The pop singer Nicole Scherzinger is giving the performance of a lifetime as Norma Desmond in the sensationally entertaining revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at the St. James Theatre. (Just engrave the Tony Award now.) But the well-deserved mid-show standing ovations occasionally eclipse that her ... More

It’s only the start of the new theater season, but it’s fairly certain that Laura Donnelly is giving one of the best performances of the year in The Hills of California, a new play by her partner Jez Butterworth. The two met when Donnelly, now 42, ... More

It’s a cause for celebration every time Sutton Foster decides to return to the Broadway boards. Luckily, since the end of the pandemic, audiences have had multiple opportunities to experience her—as Marian the Librarian opposite Hugh Jackman in a 2022 revival of The Music Man and as Mrs. ... More

It may have taken until 2022 for the British stage, film and television actor Will Keen to break out, and he did it as playing Vladimir Putin in Patriots by Peter Morgan (The Crown). Told from the perspective of billionaire Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky (in London played ... More

A decade ago, the Juilliard-trained Scottish actress Gayle Rankin starred in the 2014 revival of Cabaret as Fräulein Kost, with Alan Cumming as the Emcee. This spring, she returns to the show in a new production as the show’s star, Sally Bowles, opposite Eddie Redmayne. Eagerly awaited from ... More

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ first show at the Public Theater, The America Play, went up in 1994. Three decades later, she’s there presenting her 12th: Sally & Tom, a backstage story of a troupe producing a play about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Their relationship “has ... More

In 2018, when Second Stage Theater opened its new Broadway home at the Helen Hayes, Tony award–winning actress Celia Keenan-Bolger reconnected with playwright Paula Vogel, who won the Pulitzer in 1998 for How I Learned to Drive. “She mentioned she was writing something for me,” Keenan-Bolger recalls. “I tried not ... More

To prepare for his role as the Pinball Wizard himself in this season’s revival of The Who’s Tommy, Moroccan American actor Ali Louis Bourzgui watched every live performance by and interview with The Who that he could find on YouTube. As dedicated as that may sound, Bourzgui ... More

“It’s always been a dream to originate a role on Broadway,” says Virginia-born Grant Gustin, who had a nine-year run as the superhero the Flash on the CW series of the same name. In a musical version of Sara Gruen’s novel Water for Elephants, Gustin gets to ... More

Singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson tackles writing her first musical with a stage adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ romantic bestseller The Notebook, debuting this season at the Schoenfeld Theatre. What sealed the deal for Michaelson to sign on to such a well-known tear-jerker, which was famously made into a 2004 ... More