On Broadway, the show must go on—and understudies are the people who make sure that happens.

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Iglehart spoke with Mental Floss about prepping to play Lafayette and Jefferson, his dream Broadway roles, and how karaoke changed his life.
For a bloody good time, make sure to book a seat in the "splatter zone" for 'Evil Dead The Musical.'
Tennessee Williams is best known for having written 'The Glass Menagerie,' 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof.' He also hobnobbed with presidents and worked on a film that shocked the censors.
Some Shakespeare fans want to spend eternity as a prop.
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is the most frequently performed Shakespeare work since 2011.
Terrible occurrences have dogged performances of the Shakespeare play ever since its premiere.
Mel Brooks is a 10,000-trick pony who has made us laugh as a performer, writer, musician, and, of course, a director.
It has to do with a few seats (and a couple million dollars).
Let's raise the curtain on 'barnstorming,' 'catastrophe,' and other terms that have their origins in the theater.
The classic novel's 600 pages were condensed into a terrifying, two-hour performance.
William Shakespeare died 400 years ago this month.
'Springtime for Hitler' was at least fictitious.
Shot a budget of $6 million budget, 'Grease' made nearly $400 million at the box office—making it one of the highest-grossing musical movies of all time.
A tutorial and a performance from one of the best Shakespearean actors of our time.
Tonight, NBC will air The Wiz Live!, a brand new production of the 1975 smash that descended on Broadway like a Kansas twister.
After this daring musical made its Big Apple debut in September 1957, critics reacted as if an atomic bomb had gone off over Manhattan.
Nicknames for noisy babies? Just because these terms from Victorian theater have dropped out of use doesn't mean they're any less applicable today.
Whether you prefer the 1925 movie featuring Lon Chaney, the original Broadway production, or the 2004 Gerard Butler remake, there’s no question that the chandelier crash scene is one of the most iconic moments in The Phantom of the Opera.