Already a Tony Award-winner for Gypsy and nominated again this year for Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown, actress Laura Benanti, soon to star in NBC's series The Playboy Club, tells us, "Why theatre?"

Stephen Adly Guirgis - Why theatre?

As part of the run up to the 2011 Tony Awards the American Theatre Wing posts videos with "cues" from many Tony Award nominees.