Tony Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday, May 2 by Lea Michele and Myles Frost. While the nominations for the 76th annual Tony Awards were determined by 40 theatre professionals, wi…
New musical "Kimberly Akimbo" will win the most Tony Awards, according to our official odds in all 26 categories. The latest from Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and six-time Tony-nomin…
After an extraordinary season boasting 38 productions of musicals, plays, and revivals, Broadway will toast its nominees and crown new winners at the upcoming 76th annual Tony Awards. If pre…
The 2023 Tony Awards race for Best Play has already made history, even before the winner will be revealed on June 11. For the first time, three Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas were nominated i…
"He's one of the greatest comedic writers of our generation," reflects Alex Timbers on John Mulaney, whose Netflix standup special "John Mulaney: Baby J" he directed. The two had previously …
For the first time in the 76-year history of the Tony Awards, three Pulitzer Prize-winning original dramas have been nominated in the Best Play category in the same year. Only five of the 17…
When Jesse Green wrote in his New York Times review of this season's revival of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" that the show had been "restored to its proper size," he mean…
In a Broadway season bursting at the seams with critically-acclaimed production " 38 musicals, plays, and revivals opened during the 2022-2023 eligibility window " it is no surprise that the…
With 38 productions eligible for this year's Tony Awards, there were plenty of names missing when nominations were announced on Tuesday morning. Among the most surprising 2023 Tony nominatio…
With the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations on May 2, we now know the shows and performers in contention for the 76th annual ceremony. The 40 members of the Tony nominating committe…
Unlike other major awards bodies, the Tony Awards decide their nominations via a committee of industry members who commit to seeing every single production that opens during the Broadway sea…
The 2022-2023 Broadway season that began way back last July with the opening of "The Kite Runner" featured a whopping 38 productions of new musicals, plays, and revivals. The incredibly impr…
Two new musicals and a starry revival will dominate the 2023 Tony Awards nominations, according to our official odds in 17 of the 26 categories. "Some Like It Hot" and "Kimberly Akimbo" will…
"Out of all the Tony categories this season, this could be the most complicated," notes Sam Eckmann about the race for the top Broadway honor of Best Play. It's a sentiment we share about Be…
The contest for Best Play Revival at this year's Tony Awards is shaping up to be a true nail-biter, even in the nominations round of voting. Five of the eligible productions " "A Doll's Hous…
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye in Broadway's latest musical comedy "Shucked." The new original show is an intentionally corny riff on classic Golden Age musicals: it sets a country…
The top honorees at the 2023 Laurence Olivier Awards were plays that focused on cultures outside of London. "My Neighbour Totoro," which is based on the beloved Japanese film of the same nam…
The Tony Awards contest for the top honor of Best Play is the most crowded it has been in at least a decade. A whopping 17 new dramatic works will vie for only five slots that recognize the …
First "Company," then "Into the Woods," and now the demon barber of Fleet Street. In the year or so since legendary composer Stephen Sondheim's death, Broadway has seen an increasing number …
In the lead-up to Tony nominations being announced on May 2, Sam Eckmann and I are predicting 10 of the Musical categories, where new breakout shows like "Kimberly Akimbo" and "Some Like it …
Henrik Ibsen's world-(in)famous play "A Doll's House" has not been seen on Broadway in over 25 years, when Janet McTeer led a production under the direction of Anthony Page. Now, into the sh…
Two new works based on existing material dominated the nominations for the 2023 Olivier Awards, the top theatre honor in Britain. "My Neighbour Toroto" and "Standing at the Sky's Edge" lead …
Fans of the extraordinary Audra McDonald have had a long wait for her return to the Broadway stage. Yes, she did host the 2021 Tony Awards that were previously postponed by the pandemic, and…
Eight months after winning the Oscar for "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," Jessica Chastain has set her return to the Broadway stage in one of the greatest roles in the theatre. Under the direction …
The first new play of the current Broadway season, a stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's novel "The Kite Runner," has closed on Broadway. A memory play that toggles back and forth between …