ArtsBeat: Tony Awards Committee Eases Limits on Promotional Swag
The panel also eliminated prizes for sound design in a play and a musical.
The panel also eliminated prizes for sound design in a play and a musical.
The revival of "A Raisin in the Sun," which won three Tony Awards, has recouped its entire $4.25 million capitalization.
The segment honoring those who died was cut from the television broadcast this year.
Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winning play will open at the Lyceum Theater on Oct. 23.
Jessie Mueller came to New York with fears that she would never get desirable roles again, but she made a splash in "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" and won a Tony.
The awards, which honor Broadway's best plays and performances, included a record win for Audra McDonald and honors for Neil Patrick Harris and Bryan Cranston.
Hugh Jackman discusses Sunday's Tony Awards and explains why Neil Patrick Harris is a tough act to follow.
As one of more than 800 Tony Award voters, the casting director Bernard Telsey gets invited to every new Broadway show that is eligible for an award, so he's a regular at Sunday matinees " m…
New York Times readers predict that "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," Neil Patrick Harris and Audra McDonald will take prizes on Sunday night.
While most races in this year's Tony Awards are fiercely competitive, interviews with 40 of 800 voters yield some informed predictions of who will triumph Sunday night.
Celebrities and Times readers offer their Tony Award predictions.
Stockard Channing, F. Murray Abraham and Megan Mullally will join Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in a revised version of Terrence McNally's 1980s comedy.
Audra McDonald can make history on Sunday by winning her sixth Tony Award, the most ever in acting, for her performance as Billie Holliday in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill."
This year's best musical race is the most wide open since 2005.
Ticket sales for "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" have been strong since it was nominated for 10 Tonys.
The best actress race is one of the fiercest, and has big implications for shows.
The press agent Rick Miramontez is thick in the campaign for all four nominees for best musical in this year's Tony Awards.
Producers aim to get Ms. Moss to play Heidi in a Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein play, which won a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize.
Atlantic Theater Company's season includes "Posterity" by Mr. Wright, while Second Stage will feature Mr. LaBute's dark comedy "The Way We Get By."
Broadway shows grossed $30.9 million last week on sales from 299,090 audience members, the highest dollar amount " and best attendance " ever recorded for the week leading into Memorial Day.
Gideon Glick, starring in the Off Broadway drama "The Few," believes in bringing a lot of himself to his characters, even his physical tics.
Mr. Corden would star as Pseudolus, a role that netted best actor Tonys for three previous performers: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane.
Revivals of Beckett, Shakespeare and Pinter, as well as established shows from last season like "Kinky Boots," helped lift Broadway's box office this season.
The revival of the 1997 musical "Titanic" has been postponed because the producers could not secure a theater.
After decades of fighting against AIDS and for Hollywood's attention in that fight, Larry Kramer is about to reach his largest audience with a film version of his play "The Normal Heart."