We’re pretty crazy about Bryan Cranston here at Daily Actor, so while he’s starring as President Lyndon Johnson on Broadway in All the Way we’re trying to glean as much information as we can about his acting career and lessons we can learn from him. In an interview with NPR, […]
Actress Toni Collette has returned to Broadway for the first time in fourteen years in The Realistic Joneses, but it isn’t like she hasn’t been busy in the meantime. During that decade-plus Collette has starred in acclaimed films like The Hours, indie darlings like Little Miss Sunshine and TV series
Hugh Jackman is always game for anything. Watch him perform ‘Who Am I?’ from the Wolverine: The Musical on BBC Radio’s The Matt Edmondson Show. If it were a real musical, I’d definitely see it. It’s gotta be better than Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.
While it’s undeniable that Broadway producers seek out big name stars to headline their productions, there always is a concern of whether or not the star can handle the rigors of performing eight times a week (something the producers of Orphans unfortunately discovered last year after they cast — and
Is there anyone hotter than Idina Menzel at the moment? She had a starring role in Disney’s Frozen, which is the second highest-grossing animated movie worldwide (and still has a chance of overtaking Toy Story 3 to become #1), her new musical on Broadway, If/Then, is set to open on
Dexter fans have been anxious to see what would be star Michael C. Hall‘s next move after the show ended in September 2013. While Hall has since been seen in the indie movies Kill Your Darlings and Cold in July, audiences will also be able to see Hall on Broadway
Martha Plimpton had an unusual child actor career. She didn’t get über-famous and then crash and burn. The actress had a slow, steady rise and maintained a busy schedule. In a new interview with The Guardian, the 43-year-old star talks about her level of fame growing up in the entertainment
There are eight shows currently on Broadway that have played over 1000 performances, with the all-time champion, The Phantom of the Opera, beginning its run all the way back to 1988. In the twenty-six years since there have been well over a hundred shows that have come and gone from
Anyone who has ever been on a blind date knows that it can be a comedy of errors. That concept is exactly what Australian actress Bojana Novakovic and co-director Mark Winter decided to develop at 3 Clubs in Hollywood. The show started two years ago in Australia, but they have
Though statistics show that over two-thirds of people in Broadway audiences are female and plenty of famous actresses continue to grace Broadway stages, backstage the numbers are quite different. According to The Wrap, only 14 percent of the productions on Broadway during the 2012-2013 season were directed by women. Perhaps
In recent years The Seeing Place has been pairing plays by different playwrights with thematic similarities together in repertory. Through hard work and persistence they have been granted the rights to a number of acclaimed plays, and the current productions maintain that high quality of material – Christopher Shinn’s Dying
After working for Trinty Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island for 14 seasons as a company member beginning in 1970 and serving as its artistic director from 1990-1994, Richard Jenkins has finally returned to his roots. The actor has been busy the few decades as in films like his Oscar-nominated
Despite the influx of Hollywood stars on Broadway stages in recent years, the theater community in New York City can often seem like a small world. It’s not uncommon for actors to find themselves working with actors over again in different shows. Such is the case with Kelli O’Hara and
It might be hard to believe, but when Neil Patrick Harris takes the stage in Hedwig and the Angry Inch in the spring it will be the first time in nearly a decade that Harris has been in a Broadway musical. Sure, in the meantime we’ve seen Harris sing, dance,
It’s starting to seem like Kelli O’Hara is becoming the Susan Lucci of Broadway. O’Hara has been nominated for four Tony Awards for a number of acclaimed productions, but has yet to win. However, it’s possible that O’Hara might have success with her most out-of-the-box Broadway musical yet: The Bridges
Famously, the story of the making of the 1976 film Rocky is an example of art imitating life. While writer/star Sylvester Stallone might not have been a professional boxer, he was a down-on-his-luck 29 year-old actor who became an overnight success with Rocky. Over three decades later Rocky is being
Acting is all about challenges, but how about this one: doing a one-person show that you have no previous knowledge of, with no direction, without a set and receiving the script seconds before your first, and only, performance. And during the performance, the audience decides whether or not you will
Rebecca Hall might be making her Broadway debut in Machinal, but the Iron Man 3 star has plenty of acting credits in her native England. However, Hall makes it clear in an interview with Broadway.com that she would have done this play anywhere. In Machinal she portrays a housewife who
Sure, most people best know Mandy Patinkin for his role as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride (it’s pretty much impossible to write about him without mentioning it). However, Broadway fans know that before he ever played the Spanish swordsman he became a Broadway star in the original productions of
How do you follow-up a successful series like Breaking Bad? If you’re Bryan Cranston, you head to Broadway. He will be making his Broadway debut as Lyndon Baines Johnson in the play All the Way. He talked to The New York Times about why he took on such a challenge. “I
