Monday, June 9, 2025

Meet the Tony-Nominated Playwrights of 2025 by BroadwayWorld

Five outstanding new plays and four equally outstanding revivals have been singled out this Broadway season! Nominees for Best Play are: English (Sanaz Toossi), The Hills of California (Jez…

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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Sam Pinkleton Wins 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for OH, MARY!

This is one for the history books! Sam Pinkleton has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Pinkleton beat out fellow nominees Knud Adams for English, Sam Mendes for The Hills…

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PURPOSE Wins Tony Award For Best Play

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on a roll! Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play! Jacobs-Jenkins' play beat out fellow nominees English, Oh, Mary!, The Hills of California, and John Pr…

SOURCE: Theatrely at 09:21PM

Sarah Snook Takes Home Tony Award For Leading Actress In A Play For DORIAN GRAY

Sarah Snook has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Snook beat out fellow nominees Laura Donnelly for The Hills of C…

SOURCE: Theatrely at 08:12PM

Tony Award Winners: Updating Live by Joey Moser

Best Musical Buena Vista Social Club Dead Outlaw Death Becomes Her Maybe Happy Ending Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical Best Play English The Hills of California John Proctor Is the Villain…

SOURCE: The Contending at 07:22PM
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Part 2: My Other Tony Award Predictions... by Frank Rizzo

Now for the second half of my predictions for Sunday’s Tony Awards honoring the best of the 2024-25 Broadway season — which ended at the end of April . It was indeed one of the richest…

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:17AM
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

My Tony Award Predictions: A Very Competitive Season with a Maybe Happy Ending by Frank Rizzo

The 2024-25 Broadway season — which ended April 30 — was one of the richest and most competitive seasons in years. While there hasn't been been a megahit of the likes of “Hamilton” o…

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:53AM
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

5 minutes with a Tony nominee: ‘The Hills of California’’s Laura Donnelly by Ruthie Fierberg

How one actor conquered the dual role of a mother and her daughter in Jez Butterworth’s latest drama.

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Monday, June 2, 2025

Who Will Win at the 2025 Tony Awards?

The 78th Annual Tony Awards are this Sunday, June 18, 2025. It's the biggest awards show of the Broadway season and it closes out a long awards season for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PM

Laura Donnelly Played 2 Characters in The Hills of California. And Audiences Didn't Realize It by Andrew Gans

The Jez Butterworth play is nominated for seven Tonys, including one for Donnelly's heartbreaking performance.

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Drama Desk Awards 2025: Maybe Happy Ending Wins Big, Audra McDonald, Sarah Snook, Jasmine Amy Rogers Among Top Honorees by Broadway.com

The winners of the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced in a ceremony at NYU Skirball on June 1. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess co-hosted the event, which celebrated the 2024-25 s…

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Maybe Happy Ending Wins Six Drama Desk Awards, Leading Ladies Carry the Night and More; Read Full List of Winners by Broadway.com

The winners of the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced in a ceremony at NYU Skirball on June 1. Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess co-hosted the event, which celebrated the 2024-25 s…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AM
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

5 minutes with a Tony nominee: ‘Eureka Day’ and ‘The Hills of California’’s Manhattan Theatre Club by Ruthie Fierberg

Manhattan Theatre Club’s leaders, Lynne Meadow, Chris Jennings and Nicki Hunter, discuss the nonprofit’s programming strategy.

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Friday, May 23, 2025

‘The Hills of California’ star Laura Donnelly on having to revamp her character in 10 days: ‘I had a minor panic attack’ by Sam Eckmann

“I will admit, on the first day of the read-through of the new Act 3, I had a minor panic attack,” recounts Laura Donnelly of bringing the play The Hills of California to New York. Donne…

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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Video: Laura Donnelly Looks Back on the Challenge of Her Dual (Tony Nominated ) Roles

It's been eight months since Laura Donnelly began performances on Broadway in The Hills of California, and she's taking a beat now to look back on her incredible journey with the play. A Ton…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54PM
Saturday, May 10, 2025

2025 Tony Predictions by Wendy Caster

Although we have not previously shown great acuity in Tony prediction, here we are again. Hope springs eternal! This year’s list of Tony nominees reveals a healthy, exciting season. Lookin…

SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:36PM
Friday, May 2, 2025

who was snubbed by the TONY AWARDS? | the shows and performers who weren't nominated in 2025 by MickeyJoTheatre

get in person / live stream tickets to see MickeyJoTheatre LIVE at the Phoenix Arts Club: https://phoenixartsclub.com/events/mickeyjotheatre-live/ Join my channel to gain access to exclusiv…

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Friday 5: 5 Takeaways from the 2025 Tony Award Nominations by JK

With so many great musicals, plays and revivals this season, there is simply no way that every deserving person and production could make the cut. I am glad I'm not on the nominating committ…

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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Unpacking the 2025 Tony Nominations: Surprises, Standouts and Takeaways by Darryn King and Hayley Levitt

The countdown to the Tony Awards is officially on! New musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending lead the pack with 10 each. Close behind with seven are De…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32PM

Tony Award Nominations 2025 by Alan Smason

The 2025 Tony Award nominations were announced on Thursday, May 1 by Tony Award winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. The nominations for competitive Tony Awards are: Best Play English,�…

SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:35PM

2025 Tony Award Nominations Announced! Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending Lead Noms by Broadway.com

The 2025 Tony Award nominations, announced by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce on May 1, reflect a Broadway season that celebrated ambition in all its forms. Out front with 10 nominations …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PM

2025 Tony Nominations by Stagelight

Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce announced the nominations for the 2025 Tony Awards this morning on CBS and NY1. Here are the nominees: Best Musical “Buena Vista Social Club” “Dead Out…

SOURCE: StageLight Magazine at 10:14AM
Monday, April 28, 2025

Some of My Tony Thoughts on Upcoming Announcement by Frank Rizzo

Jeremy Jordan in “Floyd Collins” First, a big thanks to Adam Feldman for setting me straight (so to speak) on a few eligib…

SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:06PM
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Celebrating the OCC's 75th Anniversary— and Its Nominees for the 2024-2025 Season by Jan Simpson

The 2024-2025 theater season ends on Sunday with the dual openings of the musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves. And I’m exhausted. But it’s the kind of good exhaustion that c…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 06:24PM
Friday, April 25, 2025

DEATH BECOMES HER Leads OCC Nominations With 12; Full List Announced

It's Awards Season! Today the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town, national, and digital news publications, has announced the…

SOURCE: Theatrely at 11:25AM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Boston’s Huntington Theatre Announces A Bevy Of Broadway Favorites For 25/26 Season

Today, The Huntington Theatre announced their upcoming 2025/2026 season including favorites from Broadway and world premieres including the sixth installment of Boston’s city-wide Ufot Fam…

SOURCE: Theatrely at 02:20PM

New Stagings of The Hills of California, Fun Home, Eureka Day, More in 2025-2026 Season Lineup for Boston's Huntington by Margaret Hall

The Massachusetts company's seven-show season will center on themes of legacy, family, and what we most value in our lives.

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:18PM
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

2025 Drama League Awards nominations: 51 actors up for Distinguished Performance, ‘The Hills of California’ snubbed by Sam Eckmann

Nominations for the 2025 Drama League Awards were announced Tuesday by current Broadway stars Sarah Hyland (The Great Gatsby) and Orville Peck (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club). Winners will be …

SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:38PM
Thursday, February 6, 2025

Tony Talk: Plays ‘Oh, Mary!’ and ‘The Hills of California,’ actor Kit Connor are on track for nominations by David Buchanan

Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. With only three months to go until the 2025 nominations are anno…

SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AM
Friday, January 31, 2025

Cult of Love***, Hard Truths**** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward January 31, 2025: Here we go again. It’s time for yet another dysfunctional family reunion. Cult of Love, presented by Second Stage at the Hayes Theater after a produ…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:32PM