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By Michael Gioia | February 25, 2014Tony Award nominees Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick star in Richard LaGravenese's big-screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. The cast and creatives of the two-person musical, documenting a five-year relationship of a couple falling in and out of love, sound off on the film, which screened Feb. 24 at Lincoln Center.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | August 27, 2013Playbill.com catches up with Tony winner and Spring Awakening star John Gallagher, Jr. to talk about his upcoming film and work on Aaron Sorkin's TV show "The Newsroom."
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By Harry Haun | March 23, 2013Playbill chats with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Vanessa Williams about reinventing The Trip to Bountiful, Horton Foote's classic play about home, family obligation and clinging to the past.
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By Michael Gioia | February 25, 2013Katharine McPhee and Krysta Rodriguez, who crossed paths during McPhee's time at Boston Conservatory, are reunited — and now play friends and roommates, Karen Cartwright and Ana Vargas — on the NBC musical drama "Smash."
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By Robert Simonson | February 20, 2013Hollywood, TV and Broadway producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are producing the 2013 Academy Awards show, airing Feb. 24. During a busy week, Playbill caught up with the duo that helped shape "Chicago," "Smash," How to Succeed... and Promises, Promises.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | February 19, 2013Actress Zosia Mamet, daughter of playwright David Mamet and actress Lindsay Crouse, is representing the 18-to-24-year-old demographic in two roles at the moment — on TV as garrulous Shoshanna on HBO's "Girls" and on stage as a grasping force of nature in MCC Theater's Really Really.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | February 9, 2013Steven Pasquale, late of Broadway's Reasons to be Pretty and Off-Broadway's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide, Fat Pig and A Man of No Importance talks about his new Jekyll-and-Hyde-style TV series "Do No Harm."
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By Michael Gioia | January 31, 2013Jeremy Jordan, fresh off his Tony-nominated turn as the rebellious paper boy Jack Kelly in Broadway's Newsies, turns up the angst and anger for the second season of NBC's "Smash," where he takes on the new role of bad-boy songwriter Jimmy Collins.
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By Kenneth Jones | January 21, 2013The TV musical soap opera "Smash" returns for a second season Feb. 5 with a two-hour episode that features new characters and twists, under the guidance of new "showrunner" and executive producer Joshua Safran.
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By Harry Haun | December 25, 2012Aaron Tveit, the powerhouse young actor who brought electricity to Broadway's Next to Normal and Catch Me If You Can, is now appearing in the film of Les Misérables, and has a new TV series. Playbill catches up.
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By Kenneth Jones | December 12, 2012A closer look at the new Tom Hooper-directed film version of the London, Broadway and international stage hit Les Misérables, with notes, comment and spoilers.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | November 22, 2012Broadway's Laura Benanti, a 2008 Tony Award winner for playing Louise in Gypsy opposite Patti LuPone, talks about her love of musicals and her role in the NBC sitcom "Go On," about a support group for the grief-stricken.
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By Brandon Voss | November 13, 2012British heartthrob Dan Stevens doesn't mind if you attend The Heiress expecting to see his sweet "Downton Abbey" character Matthew Crawley — just as long as you leave debating the intentions of roguish American fortune-hunter Morris Townsend.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | September 11, 2012Broadway's Andrew Rannells talks about struggling as an actor, hitting the heights in The Book of Mormon, jumping to TV jobs and what it's like to be out and proud in the post-"Ellen" period.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | September 5, 2012Television viewers know Vincent Kartheiser for playing dissatisfied ad man Pete Campbell on the hit series "Mad Men." The actor, who has roots in theatre, talks about what traits he and Pete share, and how theatre — including a current new play — is giving him a creative rush.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | August 25, 2012Frank Langella acts opposite a robot in the quirky, touching new film "Robot & Frank." The three-time Tony winner talks about projects past and present in a wide-ranging interview.
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By Harry Haun | July 25, 2012Tracy Letts, the Tony-winning, Pulitzer-honored playwright of August: Osage County, talks about adapting his plays Killer Joe and Bug for the movies, and his collaboration with famed director William Friedkin.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | July 20, 2012The 1950s-set new musical Far From Heaven, based on the film of the same name, is now receiving a developmental staging at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie discuss capturing the color, romance and repression of the period.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | July 13, 2012Aaron Sorkin's new TV series about the state of broadcast journalism, "The Newsroom," stars stage and screen actor Jeff Daniels. The actor talks with Playbill about the sheer theatricality of Sorkin's work.
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By Kenneth Jones | June 25, 2012Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster stars as a rootless dancer who settles into a new life in "Bunheads," the ABC Family comedy-drama (with music and dance). She sent a dispatch from California, where the series is shot.
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By Michael Gioia | June 13, 2012Syesha Mercado, who placed third on the seventh season of TV's "American Idol," takes to the New Jersey stage, where she stars as fearless peasant Ti Moune in Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Once On This Island.
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By Michael Gioia | May 17, 2012The first season of NBC's "Smash" has come to a close, but Christian Borle has no time off. During his television hiatus, the 2012 Tony nominee stars as Black Stache in Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher.
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By Brandon Voss | April 10, 2012Justin Long, the goofy-handsome actor of TV's "Ed," "New Girl" and Mac commercials — and Hollywood's "He's Just Not That Into You" and "Live Free or Die Hard" — is making his Broadway debut in Seminar.
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By Melissa Rose Bernardo | March 27, 2012If you notice more than the usual number of teen-to-twentysomething girls milling around Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway home at City Center Stage I these days, they're probably there to see Alexis Bledel.
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By Mark Shenton | February 11, 2012Samantha Barks, the young lady who'll play unrequited lover Eponine in the film musical of Les Misérables, is not a household-name pop star, but an actress who earned her role the old-fashioned way — on the boards.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | December 22, 2011Following her roles in TV's "Six Feet Under" and "Brothers and Sisters," Australian actress Rachel Griffiths relishes solving the puzzle of Brooke Wyeth in Broadway's Other Desert Cities.
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By Harry Haun | December 3, 2011Kenneth Branagh steps into the shoes of acting directing icon Laurence Olivier for the new film "My Week With Marilyn." He talks to Playbill.com about the challenge.
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STAGE TO SCREENS: Ralph Fiennes Talks to Playbill.com About Wrestling Coriolanus Onto the Big ScreenBy Christopher Wallenberg | November 20, 2011Ralph Fiennes, a Tony Award winner for playing Hamlet, expresses his passion for Shakespeare by directing and starring in a new film adaptation of the Bard's bloody Roman tragedy Coriolanus.
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By Harry Haun | October 26, 2011The authorship of Shakespeare's plays is in question in director Roland Emmerich's new film thriller "Anonymous." Stars Rhys Ifans and Joely Richardson, along with Emmerich and screenwriter John Orloff discuss the controversial picture, opening in theatres Oct. 28.
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By Brandon Voss | October 19, 2011From cannabis to Christ: Filling the big sandals of Jesus, "Weeds" star Hunter Parrish has nothing but high praise for the company of Broadway's Godspell revival.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | October 9, 2011Hugh Jackman, Meryl Streep, "War Horse," God of Carnage, playwrights John Logan and Beau Willimon, and a speculative tale about Shakespeare are in movie theatres this fall. Playbill.com offers coming attractions of the stage stars, stage writers and stage titles making their way to the movies.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | September 17, 2011Your favorite theatre stars — Laura Benanti, Patrick Wilson, Katie Finneran, Mandy Patinkin, Cherry Jones and more — will appear in TV shows this fall and winter. Here's a tube tour.
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By Kenneth Jones | August 23, 2011Gleek alert! The reality TV talent competition known as "The Glee Project" ended Aug. 21 with the surprise announcement of two winners who will star in the third season of the hit series "Glee."
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By Judy Samelson | August 2, 2011Katharine Houghton, who starred with her aunt, Katharine Hepburn, in the groundbreaking film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," takes on one of Kate's past roles — Amanda Wingfield.
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By Harry Haun | June 16, 2011Jim Belushi of TV's "The Defenders" and Robert Sean Leonard of "House" are in from the West Coast for Broadway's Born Yesterday.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | April 20, 2011Emmy Award winner Jim Parsons, famed as the genius-nerd Sheldon of TV's "The Big Bang Theory," is among the stars of The Normal Heart on Broadway.
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By Harry Haun | March 7, 2011A new film, "Making the Boys," examines the groundbreaking and influential 1968 play The Boys in the Band.
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By Harry Haun | February 21, 2011Playwright George Stevens, Jr., talks about bringing Civil Rights titan Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall to the stage (and now HBO). We fondly remember M-G-M star Betty Garrett.
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STAGE TO SCREENS: "The King's Speech," the Acclaimed Film, Started as a Play — and May Return as OneBy Harry Haun | January 31, 2011"The King's Speech," the Oscar-nominated film with screenplay by David Seidler, was a once — and future — stage play. Colin Firth and Seidler spoke to Playbill about the inspiring property.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | January 25, 2011Tony nominee Jeffrey DeMunn, of Broadway's K2 and The Price, begins his career's second act with Arthur Miller and a hit TV series.
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By Harry Haun | January 11, 2011Side Man Tony winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Warren Leight and fortysomething "newcomer" Holt McCallany step into the boxing ring for TV's "Lights Out."
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STAGE TO SCREENS: John Cameron Mitchell and David Lindsay-Abaire Jump Down a Cinematic "Rabbit Hole"By Harry Haun | December 20, 2010Director John Cameron Mitchell, screenwriter David Lindsay-Abaire dug deep to bring the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole to the screen.
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By Harry Haun | December 10, 2010Director Julie Taymor's new film version of Shakespeare's The Tempest starring Helen Mirren bends gender and conjures a brave new visual world.
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By Harry Haun | November 5, 2010Ntozake Shange's poetic theatre piece, for colored girls..., exploring the lives of black women, gets a film version by Tyler Perry. Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose and Kimberly Elise star.
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By Harry Haun | October 15, 2010Movie director Tony Goldwyn, scion of the famous film family, talks about completing his new feature, "Conviction," while starring in Broadway's Promises, Promises.
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By Harry Haun | September 11, 2010Jack Goes Boating, the play about misfits reaching for love, is now a film. Dramatist Bob Glaudini and director-star Philip Seymour Hoffman talk to Playbill.com about the stage-to-screen experience.
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By Harry Haun | August 15, 2010Cynthia Nixon and John Benjamin Hickey are among stage stars of "The Big C," Showtime's new "dramedy" series starring Laura Linney.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | July 30, 2010Two-time Tony winner Kevin Kline and Paul Dano discuss their work on "The Extra Man," the new film comedy about New York City eccentrics. Theatre actors populate the picture.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | June 9, 2010Stage veterans Hamish Linklater and Jesse Tyler Ferguson escape their sitcom work schedules — "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and "Modern Family," respectively — to gambol in a summer of Shakespeare in the Park.
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By Christopher Wallenberg | May 8, 2010Edie Falco, back on the New York stage in a drama about former prisoners reuniting on the outside, talks about the theatre, "The Sopranos," "Nurse Jackie" and the shackles of typecasting.
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