Monday, 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com at 12:38AMMonday, 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com at 01:00PMWednesday, 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com 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: www.seattletimes.com at 12:45AMMonday, April 25, 2022
Dozens of notebooks, scripts, speeches, drafts of letters, artwork and even signed baseballs owned by the late playwright Neil Simon have been donated to the Library of Congress.
SOURCE: www.seattletimes.com at 08:43AMWednesday, March 9, 2022
In another sign that show business is snapping back to its pre-pandemic rhythm, the Tony Awards will once again take place in June and at a familiar location, Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:41PMMonday, September 27, 2021
The show was expanded to four hours, with Audra McDonald handing out Tonys for the first half and Leslie Odom Jr. hosting a "Broadway’s Back!" celebration for the second half.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 02:23AM 
