Andrew Rannells

Neil Patrick Harris in Tonys telecast: What did the critics think?

2013-06-10 08:44:00

In live theater, a performer has to know how to make an entrance, and television critics reviewing Sunday's CBS telecast of the Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall in New York City applauded its host, Neil Patrick Harris, for making a memorable one....

Tonys 2013: Neil Patrick Harris gets largest audience since 2009

2013-06-10 10:36:00

Sunday night’s Tony Awards, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, posted a strong ratings gain over last year to reach its biggest audience since 2009. The stage awards show’s ratings increased 20% to 7.2 million viewers, according to preliminary...

Tony Awards 2013, 'Kinky Boots' takes best musical title

2013-06-09 20:22:00

The Tonys live... 8:22 p.m.: "Kinky Boots" was named best new musical, bringing its awards haul to six, the most of any production at the 67th annual Tony Awards. The musical, based on the 2005 British movie about a drag queen who saves a shoe factory,...

Review: Lena Dunham's 'Girls' courageous and contradictory

2013-01-12 07:00:00

The second season of "Girls" premieres Sunday on HBO and one can only hope that it will be allowed to do so without too much obsessive talk about creator-star Lena Dunham's penchant for nudity. Which is almost immediately on display, to be sure —...

Review: 'Walking the Tightrope' a delicate balance of life's stages

2013-02-06 10:38:00

Delicately poised between children’s fable and adult reverie at once, only to become another transcendent thing altogether, “Walking the Tightrope” at 24th Street Theatre delivers the evocative, cathartic goods. In its pitch-perfect...

Review: 'Machu Picchu, Texas' gives eloquent voice to anguish

2013-02-05 11:30:00

The two worlds conjoined in the title of playwright-director Timothy McNeil’s “Machu Picchu, Texas” are metaphorically linked by constants in human experience — in particular, the enduring propensity for senseless violence. At...

Sutton Foster and Andrew Rannells to perform in L.A. benefit

2013-02-04 08:07:00

Now that they both have landed TV series that require them to spend significant time on the West Coast, Broadway stars Sutton Foster and Andrew Rannells will be performing on stage together for the first time. Foster and Rannells are scheduled to appear...

'Girls' is back, with flak jackets at the ready

2013-01-06 12:00:00

Aspiring cultural critics of the world, get those pitches ready: "Girls," the show that inspired a thousand think pieces, is back. Created by and starring Lena Dunham, a Manhattan native who shot her first feature film, "Tiny Furniture," fresh out of...

Theater review: 'The Book of Mormon' at Pantages is naughty, nice and fun

2012-09-13 15:18:00

No need to bone up on the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith before attending "The Book of Mormon" at the Pantages Theatre. Just know that this exceedingly naughty, though in the end disarmingly nice, show is devised by the minds behind "South Park" and that...

'The New Normal' house borrows its style from Diane Keaton

2012-09-24 12:20:00

The Spanish Colonial interiors of the new comedy "The New Normal" evoke such romance -- the sculptural arches, the verdant courtyards -- that even those One Million Moms protesting the latest show from co-creator Ryan Murphy would swoon.� The classic...

Tony Awards 2013 date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

2013-06-07 16:32:41

Neil Patrick Harris: ready for the Oscars

2013-06-10 05:12:00

How many times does Neil Patrick Harris have to audition to host the Oscars? His fourth time as Tony host on Broadway was stellar Sunday night on CBS -- it's likely to be one of the entertainment peaks this summer. He will be back to host the Emmys a...

A trio of stars from recently defunct NBC series joined Neil Patrick Harris in an ode their canceled shows. Laura Benanti, Andrew Rannells and Megan Hilty of "Go On," "The New Normal" and "Smash" lamented their former TV gigs.

2013-06-09 00:00:00

Laura Benanti, from left, Andrew Rannells, Megan Hilty and Neil Patrick Harris perform a humorous skit about stage actors and the often-shaky move to TV.

2013-06-09 00:00:00

Sutton Foster, shown here on the set of the ABC Family series "Bunheads," will appear with Andrew Rannells in April at the 29th Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event in Beverly Hills.

2013-02-03 22:38:00