1,557 stories by "Patrick Healy"
The playwright won the prize, which provides $50,000 to the winning playwright and an additional $100,000 to defray production costs, for his new play "The Guards at the Taj."
The play is a 70-minute monologue about a fighter pilot who is reassigned to operate drone strikes when she becomes pregnant.
Howard and Janet Kagan, former Wall Street executives, have invested $2 million out of pocket for the revival of "On the Town."
The play will extend its run in Toronto; advance sales for a Broadway run have been sluggish.
Ticket sales for the new musical tripled over the weekend, after the show's largely positive reviews came out.
"Clinton the Musical," which portrays Bill Clinton as mired in scandal and a politically ambitious Hillary Rodham Clinton, will begin performances in March.
As many as seven performers may be eligible for Tony nominations in acting categories.
John Cameron Mitchell stars in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on Broadway, in a part he has played elsewhere and in the movie.
The musical revival features the celebrated score by Lerner and Loewe but will have a revised book.
A multiday reading of the show, with Ms. McDonald, Mr. Cumming and Steven Pasquale, suggests a stage revival could be in the works.
Sales softened considerably for "It's Only a Play" after Nathan Lane was replaced by Martin Short.
A new Tony Award will be given annually to a theater teacher who has made a "monumental impact" on the lives of students.
"If/Then," a star vehicle for the Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, will close on March 22, when her run ends.
"The Visit," directed by John Doyle, will open at the Lyceum Theater on April 23, the eligibility deadline for 2015 Tony nominations.
Ms. Miller will succeed Emma Stone as Sally Bowles for the last weeks of the show's Broadway run.
The musical "Houdini" was to star Hugh Jackman, who pursued it for years. Now it is languishing.
The show, which will not recoup its producers' $15 million investment, strained to attract more female theatergoers and Sting fans.
Despite herculean efforts by Sting, the show's star composer, to promote the musical, an audience did not materialize.
Broadway musicals and plays grossed $42.8 million, the highest total ever for a week's worth of performances, according to box-office data released on Monday.
The show will continue a United States tour after it closes its limited run on Jan. 4.
The long-running Broadway hit cleared the $2 million mark at the box office last week, and is set to be the year's top-selling show, ahead of "Wicked."
Written by the Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro, "Living on Love" was first mounted at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
The new Hugh Jackman play on Broadway, "The River," has recouped its $3.2 million capitalization.
The plot of the musical will largely track to the Jack Black movie. Casting will begin in January.
Terrence McNally's satire about theater people has recouped its $3.9 million capitalization, becoming the first show of the 2014-15 season to announce that it has turned a profit.
