Talk about authenticity! To find musicians to fill the folksy cast of Once, producers of the forthcoming West End production of the Tony-winning musical looked to the streets of Dublin for singers and actors with a genuinely Irish sound. Open auditions for the show (which starts at the Phoenix Theatre on March 16, 2013) were held at Whelan’s, one ...

Will the real Frank Abagnale Jr. please stand up? The real-life man, on whom the musical is based, visited the cast of the national tour of Catch Me If You Can in Providence, Rhode Island. Abagnale, who worked for the FBI for decades after serving time for fraud and check forgery, posed with the cast and participated in a Q ...

Excitement was sky high as the cast of Catch Me If You Can celebrated the national tour’s opening at the Providence Performing Arts Center on October 7. “It was so exciting!” Stephen Anthony said of the opening night performance. Anthony stars as real-life con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., who passed himself off as a doctor, lawyer and jet pilot ...

The release of the Les Miserables movie is just over two months away, and excitment should only continue to rise now that there's a new poster featuring Hugh Jackman to plaster across movie theater walls across the country. As Jean Valjean, Jackman sports a brooding determination above the tag line "Freedom is Mine." Take a look at the poster ...

For 30 years an illustration of Cosette has served as the face of Les Miserables' iconic logo across the world. Now the young street urchin is coming to life in a newly released poster for the blockbuster musical's upcoming film adaptation. Young Cosette (Isabelle Allen) is front and center in the image, which pays homage to the musical's ...

Ta'Rea Campbell is readying to hit the road as disco diva Deloris van Cartier in the national tour of the Tony-nominated musical Sister Act. Before she joins the Sister Act convent later this month, Campbell attended the September 10 opening night performance of the new Broadway musical Chaplin. Sporting a jazzy polka dot ensemble matched with some popping pink ...

Twilight fans are counting the days until the November 16 release of Breaking Dawn Part 2, the fifth and final film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s mega-selling vampire saga. Now there’s an extra reason for Broadway Twihards to get tickets: theater actress Lisa Howard has snagged the juicy role of Siobhan, leader of the Irish Coven. Described by heroine ...

As the December release date nears for Tom Hooper’s highly anticipated big-screen adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Les Miserables, fans are getting more and more glimpses from the movie’s European set. Les Miz buffs know that from the ABC Café to streets of Paris, some of the most exciting scenes in the musical surround the students’ revolution led ...

As the national touring cast of The Book of Mormon prepares to head out on a musical mission across America, Tony nominee Gavin Creel and Jared Gertner are in the final stages of getting into character as Uganda-bound missionaries Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, respectively. The company is set to leave New York on July 27 and will begin performances ...

The 2012 Tony Awards saw some big surprises and some good-looking winners. This year’s major acting awards recognized British funnyman James Corden, five(!)-time Tony-winning songbird Audra McDonald, feisty newcomer Nina Arianda and brooding rocker Steve Kazee. Before these Tony-winning actors went their separate ways to celebrate their wins, they gathered together for a winners’ photo for Broadway.com ...