The Hollywood Reporter got Tony Award nominees Sutton Foster (Violet), Idina Menzel (If/Then), Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Story) and Kelli O’Hara (The Bridges of Madison County) and best actress in a play nominees Tyne Daly (Mothers and Sons) and LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun) to
The Hollywood Reporter got Tony Award nominees Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Andy Karl (Rocky) and Jefferson Mays (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder), best featured actor in a musical nominee James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin) and best actor in a play nominees Chris O’Dowd (Of
There is nothing better than some good ole’ bad audition stories, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Bradley Whitford have a couple of great ones. Ferguson talked about auditioning for Band of Brothers and Whitford tells a great story about going in for Oliver Stone and Billy Hopkins for Born on
Here’s the gag reel from season 1 of NBC’s Hannibal. Check out Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen and Laurence Fishburne crack themselves up.
Tony Shalhoub, nominated for a Tony Award as Moss Hart from the play Act One, performs a scene from the show.
Check out these actors (including Andy Serkis) in their motion capture costumes as they transform into their on-screen characters for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Very cool use of the split screen here.
The SAG Foundation hosted some working actors for one of their ‘Conversation’ series. Included in the panel were Curtis Armstrong (American Dad, Revenge of the Nerds, Moonlighting), William Mapother (Another Earth, The Mentalist, Lost), Beth Grant (The Mindy Project, No County for Old Men) and Richard Lawson (The Days and
I’ve never really understood why productions from Broadway and beyond never filmed their shows to screen to a larger audience after they finished their run. Sure, we had some over the years, like Company and Rent, but these have been few and far between. National Theatre Live has been screening
There are three types of people: those who’ve never seen The Book of Mormon but really want to; those who’ve seen it; and those who’ve seen it and want to see it again. Actually, there are four: those who never want to see it because it might be too offensive.
In the interview, Mickle (We Are What We Are) chats about the film and his incredible cast. He also tells some fun stories about Sam Shepard re-writing a pivotal scene for the film and Michael C. Hall wearing a cologne from the 80’s to help him with his character.
The Tony Awards have announced the line-up of actors who will take the stage at the 68th Annual Tony Awards. Hosted by Tony Award winner, Academy Award®-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor Hugh Jackman, Broadway’s biggest night will feature appearances by Bradley Cooper, Kevin Bacon, Carole King, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell,
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rngdJ-aDvog Two of the coolest guys around, Hugh Jackman and Peter Dinklage, did a Tumblr chat while they were making the rounds of X-Men: Days of Future Past promotion. In the video, they get asked questions by fans and cast members (Patrick Stewart, Ellen Page and more) and it’s
Oliver Platt thinks that we are living in another Golden Age of TV and with the advent of limited-series, he thinks it’s a “marvelous thing for actors.” Because, he said, “you don’t have to sign your life away.” Platt is currently starring in one of those limited-series, Fargo. The show
Oh Chloe, how we’ve missed you. 24 is back on FOX, this time as the limited series, 24: Live Another Day. Set and shot around London, the new series brings back Kiefer Sutherland, Rajskub and William Devane as James Heller, now President of the United States. The show also stars Benjamin
Season two of FX’s The Americans is now, unfortunately, in our rearview mirrors. The past season was outstanding and now I’m counting the days till season three. In The Americans, Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell star as 1980’s Russian spies living in America, masquerading as an all-American couple with two
20th Century FOX should just give the keys to their X-Kingdom to Bryan Singer. Let him do whatever he wants with the series because clearly he’s the only one who can put mutants on film with any success. With the first X-Men and the terrific X2, he showed what he
I’m happy to finally announce that my first book, Actors on Acting: Auditioning, Advice, Agents, Rejection, How They Got Their Start and More!, is now available Amazon Kindle! This has been a long time coming. I started this almost 2 years ago but with being busy and my own laziness,
NBC’s Grimm had it’s season 3 finale last Friday and stars Sasha Roiz (Captain Renard) and Claire Coffee (Adalind) took some time out of their schedules to chat about the season and what might be next for the hit show. The two also talked about their characters, how they got
John Seda talks about his role, playing police officers, choosing his parts and the struggles of acting.
Last night gave us the season 9 finale of the hit FOX show, Bones, and as usual, it left the audience craving for more. In a recent conference call, stars David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel talked about the season, David’s directing, their chemistry and what they’d like to see for
