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Idina Menzel is Returning to Broadway in the New Musical, ‘If/Then’

Idina Menzel is returning to Broadway for the first time since winning the Tony Award for Wicked! She’s starring in If/Then, an original Broadway musical which reunites Tom Kitt (music), Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics), and Michael Greif (director), the creative team behind the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, Next to Normal.

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Ethan Hawke: “Everybody’s not rooting for you, and everybody doesn’t see your artistic growth as their number-one priority”

If you think that you haven’t seen much of Ethan Hawke on movie screens lately, you’d be right. However, Hawke’s lower profile in film is not a case of him not being offered work, but a case of Hawke’s increasing desire to concentrate on his theater work.

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Zachary Quinto on Rehearsing ‘The Glass Menagerie’ and the Promise He Made to Himself 14 Years Ago

This is the first time in a while that Zachary Quinto actually has some free time in his schedule. After starring in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot and two seasons of FX’s American Horror Story, the actor has chosen to appear in a production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie at the American Repertory Theater (ART) in Cambridge.

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Shia LaBeouf Post’s His Audition Video for ‘Orphans’ and E-mails About the Creative Differences that Led to His Exit

Shia LaBeouf, who has certainly made his mouth a familiar spot for his foot in the past, was set to make his Broadway debut opposite Alec Baldwin in Orphans, with previews set to begin March 17. However, yesterday it was announced that LaBeouf had left the play because of “creative differences.” Naturally, inquiring minds want to know what exactly those differences were/are.

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Holland Taylor on How She Came Up With the Idea for Her One-Woman Broadway Show Based on Former Texas Governor, Ann Richards

Holland Taylor is thrilled to finally have a part she can sink her teeth into. Not that playing a mom on Two and a Half Men isn’t exciting, but it’s not exactly a difficult role. With her new play, Ann, Taylor has the opportunity to portray former Texas governor, Ann Richards.

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Helen Mirren on Why She is Playing Queen Elizabeth Again in the New Play, ‘The Audience’

Helen Mirren still worries about being typecast.  But that hasn’t stopped her from returning to once again depict Queen Elizabeth in a new play, The Audience. “I didn’t want to do it,” the actress confessed in an interview with The Telegraph.  “The first thing I emailed [writer Peter Morgan] was

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Scarlett Johansson on Playing Maggie in Broadway’s ‘Cat’ Revival: “Whatever my take is on it is certainly my take on it”

Just because you’ve won a Tony doesn’t mean you can rest on your laurels—at least according to Scarlett Johansson. The actress, who won her award for 2010’s A View from the Bridge, is currently starring in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. But she isn’t taking the role lightly.

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Jesse Eisenberg on Acting: “I don’t concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing”

Almost a year and a half ago actor Jesse Eisenberg made an unexpected move by becoming a playwright, debuting his play Asuncion at New York’s Cherry Lane Theatre.

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