Kinky Boots, an inspirational musical about a struggling shoemaker and his drag queen business partner, is leading the Tony nominations.

The show has received 13 nominations for the US theater awards including Best Musical, Book and Musical Score.

Among the highly praised this year is Matilda the Musical with 12 nominations and Pippin received 10.

Check out the full list of nominations below:

As excitement builds around the US Supreme Court’s hearings on gay marriage, many have shown their support by customizing the Human Rights Campaign's logo – currently colored red for equal marriage.

From Lion King’s Rafiki, holding up the logo in place of baby Simba, to Stormtroopers walking hand-in-hand, fans have wanted to show their popular TV and film characters backing the fight.

He's played a gay man on stage in The Book of Mormon and plays a gay man on TV in The New Normal.

But on HBO's Girls, Andrew Rannells is playing a character who is wondering if he might be bisexual instead of gay.

Off screen, Rannells does no such wondering.

'I personally have never had sex with a woman,' he tells New York magazine’s Vulture blog. 'I’m more of what you call gold-star gay. I’m purebred.'

Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad appeared in Broadway's The Book of Mormon together in New York then went their separate ways.

Now both are in Los Angeles where Rannells is one of the stars of the NBC hit comedy The New Normal and Gad has been cast as the son of the president of the US in the NBC sitcom 1600 Penn which premieres next month.

In this Funny of Die video parody, Gad is really happy to reconnect with Rannells - so much so that he becomes something of a stalker!

Rannells is understandably creeped out!

When Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka met and fell in love, each was appearing in a Broadway show - Harris in Assassins and Burtka in Gypsy.

They moved to Los Angeles when Harris landed the role of Barney Stinson on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother which remains a big hit in its eighth season.

But Harris says once the show ends its run, the couple and their children, Gideon and Harper, will return to their theater roots.

Comedian Justin Lee Collins called his ex-girlfriend a 'sex addicted lesbian', a court heard during a trial into harrassment allegations.

The 38-year-old TV presenter, who is currently starring in stage musical Rock of Ages in London's West End, has denied harrassing his former partner Anna Larke, causing her fear of violence, during their seven-month relationship.

Gay pop star and actor Will Young was evacuated from a Manchester theatre yesterday (26 September).

The Pop Idol winner was starring in the new touring production of Cabaret, when a fire scare forced everyone out of the northern English city theatre during the interval of the matinee performance.

Young’s co-star Ian Parsons revealed what happened on Twitter, saying: ‘Interval fire alarm at Cabaret this afternoon.

‘Outside in costumes and makeup right in front of the audience.’

After 12 years as a couple, actor Cheyenne Jackson still gets a 'metaphysical boner' from husband Monte Lapka's wicked, dry sense of humor.

The Broadway and television star says one of the reasons his marriage to the successful physicist works so well is because Lapka is not an actor.

We are already quite used to Adam Lambert making dramatic statements with his ever-changing hairstyles.

But the singer's latest look takes things a step further. He was done away with his trademark jet-black hair to become a platinum blond!

The 2008 American Idol runner-up tweeted a photo of his new do and explained: 'You ask Why? Why not? Change is good.'

Nathan Lane has been a huge star on Broadway for three decades now and appeared in such hit movies as The Birdcage, Austin Powers in Goldmember and this year's Mirror Mirror.

But what he has never manage to do is be one of the stars of a hit television series.

His NBC sitcom Encore! Encore, in which he played an opera singer who loses hos voice and moves home with his mother, lasted just 12 episodes on 1998. Then in 2003. he starred as a gay politician in the CBS sitcom Charlie Lawrence which ran for only six episodes.

When Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka first began dating in 2004, they were a couple of New York-based actors appearing in Broadway shows.

Harris may have been famous for his role as a teenager in the ABC series Doogie Howser MD but at that time, he was having greater success on the stage in such shows as Assassins, Cabaret and Proof.

Meanwhile, Burtka was starring in the musical The Opposite of Sex and had made his Broadway debut in 2003 in the Bernadette Peters-led production of Gypsy.

Nominations for the the 66th annual Tony Awards were announced on Tuesday (1 May) and Ricky Martin's much-heralded return to the Broadway stage in Evita did not result in a nod for the openly-gay superstar.

But out actress Cynthia Nixon, winner of the 2006 Tony for Rabbit Hole, is one of the favorites in the lead actress in a play category for her performance as a woman dying of cancer in Wit.

Martin, who earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance as Che, last appeared on Broadway in 1996 in Les Miserables.