Isaac Powell Is a Tony for the Twenty-First Century

During Broadway’s longest intermission in history and amid an ongoing movement for racial justice, the Belgian avant-garde director Ivo van Hove’s radical reimagining of the iconic musical West Side Story has gained increased relevance as it surfaces the racism, xenophobia, and police brutality that have long coursed through American society, led by a young actor who insists on theater’s power to move the culture forward.

Andrew Burnap Is the Pulsing Heart of 'The Inheritance'

In his Broadway début, the Rhode Island native tackles questions of artistic and social legacies with his powerfully raw performance as the writer Toby Darling in Matthew Lopez’s marathon new play about gay identity in the 21st century.

Anson Boon Wants to Get Inside Your Mind

Whether onstage in the three-hander “Master Harold”…and the Boys or in Sam Mendes’s Golden Globe-winning, big-budget World War I epic 1917, the young English actor puts his natural curiosity to use in every project he tackles.

Caleb Teicher Makes Tap Dance New

The young choreographer and dancer tackles the complicated legacies of tap, swing, and jazz head on through collaborations with everyone from beatboxers to new music composers to Regina Spektor, bringing the forms into a new age and offering a vision of hope on stage.

Russell Tovey Is Terrified of the Future

The English actor soldiers through a bleak future in the new HBO series Years and Years, illuminating the refugee crisis as the moral center of a Manchester family buffeted by a distressing world that is just like our own—only more so.

Brandon Uranowitz's Third Time Is a Charm

After making his name in musicals, the openly gay actor has earned his third Tony nomination in five years for his first Broadway play in Burn This, playing a gay character for the first time in a historic season for queer representation in theater.

Daniel David Stewart Embodies Avarice in 'Catch-22'

As the war profiteer extraordinaire Milo Minderbinder in Hulu’s new adaptation of Catch-22, the theater veteran finds his largest audience yet exploring the perils of American capitalism run rampant.

Celia Keenan-Bolger Dissects the State of the Nation

As Scout in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, the Broadway veteran has earned her fourth Tony nomination for a tender-yet-fierce performance in a work that speaks movingly about where we’ve come from as a country and where we’re going.

Jack O'Connell Says You Can Never Read Too Much

Known for his powerfully visceral performances in the iconic series Skins and films from Unbroken to Starred Up and Money Monster, the English actor is quickly establishing himself as one of the most compelling talents of his generation by working hard to inhabit every character, including the wrongfully executed Todd Willingham in the new Trial by Fire.

Anthony Boyle Lives for the Moment

After breaking out in his Olivier-winning role as Scorpius Malfoy, son of Draco, in the blockbuster play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the Belfast-born actor continues to approach every project with exceptional consideration, from the new biopic Tolkien to the upcoming HBO adaptation of Philip Roth’s prescient novel The Plot Against America.