Musical fans have watched with pride as Annaleigh Ashford climbed the Broadway and off-Broadway ladder from Legally Blonde, Wicked and Hair to Rent, Dogfight and now a Tony-nominated performance as down-to-earth shoe factory chick Lauren in Kinky Boots. It's high time for this super-talented young actress to take a seat on the Broadway.com couch and answer burning questions ...

"Let's make a pit stop at the wiener stand!" Edna Turnblad said in Hairspray, and on May 22, Edna's originator Harvey Fierstein got to do it in real life, when the Brooklyn Diner in Times Square renamed its 15-bite all-beef hot dog the "Harvey Hot Dog." The occasion? The 30th anniversary of Fierstein's first Tony Award, and ...

Once the reality of a Tony nomination sinks in, a new task emerges: looking for the perfect gown to wear to the awards ceremony! In truth, nominees need an entire wardrobe of day and evening dresses for the many events during theatrical awards season—and Best Featured Actress hopeful Annaleigh Ashford of Kinky Boots invited Broadway.com's Jenny Anderson ...

In the weeks leading up to the 2013 Tony telecast, Broadway.com is posting video clips of favorite Tony memories of this year’s nominees, with their own commentary. Sometimes the most memorable moments in a live TV show are the unscripted ones—and such was the case on June 7, 2009, in the opening seconds of Guys and Dolls ...

Broadway enjoyed a bump at the box office this week with grosses and capacities rising across the board. The Audience Choice Award, Outer Critics and Drama League-winning musical Kinky Boots was the fiercest new musical in town this week, landing in the top five for both gross and capacity. Meanwhile, the Drama Desk-winning revival of Pippin broke another house record ...

The award-winning Broadway spectacular Kinky Boots played host to a trio of very famous faces over the weekend of May 17. First, stage and screen stars Angela Bassett and S. Epatha Merkerson dropped by the Al Hirschfeld Theatre to see their mutual friend Billy Porter’s acclaimed performance as Lola in the Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein tuner. Then on May ...

Find out why Kinky Boots first-time nominee Annaleigh Ashford will be sure to thank her mom on Tony night, and which hooker with a heart of gold Ashford's dying to play on Broadway.

While Kinky Boots stars Billy Porter, Stark Sands and Annaleigh Ashford have found themselves showered in awards love, audiences of the new musical can’t stop talking about the show’s super talented ensemble of drag queens. Known as the Kinky Boots Angels, Paul Canaan, Charlie Sutton, Kyle Taylor Parker, Kyle Post, Kevin Smith Kirkwood and Stephen Carrasco practically steal ...

The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers honored Jerry Mitchell with the Mr. Abbott Award, a lifetime achievement award named for the late George Abbott. Stars from Mitchell’s many musicals—including Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde, The Full Monty, Grease, Hairspray and Catch Me If You Can—arrived at B.B. King's on May 13 to celebrate Mitchell’s ...

Kinky Boots’ four-time Tony winner and six-time nominee Harvey Fierstein shares the piece of advice that changed his entire career path and the quality of his that "is not the prettiest."