Peter Bartlett and Harriet Harris bring hilarious auto-corrected texts to life. Tip of the hat to editor Santino Fontana and Laura Osnes for this wacky finale. 

Good news for fans of The Princess Diary: Backstage at Cinderella with Laura Osnes! The popular video blog is getting an act two and will return after a short intermission. Broadway.com Audience Choice Award nominee and video blogger Laura Osnes, Santino Fontana, Greg Hildreth and Herman the Fish will all be back for another season of The Princess Diary ...

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Mark Brokaw has guided the New York premieres of plays by America’s best contemporary writers, including the original staging of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winner How I Learned to Drive, Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth and Lobby Hero, Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees in Honey Drown and Nicky Silver’s The Lyons ...

The cast of Cinderella performed for a royal audience on April 13. Broadway veterans turned TV stars, Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris and Emmy nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson, were among the crowd at the Broadway Theatre enjoying the big-buget revival of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein fairy tale. Also on hand was The Book of Mormon Tony nominee Rory O ...

With so many exciting musicals opening on Broadway, we couldn’t help but notice the abundance of well-danced showstoppers currently on the boards. We narrowed all of them down to our favorite 10 best dance numbers and asked fans to pick just one. It was a tough choice, but the results are in. Scroll below to see which three musicals ...

In this episode of The Princess Diary, Cinderella star Laura Osnes gives fans an in-depth backstage tour, visiting all the dressing rooms and often getting way more than she bargained for. It's shenanigans galore at Broadway Theatre!