Elizabeth Marvel has made a career of tackling intense roles on the New York stage, including acclaimed turns in Hedda Gabler, The Seagull and Top Girls. The low-key Brooklyn mother of a young son is currently delivering a devastating performance as abused optimist and wife Grace in Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’ provocative new family drama, The Book of Grace ...

Among the many things we have to thank Spring Awakening for is the discovery of Kyle Riabko, a young Canadian rocker who followed Jonathan Groff as Melchoir before hitting the road with the Tony-winning show. Riabko is the real thing—a strong singer who can command the stage, which isn’t surprising given the fact that he’s been writing ...

Kerry Washington, who is making her Broadway debut in David Mamet’s Race, has the kind of intelligence, poise and wide-ranging career (Ray, The Last King of Scotland, Our Song, She Hate Me, Boston Legal) that can make other actors cringe with envy. Oh, yeah—and the L’Oreal spokesperson is also drop-dead gorgeous and one of the nicest people ...

The flashy girl from Flushing, known everywhere as the Nanny named Fran, has returned to off-Broadway. Fran Drescher made a name for herself with her uber-popular '90s sitcom The Nanny and has since become politically active. In addition to heading her non-profit organization Cancer Shmancer, the actress was appointed as a U.S. diplomat in 2008 and travels the world ...

Three nights after his March 4 Broadway opening in Martin McDonagh's black comedy A Behanding in Spokane, Anthony Mackie will be walking the red carpet at the Academy Awards for his starring role as Sgt. J.T. Sanborn, the calm center in a Baghdad bomb squad, in Best Picture nominee The Hurt Locker. His current Broadway role is the ...

Laurie Metcalf started her 2009-2010 season starring on Broadway as Kate Jerome, the matriarch of Neil Simon’s comedies Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, which were scheduled to play in rep. After Brighton Beach’s run shockingly ended a week after opening (and Broadway Bound, which centered on Kate, was cancelled entirely), Metcalf found off-stage drama creeping into her ...

Funny lady Caroline Rhea has done it all—from playing Aunt Hilda on Sabrina the Teenage Witch to having her own talk show to hosting reality TV sensation The Biggest Loser. The new mom (of daughter Ava with longtime love Costaki Economopolos) has now added something new to her list of accomplishments: off-Broadway star, in Love, Loss and What I ...

Rather than finding a nice coming-of-age, slice-of-life drama for his stage debut, Wes Bentley is starring as a playwright who adapts the 1870 erotic novel Venus in Fur, then ends up acting the lead part (complete with a Continental accent) in the rehearsal room opposite a vivacious/voracious young actress who’s arrived to audition. It this sounds confusing, you ...