OFF-BROADWAY INTERVIEWS

Tony and Obie award-winning actor, Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an accomplished writer and director. His screenplay debut Lackawanna Blues,' received the Humanitas Prize, a Christopher Award, National Board of Review Honors, an NAACP Award and Emmy, Golden Globe and a WGA nominations....

It's hard to believe that Reichen Lehmkuhl was ever thought to be ugly. In his autobiography, Here's What We'll Say, he writes of a note that a girl left in his middle school locker: 'She went on to tell me I was ugly, disgusting, and to top it off, a total geek.' He then discusses how he was consid...

Christy Carlson Romano is not your average twenty-six year old. She has already spent two decades conquering show business, finding success in theater, film, and television. A former Disney kid, she was nominated for an Emmy for her role in the TV series 'Kim Possible' and is also well known for her...

There's nothing like the sound of laughter. There's the sound of children's laughter and the raucous laughter of friends having a good time. There's the laughter of a good prank, as well as the laugher of a shared secret. Yet one of the most special kinds of laughter is that of an audience who are w...

The onetime movie star, now in a play off-B'way, talks about giving up Hollywood, acting on stage and running an herb farm in N.M....

It has been said that there is approximately only a 1 in 100th of a chance that a person will land a job working in theater in New York. The chances of working successfully in the industry are smaller than that. Sometimes, though, you meet people like EXTINCTION's James Roday (of the hit televisio...

Actress Liza Vann talks about her new Off-Broadway show Good Ol' Girls co-starring Sally Mayes and Lauren Kennedy, in addition to her own one woman show....

Current off Broadway hit, Circumcise Me, written by and starring Yisrael Campbell, now playing at The Bleecker Street Theatre (45 Bleecker Street just East of Lafayette)....

Multi Tony Winner Tommy Tune talks about his upcoming benefit of his show Steps In Time for Friends In Deed in NYC...

On September 14th, The Marvelous Wonderettes? one-year anniversary will mark their 418th performance, surpassing the runs of landmark off-Broadway productions ...

Al Tapper has two shows running simultaneously at Algonquin Theatre in NYC...An Evening at the Carlyle and Sessions: The Musical....

Previews are now underway at Playwrights Horizons for the New York premiere of Our House, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Theresa Rebeck. With this work Rebeck has again displayed the ability to challenge and impress her audiences with her thought provoking and often hilarious dialogue and plo...

From the Obie Award-winning author Lynn Nottage comes RUINED, 'a haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war,' and the front-runner for a Pulitzer nomination. Set in the war-torn Congo, RUINED follows the everyday exploits of Mama Nadi (Saidah Arrika Ekulona),...

Sleepwalk With Me is an off Broadway show by standup comedian Mike Birbiglia which deals with his bouts of Sleepwalking and his search for love and happiness in the city. Nathan Lane produces the New York engagement....

As her company celebrates its 25th anniversary, Hill chats with BWW for our Women's History Month series....

Doug Kreeger is an actor who has been displaying his chameleon-like gifts to the various roles he has played on New York's stages....

Our special series for Women's History Month continues with a profile of Irish Rep's artistic director and cofounder....

The second in our Women's History Month profiles of female artistic directors....

BWW's conversations with 'women who run the show' commence with Angelina Fiordellisi, artistic director of the Cherry Lane Theatre....

There is one theatre in NYC where it's okay not to worry about dust. Actually, the name of the show is Dust, a new thriller starring Emmy Award nominee Richard Masur (Democracy, 'All My Children') and Tony Award nominee Hunter Foster (Urinetown, Little Shop of Horrors), which opens on Thursday, Dece...

This Veteran's Day, as America takes a moment to remember those brave men and women who have served our country, Roundabout Theatre Company opens David Rabe's award-winning and stirring play, STREAMERS. Brad Fleischer stars as Billy, a wide-eyed and sentimental young man, struggling to understand hi...

When the first act of Warren Manzi's PERFECT CRIME ends, the audience sits in stone cold silence. The silence lasts for a few moments after the houselights are brought up and when the audience does finally react, they are abuzz about the convolutions of the plot that is unraveling before them. Acc...

Most soldiers go off to war to defend their country with guns... Kahlil Ashanti defended with his humor in BASIC TRAINING, now playing at the Barrow Street Theatre. As a member of the elite US Air Force troupe Tops In Blue, Kahlil served his country in Iraq by entertaining the troops on the front-li...

Tony nominated actor Keith Carradine stars in new psycho-drama directed by acclaimed film director Ken Russell....

Nick Spangler currently starring as Matt in the Off Broadway revival of The Fantasticks, will be a contestant on the latest edition of The Amazing Race. Spangler will compete against the other 'Amazing Racers' with his sister and teammate, Starr Spangler, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Starti...