When Hollywood heads to Broadway, it doesn’t tiptoe—it struts. This season, the stage lights are burning brighter as film and television’s biggest names swap camera crews for curtain calls. From George Clooney’s smoldering gravitas in Good Night, and Good Luck to Sarah Snook shape-shifting through 26 roles in The Picture of Dorian Gray, the crossover is anything but casual. Whether it’s Kieran Culkin cutting through Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Idina Menzel finding her voice among the Redwoods, or Keanu Reeves preparing to existentially unravel in Waiting for Godot, these stars are trading red carpets for standing ovations—and making it look easy.
HOLLYWOOD LEGEND
George Clooney stepped into theatrical waters with silver-fox charm in Good Night, and Good Luck, finding new depth amid McCarthy-era tension and intimate stage electricity.
OSCAR TITANS
Denzel Washington commanded Othello with majestic gravitas alongside Oscar-nominee Jake Gyllenhaal as Iago, creating an unforgettable portrait of nobility corrupted by poisonous suspicion.
EMMY DARLING
Jean Smart returned triumphantly in Call Me Izzy, crafting a Louisiana woman’s journey from whispered secrets to liberation with devastating vulnerability and delicious timing.
BroadWay Treasure
Kristin Chenoweth illuminated Queen of Versailles with sparkling complexity, her petite frame containing outsized ambition and fragile nouveau riche dreams.
Vocal Phenomenon
Idina Menzel ventured into Redwood with raw authenticity, her crystalline voice creating a spiritual awakening amid towering California giants that mirrored her journey.
SITcom Icon
David Hyde Pierce embraced Pirates of Penzance with precise comic flourishes, his unexpected vocal prowess elevating Gilbert and Sullivan amid sultry New Orleans jazz.
Succession standout
Kieran Culkin brought razor-sharp intensity to Glengarry Glen Ross, his calculating eyes and compact frame vibrating with hungry ambition in Mamet’s cutthroat battlefield.
TV Royalty
Sarah Snook shape-shifted through Picture of Dorian Gray, navigating 26 characters and earning a Tony Award in the season’s most talked-about theatrical phenomenon
pop Heartthrob
Nick Jonas revealed unexpected depth in The Last Five Years, his boyish charm maturing into nuanced vulnerability as he navigated love’s bittersweet dissolution.
Screen icon
Mia Farrow mesmerized in The Roommate, bringing brittle, shuffling loneliness to Iowa-bound Sharon before blossoming into delicious rebellion alongside powerhouse Patti LuPone’s magnetic Bronx firecracker.
action superstar
Keanu Reeves will embrace Waiting for Godot in fall 2025, where his gentle intensity seems ideally suited to Beckett’s existential landscape of beautiful, absurd nothing.
Photos Courtesy Of: Getty Images, Shutterstock, Call Me Izzy, Pirates of Penzance | Joan Marcus, Idina Menzel Redwood | emma anderson, Glengarry-Glen-Ross | Emilio Madrid The Picture of Dorian Gray |Marc Brenner, The Roommate | Matthew Murphy, The Last Five Years | Matthew Murphy, Waiting For Godot | Jamie Lloyd’s production
