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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Where to begin describing the career of Rosemary Harris? In 60 years (!) as an actress, she’s taken the stage opposite Laurence Olivier, Rex Harrison, Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton, Michael Redgrave, Charlton Heston, Paul Scofield, John Gielgud, Jack Lemmon and George Grizzard, to name but 10 leading men. The British-born Harris has made her mark onscreen ...

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“It’s hard to talk about Laramie now, to tell you what Laramie is, for us.” These are the first words spoken by the character Jedadiah Schultz in The Laramie Project, the remarkable theatrical record of the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, on October 12, 1998. Less than a month after this ...

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Colman Domingo burst onto the Broadway scene with his charismatic performance in multiple roles (most notably as a morally suspect choir director) in Passing Strange, reprising his work in Spike Lee’s film version of the Tony-winning musical. Domingo has built a varied resume at theaters around the country, particularly in the San Francisco area, and is ...

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Broadway’s Lauren Molina has lived something of a bipolar career on the Great White Way. The young actress made a splashy Broadway debut opposite Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris as ingenue Johanna in the acclaimed 2005 revival of Sweeney Todd, showing off a soaring soprano voice and cello-playing skills in the process. Then, after a trip ...