Tag: jared parker

Does Jared Parker look familiar? That’s probably because he was the bespectacled star of this year’s Tony Awards, standing out among the “Revolting Children” of Broadway’s Matilda: The Musical. Until the role of Nigel in Matilda came along, 11-year-old Jared had been focusing on his ballet training at American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. […]

Some of “Matlida”‘s amazing kid stars swing it out. Photo by Joan Marcus. I was a tad nervous when I walked into the the Shubert theater to see Matilda: The Musical, the Broadway adaptation of Roald Dahl’s story that officially opens tonight. The book manages to present this weird, perfect mix of cynicism and hopefulness—it […]