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A Tony nominee’s path to Broadway usually starts out pretty predictably: an early love of theater, starring roles in school plays or maybe the lead in the church choir, a degree in the…
Each of the six Tony nominees for Best Featured Actor in a Play is enacting a character in crisis: a young man recovering from his mother's death, a cross-dressing bartender trying to surviv…
Dames at Sea, the nostalgic musical which enjoyed a long run Off-Broadway and launched the career of Bernadette Peters, will finally set sail for Broadway. A revival directed and choreograph…
This is probably the first time two of the Tony nominees for Best Featured Actress in a Musical are playing the same character at different ages and a third is portraying her mother. That's …
Josh Groban has joined the list of notable names set to perform at the 2015 Tony Awards. The Grammy nominee has never appeared on the Great White Way, but he did release the studio album …
An American in Paris and On the Town shared the wealth at the 2015 Astaire Awards honoring dancing and choreography and presented on June 1 at the NYU Skirball Center. Robert Fairchild of Am…
Grammy winner Brandy Norwood will extend her stay on Broadway in Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre through Aug. 2. Norwood stars as Roxie Hart in the show, currently the second-longest runni…
The 2015 Tony Awards mark Dave Boone’s 12th straight year as the award show’s Head Writer. For the veteran comedy writer, it's a job that deeply resonates with his love for theat…
Hamilton continued its sweep of New York theater award season, winning seven Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Musical. The musical about Alexander Hamilton, our most controversial fou…
Three British performers reprising their London triumphs, a veteran of Off-Broadway in her Broadway debut, and an Emmy nominated TV star are the five nominees for this year's Tony Award for …
Though they are billed below the title, each of the Tony nominees for Best Featured Actor in a Musical goes gloriously over the top, making their supporting roles shine while not stealing th…
An Act of God, David Javerbaum's new play starring four-time Emmy winner Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) as the creator of the universe, opened on Broadway at Studio 54 on May 29. Based on…
The Tony red carpet is always a star-studded affair, and the 2015 edition will be no different, with big-name nominees like Bradley Cooper, Helen Mirren and Chita Rivera set to attend. And t…
Sylvia, A.R. Gurney's comedy about a man and his dog, will open on Broadway this fall with performances beginning Sept. 25 at a Shubert theater to be announced. Tony nominee Annaleigh Ashfor…
They're all in difficult situations. Two lonely teenagers try to find outlets for their rage and frustration. A disfigured outcast seeks companionship among the elite of Edwardian England. T…
A theater and preview and opening dates have been announced for the Broadway premiere of the new musical Allegiance. The production will star Star Trek's George Takei in his Broadwa…
The roles for which five actresses have been nominated for the 2015 Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award couldn't be more dissimilar. They include a screwball 1930s film star, an aspiring ba…
Current, former and future Broadway stars are among the big names announced to present the Tony Awards on June 7. Neil Patrick Harris and Bryan Cranston, both 2014 Tony winners, will give ou…
Several of the musical numbers to be performed on this year's Tony Awards on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast on CBS, have been revealed, according to Playbill.com. As reported …
An Act of God, a new play starring The Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons, officially opens tonight on Broadway. Parsons stars as God in the 90-minute play, where he attempts to answer all …
June 7 — aka the day of the 2015 Tony Awards — is coming up fast. Nominees from Broadway’s newest shows as well as the stars of long-running hits put on a show today in …
The latest Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof has set dates and found a theater. The production, starring five-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein as Tevye the milkman, will begin previ…
Oscar and Emmy winner Jessica Lange, Golden Globe winner and Tony nominee Gabriel Bryne, and Tony winner John Gallagher, Jr. Â will return to Broadway in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's Puli…
The Tony nominees for Best Actor in a Musical have a wide range of experience. Two are known principally as dancers, one is an Oscar nominee and veteran of the Japanese film and theater worl…
Since she was 10 and singing in her elementary school talent show, Kelli O'Hara knew that she belonged on stage. "I didn't grow up around performing. It's just that it came easy to me and ma…
