Mr. Schue has a new assignment for the Glee Club: pair off to sing a ballad while looking into your partner’s eyes. The kids pull names from a hat, but a student is absent, which means Mr. Schue steps in to even out the numbers. Suddenly, he finds himself singing a duet of “Endless Love” with a scarily intense ...

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Daniel Jenkins knows a thing or two about opening a show. The actor’s Broadway credits include Mary Poppins, Wrong Mountain, Big, Angels in America, a Tony-nommed turn in the original Big River (as Huckleberry Finn) as well as the revival the musical (as Mark Twain). His list of off-Broadway, regional theater and film credits is equally ...

Two weeks of baseball instead of Glee can be hard on us devoted fans. But it’s nothing compared it to the trials and tribulations of Sue Sylvester: “Try auditioning for Baywatch and being told that they’re going in another direction. That was hard.” Not to worry, Gleeks! The show more than made up for its absence with vocal ...

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Based on the subject matter, playwright Sarah Ruhl’s Broadway debut, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, could be expected to have a tawdry, downright pornographic backstory. But as Ruhl, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for 2005’s The Clean House and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, explains, the play’s inspirational spark has utterly innocent ...

In the third installment of our “My Space” portrait series, Broadway.com entered the lavender-hued dressing room of our favorite leading lady, Sutton Foster. Now winding up her year-long run as Princess Fiona in Shrek the Musical, the Tony-winning star has created a comfy backstage haven in which she’s surrounded by things—and in her case, a person—she ...

The twinkling lights are starting to come out, the holiday music is playing in stores and a craving for hot cocoa is replacing our normal need for a java fix. Yep, the most wonderful time of the year is almost here. This year we want to impress our friends with some fancy moves at the ice rink. We enlisted Bonnie ...

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What a long, strange trip it’s been for Finian’s Rainbow star Christopher Fitzgerald. The actor garnered a Tony nomination for playing Igor in Young Frankenstein and acclaim for his performances in a wide variety of shows, including Wicked, Amour, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Babes in Arms, Observe the Sons of Ulster…, Fully Committed, Saturday Night, Wise ...

Broadway performers spend a lot of time singing, acting, dancing and rehearsing, but they also have a lot of downtime. How do they spend it? One word: hobbies. Theater folks put the same amount of passion into their offstage pastimes as they do when the spotlight is on them. Broadway.com wants to harness all of that talent in our ...

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Tony Award winner Bill Irwin has done it all. He's a legit clown college graduate and beloved alum of The Pickle Family Circus. He has written, directed and starred on Broadway, occasionally doing all three at once, as in 1989's Largely New York. His screen work runs the gamut from Sesame Street to big screen ...