Actress And Comedienne Jackie Hoffman Kvetches to A&U’s Dann Dulin About Fundraisers, Irresponsibility, And Prejudice. Listen Up! Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Stephen Churchill Downes / www.etccreativeinc.com I was in pain and in tears. This is how I left Jackie Hoffman’s riotous standup performance several years ago. I was aching from laughter. No comic has ever injured me like that. Meeting her in person is no different. Jackie has just completed a matinee performance of the knock-out musical The Addams Family, where she’s starring as [...]

Zippy, zany, and full of zeal, the 2012 documentary Larger Than Life, about the adventures of Carol Channing, finds this “Dolly” performing her signature role of Hello, Dolly! for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS—and at ninety years young yet, is out in theaters! Check out our 2004 interview with Carol Channing about her AIDS advocacy. Broadway Babe Stage Veteran Carol Channing Has a New Opening Number: To Give Is to Heal by Dann Dulin “A ll but one of the original Hello, Dolly! chorus boys are [...]

Bebe Neuwirth Moves Through Life Helping Others by Dann Dulin Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Stephen Churchill Downes / etccreativeinc.com Her text was straightforward, “Stuck in traffic.” Though Bebe Neuwirth was only a few minutes late for the interview, her message epitomizes the meticulous integrity she has displayed over the years to the HIV/AIDS community. Last summer she hosted the Fire Island Dance Festival 17, raising nearly $350,000 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares, where she’s been involved from the very [...]

Priscilla Queen Of The Desert’s Nick Adams High-Kicks from Chorus Boy to Lead and Creates A New AIDS Fundraising Technique by Dann Dulin A college boy from Erie, Pennsylvania, sits in the last row of the top balcony at Broadway’s Palace Theatre. His first time to this theater, he’s spellbound at its splendor and its history. He watches a performance of All Shook Up, whose star, Cheyenne Jackson, captivates him. A musical theater student at Boston Conservatory, he dreams that one day he, too, will work [...]