When Tony Met Oscar by Carl Swanson
This year, the campaign for Tony awards is being waged using the kind of Miramax-style, no-holds-barred tactics heretofore seen only in that other industry. Welcome to the “desperate month.”
Today is Thursday, August 27, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Alexa Vega Chandra Wilson Stephan Elliott Michael Maitland Jim David Peter Stormare Paul Reubens Stephen Van Benschoten George Tregre Brian Smiar Ira Levin Morris Levy Susan Willis Marion Colby Leo Penn Jane Forbes David Shaw Martha Raye Marc Daniels Jane Gale Joan Gale Norman Kelley Frederick O'Neal Roger Pryor C. S. Forester Byron Foulger Morris Ankrum John Rogers Harry Antrim Maud Allan Sam S. Shubert Theodore Dreiser Polly Adams Ira Lewis Dick Vosburgh Robert David MacDonald Murray Grand Herbert Menges