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Directors Jack O’Brien and George C. Wolfe to Receive Lifetime Achievement Tony Awards
Directors Jack O’Brien and George C. Wolfe will each receive a 2024 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Wolfe is a five-time Tony-Award winning director, helming shows including Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk, and has worked as a writer, a producer and artistic […]
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Jessica Lange on Returning to Broadway in ‘Mother Play’: “It Still Thrills Me”
Paula Vogel’s Mother Play is Jessica Lange’s fourth Broadway show, among the many other film and television projects that have populated her decades-long career. But unlike her past roles, in which she has put her own spin on well-known characters, such as Mary Tryone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, she had a chance to […]
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How Small Talking Changed the Course of Casey Wilson and Jessica St. Clair’s Careers
In January 2022, Casey Wilson was a guest on The Deep Dive, a podcast hosted by her longtime friends and frequent comedy collaborators June Diane Raphael and Jessica St. Clair. The episode kicked off what the pod was calling their Lifelong Learners Series, an only moderately satirical moniker for their discussions dedicated to everything from […]
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Yulin Kuang on Debut Novel, “Great Suffering” in Romance and Emily Henry Adaptations
Yulin Kuang knows she hit the literary jackpot. The writer-director, whose credits include The CW’s I Ship It, Hulu’s Dollface and Netflix’s The Healing Powers of Dude, is adapting Emily Henry’s People We Meet On Vacation for film and writing-directing the forthcoming Beach Read film for 20th Century Studios. Henry has became a household name in the world of romance, with […]
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American Express to Host Outdoor Tony Awards Simulcast Event (Exclusive)
American Express will host an outdoor simulcast event for the Tony Awards on June 16. The “Broadway Fanfare” event will take place in Damrosch Park, an outdoor area on the Lincoln Center campus which has a stage and seating for about 1,900 people and sits behind the David H. Koch Theater, where the Tony Awards […]
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Rochelle Oliver, ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Star and Admired Acting Teacher, Dies at 86
Rochelle Oliver, who starred on Broadway in Lillian Hellman’s Toys in the Attic and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and taught acting at New York’s respected HB Studio since the 1970s, has died. She was 86. Oliver died April 13, the HB Studio announced. “Those who knew Rochelle will know what a luminous […]
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Billy Porter to Receive Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for LGBTQ+ Activism
Billy Porter will receive the 2024 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for his dedication and contributions as an activist and spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ communities. The honor, announced Tuesday, includes the Pose star’s work with The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and the Entertainment Community Fund, among other organizations. The Tony is given each year to a […]
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Hannah Brown Embarks on a New Love Story With Debut Romance Novel
Hannah Brown knows a thing or two about love. After appearing on season 23 of The Bachelor, the former Miss Alabama USA went on to became a fan favorite which led her to lead season 15 of The Bachelorette. Each week audiences watched Brown try to find love as she shared her vulnerability, humor and […]
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Robert Downey Jr. to Make Broadway Debut This Fall
Robert Downey Jr. is making his Broadway debut this fall in a new play by Ayad Akhtar. The play, called McNeal, will see Downey portraying a talented writer who grapples with a new novel, a broken family life and “an unhealthy fascination with artificial intelligence.” Bartlett Sher, resident director at the Lincoln Center who also […]
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Edgar Lansbury, Tony-Winning Producer and Brother of Angela Lansbury, Dies at 94
Edgar Lansbury, the Tony-winning producer and younger brother of famed actress Angela Lansbury who guided the Broadway and big-screen versions of The Subject Was Roses and Godspell, has died. He was 94. He died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his son David Lansbury told The Hollywood Reporter. Lansbury also produced the popular 1974-75 Broadway […]
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Alex Edelman to Receive Special Tony Award for ‘Just For Us’
Alex Edelman is among the honorees being presented a special Tony Award for his comedy show, Just for Us, which debuted on Broadway in June 2023. Edelman’s one-man show, which ran through August at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre, saw the comic, who is Jewish, recounting a night attending a white supremacist meeting. In addition to Edelman, […]
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Mia Farrow, Patti LuPone to Return to Broadway in ‘The Roommate’
Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone will come to Broadway in the new comedy, The Roommate, by Jen Silverman. The play, directed by Jack O’Brien, will begin performances on Aug. 29, with an official opening night on Sept. 12, at the Booth Theatre. This marks LuPone’s first return to the stage after giving up her Actors’ […]
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Herb Alpert Foundation Reveals the 10 Winners of the 30th Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (Exclusive)
The Herb Alpert Foundation has announced the winners of its 30th annual Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, which recognizes mid-career artists in the fields of dance, music, film/video, theater and visual arts. In all, there are 10 winners for 2024, each of whom will receive a $75,000 unrestricted prize as well as a residency […]
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Eddie Redmayne on Audience Interaction and the “Chaotic Wonder” of Performing in ‘Cabaret’
Eddie Redmayne received his second Tony Award nomination Tuesday, for his role as the shape-shifting Emcee in the Broadway revival of Cabaret. It’s a role the actor, known for leading films such as The Theory of Everything and in the Fantastic Beasts series, played during the production’s previous West End run. And while he’s already […]
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Alicia Keys on ‘Hell’s Kitchen’s’ 13 Tony Nominations and Bringing the Musical to Broadway
Alicia Keys was doing a meditation Tuesday morning to try to stay calm amid some nerves ahead of the Tony nominations announcement. After finishing the meditation, Keys said she received a call, alerting her to the fact that Hell’s Kitchen, the semi-autobiographical musical for which she wrote the score and arranged the music, had been […]
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Tony Awards Noms Snubs, Surprises: ‘Stereophonic’ for Best Score; ‘The Wiz,’ Steve Carell Shut Out
Stereophonic became the most nominated play in Tony Awards history Tuesday, scoring a surprisingly strong 13 nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards, including acting nods for almost the entire cast. Several other shows also saw most of their leading roles nominated, including Days of Wine and Roses, which closed early but still saw nominations for […]
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