Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Because Fugard’s best-known plays center on the suffering caused by the apartheid policies of South Africa’s white-minority government, some among Fugard’s audience abroad were surpris…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:05PMMonday, September 23, 2024
This season’s Tony Awards will take place on June 8 at its familiar home of Radio City Music Hall, producers of the show announced the date and location Monday.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 04:49PMMonday, June 17, 2024
The musical of “Merrily We Roll Along” also won big, nabbing the revival award as well as trophies for Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:29PMWednesday, June 12, 2024
The three-hour main telecast of the awards ceremony will feature Eddie Redmayne, Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe, among others.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 05:00PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
The two Broadway shows each earned a leading 13 Tony nominations and a record number of women nominated for best director, plus one recognizable Bay Area name.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:49PMTwo Broadway shows celebrating the origins of sonic creativity each earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday. Awards will be given June 16.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 12:07AMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations in a long Broadway career died Tuesday.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:40PMThursday, January 4, 2024
Glynis Johns played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns.”
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 03:29PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
Frances Sternhagen, the veteran character actor who won two Tony Awards and became a familiar maternal face to TV viewers later in life in such shows as “Cheers,” “ER,” “Sex and th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:49PMFriday, November 17, 2023
Elton John’s musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is coming to Broadway from London.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:06AMMonday, November 6, 2023
Boy George is returning to Broadway in “Moulin Rouge." He'll play Moulin Rouge club owner Harold Zidler Feb. 6-May 12 at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre,
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 10:50AMFriday, June 23, 2023
Sheldon Harnick went on to collaborate with Michel Legrand on “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” in 1979 and a musical of “A Christmas Carol” in 1981
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:41AMMonday, June 12, 2023
Broadway flexed its muscle in the face of Hollywood writers’ strike and fully embraced trans-rights with history-making winners.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:43AMSunday, June 11, 2023
The 2023 Tony Awards should be a show with an extra jolt of electricity this time due to the Hollywood writers’ strike.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:57AMFriday, June 9, 2023
There are a lot of questions surrounding this year’s Tony Awards and not just about who might win
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:55AMMonday, May 15, 2023
Striking members of the Writers Guild of America have said they will not picket next month’s Tony Award telecast, clearing a thorny issue facing show organizers and opening the door for so…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:58PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
Ariana DeBose will host the June 11 awards celebration from New York City’s United Palace theater live on CBS and on Paramount+.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 01:29PM“Some Like It Hot,” a musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy that starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, waltzed away with a leading 13 Tony Award nominations.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:18AM“Some Like It Hot,” a musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy that starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, has waltzed away Tuesday with the most number of Tony Award nominati…
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 12:38AMThursday, April 20, 2023
Turned the nearly bankrupt Roundabout Theatre Company into a major theatrical force that won dozens of Tony Awards
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:57PMMonday, April 17, 2023
The final curtain came down Sunday on New York’s production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” ending Broadway’s longest-running show.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:55AMMonday, December 5, 2022
A copy of what’s being called Stephen Sondheim’s first original cast recording has been found. "Phinney's Rainbow" was a student-led musical at Williams College in 1948.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 10:25AMMonday, November 7, 2022
Stage, TV and film writer-director Douglas McGrath has died at age 64. His solo off-Broadway show, "Everything's Fine," had opened last month.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 01:00PMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Charles Fuller, whose plays, including 'A Soldier's Play,' tore into social conventions, especially those entrenched in racism, dies at 83.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:58PMWednesday, June 22, 2022
James Rado, co-creator of the groundbreaking hippie musical “Hair,” which celebrated protest, pot and free love and paved the way for the sound of rock on Broadway, has died.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 09:44AMTuesday, June 21, 2022
In another sign that the world of entertainment is returning to pre-pandemic normal, Broadway theaters will no longer demand audiences wear masks starting in July.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 02:08PMMonday, June 13, 2022
"A Strange Loop," a sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness won best new musical, as voters celebrated Broadway’s most racially diverse season.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 12:13AMMonday, May 23, 2022
The folks who hand out Tony Awards believe five is not enough for Angela Lansbury.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 11:01AMMonday, May 9, 2022
“A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson’s critically cheered theater meta-journey earned a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:46AM“A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson’s drama about a Black gay man writing a show about a Black gay man is an envelope-pushing Black-written and Black-led musical.
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 12:45AM 
