Broadway 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. Once star Cristin Milioti, who just earned her first Tony nomination for her role in the bittersweet musical, shared her passion for RuPaul, Zac Posen and putting a ...

In the midst of her post-Tony nomination whirlwind, Once star Cristin Milioti is probably saying a very special thank you to the man who helped her land a part in the musical in the first place, Broadway vet Santino Fontana. In an earlier interview with Broadway.com, Milioti credited her friend, “an incredible piano player,” with getting her ready to ...

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Irish-born writer Enda Walsh made his name with dark, arresting plays such as Misterman and Bedbound, as well as the screenplay for Hunger, which centered on the life and death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. By his own admission, Walsh’s super-serious resume made him “a very peculiar choice” to adapt the indie movie musical Once ...

Four-time Tony winner Audra McDonald won the Drama League Distinguished Performance Award on May 18 for her performance as Bess in the revival of the Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess. McDonald won the coveted award out of 56 nominees, including Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette, Kelli O'Hara, Alan Rickman and more. The acclaimed productions of Other Desert Cities and Once ...

Rise and shine, Steve Kazee! The Once star was still in bed when he kicked off this week’s episode of his Broadway.com video blog Guitar Hero, and he was getting things started bright and early so he could bring us backstage at The View. Kazee chatted up his sleepy castmates as they readied for their latest TV appearance ...

The studio audience of The View was in for a Broadway treat on May 17, when the cast of the Tony-nominated musical Once stopped by to share some of their show’s signature tunes. The cast of actor-musicians kicked things off with the high-energy, foot-stomping song “The North Strand,” then stepped back to support Tony-nominated stars Steve Kazee and Cristin ...

Who’s that girl? It’s Zooey Deschanel at Once! The New Girl star spent a night at the theater on May 12, when she took a seat at the Jacobs Theatre to see the Tony-nominated musical. Deschanel, who will soon star in Broadway musical Coal Miner’s Daughter, had a ball watching this cast of actor-musicians tell their bittersweet ...

As the excitement builds for the 2012 Tony Awards, Broadway.com is presenting a series of exclusive video features in which your favorite nominated stars spill secrets about themselves, their stage faves and their preparation for Broadway's big night. Today, meet Cristin Milioti, who has earned her first Tony nod for playing the Czech pianist Girl in the stage ...

Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet, Nina Raine's Tribes, and Once, which features music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová and book by Enda Walsh, were named winners of the 77th annual New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards. Sons of the Prophet took the prize for Best Play, while Tribe won Best Foreign Play and ...

It was a very big week backstage at Once. Why? The musical topped the recently announced Tony nominations with a whopping 11 nods, that’s why! So it’s no wonder that Broadway.com vlogger Steve Kazee looks so dapper in the latest episode of Guitar Hero: He’s up for Best Actor in a Musical, and he got his ...