Here Lies Love – Musical Here Lies Love is a musical with music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, and lyrics by Byrne. The biographical musical is based on Byrne’s and Slim’s concept music album based, in turn, on Byrne’s research on the life of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos. The musical’s score is described as “disco pop.”[1] Productions Early Productions Prior to the release…

Bea Arthur – Bio Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel; May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress and comedian. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, Arthur began her career on stage in 1947, attracting critical acclaim before achieving worldwide recognition for her work on television beginning in the 1970s as Maude Findlay in the popular sitcoms All in the Family (1971–1972)…

Joe DiPietro – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Joe DiPietro (born 1961) is an American playwright, lyricist and author. He is best known for the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, for which he won the Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score as well as for writing the book and lyrics for the long-running off-Broadway show I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.[1-3] Life Born in Teaneck,…

  Angela Lansbury Dame Angela Lansbury DBE Born Angela Brigid Lansbury (16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022) Regent’s Park, London, England[1] Nationality British, American, and Irish[2](multiple citizenship) Occupation Actress, singer, songwriter, producer, writer Years active 1943–present Spouse(s) Richard Cromwell (m. 1945; div. 1946) Peter Shaw (m. 1949; his death 2003) Children 2 Parent(s) Moyna Macgill (mother) Edgar Lansbury (father)…

Liev Schreiber – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Isaac Liev Schreiber born October 4, 1967) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and narrator. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s after appearing in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the first three Scream horror films (1996-2000), Ransom (1996), Phantoms (1998), The Hurricane (1999), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The…

Ann Miller – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Ann Miller (born Johnnie Lucille Collier; April 12, 1923[1] – January 22, 2004) was an American actress and dancer. She is best remembered for her work in the Classical Hollywood cinema musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Her early work included roles in Frank Capra‘s You Can’t Take It with You (1938) and the Marx Bros. film Room Service (1938). She…

  Jonathan Bailey – Bio Jonathan Stuart Bailey (born 25 April 1988) is an English actor. Known for his comedic, dramatic, and musical roles on stage and screen, he is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for Evening Standard Theatre and Screen Actor Guild Awards. [1] Bailey began his career as a child actor in Royal Shakespeare Company productions when…

Betsy Wolfe – Bio Betsy Wolfe (born Elizabeth Marie Wolfe; June 1, 1982) is an American actress, singer, and entrepreneur. Betsy Wolfe is currently starring in the North American Premiere of & Juliet as Anne. Previously, Wolfe starred as Jenna Hunterson, the title role in the Tony Awards nominated musical Waitress. Prior to that, played Cordelia, one of the lovable “lesbians from…

Darius Campbell Danesh – Bio Darius Campbell Danesh – Bio (19 August 1980 – 11 August 2022) was a Scottish singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who came to prominence after appearing in the first series of Popstars in 2001 and the 2002 inaugural series of the ITV talent contest Pop Idol. Under the name Darius, he recorded two studio albums, Dive In (2002) and Live…

Moss Hart – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright, librettist, and theatre director. Life Hart was born in New York City, the son of Lillian (Solomon) and Barnett Hart, a cigar maker. He had a younger brother, Bernard. He grew up in relative poverty with…

  Julie Andrews – Bio Memorabilia Available Here   Dame Julie Andrews DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards. She has also received three Tony Award nominations. Andrews…

Raul Julia – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá Arcelay (March 9, 1940 – October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he took an interest in acting while still in school and pursued the career upon completion of his studies.[1][2] After performing locally for some time, he was convinced by…

Lotte Lenya – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States.[1][2] In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated…

  Tovah Feldshuh – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Terri Sue “Tovah” Feldshuh (born December 27, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and playwright. She has been a Broadway star for more than four decades, earning four Tony Award nominations. She has also received two Emmy Award nominations for Holocaust and Law & Order, and appeared in such films as A Walk on the Moon, She’s Funny That…

Swoosie Kurtz – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Swoosie Kurtz born September 6, 1944)  is an American actress. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award and two Tony Awards. [1] Kurtz made her Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of Ah, Wilderness. She has received five Tony Award nominations, winning for both Fifth of July (1981) and The House of Blue Leaves (1986); her other nominations…

  Christine Baranski – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, producer, and singer. Known for her appearances on stage and screen, she has received a Primetime Emmy Award, two Tony Awards and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. [1] Baranski started her career on stage at The Public Theatre in 1972’s production of William…

  Andy Blankenbuehler – Bio Andy Blankenbuehler (born March 7, 1970) is an American dancer, choreographer and director primarily for stage and concerts. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Choreography five times and has won three times: for In the Heights (2008), Hamilton (2016), and Bandstand (2017). Blankenbuehler’s other Broadway choreography work includes 9 to 5, Bring it On: The Musical, and the 2016 Cats revival….

  Suzan-Lori Parks – Bio Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. Her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002; Parks was the first African American woman to receive the award for drama.[1] Life Parks was born in Fort Knox, Kentucky. She grew up with two siblings in a military family. Parks…

  Barbara Harris – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Barbara Densmoor Harris (July 25, 1935 – August 21, 2018) was an American actress. She appeared in such movies as A Thousand Clowns, Plaza Suite, Nashville, Family Plot, Freaky Friday, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Grosse Pointe Blank. Harris won a Tony Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also received four Golden Globe Award nominations. Life Harris…

Wendell Pierce – Bio Wendell Edward Pierce (born December 8, 1963) is an American actor and businessman. He is known for roles in HBO dramas such as Detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire and trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme; as well as portraying James Greer in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, high-powered attorney Robert Zane in Suits, and Michael Davenport in Waiting to Exhale. Pierce also had…

Jeanine Tesori – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Jeanine Tesori (known earlier in her career as Jeanine Levenson)is an American composer and musical arranger best known for her work in the theater. She is the most prolific and honored female theatrical composer in history, with five Broadway musicals and five Tony Award nominations.She won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a…

Drew Gehling – Bio Andrew Shearer Gehling (born October 16, 1982 is an American stage and screen actor, best known for his role as Dr. Pomatter in the Broadway musical Waitress,[2] [3][4] Garry Marshall‘s Billy & Ray,[5] and as the voice of Gord in the 2006 video game Bully from Rockstar Games. Life Gehling grew up in Sedgefield, North Carolina, performing as a child in…

Derek Klena – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Derek Anthony Klena (born October 3, 1991) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his work on Broadway, including originating the roles of Nick Healy in Jagged Little Pill (2019–2021), Dmitry in Anastasia (2017–2018), and Michael in The Bridges of Madison County (2014). His breakthrough was in the original Off-Broadway production…

Richard Thomas – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Richard Earl Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama series The Waltons for which he won an Emmy Award from two nominations[1] and received two Golden Globe Award nominations.[2] He also starred in the 1990 television mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s epic horror…

Micaela Diamond – Bio Micaela Diamond (born July 17, 1999) is an American actor and singer who is best known for originating the role of Babe in the biographical Broadway musical The Cher Show .She performed alongside Stephanie J. Block and Teal Wicks as the youngest version of Cher.[1][2] [3]   Life Diamond was born in Margate City, New Jersey.[4] At the age of 11,…

Alfred Uhry – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Life Uhry was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Alene (Fox), a social worker, and…

Bert Lytell – Bio Bertram Lytell (February 24, 1885 – September 28, 1954) was an American actor in theater and film during the silent film era and early talkies. He starred in romantic, melodrama, and adventure films. Born in New York City,[1] Lytell was the son of actor, author, and producer William H. Lytell and Blanche…

Robert Morse – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Robert Alan Morse (May 18, 1931 – April 20, 2022) was an American actor, who starred in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, both the 1961 original Broadway production, for which he won a Tony Award, and its 1967 film adaptation; and as Bertram Cooper in the critically acclaimed AMC dramatic series Mad Men (2007–2015).[1][2][3][4] He won…

Bruce Davison – Bio Bruce Allen Davison (born June 28, 1946) is an American actor and director. Davison is well known for his starring role as Willard Stiles in the cult horror film Willard (1971) and his Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning performance in Longtime Companion (1989), and as Thomas Semmes in the HBO original movie Vendetta. He featured in the X-Men film franchise – through X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003) –…

Boyd Gaines – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Boyd Payne Gaines (born May 11, 1953) is an American actor. During his career, he has won four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. Best known as Mark Roger in ‘’One Day at a Time’’ (1981-1984). Life He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to James and Ida Gaines. His early theatre training began at the Pacific Conservatory of…

  Howard Ashman – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Howard Elliott Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright, lyricist and stage director.[1] He collaborated with composer Alan Menken on several works and is most widely known for his work on feature films for Walt Disney Animation Studios, for which Ashman wrote the lyrics and Menken composed…

Anthony Heald – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Philip Anthony Mair Heald (born August 25, 1944) is an American character actor known for portraying Hannibal Lecter’s jailer, Dr. Frederick Chilton, in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, and for playing assistant principal Scott Guber in David E. Kelley’s Boston Public. Heald also had a recurring role as Judge Cooper on Kelley’s The Practice and Boston Legal.[2] He had…

Elmer Bernstein – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned more than five decades, he composed “some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history”, including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions.[1] For his…

  Colleen Dewhurst – Bio Colleen Rose Dewhurst (3 June 1924 – 22 August 1991) was a Canadian-American actress mostly known for theatre roles. She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O’Neill on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dramas on live television and Joseph Papp‘s New York Shakespeare Festival. One of her last…

  Will Swenson – Bio Memorabilia Available Here William Swenson (born October 26, 1972) is an American actor and singer best known for his work in musical theatre. He also has developed a film career, primarily in LDS cinema. Swenson is known among members of the LDS Church for his role as Jonathan Jordan in the LDS Cinema movie The…

Onna White – Bio Onna White (March 24, 1922 – April 8, 2005) was a Canadian choreographer and dancer, nominated for eight Tony Awards. White’s Oscar is the only one that states the name of a film, i.e. “To Onna White for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver! (Movie)” [1]     Life and Career Born in Inverness, Nova Scotia, White began taking dance…

Andrea McArdle – Bio Andrea McArdle (born November 5, 1963) is an American singer and actress best known for originating the role of Annie in the Broadway musical Annie. McArdle was born in Philadelphia. While studying dance as a child, she was spotted by a talent agent who got her work in a number of television commercials, which led to…

  Gregory Hines – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Gregory Oliver Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and singer. He is one of the most celebrated tap dancers of all time, and is best known for Wolfen (1981), The Cotton Club (1984), and Running Scared (1986), The Gregory Hines Show (1997-1998), Ben on Will & Grace (1999-2000), and for voicing Big…

  Alex Timbers – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Alex Timbers (born August 7, 1978) is an American writer and director and the recipient of Tony, Golden Globe, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and London Evening Standard Awards, as well as two OBIE and Lucile Lortel Awards. He is the recipient of the 2019 Drama League Founder’s…

  Joanne Woodward – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. One of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, having made her career breakthrough in the 1950s, Woodward is the earliest surviving Academy Award winner in a leading category. One of the…

Ben Whishaw – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Benjamin John Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English film, television, and stage actor. After winning a British Independent Film Award for his performance in My Brother Tom (2001), he was nominated for an Olivier Award for his portrayal of the title role in a 2004 production of Hamlet. This was followed by television roles in Nathan Barley (2005), Criminal…

  Corey Cott – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Corey Michael Cott (born March 30, 1990) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Jack Kelly in the Broadway musical Newsies, replacing Jeremy Jordan, and for originating the role of Donny Novitski in the Broadway musical Bandstand.[1][2]   Corey Cott   At the Bernard B. Jacobs…

  Michael James Scott – Bio   Michael James Scott (born May 24, 1981) is an American actor and singer, known for his work on the Broadway stage. He is most well known for playing the lead role of the Genie in Disney’s musical production of Aladdin in the Original Australian Cast, as well as in the West End, U.S. National Tour and…

Darren Criss Darren Criss Born Darren Everett Criss (1987-02-05) February 5, 1987 (age 30) San Francisco, California, U.S. Alma mater University of Michigan Occupation Actor, singer, songwriter, co-owner of StarKid Productions Years active 1997 – present Musical career Genres Pop, Contemporary, Musical theater Instruments Vocals, piano, guitar, drums, violin, mandolin, harmonica Years active 2005–present Labels…

Ian McKellen – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. His career spans seven decades, having performed in genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. Over his career he has received numerous awards including seven Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He…

Hugh Dancy – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Hugh Michael Horace Dancy (born 19 June 1975) is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the titular character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Sfc. Kurt Schmid in Black Hawk Down (2001) and Prince Charmont in Ella Enchanted (2004). Other…

  Brian J. Smith – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Brian Jacob Smith (born October 12, 1981) is an American actor, known for his role as Will Gorski in the Netflix-produced series Sense8,[1] Lieutenant Matthew Scott in the military science fiction television series Stargate Universe, and his Tony Award-nominated role as Jim O’Connor (The Gentleman Caller) in the 2013 revival of The Glass Menagerie.[2] Brian J Smith…

Zachary Quinto – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Zachary John Quinto (born June 2, 1977) is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles as Sylar, the primary antagonist from the science fiction drama series Heroes (2006–2010); Spock in the film Star Trek (2009) and its sequels Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016); Charlie Manx in the AMC series NOS4A2, and Dr….

Stephen Bogardus – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Stephen Bogardus (born March 11, 1954) is an American actor. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Bogardus graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1972 and Princeton University in 1976, where he was a member of the Princeton Nassoons and the Princeton Triangle Club.[1] Stephen Bogardus and Michael Rupert in Falsettoland, 1990. Life Bogardus is married to dancer Dana…

Jule Styne – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Jule Styne born Julius Kerwin Stein, December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994)  was an English-American songwriter and composer best known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became successful films: Gypsy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Funny Girl. [1][2] Jule with Betty Comden and Adolph Green Life Styne was born to a Jewish family[3] in London, England.[2] His parents, Anna…

Judy Holliday – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Judy Holliday (born Judith Tuvim, June 21, 1921 – June 7, 1965) was an American actress, comedian and singer.[1] She began her career as part of a nightclub act before working in Broadway plays and musicals. Her success as Billie Dawn in the 1946 stage production of Born Yesterday led to her being cast…

  Jefferson Mays – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Lewis Jefferson Mays (born June 8, 1965) is an American actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Obie Awards. Life Mays was raised in Clinton, Connecticut, with his parents, a naval intelligence officer and…

James Barbour – Bio Memorabilia Available Here James Barbour (born April 25, 1966)is an American singer and theatre actor who played the title role in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera from February 2015 until December 2017. Among his other credits are the Beast in Beauty and the Beast and Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities, for which he was nominated for a Drama…

  David Lindsay-Abaire – Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire (born November 14, 1969) is an American playwright, lyricist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations. Life David Lindsay-Abaire was born David Abaire in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in South Boston. He attended Milton Academy and concentrated in theatre at Sarah Lawrence College, from which he graduated…

Hugh Panaro – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Hugh Panaro (born February 19, 1964) is an American actor known for his work on Broadway. Panaro was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and resided in the East Oak Lane section of the city with his family. As a schoolchild, he attended St. Helena’s parochial school in the adjoining Philadelphia neighborhood of Olney. He…

  Carolee Carmello – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Carolee Ann Carmello (born September 1, 1962) is an American actress best known for her performances in Broadway musicals and for playing the role of Maple LaMarsh on the television series Remember WENN (1996–1998). She is a three-time Tony Award nominee and a five-time Drama Desk nominee, winning the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a…

  Marcia Gay Harden – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. Her film breakthrough was in the 1990 Coen brothers-directed Miller’s Crossing. She followed this with roles in films including Used People (1992), The First Wives Club (1996), and Flubber (1997). For her performance as artist Lee Krasner in the 2000 film Pollock, she won the Academy Award…

  Stark Sands – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Stark Bunker Sands (born September 30, 1978) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Tunny in the original Broadway cast of American Idiot, and originating the role of Charlie Price in Kinky Boots on Broadway. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee. He is also known for the roles…

John Guare – Bio Memorabilia Available Here John Guare ( born February 5, 1938) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation. He was an original member in 1965 of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and Resident Playwright at the New York Shakespeare Festival, during which time he wrote Landscape…

Laura Osnes – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Born Laura Ann Osnes (1985-11-19) November 19, 1985 (age 31)[1] Burnsville, Minnesota, U.S. Occupation Singer, actress Spouse(s) Nathan Johnson (m. 2007)   Laura Ann Osnes – Bio (born November 19, 1985)[1] is an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage. She has played starring roles in Grease as…

Stephen Sondheim – The Videos Memorabilia Available Here More on Stephen Sondheim at TheatreGold Database HERE   Stephen Sondheim – The Videos   Stephen Sondheim – Dies at 91, Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, Gypsy, Funny Thing Happened, Anyone can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We…

  Stephen Sondheim – Database Memorabilia Available  Stephen Joshua Sondheim  born March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021 was an American composer and lyricist known for his work in musical theatre. One of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theatre, Sondheim has been praised for having “reinvented the American musical”[1] with shows that tackle…

  Cynthia Nixon – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress and liberal activist. For her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004), she won the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She reprised the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex…

Celia Keenan-Bolger – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Celia Keenan-Bolger (born January 26, 1978) is an American actress and singer. She is known for portraying Scout Finch in the play To Kill a Mockingbird (2018), which earned her a Tony Award. She has also won three Drama Desk Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award. Life Keenan-Bolger was born in Detroit, Michigan, the eldest of three children….

Norm Lewis – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Norm Lewis (born June 2, 1963) is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in Europe, on Broadway, in film, television, recordings and regional theatre.[2] Productions that he has been involved in include Dessa Rose, Miss Saigon, The Wild Party, and several others.[3] Lewis was the first African-American actor to perform in the title role in…

Edward Albee – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin…

Frank Langella – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Frank A. Langella Jr. ( born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards: two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon  and as André in Florian Zeller’s The Father, and two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performances…

Debbie Reynolds – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Mary Frances “Debbie” Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, and businesswoman. Her career spanned almost 70 years. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words. Her breakout role was her…

Marvin Hamlisch – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. Hamlisch was one of only sixteen people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. This collection of all four is referred to as an “EGOT”. He is one of only two people (along with composer Richard Rodgers) to have won those four prizes…

Kristin Chenoweth – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (July 24, 1968) is an American actress and singer, with credits in musical theatre, film, and television. In 1999, she won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Sally Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown on Broadway. In 2003, Chenoweth received a second Tony Award nomination for…

  Jeff Daniels – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician, and playwright. Known for his work in television, film, and multiple stage productions, he is the recipient of various accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Tony Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Golden Globe…

  Janet McTeer – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Janet McTeer OBE (born 5 August 1961) is an English actress. In 1997, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Olivier Award for Best Actress, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her role as Nora in A Doll’s House (1996–1997). She also won…

George Abbott – Bio Memorabilia Available Here George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades. In addition to his wife, who died in 2020 at 88, Abbott was survived by a sister, Isabel Juergens,…

  James Monroe Iglehart – Bio Memorabilia Available Here James Monroe Iglehart (born September 4, 1974) is an American stage actor and singer. [1][4] Iglehart is perhaps best known for his Tony Award-winning performance as the Genie in the original Broadway production of Aladdin. Iglehart assumed the role of Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the Broadway company of Hamilton in April 2017 and can be…

  Phylicia Rashad – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Phylicia Rashād  (née Ayers-Allen; born June 19, 1948) is an American actress, singer and stage director. She is known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–92) which earned her Emmy Award nominations in 1985 and 1986. She was dubbed “The Mother Of The Black Community” at the 2010 NAACP Image…

  Noel Coward – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called “a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise”.[1] Coward attended a dance academy in…

  Meghan Picerno – Bio Meghan Picerno is an American theatre actress and coloratura soprano opera singer. She is known for her role as Christine Daaé in the US Premiere and 1st National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies. In 2019, she starred in the same role in the third world tour of The Phantom of the Opera and has taken the same role…

  August Wilson – Bio Memorabilia Available Here August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the “theater’s poet of Black America”.[1] He is best known for a series of ten plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle, which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community…

  Andy Karl – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Andy Karl (born August 28, 1974 as Andrew Karl Cesewski) is an American actor and singer, best known for performing in musical theatre. He appeared on Broadway in the original productions of the musical version of Groundhog Day (for which he won the Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award), Legally Blonde, 9 to 5, Rocky the Musical and Pretty Woman:…

Michael Bennett – Bio Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 – July 2, 1987) was an American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows and was nominated for an additional eleven. Bennett choreographed Promises, Promises, Follies and Company. In 1976, he won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and the Tony Award for Best…

  Stephen Schwartz – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998, music and lyrics),…

  Betty Buckley – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Betty Lynn Buckley (born July 3, 1947) is an American actress and singer. Buckley is the winner of a Tony Award, and was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Olivier Award. In 2012, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[1] Buckley won the 1983 Tony Award…

  Stephen Karam – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Stephen Karam is an American playwright and screenwriter. His plays Sons of the Prophet, a comedy-drama about a Lebanese-American family, and The Humans were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012 and 2016, respectively. The Humans won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play.     Life Karam grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in a Lebanese-American family of…

  Gene Saks – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Gene Saks (born Jean Michael Saks; November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015) was an American director and actor. An inductee of the American Theater Hall of Fame, his acting career began with a Broadway debut in 1949. As a director, he was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning three for…

  Sarah Jessica Parker – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and producer. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series Sex and the City (1998–2004), for which she won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The character was…

  Megan Hilty – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Megan Kathleen Hilty (born March 29, 1981) is an American actress and singer. She rose to prominence for her roles in Broadway musicals, including her performance as Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked, Doralee Rhodes in 9 to 5: The Musical, and her Tony Award-nominated role as Brooke Ashton in Noises Off. She also…

  Sara Bareilles – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Sara Beth Bareilles (born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, author, and producer. Bareilles released her debut studio album Careful Confessions in 2004. She received further recognition with the release of her second studio album Little Voice (2007). The album included the hit single “Love Song”, which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and…

  Tony Yazbeck – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Tony Yazbeck (March 13, 1979) is an American actor, singer, and dancer best known for his work on the Broadway stage including the revival of On the Town for which he received 2015 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for lead actor in a musical. Yazbeck is also…

  Nick Adams – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Nicholas Adams (born June 10, 1983) is an American actor, singer, and dancer, known for starring as Adam/Felicia in the original Broadway production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and starring as Whizzer Brown in the first national tour of the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Falsettos. [1] Career In 2005 Adams earned a BFA…

  Tony Kushner – Bio Memorabilia Available Here Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright, author, and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America, then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries. He also wrote the Steven Spielberg-directed films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), and The Fabelmans (2022), receiving critical acclaim and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations…

  Robert Preston Memorabilia Available Here Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer of Broadway and cinema, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned…

  Mary Martin – Bio Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), Peter Pan in Peter Pan and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959). She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She…

  Betty Comden Memorabilia Available Here  Betty Comden (born Basya Cohen, May 3, 1917 – November 23, 2006) was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green, called “the longest running creative partnership in theatre…

  John Benjamin Hickey Memorabilia Available Here John Benjamin Hickey (born June 25, 1963) is an American actor with a career in stage, film and television. He won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Felix Turner in The Normal Heart. Life Hickey was born in Plano, Texas,…

  Arthur Miller Memorabilia Available Here Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman has been…

  Cy Coleman Memorabilia Available Here Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. Coleman was born Seymour Kaufman in New York, United States to Eastern European Jewish parents, and was raised in the Bronx.[1] His mother, Ida (née Prizent) was an apartment landlady and…

  Lin-Manuel Miranda Memorabilia Available Here Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is an American actor, singer, songwriter, rapper, producer, and playwright. He created and starred in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. His awards include a Pulitzer Prize, two Laurence Olivier Awards, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, two Emmy Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2018.[1] A graduate of Wesleyan University, Miranda made…

  Micki Grant Micki Grant (born Minnie Louise Perkins, June 30, 1929 – August 22, 2021) was an American singer (soprano), actress, writer, and composer.[1][2]  She performed in Having Our Say (as Sadie Delaney), Tambourines to Glory and Jericho-Jim Crow both co-written by Langston Hughes, The Gingham Dog, Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, and received three Tony Award nominations for her writing.[3] Life Minnie Louise Perkins was…

Douglas Carter Beane Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Beane now lives in New York.[1][2][3] His works include the screenplay of To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and several plays including The Country Club and The Little Dog Laughed, which was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play and As Bees in Honey…

  Jonathan Larson Memorabilia Available Here Jonathan David Larson (1960–1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for exploring the social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes are found in his works Rent and Tick, Tick… Boom! He received three posthumous Tony Awards and…

  Andrew Garfield  Memorabilia Available Here Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983)[2] is an American-British actor.[3][4][5][6] An alumnus of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, he is the recipient of various accolades, including a Tony Award and a British Academy Television Award, and has been nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three British Academy Film…

Neil Patrick Harris Memorabilia Available Here Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973)[1] is an American actor, singer, comedian, writer, producer, and television host. He is known primarily for his comedy roles on television and his dramatic and musical stage roles. On television, he is known for playing the title character on Doogie Howser, M.D….

Robin de Jesús Memorabilia Available Here Robin de Jesús (born August 21, 1984) is an American film and theater actor of Puerto Rican descent. He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.[1] Robin de Jesús’s first major role was as Michael in the independent film Camp (2003), where he plays a gay teen who gets beat up for wearing a dress to his prom. While the film (which…

Raul Esparza Memorabilia Available Here Raúl Eduardo Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is an American stage, television and voice actor, best known for his role as New York Assistant District Attorney (ADA) Rafael Barba in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where he had a recurring role in Season 14 and was promoted to a series regular in Seasons 15…

  Wayne Sleep Memorabilia Available Here Wayne Philip Colin Sleep OBE (born 17 July 1948)[2] is a British dancer, director, choreographer, and actor who appeared on the BBC series The Real Marigold on Tour and The Real Full Monty (ITV). Life Sleep was born in Plymouth, Devon.[2][3] His mother enrolled him at an early age with Geraldine Lamb Dance School, where he studied tap and jazz, wanting to be the next Gene Kelly or Fred…

Sharon D. Clarke Sharon Delores Clarke MBE (born 12 August 1966) is an English actress and singer, best known to television audiences for her role as Lola Griffin in the medical drama Holby City, and as Grace O’Brien in Doctor Who. Clarke has also played lead roles in many West End musicals, and originated the roles of the Killer Queen in We Will Rock You and…

Miguel Cervantes Miguel Cervantes is an American actor, singer and activist best known for originating the role of Alexander Hamilton in the Chicago production Hamilton, a role he played from September 2016 until the production closed in January 2020. He currently plays the role in the Broadway production.[2]   Life Cervantes and his family relocated to Chicago in the years following his casting in Hamilton. They…

Lucas Hnath   BIOGRAPHY Hnath grew up in Orlando, Florida. He moved to New York City in 1997 to study pre-med,[1] and then changed to dramatic writing at the Tisch School of the Arts, at New York University, earning a BFA in 2001, and an MFA in 2002.[2] He teaches at New York University. He…

Rachel Chavkin Rachel Chavkin (born July 20, 1980) is an American stage director best known for directing the musicals Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 and Hadestown, receiving nominations for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for both and winning for Hadestown in 2019. Life Chavkin was born in Washington,…

Ruben Santiago-Hudson Ruben Santiago-Hudson (born Ruben Santiago Jr., November 24, 1956) is an American actor, playwright, and director who has won national awards for his work in all three categories. He is best known for his role of Captain Roy Montgomery from 2009 to 2011 on ABC’s Castle. In November 2011 he appeared on Broadway in Lydia R. Diamond‘s play Stick Fly.[1][2] In 2013 he starred in the TV series Low Winter…

Chris Evans Memorabilia Available Here   Christopher Robert Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) series of films. Evans began his career with roles in television series, such as in Opposite Sex in 2000. Following appearances in several teen…

  Cherry Jones Memorabilia Available Here Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an American actress. A five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, she has twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play: for the 1995 revival of The Heiress and for the 2005 original production of Doubt. She has also won three Emmy Awards, winning the Outstanding Supporting Actress…

  Gary Beach – Database Gary Beach (October 10, 1947 – July 17, 2018) was an American actor, of stage, film and television best known for the role of Roger De Bris in both the stage and film productions of The Producers. Life Beach was born in Alexandria, Virginia and graduated from Groveton High School, he later went on to graduate from the North Carolina School of the…

  George Gershwin – Database   George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist,[3][4] whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs “Swanee” (1919) and “Fascinating Rhythm” (1924), the jazz standards “Embraceable You” (1928)…

  Susan Stroman – Database Memorabilia Available Here Susan P. Stroman (born October 17, 1954) is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director and performer. Her notable theater productions include The Producers, Crazy for You, Contact, and The Scottsboro Boys. She is a five-time Tony Award winner, four for Best Choreography and one as Best Director of a Musical for The Producers. In addition, she is a recipient of…

  Neil LaBute – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright. LaBute was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Marian, a hospital receptionist, and Richard LaBute, a long-haul truck driver.[2][3] LaBute is of French Canadian, English, and Irish ancestry,[3] and was raised in Spokane, Washington….

  Joel Grey – Database Memorabilia Available Here Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret on Broadway as well as in the 1972 film adaptation. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Grammy Awards and…

  Jerry Mitchell – Database Memorabilia Available Here Jerry Mitchell is an American theatre director and choreographer. Mitchell’s early Broadway credits were as a dancer in The Will Rogers Follies and revivals of Brigadoon and On Your Toes. Jerry is openly gay,  his partner is actor Ricky Schroeder the couple has been together for eight years.[2][3]  Life Born in Paw Paw, Michigan, Mitchell later moved to St. Louis where…

  David Yazbek – Database Memorabilia Here David Norman Yazbek (born 1961) is an American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010), The Band’s Visit (2017), and Tootsie (2019) Life Yazbek was born in New York City. His father is of Lebanese descent, and his mother…

  Anthony Rapp – Database Memorabilia Available Click Here Anthony Deane Rapp (born October 26, 1971) is an American actor and singer who originated the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway production of Rent. Following his original performance of the role in 1996, Rapp reprised it in the film version of the show and then the show’s United States Tour…

  David Eigenberg – Database Memorabilia Available Here David Eigenberg (born May 17, 1964) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Steve Brady on the HBO series Sex and the City and as Lieutenant Christopher Herrmann on NBC’s Chicago Fire. [1] Life Eigenberg was born in Manhasset, New York, on Long Island, and grew up in Naperville, Illinois,[2] the only boy in a family of…

  Stockard Channing – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Stockard Channing (born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American actress. She is known for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease (1978) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing (1999–2006). She is also known for originating the role of Ouisa Kittredge in the stage and film versions of Six Degrees of Separation. Channing won…

  Norbert Leo Butz – Database Memorabilia Available Norbert Leo Butz (born January 30, 1967) is an American actor and singer, best known for his work in Broadway theatre. He is a two-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, and is one of only nine actors ever to have won the award twice…

  Patrick Wilson – Database Memorabilia Available Here Patrick Joseph Wilson (born July 3, 1973) is an American actor, singer, and director. He spent his early career starring in Broadway musicals, beginning in 1995. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee for his roles in The Full Monty (2000–2001) and Oklahoma! (2002). In 2003, he co-starred in the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America for which he was…

  Lauren Bacall – Database Memorabilia Available   Lauren Bacall ( born Betty Joan Perske; September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014) was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the…

  Elaine Paige – Database Memorabilia Available Here Elaine Jill Paige OBE (née Bickerstaff, 5 March 1948) is an English singer and actress, best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, Hertfordshire, Paige attended the Aida Foster Theatre School, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16. Her appearance in the 1968 production…

  Barbara Barrie – Database   Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman; May 23, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage and television. She is also an author. Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film One Potato, Two Potato, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival….

  Bobby Steggert – Database  Memorabilia Available Here Bobby Steggert (born March 2, 1981) is a former American actor of theatre, television and film on Broadway Bobby appeared in many productions including Mothers and Sons, Boy, Yanks. He currently works in the mental health field. Life He was born in Frederick, Maryland. Steggart attended Frederick High School, and…

  Fred Weller – Database Memorabilia Available Here Frederick Weller (born April 18, 1966) is an American stage and film actor from Take Me Out on Broadway to Law and Order on television.     Life Weller was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of lawyers Carole and Francis Weller.[1] He is a 1984 graduate of Jesuit High…

  Daniel Sunjata – Database Memorabilia Available Daniel Sunjata Condon (born December 30, 1971) is an American actor who performs in film, television and theater. He is known for his role as Franco Rivera in the FX television series Rescue Me.[1][2] Life Sunjata was born and grew up in Chicago, the adopted son of Bill and Catherine Condon, a police…

  Sam Shepard – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017), known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director. His body of work spanned over half a century. He was the author of forty-four plays as well as several books of short…

  William Finn – Database Memorabilia Available Here   William Alan Finn (born February 28, 1952) is an American composer and lyricist. He is best known for his musicals, which include Falsettos, for which he won the 1992 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Book, A New Brain (1998), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005).     Life Finn was born in Boston,…

  Tennessee Williams – Database Memorabilia Available Here Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th century American drama. After years of obscurity, he became…

  Lillian Hellman – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, author, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist…

  Jerome Robbins – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television. Among his numerous stage productions were On the Town, Peter Pan, High Button Shoes, The King and I, The Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing, West Side…

  Trevor Nunn – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Sir Trevor Robert Nunn CBE (born 14 January 1940) is a British theatre director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed dramas for the stage, like Macbeth, as well as opera and musicals, such as Cats (1981)…

  Jerome Kern – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as “Ol’ Man…

  Peter Shaffer – Database English playwright 1926 – 2016 Memorabilia Available Here   Sir Peter Levin Shaffer, CBE (15 May 1926 – 6 June 2016) was an English playwright and screenwriter of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been turned into films.   LIFE Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool,…

  Andy Mientus – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Andrew Michael Mientus (born November 10, 1986) is an American actor, singer, composer and writer. He is best known for starring in the Broadway musicals Spring Awakening, Les Misérables, and Wicked, and on television in the NBC musical drama Smash and as Hartley Rathaway, aka the Pied Piper, in the hit CW series The Flash….

  Ann Reinking – Database Memorabilia Available Here   Ann Reinking (November 10, 1949 – December 12, 2020) was an American actress, dancer, and choreographer. She worked extensively in musical theater, starring in Broadway productions such as Coco (1969), Over Here! (1974), Goodtime Charley (1975), Chicago (1977), Dancin’ (1978), and Sweet Charity (1986). Reinking won the Tony Award for Best Choreography for her work in the 1996 revival of Chicago, which she choreographed while…

  Max Crumm – Database Memorabilia Available Here Aaron Maximillian “Max” Crumm (born October 8, 1985)  is an American actor and singer known for their work on the New York stage. They have originated starring roles on Broadway in both the revival of Grease as Danny Zuko, after winning NBC’s talent search competition, Grease: You’re the One That I Want!, and in Seth Rudetsky’s Disaster! as Scott, after…

  Scott Ellis – Database Memorabilia Available Here Scott Ellis (born April 19, 1957) is an American stage director, actor, and television director. Life Ellis graduated from Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) in Chicago.[1] He also graduated from James W. Robinson Secondary School, Fairfax, VA, in 1975. He studied acting at HB Studio[2] in New York City. Ellis has a…

  Gower Champion – Database Memorabilia Available Here Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22, 1919 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Champion worked on Broadway as a solo dancer and choreographer. Life Champion was born in Geneva, Illinois, the son of John W. Champion and Beatrice Carlisle. He was raised…

  David Merrick – Database Memorabilia Available David Merrick (November 27, 1911 – April 25, 2000) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer. In 1965, Merrick received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. In 2001, Merrick was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.[4][5] Life and Career Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington…

  Liza Minnelli – Database Memorabilia Available   Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is best known for her performance in Cabaret (1972), the film Arthur (1981), several hit albums and many other film and television appearances. She is famous for her stage presence and her powerful alto singing voice.[1] She is the daughter of…

  John Kander – Database Memorabilia Available John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927) is an American composer, known largely for his work in the musical theater. As part of the songwriting team Kander and Ebb (featuring lyricist Fred Ebb), Kander wrote the scores for 15 musicals, including Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975), both of which were later adapted into acclaimed films. He and Ebb…

  Fred Ebb – Database Memorabilia Available Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera. [1]     Life Ebb was born to a Jewish family[2] in Manhattan, to Anna Evelyn (née Gritz) and Harry Ebb.[3] He…

  Lonny Price – Database Memorabilia Available Lonny Price (born March 9, 1959) is an American director, actor, and writer, primarily in theatre. He is perhaps best known for his creation of the role of Charley Kringas in the Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along and for his New York directing work including Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Company, and Sondheim! The Birthday Concert. Life Price was…

  Ramin Karimloo – Database Ramin Karimloo (born September 19, 1978) is an Iranian-Canadian actor, singer and composer recognised mainly for his work in London’s West End. He has played the leading male roles in both of the West End’s longest running musicals: the Phantom and Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera, and Jean Valjean, Enjolras, and Marius Pontmercy in Les Misérables….

Irving Berlin Memorabilia Available    Irving Berlin (born May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. His music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song,…

  Ethel Merman – Database Memorabilia Available   Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress, artist, and singer.[1] Known primarily for her distinctive, powerful voice and leading roles in musical theatre, she has been called “the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage”.[2] Over her distinguished career in theater…

  Leonard Bernstein – Database   Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, pianist, music educator, author, and lifelong humanitarian. He was one of the most significant American cultural personalities of the 20th century. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was “one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians…

  Michael Kidd – Database   Michael Kidd (August 12, 1915 – December 23, 2007) was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Kidd, strongly influenced by Charlie Chaplin and Léonide Massine, was an innovator in what came…

  Bebe Neuwirth – Database Memorabilia Available Beatrice ‘Bebe’ Neuwirth born December 31, 1958 is an American actress, singer and dancer. On television, she played Dr. Lilith Sternin, Frasier Crane’s wife, on both the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role) and its spin-off Frasier (in a recurring guest role). The role won her two…

  Matthew Bourne – Database Memorabilia Available Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne OBE born 13 January 1960 is an English choreographer. His work includes contemporary dance and dance theatre. He has received multiple awards and award nominations, including the Laurence Olivier Award, Tony Award and Drama Desk Award, and he has also received several Honorary Doctorates…

  Nancye Hayes – Database Memorabilia Available Nancye Lee Bertles (née Hayes) AM (born 1943) is an Australian actress, dancer, singer and choreographer/director. She has been a leading figure in Australian musical theatre since the 1960s. Although her roles have been almost exclusively in theatre, she has briefly worked in television in series and mini-series,…

  Imelda Staunton – Database   Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, CBE (born 9 January 1956)[1] is an English actress and singer. After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Staunton began her career in repertory theatre in the 1970s before appearing in various theatre productions in the United Kingdom. Staunton has performed in a variety of plays and musicals…

  Tyne Daly – Database Memorabilia Available Ellen Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946) is an American actress and singer. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. [1] Daly began her career on stage in summer stock in…

  Bernadette Peters – Database Memorabilia Available   Bernadette Peters (née Lazzara; born February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and children’s book author. Over a career spanning five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, television and film, performed in solo concerts and released recordings. She is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, having received seven nominations for Tony Awards,…

  Chip Zien   Jerome Herbert “Chip” Zien (born March 20, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. He has appeared in all of the “Marvin Stories” musicals by William Finn: In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland and Falsettos. He played the role of…

  Gideon Glick Memorabilia Available Gideon Glick (born June 6, 1988) is an American actor. His Broadway work includes the role of Ernst in the musical Spring Awakening, Jimmy-6 in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Jordan Berman in Significant Other, and most recently Dill Harris in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor…

  Jessie Mueller – Database Memorabilia Available Jessica Ruth Mueller (born February 20, 1983) is an American actress and singer. She started her acting career in Chicago and won two Joseph Jefferson Awards in 2008 and 2011 for her roles as Julie Jordan in Carousel and Amalia Balash in She Loves Me. In 2011, she moved to New York City to star in a Broadway revival…

  Marin Mazzie Memorabilia Available   Marin Joy Mazzie (October 9, 1960 – September 13, 2018) was an American actress and singer known for her work in musical theater. (1) Mazzie was a three-time Tony Award nominee, for her performances as Clara in Passion (1994), Mother in Ragtime (1998), and Lilli Vanessi/Katherine in Kiss Me,…

  Michael Xavier –  Database Michael D. Xavier (born 27 November 1978) is an English actor and singer. Xavier attended Liverpool college and ultimately completed his professional acting training at the Liverpool arts university [1] in 1999. His first professional role was in the musical comedy in 2000.[2][3] Stage Work Xavier has worked in lead roles on stage…

  Gwen Verdon – Database Memorabilia Available Gwyneth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an American actress and dancer. She won four Tony Awards for her musical comedy performances, and served as an uncredited choreographer’s assistant and specialty dance coach for theater and film. With flaming red hair and a quaver in her voice, Verdon…

  Denis O’Hare – Database Memorabilia Available Denis Patrick Seamus O’Hare (born January 16, 1962) is an American actor, singer, and author noted for his award-winning performances in the plays Take Me Out and Sweet Charity, as well as portraying vampire king Russell Edgington on HBO’s fantasy series True Blood. He is also known for…

  Bartlett Sher – Database Bartlett B. Sher (born March 27, 1959) is an American theatre director. The New York Times has described him as “one of the most original and exciting directors, not only in the American theater but also in the international world of opera”.[1][2] Sher has been nominated for nine Tony Awards,…

  Brian Stokes Mitchell – Database Memorabilia Available Brian Stokes Mitchell (born October 31, 1957) is an American actor and singer. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theatre since the 1990s.[1] He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2000 for his performance in Kiss Me, Kate. Life Mitchell was…

  Linda Balgord Memorabilia Available   Linda Balgord (born February 18, 1960)[1] is an American Broadway actress and singer, most notable for playing Norma Desmond in the 1996 United States tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Sunset Boulevard, being the last actress to portray Grizabella in the original Broadway run of Cats, and originating the role of Queen Elizabeth I in The Pirate Queen on Broadway. She has also played the…

  Matt Cavenaugh – Database Memorabilia Available   William Matthew Cavenaugh (born May 31, 1978) is an American tenor and stage, film, and television actor. He graduated from Ithaca College with a BFA in 2001. His film debut was in Little Monsters as a child actor, and has more recently played starring roles on Broadway and Off Broadway. He played Tony in the revival of West Side Story at…

  Gavin Creel – Database   Memorabilia Available Gavin James Creel (born April 18, 1976) is an American actor, singer and songwriter. Creel is best known for his work in musical theatre, for which he has received two Tony Award nominations—for originating the role of Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie and for his performance as Claude in Hair—and an…

  Laura Benanti – Database Memorabilia Available Over the course of her Broadway career, she has received five Tony Award nominations. She played Louise in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, winning the 2008 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Benanti then appeared in the Broadway musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in 2010, winning the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics…

  Christopher Sieber Memorabilia Available   Christopher Luverne Sieber (born February 18, 1969) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Kevin Burke in Two of a Kind starring Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, and Lord Farquaad in Shrek the Musical. Sieber studied acting and musical comedy at The American Musical and Dramatic…

Stephen Spinella – Database Memorabilia Available   Stephen Spinella (born October 11, 1956)[1] is an American stage, television, and film actor. He is an actor, known for Ravenous (1999), Virtuosity (1995) and Milk (2008). Spinella is openly gay.[3] Angels in America 1993 Life Spinella was born in Naples, Italy, to a father who was an American naval airplane mechanic.[1] He…

  Len Cariou Memorabilia Available Leonard Joseph Cariou OC OM (born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian actor and stage director, best known for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical,…

  Adam Godley – Database Memorabilia Available Adam Godley (born 22 July 1964) is an English actor. He is a Tony Award nominee and has been nominated four times for the Olivier Award. Godley was born to Jewish parents in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. His father was a solicitor, and his mother was a magistrate. He grew up near Watford, Hertfordshire, and went to Rickmansworth School.[1] Life He…

  Nathan Lane – Database Memorabilia Available BEST ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY – TONYS Nathan Lane Lane in Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Simon Gray’s Butley Born Joseph Lane (1956-02-03) February 3, 1956 (age 61) Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. Occupation Actor, writer Years active 1975–present Spouse(s) Devlin Elliott (m. 2015)  …

Sierra Boggess – Database Memorabilia Available Sierra Marjory Boggess (born May 20, 1982) is an American theater actress and singer. She is best known for originating the role of Ariel in The Little Mermaid on Broadway and for her multiple appearances as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera. She is known to many…

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger – Database Memorabilia Available Andrew Keenan-Bolger (born May 16, 1985) is an American actor, writer and director. He is best known for originating the roles of Crutchie in Newsies and Jesse Tuck in Tuck Everlasting on Broadway. His other Broadway credits include Robertson Ay in Mary Poppins, Jojo in Seussical, Chip in…

Alice Ripley – Database Memorabilia Available Alice Ripley (born December 14, 1963) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and mixed media artist. She is known, in particular, for her various roles on Broadway in musicals, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal (2009 Tony Award, Best Actress in a Musical) and Side Show. She most…

  Scott McPherson – Playwright Scott McPherson (October 13, 1959 Columbus, Ohio – November 7, 1992 Chicago) was an American playwright.[1] Life He graduated from Ohio University.[2] In 1981, he moved to Chicago, where he acted in The Normal Heart, and The House of Blue Leaves. He joined the play writing group Chicago New Plays. His partner was activist and…

  Tracy Letts – Playwright     Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013).[1] He…

  Matt Doyle  – Database Memorabilia Available Matthew Finnen “Matt” Doyle (born May 13, 1987) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his work in Spring Awakening, War Horse and The Book of Mormon on Broadway and as Glenn Mangan / Juliet in 2011 Shakespeare film adaptation Private Romeo directed…

David Mamet – Database David Alan Mamet born November 30, 1947 is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway 1970s plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual…

Jon Robin Baitz – Database Jon Robin Baitz (born November 4, 1961) is an American playwright, screenwriter and television producer. He is a two time Pulitzer Prize finalist, as well as a Guggenheim, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Life Baitz was born to a Jewish family[1] in…

  Joe Mantello – Database Memorabilia Available Joseph Mantello (born December 27, 1962) is an American actor and director best known for his work on Broadway productions of Wicked, Take Me Out and Assassins, The Boys in the Band as well as earlier in his career being one of the original Broadway cast members of…

  James Lapine – Database Memorabilia Available James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn. Life…

Michael Cerveris Memorabilia Available Michael Cerveris (born November 6, 1960) is an American actor, singer, and guitarist. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including several Stephen Sondheim musicals: Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Road Show, and Passion. In 2004, Cerveris won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Assassins as…

Larry Kramer – Database Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935 – May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay…

Alfred Molina – Database Memorabilia Available  Alfredo “Alfred” Molina (born 24 May 1953) is an English-American actor who has appeared in over 200 film, television, and stage productions. He first rose to prominence in the West End, earning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play nomination for his performance in the production…

Alan Menken – Database Memorabilia Available  Alan Irwin Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American composer, songwriter, music conductor, music director and record producer. Menken is best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. His scores and songs for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast…

Christopher Plummer – Database Christopher in Othello Broadway Feb – May 1982 Memorabilia Available  Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer CC (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining recognition for his performances in film, television, and theatre. Plummer made his Broadway debut in 1954, and continued to…

  A. R. Gurney – Database Memorabilia Available    Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Jr. Born (1930-11-01) November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017 Buffalo, New York Occupation Playwright, novelist, screenwriter Education Nichols School St. Paul’s School (1948) Alma mater Williams College (1952) Yale School of Drama (1958) Genre Theatre Spouse Mary Forman Goodyear Children 4   Albert…

  Rebecca Luker Memorabilia Available    Rebecca Luker (April 17, 1961 – December 23, 2020) was an American actress, singer, and recording artist noted for her “crystal clear operatic soprano” and for maintaining long runs in Broadway musicals over the course of her three decade long career.[1][2] The New York Times compared her to actresses…

Lanford Wilson Playwright Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937 – March 24, 2011) was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times, was “earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed.”[1] Wilson helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at the Caffe Cino beginning in…

Sal Mineo Salvatore Mineo Jr. (January 10, 1939 – February 12, 1976) was an American actor, singer, and director. He is best known for his role as John “Plato” Crawford in the drama film Rebel Without a Cause (1955), which earned the 17 year old actor a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting…

Andrew Duggan Andrew Duggan (December 28, 1923 – May 15, 1988) was an American character actor of film, Theatre and television.   Life In 1954, he married Broadway dancer and actress Elizabeth Logue,[10] whom he called Betty.[11] The couple had three children, Richard, Nancy, and Melissa. Duggan died[12] of throat cancer on May 15, 1988….

Martin Balsam Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996)[1] was an American actor who had a prolific career in character roles in film, in theatre, and on television.[2][3] An early member of the Actors Studio, he began his career on the New York stage, winning a Tony Award for Best Actor in…

Eli Wallach Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than seven decades, beginning in the late 1940s. Trained in stage acting, which he enjoyed doing most, he became “one of the greatest ‘character actors’ ever to appear on stage and…

Maureen Stapleton Memorabilia Available Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress in film, theater, and television. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Lonelyhearts (1958), Airport (1970), and Interiors (1978), before winning for her performance as Emma Goldman in Reds (1981). For Reds,…

James Cromwell James Oliver Cromwell[1] (born January 27, 1940)[1] is an American character actor and activist. Some of his more notable films include Babe (1995), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), Space Cowboys (2000), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), The Queen (2006), W. (2008), Secretariat (2010), The Artist…

Jane Alexander Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American author, actress, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Tony Award winner and two-time Emmy Award winner. Alexander made her Broadway debut in 1968 in The Great White Hope and won the 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured…

Adrienne Warren Adrienne Warren (born May 6, 1987) is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her work on Broadway, film and television.[1]   Life Warren was born in Tidewater, Virginia. She performed with the groups The Dream Engine and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. She was a vocalist for the non-profit Magic-The State Of The…

Elizabeth Stanley Elizabeth Stanley is an American stage actress and singer. She has originated a number of main and featured roles in Broadway musicals, including Allison in Cry-Baby, Dyanne in Million Dollar Quartet, and Mary Jane in Jagged Little Pill.   Life Stanley was born in Cedar Rapids and grew up in Denison, Iowa[8] and…

Karen Olivo Karen Olivo (born August 7, 1976) is an American stage and television actress, theater educator, and singer. In 2008, Olivo originated the role of Vanessa in In the Heights on Broadway. The following year, she won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Anita in…

Audra McDonald Audra Ann McDonald[1] (born July 3, 1970)[2] is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win all four acting categories.[note 1] She has performed in musicals, operas,…

Mary-Louise Parker Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress and writer. After making her stage debut as Rita in a Broadway production of Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss in 1990 (for which she received a Tony Award nomination), Parker came to prominence for film roles in Grand Canyon (1991), Fried Green…

Joaquina Kalukango Joaquina Kalukango is an American Actress who is popular on Broadway, Appearing in the Broadway production, The Color Purple (2017) in the role as “Nette” and in her role as “Kanesha” in A Slave Play (2019) and has been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading…

Blair Underwood Blair Erwin Underwood[1] (born August 25, 1964) is an American actor. He made his debut in the 1985 musical film Krush Groove and from 1987 to 1994 starred as attorney Jonathan Rollins in the NBC legal drama series L.A. Law. Underwood has appeared in a number of films during his career, including Just…

Tom Sturridge Thomas Sidney Jerome Sturridge (born 21 December 1985)[1] is an English actor best known for his work in Being Julia, Like Minds, and The Boat That Rocked. In 2013, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the Broadway play Orphans[2] and in 2020, he received another nomination in the category for his role in Sea Wall/A Life.[3] Life Sturridge was…

Ian Barford is an American stage and television actor, born in Bloomington, Indiana. He has appeared on Broadway in August: Osage County and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.[1]  He has been a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 2007.[2] Life He is married to Anna D. Shapiro; they have two children and live in Evanston, Illinois.[3][4] Anna Davida Shapiro (born March…

  David Williamson Memorabilia Available    David Keith Williamson, AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. David Williamson 1974 Life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 24 February 1942 and was brought up in Bairnsdale. He initially studied mechanical engineering at the University of Melbourne from 1960,…

  Jim Sharman Memorabilia Available   James David Sharman (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit.[1] He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is best known internationally as the…

Andrew Bovell Andrew Bovell (born 23 November 1962) is an Australian writer for theatre, film and television.[1] Memorabilia Available Life Bovell was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and completed his secondary school education in Perth. He graduated from the University of Western Australia with a BA and followed that with a Diploma in Dramatic Arts at the Victorian College of Arts, in…

Hannie Rayson Hannie Rayson (born 1957) is an Australian playwright and newspaper columnist. She is recognised as one of Australia’s most significant playwrights. Memorabilia Available Life Rayson was born in Melbourne, Victoria and graduated from the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Arts. She has worked as a freelance journalist and editor in addition to her primary career as playwright and screenwriter. Rayson…

  Jennifer Gambatese Jennifer “Gamby” Gambatese (born September 10, 1975) is an American actress and singer. Gambatese has performed in the musical production of Disney’s Tarzan as Jane.[1] Gambatese also played Glinda on the first National Tour of Wicked.   Jen with Rob McClure – Mrs Doubtfire Life Gambatese was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Richmond Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. Her passion for acting began…

  Kate Baldwin Katherine “Kate” Baldwin (born May 2, 1975)[1] is a two time Tony Award-nominated actress and singer known for her work in the musical theatre circuit. She received a Tony Award nomination for her work in the 2009 Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow. She also co-starred opposite Bette Midler, David Hyde Pierce, and…

Rob McClure Rob McClure (born June 15, 1982) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in musical theatre. He won a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in the title role of the musical Chaplin. In 2019,…

  Kelli O’Hara Kelli Christine O’Hara (born April 16, 1976)[1] is an American actress and singer, most known for her work on the Broadway and opera stages. A seven-time Tony Award nominee, O’Hara won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center Theater…

Nic Rouleau Nic Rouleau born February 4, 1987 – Actor – Singer,   Nic Rouleau made his Broadway debut in The Book of Mormon. Rouleau began as a standby for original star Andrew Rannells and eventually took over the role of Elder Price and not only the Broadway production of The Book of Mormon, but…

Tom Hiddleston ENGLISH ACTOR – BETRAYAL BROADWAY 2019 – 2020   Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English actor, film producer, and musician. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Laurence Olivier Award and has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Born in London, England,…

Harold Pinter – Playwright Harold Pinter – Playwright CH CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday…

Vanessa Hudgens Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer. After making her feature film debut in Thirteen (2003), Hudgens rose to fame portraying Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical film series (2006–2008), which brought her significant mainstream success.[1] The success of the first film led to Hudgens’ acquiring…

Terrence McNally Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Having survived the AIDS epidemic and lung cancer, he died of complications from coronavirus on Tuesday at age 81.   Described as “the bard of American theater”[1] and “one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world…

Shirley MacLaine Memorabilia Available Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an American film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career. In 1983, she…

Ruth Gordon Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985)   Better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer.[1] She was perhaps best known for her film roles such as Minnie Castevet, Rosemary’s overly solicitous neighbor in Rosemary’s Baby, as the eccentric Maude in Harold and Maude and as the…

Russell Tovey Russell George Tovey (born 14 November 1981)[1] is an English actor.[2] He is known for playing the role of werewolf George Sands in the BBC’s supernatural drama Being Human,[3] Rudge in both the stage and film versions of The History Boys, Steve in the BBC Three sitcom Him & Her, Kevin Matheson in…

Rodgers and Hammerstein Memorabilia Available   Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team consisting of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960). They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the “golden age” of musical…

Phillipa Soo Phillipa Soo (born May 31, 1990) is an American actress and singer. Soo became engaged to actor Steven Pasquale in February 2016.[11] Soo is perhaps best known for originating the role of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in the Broadway musical Hamilton, a performance for which she was nominated for the 2016 Tony Award for…

Penn & Teller Penn & Teller (Penn Jillette and Teller) are Las Vegas headliners whose act is an amalgam of illusion and comedy. Penn Jillette is a raconteur; Teller generally uses mime while performing, although his voice can occasionally be heard throughout their performance. They specialize in gory tricks, exposing frauds, and performing clever pranks,…

“Patti LuPone” Memorabilia Available Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American singer and actress, known for her Tony Award-winning performances as Eva Perón in the 1979 stage musical Evita and as Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, and for her Olivier Award-winning performance as Fantine in the original London cast…

Matthew Broderick Matthew John Broderick (born March 21, 1962)[1] is an American actor, comedian and singer. His roles include the Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of the title character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), the voice of the adult Simba in Disney’s The Lion King (1994), and Leo Bloom in both the Broadway musical The Producers…

Martin Short Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950), is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer. Memorabilia Available Early Life Short, youngest of five children, was born into an Irish Canadian family in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the son of Olive (née Hayter), a violinist, and Charles Patrick Short, a corporate executive with…

Mart Crowley Edward Martino Crowley (August 21, 1935 – March 7, 2020) was an American playwright who was best known for his play The Boys in the Band. Memorabilia Available Mart 1969 Born (1935-08-21) August 21, 1935 (age 82) Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. Death March 7, 2020 (aged 84) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Occupation Playwright,…

  Lorenz Hart Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include “Blue Moon,” “Mountain Greenery,” “The Lady Is a Tramp,” “Manhattan,” “Where or When,” “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered,” “Falling in Love with Love,” “My…

Lena Hall Memorabilia Available Lena Hall (born January 30, 1980) is an American actress and singer. She is known for being the lead singer of the band The Deafening and for her work on Broadway, including originating the role of Nicola in Kinky Boots and her Tony Award-winning role as Yitzhak in the 2014 revival…

  Laura Linney Memorabilia Available  Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and four Tony Awards. Linney made her Broadway debut in 1990 before…

  Keira Knightley   Keira Christina Knightley ( born 26 March 1985) is an English actress.[4] She began acting as a child on television and made her film debut in 1995. She had a supporting role as Sabé in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) and her first significant role came in the…

  Kathy Baker Katherine Whitton “Kathy” Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an American stage, film and television actress, known for her leading and supporting performances in film and television. Baker began her career in theatre and made her screen debut in the 1983 drama film, The Right Stuff. She received the National Society of…

Kate Reinders Kate Reinders (born c. 1980[1]) is an American musical theatre actress, who has performed as lead and understudy in several Broadway shows. Reinders was born in Seattle, Washington, but raised in Spring Lake, Michigan. She attended Western Michigan Christian High School, graduating in 1998.   Career   Reinders’ Broadway debut was in The…

Julie Walters Julia Mary “Julie” Walters, CBE (born 22 February 1950) is an English actress and writer. She has won two BAFTA Film Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014. Walters first came to international prominence in 1983, for playing the title role in Educating Rita. It was a role…

Jude Law David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972), known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.[1][2] Memorabilia Available He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989. After starring in Andrew Niccol’s science fiction film Gattaca and Clint…

  Josh Young is an American actor best known for appearing on Broadway in the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar as Judas and Amazing Grace, originating the role of John Newton. Memorabilia Available  Life Young was raised in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and his family is Conservative Jewish.[1] He trained at the Pennsylvania Governors School for the…

Jonny Orsini Jonny Orsini Born : 1986 made his Broadway debut in Douglas Carter Beane’s burlesque dramedy The Nance, opposite Nathan Lane. He previously appeared off-Broadway in David Rabe’s An Early History of Fire. He started his journalism major at Suffolk University in Boston, he fell in with a theater crowd and found that performing…

Jonathan Groff   Jonathan Drew Groff is an American actor and singer. A prolific actor on stage, screen, and television, Groff is the recipient of a Grammy Award, and nominations for two Tony Awards. Groff rose to prominence in 2006 for his performance in the lead role of Melchior Gabor in the original Broadway production…

John Lithgow John Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, musician, and author. Lithgow has been involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio. He also has written and published several books of poetry and children’s literature. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in…

John Glover John Soursby Glover, Jr. (born August 7, 1944) is an American actor, known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.   Life   Glover was born in Salisbury, Maryland, the son of Cade (née Mullins) and John Soursby Glover Sr., a…

John Cariani John Edward Cariani (born July 23, 1969) is an award-winning American actor and an accomplished playwright. Cariani is best known to television viewers as the unwavering forensic expert Julian Beck in Law & Order. On stage, he earned a Tony Award nomination for his role as Motel the Tailor in the 2004 Broadway…

Joe Orton John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known under the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author and diarist. His public career—from 1964 until his death in 1967—was short but highly influential.[1][2][3][4][5] During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies….

Joan Marcus Joan Marcus is a Theatrical Photographer living in Manhattan New York, USA. During her extraordinary career, Marcus has also trained her camera on hundreds of Off-Broadway shows, regional theatre productions, and national tours. Her inimitable work has been featured in countless magazines, newspapers, websites, theatre programs, and billboards — bringing these shows, and…

Jessica Tandy Jessica Alice Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was a British-American stage and film actress, who spent most of her 67-year career[1] in the United States. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV.[1][2] Born in London to a headmistress and a…

Jerry Herman Gerald Sheldon Herman (July 10, 1931 – December 26, 2019) was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He was nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice,…

Jeremy Jordan Jeremy Michael Jordan (born November 20, 1984) is a Tony-nominated American actor and singer. He has performed on Broadway, in television and film, as well as in other theatrical productions. He is known for his role of ‘Jamie’ in the 2014 movie adaptation of the musical, ‘The Last Five Years’. He has played…

Jennifer Muller Memorabilia Available    JENNIFER MULLER (Artistic Director/Choreographer) has been an influence in the dance world for over 40 years. With her visionary approach to dance/theater, innovative multi-discipline productions incorporating spoken word, live and commissioned music, artist-inspired decor and unusual production elements, Muller has defied convention and created a distinct signature style, educational approach…

Jackie Mason Jackie Mason (born June 9, 1931) is an American stand-up comedian, Performer, Director, Writer, Conception. Memorabilia Available  Early Life Born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New…

Imelda Staunton   Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, OBE (born (1956-01-09)9 January 1956) is a British actress of stage and screen. A 1976 graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), she is a BAFTA Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner. Staunton began her career in repertory theatre, before joining the National Theatre…

Hume Cronyn Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr., OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside Jessica Tandy, his wife for over fifty years.[2]   Early Life   Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London, Ontario, Canada. His…

Heidi Blickenstaff Heidi Blickenstaff (born December 28, 1971) is an actress based in New York City best known for playing a version of herself in the musical [title of show] during its Off-Broadway and Broadway runs and starring in the musical Something Rotten!   Life   Heidi grew up in Fresno, California, and got her…

Gore Vidal Eugene Luther Gore Vidal born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. As a well-known public intellectual, he was known for his patrician manner and witty aphorisms. Vidal’s grandfather was the U.S. Senator Thomas Gore of Oklahoma….

Glen Close   Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American film, television and stage actress. Throughout her long and varied career, she has been consistently acclaimed for her versatility and is widely regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. She has won three Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards and received…

George Hearn   George Hearn (born June 18, 1934) is an American actor and singer, primarily in Broadway musical theatre. Hearn’s spouses include Susan Babel, Mary Harrell, with whom he had one son; Dixie Carter (1977–1979), girlfriend Betsy Joslyn (1979–1984), and current wife Leslie Simons. Hearn and Simons have two sons.[1][12][13] He is currently residing…

Elaine Stritch   Elaine Bawson Stritch (born February 2, 1925 – July 17, 2014) [1] was an American actress and vocalist. She has appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and many television programs. She is known for her performance of “The Ladies Who Lunch” in Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical Company, her 2001…

Ed Harris Edward Allen “Ed” Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his performances in The Rock, The Abyss, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, Enemy at the Gates, Gone Baby Gone, Radio, and Game Change. Harris has also narrated commercials for Home Depot…

Dorothy Loudon   Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1925 – November 15, 2003)[3] was an American actress and singer. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1977 for her performance as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Loudon was also nominated for Tony Awards for her lead performances in the musicals The…

Derek Jacobi Sir Derek Jacobi CBE Jacobi onstage performing A Voyage Round My Father at Wyndham’s Theatre, London (December 2006). Born Derek George Jacobi (1938-10-22) 22 October 1938 (age 78) Leytonstone, London, England Nationality British Alma mater St. John’s College, University of Cambridge Occupation Actor, director Years active 1961–present Partner(s) Richard Clifford (1979–present) Sir Derek…

Danny Burstein   Memorabilia Available   Danny Burstein (born June 16, 1964) is an American actor of stage and screen, who made his Broadway debut in 1992. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee; for The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), South Pacific (2008), Follies (2012), Golden Boy (2013), Cabaret (2014), and Fiddler on the Roof (2016)….

Dame Edna Everage Memorabilia Available   Dame Edna Everage is a character played by Australian dadaist-comedian Barry Humphries. As Dame Edna, Humphries has written several books including an autobiography, My Gorgeous Life, appeared in several films and hosted various television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared as himself and other alter-egos). Humphries has regularly…

Coral Browne   Coral Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian stage and screen actress. Her extensive theatre credits included Broadway productions of Macbeth (1956), The Rehearsal (1963) and The Right Honourable Gentleman (1965). She won the 1984 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC TV film An Englishman…

Cole Porter Memorabilia Available      Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre. After a slow…

Cicely Tyson Memorabilia Available     Cicely L. Tyson (born December 18, 1924)[1][3] is an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder (1972). For this role she also won the NSFC Best Actress and NBR Best Actress…

Christopher Isherwood Memorabilia Available     Christopher Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.[2][3][4] His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret, A Single Man (1964) adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009, and Christopher…

Christian Borle Memorabilia Available Christian Dominique Borle born October 1, 1973 is an American actor in theatre, television, and film. He is a two-time Tony Award winner for his roles as Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher and as William Shakespeare in Something Rotten!. Borle originated the role of Emmett in Legally Blonde on…

Chita Rivera Memorabilia Available   Chita Rivera (born January 23, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman and the first Latino American [1] to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award (December 2002). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom…

Cheyenne Jackson Memorabilia Available   Cheyenne David Jackson – born July 12, 1975 is an American actor and singer. His credits include leading roles in Broadway musicals and other stage roles, as well as film and television roles, concert singing, and music recordings. After beginning his acting career in regional theatre in Seattle, he moved…

Charles Durning   Memorabilia Available Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor, with appearances in over 200 movies, television shows and plays.[3] Durning’s memorable roles included The Sting (1973) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975), along with the comedies Tootsie (1982), and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)…

Casey Nicholaw   Casey Nicholaw (born 1962) is an American theatre director, choreographer and performer. He has been nominated for Tony Awards for directing and choreographing The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), for choreographing Monty Python’s Spamalot (2005), and choreographing The Book of Mormon (2011), as well as winning for his co-direction of the latter with Trey…

Carmen Cusack   Memorabilia Available   Carmen Cusack (born April 25, 1971) is an American musical theater actress and singer. She is known for playing Elphaba in the Chicago, North American Tour and Melbourne productions of the musical Wicked, as well as for originating the role of Alice Murphy in the Broadway musical, Bright Star….

  Carey Mulligan   Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress. She made her professional acting debut on stage in the Kevin Elyot play Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre in 2004. Her film debut was with a supporting role in Pride & Prejudice (2005), followed by roles in television,…

Brad Oscar Brad Oscar (born September 22, 1964) is an American musical theatre actor known for his Broadway performances in musicals such as The Producers and Jekyll and Hyde. The former garnered him a Tony Award nomination.   Something Rotten Broadway 2015 Career   Oscar’s Broadway debut was in the 1990 musical Aspects of Love…

  Beryl Reid Memorabilia Available Beryl Elizabeth Reid, OBE (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996), was an English actress of stage and screen. She won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Killing of Sister George, the 1980 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for Born in the Gardens, and the 1982 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Smiley’s…

Anthony Warlow   Anthony Warlow (born 18 November 1961 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian opera and musical theatre performer, noted for his character acting and considerable vocal range. He is a classically trained lyric baritone. Memorabilia Available   Performances Musical Notable musical roles include lead roles in The Phantom of the Opera (as “The…

Anthony Giardina Playwright   Anthony Giardina is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and playwright. Anthony Giardina started his professional career as an actor. He switched to playwriting, and eventually began writing novels. His work is particularly influenced by American culture in the 1950s. He was born in 1950 and grew up on a street…

Amanda Seyfried Memorabilia Available Amanda Michelle Seyfried [1] born December 3, 1985) is an American actress, singer and former model. She began her career as a model when she was 11, then at 15 began an acting career, starting off with uncredited roles and moving on to recurring roles on the soap operas As the World Turns and All My…

Alan Jay Lerner Background Born –  August 31, 1918 New York City, U.S. Died – June 14, 1986  (aged 67) New York City, U.S. Genres Musical theatre, popular Occupations lyricist, librettist Years active 1942 – 1986 Associated acts Frederick Loewe Memorabilia Available   Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist…

Alan Cumming Alan Cumming OBE Born 27 January 1965 (age 52) Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland Residence Manhattan, New York Citizenship British (1965–present) American (2008–present) Alma mater Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Occupation Actor, director, producer, writer, activist Years active 1980–present Known for The Good Wife; Cabaret (Tony Award) Notable work Not My Father’s Son Spouse(s) Hilary Lyon (m. 1985; div. 1993) Grant…

Adolph Green Adolph Green Betty Comden and Green (right), circa 1966 Born (1914-12-02)December 2, 1914 The Bronx, New York, U.S. Died October 23, 2002 (2002-10-23) (aged 87) New York City, New York, U.S. Occupation Playwright/Songwriter Years active 1944–2002   Adolph Green (December 2, 1914  – October 23, 2002) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator…

Paula Vogel Memorabilia Available   Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright who received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play How I Learned to Drive. A longtime teacher, Vogel spent the bulk of her academic career – from 1984 to 2008 – at Brown University, where she served as…

Charles Fuller – Playwright   Charles H. Fuller Jr. (born March 5, 1939) is an African American playwright, best known for his play A Soldier’s Play, for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Fuller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1939, the son of Charles H. Fuller, Sr. and Lillian Anderson. He attended…

Hugh Jackman Hugh Michael Jackman AC (born 12 October 1968)[1] is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. He is best known for playing Wolverine in the X-Men film series from 2000 to 2018, a role for which he holds the Guinness World Record for “longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero”. Jackman is also recognised…

Valerie Harper     Valerie Kathryn Harper Born August 22, 1939 – August 30, 2019 was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut in the musical Take Me Along in 1959. Harper is best remembered for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show…

Memorabilia Available  Trip Cullman   Trip Cullman Raised in New York City, with a BA and MFA from Yale University, Cullman first made a name for himself directing new plays by the likes of Adam Bock and Leslye Headland.     Broadway Work The Rose Tattoo – Play – Directed by Trip Cukkman – Oct 15,…

  Memorabilia Available Walter Bobbie   Walter Bobbie b November 18, 1945 – is an American theatre director, choreographer, and occasional actor and dancer. Bobbie has directed both musicals and plays on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and was the Artistic Director of the New York City Center Encores! concert series. He directed the long-running revival of…

  Memorabilia Available  Marc Bruni – Theatre Director Marc Bruni made his Broadway directorial debut with the big HIT Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, currently playing at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre and also this Spring directed The Sound of Music for the Chicago Lyric Opera. Bruni’s directing credits include well received revivals of Pipe Dream…

  Kenny Leon – Theatre Director   Kenny Leon is an American director notable for his work on Broadway and in regional theater. Robert Simonson of Playbill described Leon as “arguably Broadway’s leading African-American director.”[2] In 2014, he won the Tony Award for Best Director of a Play for A Raisin in the Sun.[3]  …

Michael Cera Memorabilia Available  Born Michael Austin Cera (1988-06-07) June 7, 1988 (age 29) Brampton, Ontario, Canada Residence Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Occupation Actor, musician Years active 1999–present   Michael Austin Cera B 1988 [1] is a Canadian actor and musician. He started his career as a child actor, most notably portraying a young Chuck…

Glenda Jackson Memorabilia Available  Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is a British actress and former Labour Party politician. As a professional actress from the late 1950s, she spent four years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, being particularly associated with the work of director Peter Brook. During her…

  Max von Essen – Actor   Photo by Davy Mack   Max von Essen (born January 11, 1974) is an American stage and screen actor, and vocalist. Life & Work Raised on Long Island, von Essen is a graduate of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York. He attended the University of…

Stephanie J Block   Stephanie Janette Block star of Wicked, Falsettos, Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Cher Show Memorabilia Available  Stephanie Janette Block (born September 19, 1972) is an American actress and singer, known for her work in Broadway musicals. A two-time Tony Award nominee, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical…

  Anthony Shalhoub Best Actor Leading Role of A Musical – The Band’s Visit Memorabilia Available Anthony Marcus Shalhoub (born October 9, 1953) is an American actor. His television work includes Antonio Scarpacci in NBC sitcom Wings and detective Adrian Monk in the USA TV series Monk, for which he has won a Golden Globe…

  Katrina Lenk Memorabilia Available  Katrina Lenk (born November 26 Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress and singer. Lenk is best known for originating the role of Dina in the Broadway musical The Band’s Visit, a performance for which she won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her additional stage credits…

  Laurie Metcalf b June 16, 1955 Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Play – Tony’s Laura Elizabeth “Laurie” Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress. The recipient of numerous acting awards and nominations, she has won three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and has been nominated at the Golden…

Harold Prince Harold Smith Prince (born January 30, 1928 – July 31, 2019)  was an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the 20th century Follies, Company, Phantom of the Opera . He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing,…

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) [2] is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.[3] Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a…

  Abe Vigoda – Actor   Abraham Charles Vigoda (February 24, 1921 – January 26, 2016) was an American actor who was known for a number of roles, such as his portrayals of Salvatore Tessio in The Godfather (1972) and Phil Fish in Barney Miller (1975–1977, 1982) and Fish (1977–1978). [1] Life Abe Vigoda was…

Lucas Hedges – Actor Lucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996) is an American actor.[1][2] He is a son of writer-director Peter Hedges, and studied theatre at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Hedges began his acting career by playing supporting roles in Wes Anderson’s comedy-drama Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and the crime biopic…

  Springsteen on Broadway Springsteen on Broadway is a concert residency by Bruce Springsteen being held at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City. The residency consists of Springsteen performing five shows a week, Tuesday through Saturday. Preview performances began on October 3, 2017 followed by the official opening on October 12, 2017. The…

Kenneth Lonergan – Playwright Memorabilia Available  Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American film director, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known for co-writing Gangs of New York (2002), and for writing and directing You Can Count On Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016). Lonergan earned an Academy Award…

  Memorabilia Availabe  Santino Anthony Fontana born March 21, 1982 is an American actor and singer, widely known for playing Greg Serrano on the television show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and for voicing Prince Hans in the 2013 Disney animated film Frozen. Life Fontana was born in Stockton, California to parents Sharon Marie Fontana (nee Simarro; born…

David Hyde Pierce Memorabilia Available David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959)[1] is an American actor, director, and comedian. Pierce is known for playing the psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series during the show’s run. Pierce…

  Bette Midler   Bette Midler ( born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer.[2] Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays, prior to her engagements in Fiddler on the Roof and Salvation on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence…

Neil Simon Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.[2] Memorabilia Available  Simon grew up…

Moisés Kaufman   Moisés Kaufman (born November 21, 1963) is a playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project. He is best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project. He is also the author of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and 33 Variations. He was born…

Michael Hus Rosen Memorabilia Available    Michael Rosen is an American actor, dancer, and singer. He was born and raised in New York City on the Upper West Side. Starred in the off Broadway and then Broadway Transfer of Harvey Fierstein‘s “Torch Song“. Life His on screen credits include Jimmy in Looking: The Movie on…

Ward Horton   Ward Kirby Horton (born January 14, 1976) is an American actor and stunt person. He is known for playing the role of John Form in Annabelle.[1] Annabelle is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, written by Gary Dauberman and produced by Peter Safran and James Wan. It…

Jack DiFalco   Life American actor who is best known for his role as Randy in the 2018 HBO TV movie Paterno. He has also acted in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The OA.  Jack attended John Jay High School (Hopewell Junction, New York) then at Denver Center for the Performing Arts and is from…

Mercedes Ruehl Memorabilia Available   Mercedes J. Ruehl (born February 28, 1948) is an American theater, television, and film actor. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for The Fisher King and a Tony Award for her performance in Lost in Yonkers in 1991.   TORCH SONG – MERCEDES RUEHL &…

Michael Urie Michael Lorenzo Urie (born August 8, 1980) is an American actor, presenter, director, and producer. He is known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC dramedy television series Ugly Betty. Memorabilia Available   Timeline and Life Michael Urie was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Plano. He is of…

  Harvey Fierstein Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1954)[1] is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best…

  Matthew Morrison Matthew Morrison returned to Broadway as J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland alongside Kelsey Grammer, Carolee Carmello and Laura Michelle Kelly. Finding Neverland First Preview March 15, 2015 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Broadway. Matthew released a new studio album “Where It All Began” in 2013 and in 2014 pop the big question to…

  Nick Spangler Memorabilia Available  Back Story Nick Spangler was born May 11, 1985 is an American actor, singer. Nick grew up in California and has been in community theatre from the age of 5, his first part was one of the boys in the lollipop guild in “The Wizard of OZ”. Nick continued with…

Jim Dale Jim Dale, MBE (born 15 August 1935) is an English-American actor, voice artist, and singer-songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and…

Mickey Rooney Mickey and Judy Garland Right up to the end, Mickey Rooney was unstoppable, its a sad goodbye to one of the most loved movie and stage star. Mickey aged 92 died April 6 2014, his death was due to natural causes.   Mickey Rooney Both of his parents were in vaudeville, appearing in…

  Kenny Doughty Kenny Doughty (born 27 March 1975 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire) an English actor who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Kenny is set to star as ‘Gaz’ in Simon Beaufoy’s new stage play of The Full Monty at the Noël Coward Theatre, West End London in 2014. [1] Kenny…

    Matt Smith     Matthew Robert Smith (born 28 October 1982) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as the 11th incarnation of The Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who. Smith initially aspired to be a professional footballer, but spondylolysis forced him out of the sport.[1] After joining…

Memorabilia Available Sutton Foster Sutton Lenore Foster (born March 18, 1975) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Foster is best known for her work on the Broadway stage, for which she has received two Tony Awards, in 2002 for the role of Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie and in 2011 for her performance…

  William Wyler William Wyler (July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.[1] Notable works included Ben-Hur (1959), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Mrs. Miniver (1942), all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years….

  Memorabilia Available   Tim Rice Sir Timothy Miles Bindon “Tim” Rice (born 10 November 1944) is a British lyricist and author. An Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, Rice is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,…

  Aaron Tveit Memorabilia Available Aaron Kyle Tveit (born October 21, 1983) is an American actor and singer. He is known for originating the roles of Gabe in Next to Normal and Frank Abagnale Jr. in the stage version of Catch Me If You Can on Broadway. He is also known for his recurring role…

Billy Joel b 1949 Singer – Actor Memorabilia Available   Billy Joel is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, Piano Man, in 1973, Joel has become the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to the RIAA. His compilation album Greatest Hits Vol. 1…

    Susannah York passed away at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London from advanced bone marrow cancer on 15 January 2011, six days after her 72nd birthday. An English rose with her blonde hair, blue eyes and fresh-faced complexion, she became one of the most recognisable actresses in the 1960s, winning a swathe of…

  Ari’el Stachel Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical – Tonys   Ari’el Stachel is playing Haled in “The Band’s Visit” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. He was nominated for the 2018 Tony Award for Lead Supporting Actor.     Ari’el Stachel – Haled’s Song About Love (54 Below)…

  Gillian Lynne – Bio 20-2-1926 – 01-7-2018 Memorabilia Available  Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, DBE (née Pyrke; 20 February 1926 – 1 July 2018[1]) was an English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of…

Tab Hunter Tab Hunter, So sad to say goodbye to one on the last great Hollywood stars and a true gentleman. Tab was a star of stage and screen and was America’s number 1 drawcard during the sixty’s and early seventy’s check out “Tab Hunter Confidential” DVD for more information in a DVD produced by…