You’re reading a website named Daily Actor, so I think it’s a fair assumption that you like Shakespeare. Because of that, you’ll probably agree with Sir Ben Kingsley‘s assessment that the best way to keep Shakespeare’s work relevant is to keep it as what it was always meant to be: […]
Michael C. Hall, Marisa Tomei, Toni Collette and Tony Award winner Tracey Letts are set to star in Will Eno‘s new play The Realistic Joneses. The play will come to Broadway in Spring of 2014 and will be directed by Obie Award-winner Sam Gold.
Though Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker is currently appearing in The Snow Geese, a new play by Sharr White that is now in previews on Broadway, she has a few words of concern about it that she gave to The New York Times earlier this week. But if you know her
Wade: “Nobody wants a needy actor”
Norbert Leo Butz is one of my favorite performers. Broadway, Film, TV – he can do it all and he does it at such a high level. I just love the guy. In this NY Times ‘In Performance’ video, he performs an acoustic version of ‘Fight the Dragons’ from the
Orlando Bloom performs a monologue from the new Broadway production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The show marks Bloom’s Broadway debut. Check it out below!
Bryan Cranston will make his Broadway debut as Lyndon B. Johnson in the play All the Way. The play will finish its run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts this Saturday. Synopsis: 1963. An assassin’s bullet catapults Lyndon B. Johnson into the presidency. A Shakespearean figure of towering
Here’s another video in the great New York Times series, In Performance. This time, we get Joe Manganiello as Stanley Kowalski. He’s currently starring as Kowalski in the Yale Repertory Theater’s revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1947 drama, A Streetcar Named Desire. In the scene below, Stanley talks to his wife
Hugh Jackman might be a blockbuster movie star, but he’s also one of the major Broadway stars of the last decade. His past two returns to Broadway — first in the play A Steady Rain and second in a solo musical revue Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway — sold out
Every few months we run a story here at Daily Actor which I think sets a new low in lack of theater etiquette. There was that time someone in the balcony threw up onto the audience below. There was that time that an audience member refused to stop using her
Though Zachary Quinto has been acting in theater for his entire career, it wasn’t until his current starring role in The Glass Menagerie that Quinto made his Broadway debut. Though he’s appeared on stage in New York before — he starred in an off-Broadway production of Angels In America shortly
So the secret is out: the titular mother of How I Met Your Mother was finally revealed to be played by Cristin Milioti in the eighth season finale. Not only did she have to keep her casting a secret from everyone, even auditioning for the role was difficult to fit
For True Blood fans, Joe Manganiello is known for his portrayal of Alcide Heveaux, the leader of a werewolf pack on the HBO show. The primal role was the big break in his career, but he’s using his hiatus from the show to go back to where he started, the
Whether you are a fan of the series or not (and who isn’t?), Breaking Bad is truly something special. And undoubtedly the main reason for that is Bryan Cranston, an actor previously best known for his comedic television roles who has completely reinvented himself as Walter White, the meth-dealing high
Two New York City news stations stopped by the open call auditions for Motown The Musical‘s upcoming National Tour. They go behind the scenes, talk to some of the hopeful actors and even talk to casting director, Bernie Telsey. Check them out below!
It’s probably hard enough for a famous actor to make his or her debut on Broadway. It doesn’t make it any easier if the play is one of the most famous in history and has been read by probably every kid in middle school. But Orlando Bloom is well aware
Justin Matthew Sargent, best known for playing Drew, the lowly bartender turned rock star in Broadway’s Rock of Ages, has landed the role of Peter Parker / Spider-Man role in Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark. He’ll play evening performances starting tonight. Reeve Carney, the original Peter Parker, played his final performance
Patrick Stewart tweeted this picture he took with Ian McKellen and Elmo last Friday and everything about it is all kinds of wonderful.
Yo, Adrian! It was announced yesterday that the two leads of the new Broadway musical, Rocky, have been cast. Andy Karl (Drama Desk nominee for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Jersey Boys) will step into the ring as the man himself, Rocky Balboa and Margo Seibert will make her Broadway
The sun will stop coming up soon for Broadway’s Annie. It was just announced that the new production of the Tony Award®-winning musical, will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, January 5th, 2014. Upon closing, the production, which opened on November 8, 2012 at the Palace Theatre, will
