When your Broadway smash hit has just been laureled with a record-breaking 16 Tony Award nominations — three for yourself alone — you need to step up your game. That was the c…
From now until the Tony broadcast on June 12th, theater fans will undoubtedly sound like baseball fans, as they weigh in with predictions, protests and probabilities. This is true every year…
Call it the "Hamilton" effect. As Broadway's newest megahit dominates the Tony Awards conversation, the theater industry is buzzing about all the ways in which the ultrahot musical's success…
An interesting phenomenon hit my mailbox Tuesday, just a few minutes after the Tony Award nominations: People from New York started writing to tell me they were coming to Chicago to see a Br…
Well, as predicted, Hamilton was nominated for a gazillion Tonys yesterday, and I would say “well deserved” except I never follow the Tonys, I know nothing of the other …
People are always saying "it's an honor to be nominated" when they get a slot on the ballot for a top award like the Tonys. But that's more true than ever for most of the nominees in the mus…
Lin-Manuel Miranda made his first White House appearance in November 2009, at a performance billed as an evening of poetry and music, where he explained he was working on a concept album abo…
The 2016 Tony nominees were announced on Tuesday, and Charles Isherwood, theater critic of The New York Times, joins WQXR morning host, Jeff Spurgeon, to gab about the big news. Most n…
"Hamilton" scored 16 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, making Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash musical potentially the most decorated show in Broadway history. The hip-hop take on the life of US (an…
Shortly after the news broke that "Hamilton" had landed 16 Tony Award nominations, the musical's director, Thomas Kail, sent a text to choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and others on the sho…
Springtime on Broadway is usually racked with strategy, stress and speculation. New shows vie for any possible edge to capture the Tony Awards' brass ring of best musical, on the (often corr…
NEW YORK " The Tony Awards are being nicknamed this year the "Hamil-Tonys" in recognition that "Hamilton" is the show to beat. That was proven again Tuesday.Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop-fla…
