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(UPDATED WITH MORE NFL NUMBERS) The much-nominated and tremendous Slave Play came up empty-handed and Jagged Little Pill's Lauren Patten showed exactly what an acceptance speech should be Sunday night as CBS took the Tony Awards to a whole new stage of sorts. Fall Premiere Dates For New & Returning TV Series On Broadca…

Broadway, you might have heard, is back, and, miracle of miracles, it seems to have figured out how to present a truly excellent television awards show. Splitting the traditional three hours into four and somehow coming up with the right math, Tony organizers, Paramount+ and CBS presented a two-hour livestreamed 74th…

Moulin Rouge! The Musical producers Bill Damaschke and Carmen Pavlovic reflected during tonight’s Tony Awards on how differently the show plays in 2021 than it did before the onset of Covid-19. The show, which took home 10 Tonys tonight, including Best Musical, just resumed performances last Friday. The return added…

Kenny Leon, director of A Soldier’s Play, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, expanded backstage on his acceptance-speech call for greater diversity in the theater. “We’ve been talking about making changes on Broadway,” he said, acknowledging the “reset” prompted by Covid-19 and nationwide protests…

Moulin Rouge! The Musical, the stage adaptation of the 2001 film, won the Tony Award for Best Musical tonight. The Inheritance, Matthew López’s elegiac two-part drama about the AIDS scourge inspired by E.M Forster’s Howards End, won the Tony Award tonight for Best Play. López, after thanking and acknowledging three…

Mary-Louise Parker, a Tony winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, offered a sense in a backstage interview of what it felt like to attend tonight’s show. “It’s really amazing,” Parker told press in a brief interview streamed to press covering the show. “On the one hand, it sort of feels like…

Danny Burstein, after seven Tony Award nominations, finally took home the trophy tonight for best featured performance in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. While he said he hasn’t obsessed about winning the award, Burstein said he had grown tired of hearing about his bridesmaid status. “Everywhere I go, people are telling…

I’m glad I took notes. Looking at the roster of nominees for this year’s too-long-delayed Tony Awards is all the reminder anyone could need of just how interminable Broadway’s Covid pandemic shutdown has seemed. Productions and performances from the 2019-20 season, many reviewed nearly two years ago, are calling out…

Additional performers and presenters have been announced for The Tony Awards Present: Broadway's Back!, the two-hour live concert special airing on CBS and Paramount+ this Sunday following the livestream-only presentation of the 74th Annual Tony Awards. Joining the special’s roster are Jon Batiste, Stephanie J. Block…

Broadway’s big Tony Award night will be hosted by by award-winning singer/actress Audra McDonald and the equally lauded Leslie Odom Jr., with the former taking on hosting duties for the 74th annual Tony Awards and Odom hosting the two-hour “Return To Broadway” concert event immediately following the trophy show. The…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced today that the 2020 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre – to be presented in September – will go to Fred Gallo, President of PRG Scenic Technologies; Broadway press agent Irene Gandy; stage manager Beverly Jenkins and New Federal Theatre founder Woodie King…

Graciela Daniele, the Broadway director and choreographer whose many credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Once on This Island, Ragtime and The Goodbye Girl, will be the 2020 recipient of the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Daniele also is providing the musical staging for the planned…