EDGE Washington

Rock’s Amanda Palmer returns to the stage as the Emcee in Cabaret. In some ways it’s a return to the roots of the Dresden Dolls. EDGE spoke to Palmer and director Steven Bogart about the production.

Anyone who’s ever seen Marcy Harriell on stage, television, or the silver screen, knows how she illuminates the space around her. During her two-year run in the Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Rent, the New York Times called her "incandescent."

Vicki Lawrence works to keep Mama up with the times in a new show she brings to Texas this weekend as part of a national tour continuing through the fall.

Looking for a good summer read? Then pick up Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Alison Arngrim’s account of growing up in West Hollywood with a closeted dad, enduring sexual abuse by a brother and, most memorably, spending her teen years playing nasty Nellie Oleson on the classic television series Little House on the Prairie. EDGE’s Jim Halterman spoke with Arngrim about her book, her friendships (and non-friendships) with other Little House cast members and her one-woman show.

Longtime comedian and sitcom writer Carol Leifer’s real life departs from the script