Category: Acting
He's the Only Director Who Makes Her Comfortable Enough to Bare All
By CAREY PURCELL
Halley Feiffer and Trip Cullman discuss collaborating on The Pain of My Belligerence at Playwrights Horizons
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"We joke that this is the healthiest relationship in our lives," says Halley Feiffer, gesturing to Trip Cullman. The playwright and director are longtime artistic partners currently working on their sixth project, the world premiere of...
What's It Like Playing a Version of Barack Obama on Broadway?
By JEN GUSHUE
Peter Francis James on the alternate universe of Hillary and Clinton
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In Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton, currently running on Broadway, titular star Laurie Metcalf comes on stage and introduces the play as herself. She makes it clear that, even though the show is about a woman named Hillary with a husband named Bill who is losing the 2008...
He Defied the Nazis, But Not on Everything
By REGINA ROBBINS
Tony winner John Glover on playing a real-life bishop who defended people with disabilities during WWII
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Although John Glover is known for playing devilish villains onscreen (Lionel Luthor on Smallville, a devious millionaire in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, an abusive father in Shazam!), he gets to be a flawed hero in Stephen Unwin's All Our Children,...
She's Lighting Up the Underworld on Broadway
By REGINA ROBBINS
Great Comet star Amber Gray on her three-year journey with Hadestown
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Although the new Broadway musical Hadestown has been in development for more than a decade, creator Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin agree that it really started to gel three years ago when they staged an immersive concert-style incarnation Off-Broadway at New...
Last Time She Was on Broadway She Made History. This Time She's Stopping the Show.
By RAVEN SNOOK
Ali Stroker stars as Ado Annie in a bold new take on Oklahoma!
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The morning after Ali Stroker performed "I Cain't Say No" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she woke up to thousands of new Instagram followers. No wonder: Belting out her character Ado Annie's sexy signature solo from Oklahoma!, currently running at Broadway's Circle in the...
Tony Yazbeck Is Ready to Start the Revolution
By RAVEN SNOOK
The Tony nominee is all fired up in Classic Stage Company's revival of the agitprop musical The Cradle Will Rock
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Ever since Tony Yazbeck made his Broadway debut at age 11 as a tapping newsboy in the 1989 revival of Gypsy, he's been lauded for his dancing. Certainly his major roles, notably Al in A Chorus Line, Tulsa in the 2008 revival of Gypsy...
She Didn't Think She Was Right to Play Judy Holliday. She Was Wrong.
By RAVEN SNOOK
How On Your Feet!'s Andréa Burns became the star of Smart Blonde
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Initially, when playwright Willy Holtzman approached Andréa Burns about starring in his Judy Holliday bio-play Smart Blonde, she balked. A Jewish stage and screen performer best remembered for her Oscar-winning, not-so-dumb-blonde turn as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday,...
A Funny Thing Happened On Her Way to 'Kiss Me, Kate'
By RAVEN SNOOK
How a canceled production led to Stephanie Styles' Broadway debut
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"This may be my first time on Broadway, but a lot has led me to here," says Stephanie Styles, the 27-year-old triple threat playing Lois in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Cole Porter's musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate. A Houston native who's been performing professionally...