Paul Kolnik News

Robert Ahrens, lead producer of the Broadway musical Xanadu announced that Cheyenne Jackson will permanently assume the role of Sonny in the production.

Due to popular demand, the first North American Tour of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple will add four final weeks to its Chicago engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre before moving to San Francisco

Chicago's 'The Color Purple' enters its final month but remains a tour de force.

Production photos of The New Mel Brooks Musical 'Young Frankenstein,' a new musical comedy which opens on Broadway November 8, 2007 at the Hilton Theatre.

This California girl changed coasts 2 years ago, after touring Europe with 'Grease' and the U.S. and Japan with Brian Setzer.

BroadwayWorld.com chats with Mara Davi, who has joined the cast of multi-Tony Award-winning musical 'The Drowsy Chaperone' as Janet Van De Graaff, after making her Broadway debut in 'A Chorus Line' last season.

Sitting at a local Seattle coffee shop, Christopher Fitzgerald, along with his newborn baby, talked with BroadwayWorld's James Sims about his vaudeville like beginnings, leading to a role in the original Broadway cast of Wicked, and now as Igor in Young Frankenstein...

One of the Broadway's Young Frankenstein stars, Fred Applegate, who will play Inspector Kemp, recently spoke, in between rehearsals in Seattle, to BroadwayWorld's James Sims about the monster musical and his experiences working with Mel Brooks in The Producers...

Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin - have added a one-week extension to their summer engagement in Broadway's razzle-dazzle hit, Chicago. Originally scheduled to play through Sunday, July 29, Rinna and Hamlin will now appear through Sunday, August 5.

This flat out hilarious show is for people who love Broadway musicals but who hate Broadway musicals that are based on movies, have jukebox scores, sell on-stage seating, make the actors wear those mouthpiece microphones, wink at the audience with smarmy self-reference, are cheaply produced, are packed with jokes only gay men understand, really belong Off-Broadway and put the actors on roller skates.

Cheyenne Jackson, who replaced the injured James Carpinello, now stars opposite Kerry Butler in the new Broadway musical Xanadu.

Three time Tony Award-winner Boyd Gaines discusses his varied acting career, as well as his next role as Herbie in Encores! Summer Stars Gypsy, opposite Patti LuPone!

Robert F.X. Sillerman and Mel Brooks present The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, opening on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre

The 'Catch the Grinch' ad campaign for Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical was awarded the Bronze Effie in the Culture and Arts category last night at the 39th Annual Effie Awards ceremony

The first musical of the new Broadway season, Xanadu, opens on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre after beginning previews on May 23rd.

The New York Times reports that 'Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' which was a winter-time hit last season at the Hilton Theater is now headed to the St. James Theater from November 1, 2007 to January 6, 2008.

The Tony winner and 'Coast of Utopia' star looks back on an epic run, and ahead to his screen work.

The first North American Tour of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple is currently receiving its premiere at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre, April 17 through July 22, 2007

After years of delay, Chita Rivera: The Dancers Life opened on Broadway last year to tentative reviews and poor box office. It faltered after only a few months

R.C. Sherriff's 1928 wartime drama is thoroughly gripping in director David Grindley's production.