Curtain Call The two-time Olympian makes her Broadway debut in & Juliet. by Hannah Orenstein March 25, 2026 Curtain Call In 2016, Laurie Hernandez earned a silver Olympic medal flipping across a 4-inch-wide balance beam in Rio de Janeiro. Ten years later, she has plenty of space to move — a whole stage, in fact. I catch the retired gymnast at a Midtown hotel on the cusp of her Broadway debut in & Juliet at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.