Mr. French, honored with an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in 1997, spoke with Playbill in 2006 when he was appearing in the Signature Theatre Company revival of August Wilson's Two Trains Running.
John Cameron Mitchell, the writer and original star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, talks with Playbill.com about the cult rock musical that is making its Broadway debut almost 20 years after its original production.
Queen of the Night, the lavish theatrical feast from Sleep No More producer Randy Weiner, has brought new life to the Diamond Horseshoe, the sumptuous subterranean club beneath the Paramount Hotel.
Lena Hall, co-starring with Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, chats with Playbill.com about taking on the role of Yitzhak in Hedwig's Broadway premiere.
Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus is doing double duty as the ringmaster of two major New York productions this season. The Tony-winning circus-inspired revival of Pippin is entering its second year on Broadway, while her Cirque du Soleil show Amaluna, a riff on The Tempest, has put up stakes at Citi Field in Queens for a run through May 20.
Tyne Daly, a Tony Award winner for her work as overbearing stage mother Rose in Gypsy, re-examines motherhood with Katharine Gerard, the central role in Terrence McNally's new Broadway play Mothers and Sons.
Playbill.com chats with Barrett Wilbert Weed, who will be seen as Veronica, the rebellious heroine of the forthcoming new Off-Broadway musical Heathers.
Golden Globe Award nominee Annie Potts made her Broadway debut in the 2009 Tony Award-winning dark comedy God of Carnage. She returns this season, fulfilling a lifelong dream with the principal role of Berthe in the Tony Award-winning revival of Pippin.
Jonathan Freeman, a Tony Award nominee for his performance in She Loves Me, was the voice behind the villainous Jafar in the 1992 movie musical "Aladdin." He's back for more and chats with Playbill.com about recreating the role in the new Disney stage adaptation.
Playbill.com chats with David Rossmer and Steve Rosen at opening night of The Other Josh Cohen, the new musical written by and starring the duo at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse.
Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, who last adapted Alice Walker's The Color Purple for the Broadway stage, returns this season with the new musical incarnation of another literary phenomenon, James Waller's 1992 romantic novel The Bridges of Madison County, which officially opens on Broadway Feb. 20 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
Playbill.com chats with award-winning star of the stage and screen, David Hyde Pierce, who is directing the west coast premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
Playbill.com chats with Eddie Shapiro about his new book "Nothing Like A Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater" and talking with Broaday's leading ladies.
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown has returned to Broadway with the new musical The Bridges of Madison County, based on the best-selling 1992 Robert James Waller novel. Brown spoke with Playbill.com about his latest project.
Five-time Tony Award nominee Michael John LaChiusa is at work on his next stage project, First Daughter Suite, a continuation of his 1993 musical First Lady Suite that interweaves the dreams and desires of the American First Ladies.
"Knots Landing" star and Broadway veteran Michele Lee chats with Playbill.com about her time onstage and onscreen, as well as her upcoming solo show at 54 Below.
August: Osage County, which was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play, will hit the big screen Christmas Day. Playbill.com catches up with its writer, Tracy Letts, who adapted the family drama for film.
Olivier Award nominee Anne-Marie Duff is making her Broadway debut in Lincoln Center Theater's Macbeth, directed by Jack O'Brien and starring Ethan Hawke in the title role. Duff, who has played many famous women on the stage and screen in England, chats with Playbill.com about taking on yet another iconic role — this time in America.
Bryce Pinkham, currently starring as Monty Navarro in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, chats with Playbill.com about his role in the new musical, which opened on Broadway Nov. 17.
Playbill.com chats with Byron Jennings, John Glover and Malcolm Gets, currently playing the trio of mysterious witches in Lincoln Center Theater's Macbeth.
Tony nominee Daniel Sunjata, currently playing Macduff in Lincoln Center Theater's Macbeth, chats with Playbill.com about the roles of good and evil on the stage and screen.
We Will Rock You, the U.K.-born musical that uses the songs of the rock band Queen to tell its tale of a dystopian future where original music has been snuffed out, has launched a U.S. tour after reigning over a decade in London's West End.
Grammy Award-winning recording artist Fantasia Barrino returns to Broadway for the first time since her critically acclaimed stint as Celie in The Color Purple. She is the first headliner of Broadway's After Midnight and chats with Playbill about stepping into the Cotton Club.
Tony Award-winning actress Joanna Gleason, who took audiences Into the Woods as the original Baker's Wife, makes her long-awaited New York City solo cabaret debut Oct. 9 for a three-performance engagement at 54 Below.
Composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa, a 2010 Tony Award nominee for his work on The Addams Family, returns to Broadway with Big Fish, the new musical set in a world of fantasy. Playbill.com catches up.
Two-time Tony Award winner Cherry Jones, often referred to as one of the greatest stage actresses of her generation, returns to Broadway in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie — the critically acclaimed production which transferred from Cambridge's American Repertory Theater and landed at Broadway's Booth.
Joe Manganiello, who plays Alcide Herveaux on HBO's "True Blood," makes his return to the stage as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which begins previews Sept. 20 at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT.
Kinky Boots star Billy Porter speaks with Playbill.com about his first connection with Broadway, the cast albums that shaped his life and words of inspiration for his younger self.
Playbill.com sits down with Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Auburn at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's annual National Playwrights Conference.
Playbill.com talks with songwriting team Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond about their musical The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes, the story of a man trapped inside a musical.
Broadway and "Smash" star Wesley Taylor talks with Playbill about returning to The Eugene O’Neill Theater, the demise of "Smash," his big dreams and why he tweeted that he became pregnant at Penn Station.
Perhaps he got the idea watching the acting antics of playwrights like Tracy Letts, Christopher Denham, and Jonathan Marc Sherman — or, reaching farther back, to a member of his own generation, Sam Shepard. But, for his new play Three Kinds of Exile — now running at the Atlantic Theatre Company — veteran dramatist John Guare has written a role for himself.
Courtney B. Vance, who hasn't appeared on Broadway in over two decades, returned to the Great White Way in the Tony-nominated play by the late Nora Ephron, Lucky Guy, and received a 2013 Featured Actor Tony nomination for his performance.
Sharp-tongued renaissance man Tim Minchin turns a page in his Broadway debut as the composer of Matilda, the hit London musical that debuts on Broadway this spring at the Shubert Theatre.
Steve Kazee, the Tony Award winner for playing Guy in the Broadway musical Once, talks about his sudden exit from the show — and addresses his social-media life, his health issues and rumors about his absence.
Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) talks about digging into his Texas roots to create the book of the new Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody, inspired by the film documentary about Lone Star State dreamers.
Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown (Parade) talks about seeing his cult hit The Last Five Years from both sides now — as songwriter and director of the new Off-Broadway revival.
While the Broadway run of Mary Poppins is playing its final weeks, Playbill catches up with Richard M. Sherman, the surviving member of the Sherman Brothers songwriting duo, who crafted classic songs for the original movie. We also get an update about the new stage musical The Jungle Book.
Mark Brokaw, lauded for directing the works of Paul Vogel, Douglas Carter Beane, Nicky Silver and Kenneth Lonergan, brings his magic to the Broadway premiere of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella.
Actor and Tony Award-winning songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda will bring his Tony-winning Best Musical In the Heights to the United Palace of Cultural Arts in Washington Heights in a reunion concert that features members from the original Broadway cast. Playbill catches up.
Actor-writer Martin Moran, a Drama Desk Award nominee for his autobiographical solo play, The Tricky Part, picks up the pieces of his story for his new work, All the Rage, about finding grace and perspective in a chaotic world.
Master lyricist Sheldon Harnick talks about his musical-theatre career on the occasion of a new Encores! concert revival of his Fiorello!, the biographical musical about New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
