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Jun 8 2013 10:00 AM ET

This Week On Stage: It's Tony weekend!

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It’s finally here — Broadway’s version of the Super Bowl — and EW’s own Melissa Rose Bernardo and Thom Geier have already firmed up who they think are going to win the big trophies at the Tonys on Sunday evening. It’s one of the most unpredictable years on record, so that, plus fourth time host Neil Patrick Harris (click here for our recent interview with Harris) and the promise of a boatload of show performances should make for one good time. (See below on how you can join us for the Tonys live).

In the land of Off Broadway, however, there are still quite a few new openings this week, including a quite-pregnant and lovely-as-ever Kelli O’Hara returning to the stage for the first time since her Tony-nommed performance in Nice Work If You Can Get It and Glee’s Jane Lynch takes on the Great White Way  for the very first time (click on the links below for the full reviews): READ FULL STORY »

Jun 5 2013 03:00 PM ET

'Annie' star Jane Lynch takes the EW Pop Culture Personality Test -- VIDEO

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Jane Lynch will return to Glee this fall (“My character has been fired, but I don’t think Jane Lynch has been fired,” she says), but in the meantime, she’s keeping busy. She’s doing eight shows a week on Broadway as Annie‘s Miss Hannigan through July 14. (Her pre-show ritual? Besides nervous burping, she heads to the conductor’s dressing room and they sing “Little Girls” on his Casio, “just for fun.”) She’s serving as the face of belVita Breakfast Biscuits. (Her favorite flavor? Blueberry). And she’s hosting NBC’s Hollywood Game Night, premiering July 14, which has stars playing variations of games like Charades and Name That Tune. The most competitive celebrity? “Matthew Perry was the most angry, I think,” she reports, laughing. “He did not do well, and he was funny and self-deprecating. Martin Short was hilarious and off-the-wall. We have a live house band, and they were right behind him. Every time they would play, he would fall on to the floor. Rose Byrne was very aggressive. It’s the cute young girls with the pretty faces, and they become little monsters. Ellie Kemper, she was awful and very sweet, all at the same time.”

Now that she’s ratted them out, it’s only fair that Lynch reveals a few of her own secrets in our EW Pop Culture Personality Test. Watch it below. READ FULL STORY »

May 21 2013 12:41 PM ET

'Annie' Broadway cast album with Jane Lynch bonus tracks -- EXCLUSIVE FIRST LISTEN

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No more “Hard Knock Life” for us! The 2012 revival of everyone’s favorite copper-topped orphan Annie has a new cast album featuring all of the tunes “Little Girls” (and okay, perhaps some boys too) sang and danced around their living rooms growing up, including “Maybe,” “Tomorrow,” “N.Y.C.,” and “Easy Street.” And EW has every track, streamable below with added bonus tracks featuring the musical’s new addition to the cast, Glee’s favorite baddie Jane Lynch, who began an eight-week stint as the crusty alkie Miss Hannigan just last week. (Though we did already get an aural hint of her take on one of the tunes some time ago.). Click below for access to the entire cast album, available as a digital download on May 28 and for purchase on June 18. READ FULL STORY »

May 10 2013 11:34 AM ET

First Look: See Jane Lynch as Miss Hannigan in Broadway's 'Annie' -- EXCLUSIVE PHOTO

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Glee‘s Jane Lynch begins a summer run on May 16 in the Broadway revival of Annie, playing the boozy and bawdy orphanage manager Miss Hannigan, who torments the titular red-haired girl. (Lynch is replacing current star Katie Finneran.) The actress rehearsed for the part this winter in L.A. while she wrapped up the fourth season of Glee.

Lynch admits that the role shares similarities with her villainous Glee character, Sue Sylvester, and says the two characters would probably be pals in real life. “I think Miss Hannigan would look up to Sue because Sue is much more stealth and much more successful at being manipulative,” says Lynch. “Miss Hannigan is just sloppy. She’s kind of a mess.”

Lynch adds that her Glee costar Darren Criss, who stepped in for Daniel Radcliffe in the Broadway run of How to Succeed…, gave her some good advice. “He said ‘Make yourself comfortable.’ You have to really save your energy and your angst for the show.” Lynch admits that performing live on stage every night is  going to be a test of endurance. “I had a rehearsal onstage for the first time and I got to the point where I was doing ‘Little Girls’ and I was out of breath,” she says. “So I have to learn how to conserve my energy.”

She’s also not gonna be preoccupied with any potential Glee castmates or other pals coming to see her. Says Lynch, “I’ve told them I don’t want to know when anyone’s coming. I just wanna show up and do the show. I don’t want to think oh so-and-so is out there. I met Patti LuPone last night and she was like, ‘I’m going to come see you.’ And I was like, ‘You cannot let me know when.’ I do not want to know when Patti LuPone is coming to see me!”

Read more:
‘Glee’: Kate Hudson and Lea Michele perform Stevie Wonder’s ‘Uptight (Everything’s Alright)’ — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
‘Glee’ season finale recap: All or Nothing
‘Glee’: Listen to three songs from this week’s Stevie Wonder tribute — EXCLUSIVE

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Mar 11 2013 11:32 AM ET

Jane Lynch teams with Lisa Kudrow for 'Dropping the Soap' web series

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The team behind Lisa Kudrow’s Internet hit Web Therapy is at it again with a new web series set in the dying world of daytime soaps. Glee‘s Jane Lynch will star in the 10-episode comedy Dropping the Soap playing Olivia Vanderstein, the new Head of the Network, who’ll try anything to save the long-running soap opera Colliding Lives.

Lynch and Kudrow are exec producers, along with Kudrow’s Web Therapy co-creator Dan Bucatinsky, screenwriter Don Roos (Marley & Me) and Damon Bethel and Joseph Gomes of Digital Broadcasting Group (which recently produced the Webby Award-winning drama The Confession, starring Kiefer Sutherland and John Hurt). Paul Witten costars as Julian Drake, the soap’s leading man of “questionable talent and moral compass.”

Read more:
‘Glee’ star Jane Lynch to make Broadway debut as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie
Jane Lynch, Wilmer Valderrama cast in Fox’s animated comedy ‘Murder Police’ — EXCLUSIVE
Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim & Eric, and Reggie Watts form JASH Internet network

Feb 20 2013 02:05 PM ET

'Glee' star Jane Lynch to make Broadway debut as Miss Hannigan in 'Annie'

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Cheerios, rejoice! Jane Lynch, who won an Emmy as sharp-tongued cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Fox’s Glee, will make her Broadway debut this spring in the hit musical revival of Annie. The role seems like a perfect fit for the star: Miss Hannigan, the drunken and scheming head of young Annie’s orphanage who melodically complains about being surrounded by “little girls.” Lynch, an Illinois native who got her start in theater at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Second City, will appear in the musical for eight weeks only, from May 16 through July 14. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 3 2012 12:24 PM ET

CNN Heroes: Anderson Cooper, Viola Davis, Jane Lynch, and more + full list of honorees

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CNN Heroes is not your typical Los Angeles awards show. Sure, there was a glamorous red carpet with photographers shouting and snapping away, an elaborate stage design, and a highly choreographed show, but on Sunday night at the Shrine Auditorium, the celebrities weren’t the ones being honored. They were there to pay tribute to 10 incredible individuals who are making a difference in the world.

The celebrity with a cause is not a new phenomena, but from Susan Sarandon to 50 Cent to Rico Rodriguez, all who attended were keenly aware of their platform and unique ability to elevate the names and causes of those who, otherwise, would not receive such high profile recognition.

Pushpa Basnet, creator of the Butterfly Home that supports children in Nepal who are forced to live with their parents in prison, was voted the CNN Hero of the Year and awarded a $250,000 grant to continue her work.

Click through to the next page to find out who else was honored, and what host Anderson Cooper, presenters Viola Davis and Adrien Brody, and others had to say about being there.

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Sep 27 2012 02:22 PM ET

Darren Criss, Jane Lynch, Neil Patrick Harris in new NSFW Rock the Vote ad -- VIDEO

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“This election, there are a lot of really important decisions being made that affect marginalized groups in big ways,” Jesse Tyler Ferguson declares in a new Rock The Vote ad.

“Thank you, Jesse. Which is why, as an openly straight man, I implore you to think about people like me as you cast your ballot,” Ferguson’s co-star on Modern Family and recent Emmy-winner Eric Stonestreet continues.

What follows is a whole host of celebrities giving you their best reasons to vote on Nov. 6. Kathy Griffin reminds us that everyone at a polling place is over 18, which means they’re legal. Joel McHale votes because he’s not “a motherf***ing communist” and Jane Lynch tells us that casting a ballot is the best decision you can make. A close second? Getting a One Direction tattoo, like Lynch did.

Want to know who’s proud to be an American because of Ryan Gosling (even though he’s Canadian)? Check out the full NSFW ad below: READ FULL STORY »

Sep 19 2012 05:35 PM ET

Rock The Vote commercial stars Darren Criss, Neil Patrick Harris, a ton of other people -- VIDEO

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You know what’s important? Voting.

You know who appears in a PSA telling you to vote? Nearly every celebrity I can think of.

In the “We Will” commercial for Rock the Vote, celebs such as Darren Criss, Neil Patrick Harris, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet, Jane Lynch, Kathy Griffin and Miley Cyrus (with her new hairdo!) come together to write on a whiteboard and also break into some choreographed dance formations…all in the name of making your voice heard!

Check out the commercial below: READ FULL STORY »

May 21 2012 04:16 PM ET

Celebrity commencement addresses: Steve Carell, Jane Lynch, and more

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Steve Carell refrained from “That’s what she said” comments, well, almost, (check out 14:10) but the funnyman managed to be both funny and earnest in his remarks to Princeton University grads as their Class Day Speaker yesterday. 

His speech focused on the differences between when he went to college and now, and talked about how much harder he had it, including talking to girls without being able to text them. Instead, he had the pleasure of getting rejected face-to-face. “The point is, I suffered, and you should have to suffer too,” he explained to laughs.

Carell also gave some insight into what social media was back in the day: “We didn’t have Twitter, we used good old-fashioned gossip. If you wanted to talk about someone you could do it face-to-face, right behind their back.”

Check out video of Carell’s remarks, as well as some of our other favorite 2012 celebrity commencement speeches –such as Jane Lynch and James Franco–after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

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