“I loved the Ninja Turtles,” Dana D’Adamo tells me. “Do you remember the live-action Ninja Turtles growing up? I would look at all their costumes and I would look at their breathable holes, in their armpits and their crotch, like, ‘how did they make that?’” The accomplished Broadway stylist is talking to me from her …
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Born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, lifelong actor James Leo Ryan (whom I know as Jimmy) is energetic, charismatic, and always excited for what’s next. He’s talking to me remotely from his Los Angeles home, which he shares with Rodney, his partner of 13 years. “I started when I was six,” he tells me. “I …
“This story gives me goosebumps every time I talk about it,” says Kelli Youngman. “I had this moment where I was like, ‘you know what? I’m going to be on Broadway.’” Just a few years after having this epiphany, she’s been on Broadway twice. She’s toured the country and performed at major regional theatres …
On a non-pandemic evening, a Seattle theatre patron may venture to the 5th Avenue Theatre, look into the orchestra pit, and orient their gaze toward the percussion section. There at the drums, sporting round-framed glasses and a flowing mane, is Paul Hansen. It’s a bit of a cliché to say that he’s done it all, …
Not far from San Francisco, across the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, set beneath the redwoods of Northern California, you’ll find a small city called Mill Valley. First, the site was home to the Coast Miwok, an Indigenous people who lived off the land and fished from its waters. Later, Spanish missionaries swept through with bibles …
Wearing a t-shirt from the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, sitting in his meticulously designed, pint-sized apartment in Hell’s Kitchen, Jonathan Cerullo appears on my computer screen. “Did you know the New York Times did an article on my space?” he gleams. A conversation with the man is, in a word, fun. He’s …
Set in the picturesque mountain range for which it’s named, the Netflix series Ozark features a sordid cast of characters: boat thieves, money launderers, heroin manufacturers, and more. Notably missing from this sinister assortment, however, is the musical theatre actor. A missed opportunity, to be sure, considering that from the mountains of southern Missouri emerged …