Alex Sharp went from working in a call-center and renovating houses to going to Julliard. And now, he’s starring in one of the most talked about shows of the season, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Check out this great, inspiring video!
Here’s a quick scene from Terrance McNally‘s It’s Only a Play, currently on Broadway at the Schoenfeld Theater. In this scene, Nathan Lane and Micah Stock meet for the first time. The show, about the opening night of a new play, also stars Matthew Broderick, Stockard Channing, F. Murray Abraham,
Shaun Taylor-Corbett alternates the role of Frankie Valli in the touring production of Jersey Boys, a role that he’s tried to take on for the past 6 years but the “timing never worked out,” as he said in a recent interview. After starring in Broadway’s In the Heights, he decided
F. Murray Abraham is 74 and still going strong, but he has a lot of thoughts about what it takes to follow up on an Oscar win. The Homeland star spoke to The Guardian about his successful career and getting older in Hollywood. Abraham, who’s currently on Broadway in It’s
Karen talks about returning to Disgraced and how it’s different now that it’s on Broadway, why she transitioned from a flourishing music career to become an actress and the embarrassment of dance auditions.
Actress Stefanie O’Connell, who is behind The Broke and the Beautiful, a website that is devoted to how to live on an actor’s salary, recently wrote an article delving on what it’s like to earn a living as an actor for Business Insider… or to be more accurate, what it’s
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Joe Mantello received an Emmy nomination for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart, and what makes that particularly extraordinary is that it was Mantello’s first TV role since a 1998 appearance on Law & Order. In fact, besides appearing in the Broadway production of The Normal Heart in 2011,
Joe talks about the show, how he decided to go back on tour and auditioning via cell phone
Dame Judi Dench knows how hard it is to be an actor. She’s also noting that it’s hard to be a working-class actor when trying to fund your extensive drama school training. She said, “Anyone who’s in the theatre gets letters countless times a week asking for help to get
Because of all his great movie roles, it’s sometimes easy to forget that Steve Martin is something of a Renaissance man. When he’s not starring in movies he’s playing his banjo or writing (including music, novels, plays, screenplays). Martin’s latest project actually combines both: he has been collaborating with singer-songwriter
Dame Judi Dench has such a commanding presence as a film actress that it’s easy to forget that her big break came on stage in England with the Old Vic Company in 1957. In fact, she made her Broadway debut the very next year when the Old Vic Company performed
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It appears that Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch has a lot of life left thanks to Dexter star Michael C. Hall, who will soon be taking over the lead in the rock musical in October. Most people thought that once Neil Patrick Harris ended his limited engagement as the
There’s no denying that anytime that Hugh Jackman returns to Broadway it’s a huge deal. However Jackman’s next Broadway role isn’t a musical, it’s a Jez Butterworth one-act play titled The River. Though it undoubtedly will sell out every week, fans of Jackman’s The Boy from Oz and Hugh Jackman, Back
Michael Cera portrayed one of the all-time hipster paradigms in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, so it’s only natural that Cera would find himself living in Brooklyn at some point. Of course, Cera is here for an acting project — he is making his Broadway debut in This Is Our
Usually it helps actors to know the entire text of a play in order to play a role. However, in the case of Titan Theatre Company’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it’s not just helpful but essential — because the actors don’t know what roles they will be playing
Neil Patrick Harris can officially consider himself one of Broadway’s biggest draws after finishing his run in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Harris concluded his run in the show on August 17, which resulted in the show’s highest weekly gross — $1,139,903, with a paid admission average of $158.83, another
Neil Patrick Harris just finished his Tony Award-winning run in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway. Girls star Andrew Rannells stepped into the role on Aug. 20 after doing the show 12 years ago in Texas. He talked about what it was like to return to a role he played
With the series wrapped and only one episode left to air, True Blood‘s Alexander Skarsgård is ready to make some changes in his career. He’s leaving Los Angeles and heading to New York. He talked to Vulture about his big move. Skarsgård said, “I’m in London for another three months
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When you aren’t seeing Cate Blanchett on screen in movies like Blue Jasmine or The Hobbit she usually isn’t taking a well-deserved break. Not only is she devoted to her three children, but Blanchett is a leading player of the Sydney Theatre Company, which has put on productions in short
Both How I Met Your Mother‘s Josh Radnor and Boardwalk Empire‘s Gretchen Mol will make their Broadway returns after more than a decade absence in Disgraced, written by novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar. Disgraced won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was previously produced in Chicago, London, and off-Broadway
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