The Roundabout Theater Company's Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie will close on January 24, 2010, when the leading actors' contracts end. The Robert Longbottom-helmed tuner, starring John Stamos and Gina Gershon, began previews at the Henry Miller's Theatre on September 10 and opened on October 15. The limited engagement, which will have played 40 previews and 117 ...

If any woman knows what its like to lock lips with a rock 'n' roll icon, as Kim MacAfee does with rocker Conrad in Bye Bye Birdie, it's Priscilla Presley, former wife of the one and only Elvis. So, naturally, the actress felt right at home at Henry Miller's Theatre on November 8 when she dropped by to ...

We already knew that Kevin Spacey is a Broadway buff. The screen star has trotted the board ably himself over the years, winning a Tony Award for Lost in Yonkers and appearing in productions like The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night and A Moon for the Misbegotten. What we did not know is that the star, currently ...

John Stamos gets a lot of visitors over at The Henry Miller's Theater, where he's currently starring as Albert Peterson in Roundabout Theatre Company's starry Bye Bye Birdie revival. The leading man's guest of honor on October 25 was one many children of the 1980s will be happy to see: Dave Coulier, also known as Uncle ...

Matt Doyle is on a tear these days. The 22-year-old talent, who made his Broadway debut in the fervently followed Spring Awakening, is currently giving an utterly lovable performance as jilted boyfriend Hugo Peabody in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Bye Bye Birdie, the musical theater classic about rock'n' roll mania in small-town Ohio. He's also ...

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Tony Award winner Bill Irwin has done it all. He's a legit clown college graduate and beloved alum of The Pickle Family Circus. He has written, directed and starred on Broadway, occasionally doing all three at once, as in 1989's Largely New York. His screen work runs the gamut from Sesame Street to big screen ...

It's an opening night nearly 50 years in the making. In 1960, hundreds of ticketholders flocked to the Martin Beck Theatre to see Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera and Paul Lynde in what would become one of the most-produced musicals of the century: Bye Bye Birdie. On October 15, 2009, stars, fans and an excited band of theatergoers came ...