Saturday, June 3, 2023

2023 Tony Award Winners — YOUR Pick? by New York Theater

Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 76th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 11th at United Palace i…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AM
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

1983 Tony Awards flashback: When ‘Torch Song Trilogy’ made history by Susan King

The 76th annual Tony Awards have already made history. For the first time, two of the acting nominees identify as non-binary: Harrison Ghee who is contending for lead actor in musical for �…

SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM

Florida's Jason Zembuch Young Wins Excellence in Theatre Education Award From Tony Awards and Carnegie Mellon by Logan Culwell-Block

The theatre teacher will be celebrated at the 76th Annual Tony Awards June 11.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PM
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Prima Facie | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Tessa (Jodie Comer) is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:23PM

Parade | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Leo and Lucille Frank are a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in the old red hills of Georgia. When Leo is accused of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginabl…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:22PM

Almost Famous | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

The year is 1973 and it’s all happening. Led Zeppelin is king, Richard Nixon is President, and idealistic 15-year-old William Miller is an aspiring music journalist. When Rolling Stone mag…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:21PM

August Wilson's Piano Lesson | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

A battle is brewing in the Charles household. At the center lies the family’s prized heirloom piano. On one side, a brother plans to build the family fortune by selling it. On the other, a…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:21PM

Fat Ham | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

This deliciously funny, Pulitzer Prize-winning new play by James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious quest…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:19PM

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street returns to Broadway starring Josh Groban as Sweeney Todd and Annaleigh Ashford as Mrs. Lovett. For the firs…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:18PM

& Juliet | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

This hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. & Juliet asks: what would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulo…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:17PM

Kimberly Akimbo | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Kimberly Akimbo is the new musical from Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire and Tony Award-winner Jeanine Tesori that follows Kim, a bright and funny Jersey teen, who happens to look …

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:17PM

Lerner & Loewe's Camelot | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Lerner & Loewe’s classic 1960 musical comes to vibrant life once again with a new book by Aaron Sorkin, based on the original book by Alan Jay Lerner. Camelot is a story about the quest fo…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:17PM

Good Night, Oscar | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Sean Hayes stars as the irrepressible Oscar Levant in the new play, Good Night, Oscar. It’s 1958, and late-night talk-show host Jack Paar’s favorite guest is character actor, pianist, an…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:17PM

Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, returns to Broadway for its 20th Anniversary Production. Topdog/Underdog, a darkly comic fable of brotherly love and …

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:16PM

Cost of Living | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Martyna Majok‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is about the forces that bring people together, the complexity of caring and being cared for, and the ways we all need each other in this world.…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:16PM

Leopoldstadt | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

This passionate drama of love and endurance begins in the last days of 1899 and follows one extended family deep into the heart of the 20th Century. Full of his customary wit and beauty, Tom…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:16PM

Some Like It Hot | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, Some Like it Hot is the glorious, big, high-kicking story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after w…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:15PM

Ohio State Murders | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

When writer Suzanne Alexander (Audra McDonald) returns to her alma mater as a guest speaker, a dark mystery unravels. Adrienne Kennedy’s Ohio State Murders is an intriguing and unusual sus…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:15PM

Life of Pi | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Based on the novel by Yann Martel, Life of Pi follows a 16 year-old boy named Pi stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with the most unlikely of companions: a Royal Benga…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:15PM

New York, New York | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

It is 1946, the war is over, and a resurgent New York is beginning to rebuild. As steel beams swing overhead, a collection of artists has dreams as big and diverse as the city itself. But do…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:14PM

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

This powerful interpretation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman from the perspective of an African American family illuminates the dark underbelly of the American Dream and its elusive…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:14PM

Shucked | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

What do you get when you pair a semi-neurotic, New York comedy writer with two music superstars from Nashville? A hilarious and audacious farm-to-fable musical about the one thing Americans …

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:13PM

Summer, 1976 | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentenni…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:13PM

KPOP | 2023 Tony Award Nominee by The Tony Awards

As global superstars put everything on the line for a special one-night-only concert, one singer – played by K-pop and musical theater sensation Luna – faces an inner struggle that threa…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:13PM

Lisa Dawn Cave | 2023 Tony Honors Acceptance Speech by The Tony Awards

Lisa Dawn Cave is currently the Production Supervisor for Disney’s The Lion King and Frozen worldwide, along with the re-imagined Aida, which is currently playing in the Netherlands. In ad…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:00PM

Robert Fried | 2023 Tony Honors Acceptance Speech by The Tony Awards

Robert Fried, a practicing certified public accountant for almost four decades, has provided tax, consulting and accounting services almost exclusively to the theatre industry for over 32 ye…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:00PM

Victoria Bailey | 2023 Tony Honors Acceptance Speech by The Tony Awards

Victoria Bailey has been the Executive Director of Theatrical Development Fund since 2001. TDF sustains live theatre and dance by engaging and cultivating a broad and diverse audience and el…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:00PM
Sunday, May 28, 2023

WGA Has Asked Tony-Nominated Members to Not Attend the 76th Annual Tony Awards by Meg Masseron, Logan Culwell-Block

The ceremony slated for June 11 was up in the air earlier this month due to the Writer's Guild of America Strike, but is now set to go on as long as several requests by the WGA are met.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:32PM
Monday, May 22, 2023

Tony Awards 2023: Full of suspense. #Ham4Ham Celebrates All of Broadway. #Stageworthy News by New York Theater

Some things are certain: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Succession” are ending (May 25th and May 28th) and the 76th annual Tony Awards is being broadcast (June 11th) What the regul…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18PM
Friday, May 19, 2023

Listen: SHUCKED Songwriter Brandy Clark Drops New Album Produced By Brandi Carlile

The release adds to yet another landmark year for Clark, who is nominated for Best Original Score at the 76th Annual Tony Awards for Shucked, the new musical comedy she composed alongside lo…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AM
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

WGA will not picket unscripted broadcast of the Tony Awards on June 11 by Deb Miller

The striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) just announced that it will not picket an altered version of the 76th Annual Tony Awards, so the show can go on as scheduled on Sunday, June 11, i…

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:07AM

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