The Broadway comedy Elling will close at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Sunday, November 28 following a one-week run. Featuring Brendan Fraser and Denis O'Hare in the leading roles, the show opened on November 21.

Directed by Tony winner Doug Hughes, Elling concerns two men, Elling (O'Hare) and Kjell (Frasier) who meet while both are living in a ...

In the new comedy Elling, Denis O'Hare plays a man recently released from a mental institution who has trouble communicating with those around him. That was hardly the case for the Tony-winning actor on the show's November 21 opening night. O'Hare couldn't stop gushing to Broadway.com about his new comedic gig as we caught up ...

Audiences across the globe have fallen in love with the character of Elling. The former mental institution resident first appeared in a series of Norwegian novels which were then adapted into an Oscar-nominated film and a hit play on London's West End. Elling (played by Denis O'Hare) and his best friend Kjell Bjarne (Brendan Fraser) are now ready ...

Audiences welcomed a new odd couple to Broadway on November 21 as Elling, the Norwegian comedy starring Denis O’Hare and Brendan Fraser, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. O’Hare and Fraser play a pair of mismatched roommates released from a mental institution who struggle to adapt to living on their own. Elling marks the Broadway debut for Fraser ...

Omigod, you guys! It's a Paulette mash-up! Jennifer Coolidge, who scored as ditzy hairdresser Paulette in the hit film Legally Blonde, finally laid her eyes on Orfeh, the stage star who earned a Tony nomination (and a Broadway.com Audience Award) for playing the same role in the Broadway musical version. Where did this long-awaited two-shot happen? At the ...

Everybody's talking about Elling, and we've got your first look at the show's hilarious team in action onstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Denis O'Hare stars as the title character alongside Brendan Fraser as his best friend, Kjell Bjarne, and Jennifer Coolidge as their neighbor. After being released from a mental institution Elling and Kjell find ...

After an over-the-top turn as Russell Edgington, the murderous vampire king of Mississippi, on HBO’s True Blood, Tony winner Denis O’Hare is back on Broadway as the title character in the comedy Elling, based on a popular series of Norwegian novels and subsequent film adaptation. O’Hare plays a man who is unable to cope with the death ...

In the new Broadway comedy Elling, the title character (played by Denis O'Hare) and his close friend Kjell Bjarne (Brendan Fraser) are former mental institution patients who find themselves hesitant to leave their new apartment. Broadway.com's resident artist Justin 'Squigs' Robertson went knocking on their door—actually the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, but you understand—and brought along ...

As Russell Edgington, the vampire king of Mississippi, Denis O'Hare did all kinds of deliciously bad things to Anna Paquin's Sookie Stackhouse and Stephen Moyer's Bill the Vampire on season three of the hit HBO series True Blood. But there wasn't a trace of nastiness when newlyweds Paquin and Moyer visited O'Hare backstage at his ...

Broadway's newest comedy Elling is currently in previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, starring the comedy dream team of Brendan Fraser, Denis O'Hare and Jennifer Coolidge. The play follows two friends recently released from a mental institution who rarely leave their apartment. The men may not want to walk out their door, but they're opening it to ...