As the national tour of Flashdance readies to make its official opening in Pittsburgh on January 3, Broadway.com is bringing you a sneak peak at the show. In this Hot Shot, heroin Alex Owens (played by Emily Padgett) performs the famous chair dance move that's now an iconic image from the original 1983 film. There’s even a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Broadway cast of the Tony-winning play War Horse, including the show’s title character, Joey, took a trip to New York's Citi Field on September 10 to participate in “Hooves on First,” a fundraiser to raise awareness about the treatment of horses. War Horse’s life-sized puppet Joey stole the show as he greeted fans before the game ...

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 ...

People from every nation have found themselves deeply immersed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, currently underway in London, and it turns out that horses want to display their national pride too. The National Theatre’s company of the Olivier and Tony-winning play War Horse joined in the festivities on July 31 as Joey the horse, led by Captain Nicholls (Alex ...

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 ...