Find out competitive Matilda composer Tim Minchin’s brief history with Broadway, who he’s rooting for this year and why he wants to set up an “actual cage fight” with Cyndi Lauper.

Tim Minchin is set to add his quirky musical magic to DreamWorks' new animated film, Larrikins. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Tony-nominated Matilda composer will write the score for the studio's new production, which will be set in Australia. He will likely take on a larger creative role in addition to writing the music and lyrics for the ...

Matilda nominee Gabriel Ebert shares his impossible dream role, secret talent and childhood heroes.

New Yorkers had a rooting interest in the 2013 National Spelling Bee, as Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old from Queens, made the finals for the third year in a row. The middle schooler had placed third in the previous two Bees, but this year, he won the title by spelling “knaidel” (another word for matzoh ball) correctly. Five days later, on ...

Theater stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors. Tony nominee Gabriel Ebert currently stars in Matilda as Mr. Wormwood, Matilda's sleazy, slimy and sordid car salesman of a dad who wishes his daughter would watch ...

Australian composer/singer/comedian Tim Minchin received a 2013 Tony nomination for the playful, witty and infectious score of Matilda, but he still fancies himself a modern day rock star. He's gone from performing in small cabaret venues in Perth to playing big arenas across the globe to portraying the drugged-out, washed-up rocker Atticus Fetch on the hit Showtime ...

Matilda Tony nominee Bertie Carvel reveals his competitve streak, the first Broadway show he ever saw and the other nominees he's rooting for.

Matilda Tony nominee Lauren Ward sits down to reveal some of her secrets to Broadway.com. Find out who she'll remember to thank if she wins, her fave Broadway show of all time and her surprisjng secret talent.

Lauren Ward first impressed New York theater audiences with her performance as the title character in Violet, the 1997 off-Broadway musical that continues to be staged around the country. The rising star jumped to 1776 as Martha Jefferson, but her career took a turn after she played Young Sally in the 2001 Broadway revival of Follies and fell in love ...

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12, and Broadway.com editors wanted to do something special for all the wonderful and hard-working moms who changed our diapers, read us bedtime stories and picked us up from drama club rehearsal. So, we asked Matilda scene-stealer Lesli Margherita, who plays Broadway’s most ridiculous and outrageous mother, Mrs. Wormwood, to reflect on ...