Tony Award nominees Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick star in Richard LaGravenese's big-screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. The cast and creatives of the two-person musical, documenting a five-year relationship of a couple falling in and out of love, sound off on the film, which screened Feb. 24 at Lincoln Center.
Playbill.com catches up with Tony winner and Spring Awakening star John Gallagher, Jr. to talk about his upcoming film and work on Aaron Sorkin's TV show "The Newsroom."
Playbill chats with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Vanessa Williams about reinventing The Trip to Bountiful, Horton Foote's classic play about home, family obligation and clinging to the past.
Katharine McPhee and Krysta Rodriguez, who crossed paths during McPhee's time at Boston Conservatory, are reunited — and now play friends and roommates, Karen Cartwright and Ana Vargas — on the NBC musical drama "Smash."
Hollywood, TV and Broadway producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are producing the 2013 Academy Awards show, airing Feb. 24. During a busy week, Playbill caught up with the duo that helped shape "Chicago," "Smash," How to Succeed... and Promises, Promises.
Actress Zosia Mamet, daughter of playwright David Mamet and actress Lindsay Crouse, is representing the 18-to-24-year-old demographic in two roles at the moment — on TV as garrulous Shoshanna on HBO's "Girls" and on stage as a grasping force of nature in MCC Theater's Really Really.
Steven Pasquale, late of Broadway's Reasons to be Pretty and Off-Broadway's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide, Fat Pig and A Man of No Importance talks about his new Jekyll-and-Hyde-style TV series "Do No Harm."
Jeremy Jordan, fresh off his Tony-nominated turn as the rebellious paper boy Jack Kelly in Broadway's Newsies, turns up the angst and anger for the second season of NBC's "Smash," where he takes on the new role of bad-boy songwriter Jimmy Collins.
The TV musical soap opera "Smash" returns for a second season Feb. 5 with a two-hour episode that features new characters and twists, under the guidance of new "showrunner" and executive producer Joshua Safran.
Aaron Tveit, the powerhouse young actor who brought electricity to Broadway's Next to Normal and Catch Me If You Can, is now appearing in the film of Les Misérables, and has a new TV series. Playbill catches up.
A closer look at the new Tom Hooper-directed film version of the London, Broadway and international stage hit Les Misérables, with notes, comment and spoilers.
Broadway's Laura Benanti, a 2008 Tony Award winner for playing Louise in Gypsy opposite Patti LuPone, talks about her love of musicals and her role in the NBC sitcom "Go On," about a support group for the grief-stricken.
British heartthrob Dan Stevens doesn't mind if you attend The Heiress expecting to see his sweet "Downton Abbey" character Matthew Crawley — just as long as you leave debating the intentions of roguish American fortune-hunter Morris Townsend.
Broadway's Andrew Rannells talks about struggling as an actor, hitting the heights in The Book of Mormon, jumping to TV jobs and what it's like to be out and proud in the post-"Ellen" period.
Television viewers know Vincent Kartheiser for playing dissatisfied ad man Pete Campbell on the hit series "Mad Men." The actor, who has roots in theatre, talks about what traits he and Pete share, and how theatre — including a current new play — is giving him a creative rush.
Frank Langella acts opposite a robot in the quirky, touching new film "Robot & Frank." The three-time Tony winner talks about projects past and present in a wide-ranging interview.
Tracy Letts, the Tony-winning, Pulitzer-honored playwright of August: Osage County, talks about adapting his plays Killer Joe and Bug for the movies, and his collaboration with famed director William Friedkin.
The 1950s-set new musical Far From Heaven, based on the film of the same name, is now receiving a developmental staging at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie discuss capturing the color, romance and repression of the period.
Aaron Sorkin's new TV series about the state of broadcast journalism, "The Newsroom," stars stage and screen actor Jeff Daniels. The actor talks with Playbill about the sheer theatricality of Sorkin's work.
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster stars as a rootless dancer who settles into a new life in "Bunheads," the ABC Family comedy-drama (with music and dance). She sent a dispatch from California, where the series is shot.
Syesha Mercado, who placed third on the seventh season of TV's "American Idol," takes to the New Jersey stage, where she stars as fearless peasant Ti Moune in Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Once On This Island.
The first season of NBC's "Smash" has come to a close, but Christian Borle has no time off. During his television hiatus, the 2012 Tony nominee stars as Black Stache in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher.
Justin Long, the goofy-handsome actor of TV's "Ed," "New Girl" and Mac commercials — and Hollywood's "He's Just Not That Into You" and "Live Free or Die Hard" — is making his Broadway debut in Seminar.
If you notice more than the usual number of teen-to-twentysomething girls milling around Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway home at City Center Stage I these days, they're probably there to see Alexis Bledel.
Samantha Barks, the young lady who'll play unrequited lover Eponine in the film musical of Les Misérables, is not a household-name pop star, but an actress who earned her role the old-fashioned way — on the boards.
Following her roles in TV's "Six Feet Under" and "Brothers and Sisters," Australian actress Rachel Griffiths relishes solving the puzzle of Brooke Wyeth in Broadway's Other Desert Cities.
Kenneth Branagh steps into the shoes of acting directing icon Laurence Olivier for the new film "My Week With Marilyn." He talks to Playbill.com about the challenge.
Ralph Fiennes, a Tony Award winner for playing Hamlet, expresses his passion for Shakespeare by directing and starring in a new film adaptation of the Bard's bloody Roman tragedy Coriolanus.
The authorship of Shakespeare's plays is in question in director Roland Emmerich's new film thriller "Anonymous." Stars Rhys Ifans and Joely Richardson, along with Emmerich and screenwriter John Orloff discuss the controversial picture, opening in theatres Oct. 28.
From cannabis to Christ: Filling the big sandals of Jesus, "Weeds" star Hunter Parrish has nothing but high praise for the company of Broadway's Godspell revival.
Hugh Jackman, Meryl Streep, "War Horse," God of Carnage, playwrights John Logan and Beau Willimon, and a speculative tale about Shakespeare are in movie theatres this fall. Playbill.com offers coming attractions of the stage stars, stage writers and stage titles making their way to the movies.
Your favorite theatre stars — Laura Benanti, Patrick Wilson, Katie Finneran, Mandy Patinkin, Cherry Jones and more — will appear in TV shows this fall and winter. Here's a tube tour.
Gleek alert! The reality TV talent competition known as "The Glee Project" ended Aug. 21 with the surprise announcement of two winners who will star in the third season of the hit series "Glee."
Katharine Houghton, who starred with her aunt, Katharine Hepburn, in the groundbreaking film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," takes on one of Kate's past roles — Amanda Wingfield.
Playwright George Stevens, Jr., talks about bringing Civil Rights titan Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall to the stage (and now HBO). We fondly remember M-G-M star Betty Garrett.
"The King's Speech," the Oscar-nominated film with screenplay by David Seidler, was a once — and future — stage play. Colin Firth and Seidler spoke to Playbill about the inspiring property.
Side Man Tony winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Warren Leight and fortysomething "newcomer" Holt McCallany step into the boxing ring for TV's "Lights Out."
Ntozake Shange's poetic theatre piece, for colored girls..., exploring the lives of black women, gets a film version by Tyler Perry. Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose and Kimberly Elise star.
Movie director Tony Goldwyn, scion of the famous film family, talks about completing his new feature, "Conviction," while starring in Broadway's Promises, Promises.
Jack Goes Boating, the play about misfits reaching for love, is now a film. Dramatist Bob Glaudini and director-star Philip Seymour Hoffman talk to Playbill.com about the stage-to-screen experience.
Two-time Tony winner Kevin Kline and Paul Dano discuss their work on "The Extra Man," the new film comedy about New York City eccentrics. Theatre actors populate the picture.
Stage veterans Hamish Linklater and Jesse Tyler Ferguson escape their sitcom work schedules — "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and "Modern Family," respectively — to gambol in a summer of Shakespeare in the Park.
Edie Falco, back on the New York stage in a drama about former prisoners reuniting on the outside, talks about the theatre, "The Sopranos," "Nurse Jackie" and the shackles of typecasting.
A new documentary tells how songwriters Howard Ashman and Alan Menken helped to bring beauty to the slumbering beast that was the 1980s animation department at Disney.
Director Jodie Markell unearths an original, never-produced Tennessee Williams screenplay, "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond," and Mary Poppins writer Julian Fellowes conjures Queen Victoria.
