Age & Hometown: 28; Queens, NY

Current Role: Giving a Tony-nominated performance as Spike, the simple, lovable and nearly naked boy-toy to Masha (Sigourney Weaver) in Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

Where the Girls Are: Billy Magnussen discovered his passion for theater after pulling a hamstring and shifting from sports to an acting class. “It’s ...

Shalita Grant, the Tony-nominated featured actress from this year’s hit comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, received the 2013 Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, according to The New York Times.

The awards were established by Lincoln Center’s board as well as friends and colleagues of Segal and are presently annually to emerging artists ...

Vanya Tony nominee Billy Magnussen confesses to sleeping in the nude, his secret dream role, his Tony dream date and more.

With its six Tony nominations and Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Circle Award wins, Christopher Durang’s comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is becoming a destination for celebrities visiting NYC. The play stars Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver, Emmy winner David Hyde Pierce and 2013 Tony nominee Kristine Nielsen as a trio of dysfunctional siblings ...

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. Shalita Grant made her Broadway debut and received a Best Featured Actress Tony nomination for her role as the misguided psychic maid Cassandra in the Tony-nominated play Vanya ...

Christopher Durang’s Tony-nominated comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is slaying audiences and keeping its leading lady Sigourney Weaver in the best shape of her life. Weaver dropped by The Talk to chat with the ladies about the benefits of returning to the Great White Way. She also regales the ladies with a particular story about an ...

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’s hysterical star Shalita Grant reveals her competitve streak, exciting dream role, Sherri Shepherd connection and the other nominee she’s most rooting for.

After two decades in the theater, Kristine Nielsen finds herself a first time Tony nominee for her hilarious and touching performance as spinster sister Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Nielsen has previously stood out in Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them, Miss Witherspoon and Betty’s Summer Vacation, as ...

Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike was named Best Play and Matilda, which features music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly, won Best Musical at the 78th annual New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards. No work was honored with a Best Foreign Play prize this year.

Special citations were awarded to ...

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!

Nicholas Martin
Best Direction of a Play, Vanya and Sonia and ...