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John Krasinski will star in the dark comedic play Angry Alan Off-Broadway this June.

The Penelope Skinner play will mark the first production at the Studio Seaview space, which was previously known as the Tony Kiser Theatre. Seaview, the production company behind John Mulaney’s All In: Comedy About Love, Good Night, and Good Luck with George Clooney this season, acquired the theater from the nonprofit theater company Second Stage Theater in January.

Sam Gold, who directed An Enemy of the People and Romeo + Juliet, both produced by Seaview, directs the one-man play. Angry Alan will start performances May 23, ahead of a June 11 opening night. The play is slated for a 10-week engagement.

Angry Alan makes its New York debut after premiering at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and later appearing in London and around the world. Donald Sage Mackay co-created the piece and acted in prior productions. The production description reads: “Roger is divorced,...

John Krasinski will return to the Off Broadway stage this May in Angry Alan, Penelope Skinner’s critically acclaimed dark comedy that premiered at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Directing will be Sam Gold.

The one-man play, which begins a strictly limited engagement on May 23 with an official opening on Wednesday, June 11, will be the inaugural production of Studio Seaview, the Off Broadway venue owned and operated by the Seaview production company. In recent years, Seaview has become one of the premiere producers of New York stage productions, with recent shows including Romeo + Juliet, Stereophonic and the current, record-setting Good Night, And Good Luck starring George Clooney.

Krasinski most recently appeared Off Broadway in the 2016 Public Theater production of Sarah Burgess’ play Dry Powder, starring opposite Claire Danes.

“I couldn’t be more excited to be returning to Off Broadway, and to be surrounded by such a force of talent...

A musical about country music star Loretta Lynn’s life is under development with Sutton Foster attached as the star.

Jeanine Tesori, a Tony Award-winning composer who worked on Fun Home, Kimberly Akimbo, Caroline, or Change, Thoroughly Modern Millie and more, is working on the show’s music production. Sam Gold, a Tony Award-winning director who worked on Fun Home with Tesori, as well as recent productions of Romeo+Juliet and An Enemy of the People, is attached as the director.

The musical, entitled Coal Miner’s Daughter, is inspired by the 1980 film and the autobiography about Lynn’s journey from rural Kentucky to becoming a country music star. The stage show will include songs from Lynn’s career, which include “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl” and “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” and extend her story beyond the film.

In 2012, Lynn had announced that Zoey Deschanel would portray her in a Broadway musical about her life.

It could have been a cash grab, but Jeremy Strong prepared for his Dunkin’ Donuts commercial like an actor getting ready to play Hamlet. He spent days thinking about how to make the Super Bowl spot unique before landing on the idea to send up his own reputation for going “full method.” The ad, which was directed by Ben Affleck and features Casey Affleck, finds Strong submerged in coffee grounds, refusing to leave his trailer to film his spot for the breakfast chain until the muse appears.

“I wanted to poke fun at this idea of me as this sententious, self-serious actor,” Strong says. “It was my response to the idea that I ‘don’t get the joke.'”

Ever since the New Yorker published a deep look into his intense approach, Strong has been perceived as one of those actors with a capital “A,” ostentatiously suffering for his art.

“The Haunting of Hill House” star Victoria Pedretti hyped fellow actor – and co-creator of Netflix’s “Anne+” – Hanna van Vliet at International Film Festival Rotterdam Sunday evening.

“You are a leader,” she told her.

“True. I’m a leader,” responded van Vliet, admitting the change in the industry starts with “diversifying the teams.”

“We made ‘Anne+’ without any money, so we had all this freedom and could cast and hire whoever we wanted. People get better at their jobs and later, they will be the ones in power. We have to start small and grow everyone into ‘the big guy.’ Girl. Person.”

While the system is “corrupt,” you have to “know it in order to infiltrate it,” added Pedretti.

“The Non-Actor”

“I remember the first dinner with the cast of ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ and everyone was talking about Harvey Weinstein. I was like: ‘Is this what I’m getting myself into?...

Seaview, the Tony Award winning production company behind such Broadway shows as Stereophonic, Romeo + Juliet, Once Upon a Mattress and All In and recent Off Broadway stagings of Hold Onto Me Darling and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, has acquired Manhattan’s historic Tony Kiser Theater, formerly owned by the Second Stage Theater company.

The sale, which was effective January 1, 2025, will see a “refreshing” of the 296-seat Off Broadway venue located in the city’s midtown Theater District and a rebranding from Tony Kiser Theater to Studio Seaview. While the Off Broadway designation will remain – Broadway venues must have at least 500 seats – the acquisition transforms the space from a non-profit venue into a commercial theater.

The first production at Studio Seaview will be directed by Sam Gold and debut in Spring 2025, to be announced shortly. Seaview has a longstanding relationship with Gold, having recently collaborated on Broadway’s...

Production company Seaview has acquired the Off-Broadway Tony Kiser Theatre.

The 296-seat theater in midtown had previously housed productions from the nonprofit theater company Second Stage Theater, which had staged a number of productions there, including the pre-Broadway run of Dear Evan Hansen, but gave up its lease at the end of 2024. Under the leadership of Seaview, the theater will be rebranded into a commercial Off-Broadway theater under the name Studio Seaview.

Seaview has produced a number of Off-Broadway hits including Hold Onto Me Darling, starring Adam Driver, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, starring Aubrey Plaza, and the immersive Sweeney Todd. The production company is also a prolific producer on Broadway and is represented this season by Once Upon a Mattress, with Sutton Foster, Romeo + Juliet with Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, John Mulaney’s All In: Comedy About Love, Good Night, and Good Luck with George Clooney...

In a year marked by personal losses as well as national strife, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about time. Strange how hours can feel eternal, days brief and weeks like they are bleeding into each other so that it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

I had all that in mind while compiling my favorite arts and culture picks from this year. Some of these works consider time on a personal level, like when you pick up a book and can’t put it down. Others ask how much time we have as a society considering the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities. A handful think of time more linearly — offering reflections on the past so we might better understand the future.

Here are some works, in alphabetical order, that rearranged time for me:

Alvin Ailey

Two recent works offer a portrait...

Exclusive: Amid a surfeit of horror projects heading to next week’s American Film Market, here instead comes a legit blue chip crime-drama-thriller in the shape of James Gray’s next movie, Paper Tiger, which will star Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony winner Jeremy Strong and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway.

This is the type of project buyers we’ve spoken to this week have been crying out for. Something elevated. Five of Gray’s films have competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Based on Gray’s original screenplay, the story is set to follow two brothers who pursue the American Dream—only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through an ever-more dangerous world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their family brutally terrorized by the Russian “Mafiya.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, which I guess must include the one embroidered on the black mesh singlet worn by Kit Connor. Sam Gold’s Gen Z Romeo + Juliet revival can be chaotic and undisciplined, but it’s also breathless and swoony, angry and violent, tender and sexy Af. Ready to attest to that was the mob of young women and queer kids in my audience who let out a squeal of excitement when Connor took a flying leap into a pull-up to kiss co-star Rachel Zegler on a bed suspended above the stage. This is not your grandmother’s balcony scene, but it’s disarming.

The picture that greets theatergoers upon entering is a bunch of uncommonly youthful actors clad in neon colors and slouchy denim and Hello Kitty backpacks, draped across each other with what seems like pansexual abandon. The overturned shopping...

Kieran Culkin is doing less homework than a more novice actor might when it comes to starring on Broadway in a production of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Glengarry Glen Ross.” In fact, until rehearsals start early next year, he’s not doing any homework at all to play broken Chicago realtor Richard Roma in “Leopoldstadt” director Patrick Marber’s adaptation.

“We start rehearsals in early February. I am trying to not — yeah, I am not digging in,” Culkin told IndieWire when asked about the play during a recent interview ahead of “A Real Pain.” “I’ve read [Mamet’s play] twice, and I’m not going to take a look at it until the day before rehearsal.”

Understandably, Culkin is quite busy on the awards circuit through at least February. He’s widely tipped for a Best Supporting Actor nomination for “A Real Pain,” with many, many awards ceremonies to come ahead of the Oscars.

The rest of the world may miss “Succession,” but Jeremy Strong does not. In an interview with The Times of London, Strong says playing tortured media mogul Kendall Roy on the HBO series was hard on him, and while he’s grateful for the experience, he’s glad it’s over. “It f–-ed me up,” the Emmy winner says.

The interviewer describes Strong seeming more relaxed than he has in previous interviews. Since “Succession” ended, the actor says he has “rediscovered play” after he “sometimes lost touch with joy” while working on the show.

“That show was an incalculable gift. The material a banquet. So I miss that. But Kendall’s struggle was difficult to carry for seven years. And there’s just so much more I want to do,” he said, adding that he has no interest in reprising the role for a revival or spinoff. “It’s...

Sarah Snook will be reprising her Olivier-winning performance in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” on Broadway next spring. She plays 26 characters in this acclaimed version of the Oscar Wilde classic. Kip Williams adapted the novel about a vain man whose beauty is his downfall and directed this one-woman show.

Snook first took on this acting challenge in 2020 at the Sydney Theatre Company, where Williams is the artistic director. After she wrapped production on the final season of “Succession,” they took the show to London for a sold-out run. Take a look at the trailer for the West End edition of the show above.

Announcing the transfer, Williams said, “I was so humbled by the response from audiences in London to ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray,’ and I could not be more thrilled to be bringing this work to Broadway. It has been extraordinary to witness the way Oscar Wilde’s...

The Tony Awards are officially returning to New York City’s iconic Radio City Music Hall for the 78th installment of the ceremony.

The awards show will be broadcast live from both the East and West coasts on June 8, 2025 on CBS and will be available to stream on Paramount+ for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers. Paramount+ Essential subscribers will be able to watch the awards show on-demand the day after it airs.

Presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, the 2025 ceremony will recognize all of the awards categories and honor the incredible artistry of the 2024-2025 season. Previously, it was held at the Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater.

Last year was a big Tonys for both “The Outsiders,” which won the award for Best Musical, and “Stereophonic,” which won for Best Play. It was also a historic night for the awards show as all eight winners...

Last night’s performance of the Broadway musical Suffs, the two-time Tony-winning musical about the suffragist movement written by Shaina Taub that counts Hillary Clinton among its producers, was briefly disrupted when a group of self-identified “radical, anti-racist, queer feminists” unfurled a banner from box seats near the stage.

During the performance, as a banner with the words “Suffs Is A White Wash” was unfurled, what appeared to be several protesters in the box seats loudly chanted that slogan and added “cancel Suffs.” Based on cellphone video of the incident, the disruption seems to have last about 15 to 20 seconds before the protesters were ushered out of the box seats by theater staff without incident and the banner taken down.

As the banner was removed, a theater staffer announced over the venue’s sound system that the performance would take a brief pause.

The disruption was the second for a Broadway...

Broadway continued settling in to its post-Tonys summer last week, with box office for most shows slipping at least a bit from the previous week and the total roster trimmed to 30 from 32.

In all, receipts for the 30 productions totaled $34,783,390, down about 7% from the previous week (one of the shows no longer on the roster was the heavy-hitter An Enemy of the People). Attendance for the week ending June 30 was 264,578, down about 6% from the previous week. Even with the small decline, a strong 93% of available seats were filled.

Some notable numbers:

Merrily We Roll Along once again broke the house record at the Hudson Theatre – the ninth time for those keeping count. With its July 7 closing date fast approaching, the revival grossed $2,321,807 for the week; The Outsiders, which won the Tony for Best Musical, set a house record at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre for the second consecutive week, grossing $1,338,556; Hell...

To date, there are 24 distinguished individuals (living and deceased) who have won competitive Oscar, Emmy and Tony Awards. The Triple Crown of Acting, as it’s known — see the list below. And there’s no horsing around.

Glenda Jackson became the most recent person to join the club when she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in for “Three Tall Women” in 2018.

While the recent 77th Tony Awards didn’t produce another Triple Crown Acting champion (there was no Tony-less Oscar and Emmy winner in contention), it is possible that some unsuspecting thespian was put on course to becoming the 25th name on the list above. And so the awards plot thickens.

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I’ll appropriately start with Sarah Paulson, who accepted the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for “Appropriate.” (It marked her first Tony nomination.

A double-digit slip in the Nielsen ratings notwithstanding, the Tony Awards worked their magic at the box office, with this year’s winners, contenders and show-stealers reporting big increases in attendance and receipts.

Just a few examples: An Enemy of the People, Merrily We Roll Along and Stereophonic posted box office gains in the six figures.

In all, the 32 Broadway shows grossed $37,565,097 for the week ending June 23. That’s a 2% increase over the previous week, a more impressive bump than it seems at first glance: The previous week had 35 shows, including hefty money-makers Ben Platt: Live at the Palace, Uncle Vanya and Mother Play. The absence of those shows last week went a long way in explaining the 4% drop in attendance to 282,752.

Among the numbers:

An Enemy of the People, which starred the Tony-winning Jeremy Strong, broke its own house record at Circle in the Square, taking in $1,545,913 for its final week of performances,...

The big winners of the Tony Awards saw their grosses soar in the week following the June 16 ceremony, with Merrily We Roll Along, The Outsiders, Stereophonic and An Enemy of the People hitting new highs.

Merrily We Roll Along, winner of the best revival of a musical and Tony Awards for stars Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, saw the biggest jump in the industry for the week ended June 23, upping its total gross by close to $330,000 compared to the prior week. The musical, which has been playing the Hudson Theatre since September, grossed $2.17 million and played to 100 percent capacity as it also nears the end of its run on July 7. Its average ticket price also reached a new high of $281, the highest in the industry for the week.

An Enemy of the People, starring Jeremy Strong, ended its run on June 23 and broke another box office record to reach $1.54 million...

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for The Bikeriders, Kinds of Kindness and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

The Bikeriders premiere

Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Mike Faist and Norman Reedus joined writer-director Jeff Nichols at the L.A. premiere of their Focus Features film on Monday. Jason Momoa also showed his support at the premiere, rolling up on his own motorcycle with daughter Lola.

Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Jeff Nichols and Norman Reedus Lola Iolani Momoa and Jason Momoa

I Am: Celine Dion special screening

Celine Dion made a rare red carpet appearance at the NYC premiere of her new Prime Video documentary on Monday, joining director Irene Taylor.

Director Irene Taylor and Celine Dion

Carol Burnett’s Hand and Footprint Ceremony

Carol Burnett had her hands and feet immortalized in cement in front...

For those keeping track of such things, nearly 10% – or $3,239,838 – of Broadway’s total $36.8 million box office last week was earned by productions directed by Taymors: The Lion King‘s Julie Taymor and her niece, The Outsiders director Danya Taymor.

And that’s before The Outsiders‘ big Tony-winning night on Sunday. Two of the musical’s four awards were Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical. (Lighting and sound for musicals were the other two.)

As usual, stalwart The Lion King was Broadway’s top earner for the week, grossing $2,216,034. The Outsiders took in $1,023,804. Those numbers tally up to 9% of the Broadway total for the week ending June 16.

In all, the 35 Broadway productions grossed $36,851,329 for the week, a slight increase of 2% over the previous week but a solid 12% over the same time last year. Total attendance was 293,997, about even with the previous week but up 13% year-to-year.

While the impact of...

On Sunday, the 77th annual Tony Awards were held, hosted by Broadway and film actress Ariana DeBose at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The ceremony saw wins for Sarah Paulson, Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe. Several notable faces took the stage as presenters, including Angelina Jolie, Brooke Shields, Nick Jonas and even former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

This year’s nominations raised some skeptical responses over the omission of the fan-favorite revival of The Wiz and Appropriate‘s nomination for costume design. The ceremony was also deemed “dull” by many viewers citing numerous on-stage speech fumbles and a lack of stage presence from presenters and award winners.

Regardless, fans were excited to see their favorite faces take home their wins. Stereophonic and Alicia Keys‘ musical Hell’s Kitchen swept the categories with 13 nominations. Paulson returned to the stage after 13 years and snagged a win,...

Brooke Shields, the epitome of 1980s grace and glamour, has continued to dazzle on the red carpet with her sophisticated and timeless style. Her most recent appearance was at the 2024 Tony Awards, where she put her best fashion foot forward… or not.

Shields typically dresses in muted colors, so seeing her in a vibrant yellow gown was refreshing. I also thought the color looked good on her warm tan complexion. What bothered me was her choice of shoes—yellow Crocs instead of traditional red-carpet heels.

Brooke Shields poses on the 2024 Tony Awards blue carpet in a yellow gown before taking the stage to introduce Nicole Scherzinger and the “In Memoriam Tribute” (Credit: Janet Mayer / INSTARimages)

The 2024 Tony Awards: The Best of Broadway

The 77th Annual Tony Awards, held at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater on Sunday, honored Broadway productions that shone from 2023 to 2024. The Angelina Jolie-produced musical The Outsiders won Best Musical,...

In the week leading up to Jeremy Strong’s Tony Award victory, Broadway’s An Enemy of the People broke the box office record at Circle in the Square Theatre, grossing $1,266,338 and topping its own previous records.

The production had already broken the previous Circle in the Square box office record of $917,008, held by the 2014 production of The River starring Hugh Jackman, more than 15 times. Enemy routinely sells out and posts weekly grosses in excess of $1 million.

The revival of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama is in its final week of a limited engagement, set to play its final performance this Sunday, June 23. When it closes, it will have played 23 previews and 112 performances since beginning previews Tuesday, February 27.

Strong, who co-stars with Michael Imperioli and Victoria Pedretti, won the Tony for Best Leading Actor in Play. Enemy was nominated for for a total of five Tonys including Best Revival of...

Out of all the winners (and also-rans) in the 26 competitive categories at the 2024 Tony Awards, 23 results stand out as particularly noteworthy when considered in the context of history. So what were this year’s most interesting facts, records, and milestones? Check out the complete list of winners here.

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1. The productions that received multiple Tony nominations, but went home empty-handed were “Back to the Future,” “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Doubt,” “Grey House,” “Here Lies Love,” “Lempicka,” “Mary Jane,” “Mother Play,” “The Notebook,” “Prayer for the French Republic” and “Water for Elephants.”

2. The individuals who had multiple nominations this year, but went home empty-handed were songwriter/orchestrator Will Butler (“Stereophonic”), lighting designer Isabella Byrd (“Cabaret” and “An Enemy of the People”), scenic designer dots (“Appropriate” and “An Enemy of the People”), songwriters/orchestrators Jamestown Revival (“The Outsiders”), lighting designer Natasha Katz...

You’re a wizard, Tony! Wide-ranging actor Daniel Radcliffe is officially a Tony-winning actor, nabbing Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in Merrily We Roll Along. This was Radcliffe’s first nomination for the prestigious theater award, while the musical itself would take home four Tonys total, including Best Revival of a Musical.

You can check out the full list of winners from last night’s Tony Awards below:

Best Musical: The Outsiders

Best Revival of a Musical: Merrily We Roll Along

Best Direction of a Musical: Danya Taymor, The Outsiders

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical: Jonathan Groff — Merrily We Roll Along

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical: Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical: Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical: Kecia Lewis,...

A few key stories have emerged with the dust settling on the 77th Annual Tony Awards. One, we should have seen “Merrily We Roll Along” when we had the chance (it closes July 7!). Two, it’s great that Brooke Shields has broken the Crocs-red carpet barrier. And three, why does Eddie Redmayne singing directly into the camera give us the willies?

With that out of the way, though, awards-obsessives can crack out their abacuses and start making charts to see who is getting closer to achieving Egot status.

Egot, of course, stands for Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, Tonys, and while Sunday night didn’t put anyone over the top, we have a few celebs who can start giving it serious thought.

Sarah Paulson won her first Tony for Best Actress in a Play, for Branden Jacobs-Jenkens’s dysfunctional family drama “Appropriate.” Paulson is a seven-time Emmy nominee and one-time winner for “The People vs.

No awards show makes it to the end without a few surprises, and tonight’s Tony Awards on CBS had a whopper: It went off without a hitch.

The Pluto TV pre-show, not so much. But more on that in a bit.

With Ariana DeBose returning to host for the third time, the 77th Annual Tonys was like a how-to for awards shows, with nearly all of the performances by the Best Musical nominees (and the year’s Best Play winner Stereophonic) showcasing each production at its best. (Which one fell a bit short? Read on.)

DeBose kicked things off with a made-for-the-show musical number, sounding terrific even if a performance from one of the actual Broadway shows might have been a wiser option. DeBose has said this will be her final Tony hosting gig, at least for a while, and she’ll be missed: She knows how to hold the spotlight,...

Hell’s Kitchen was the first of the nominated musicals to get a performance at the 2024 Tony Awards, and the number featured Alicia Keys and Jay-Z reuniting to perform their hit “Empire State of Mind.”

But the semi-autobiographical show, for which Keys composed the score and helped arrange the music and served as a producer, ended the night losing the top prize of best musical and winning only two awards despite going into the 2024 Tonys with a leading 13 nominations.

Hell’s Kitchen had been tied with Stereophonic as the most-nominated productions this year, but the play won five awards, including best play, on Sunday night. Hell’s Kitchen’s wins were in the categories of best actress (Maleah Joi Moon) and featured actress (Kecia Lewis) in a musical.

The best musical prize ended up going to 12-time nominee The Outsiders.

But arguably the biggest snub of the night was the...

There were a ton of “Hollywood names” at the 77th Tony Awards on Sunday night, which undoubtedly helped to elevate interest in a nationwide telecast that is always a bit of a tough sell, given that it celebrates shows that relatively few people outside — or even inside — the tri-state area have actually seen.

Among the A-listers on hand this year were Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose, returning as the host for the third time; presenters such as Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Hudson, Oscar winners both; performers including Alicia Keys, Jay Z, Pete Townshend and yet another Oscar winner, Eddie Redmayne; and worthy honorees like Jeremy Strong (best actor in a play for An Enemy of the People) and Sarah Paulson (best actress in a play for Appropriate), each of whom has an Emmy at home, and Daniel Radcliffe (best featured actor in a play for Merrily We Roll Along), the...

The 77th Tony Awards gave those of us cuckoo for kudos the thing that we love most about show biz celebrations.

Surprises.

Throughout the course of the evening, the envelopes revealed a number of out-of-left-field selections. (See the Tony Awards winners list.) That made watching the reactions of the recipients all the more fun. So who were the most visibly shocked Tony winners? Here the Top 5, along with their corresponding “shockmeter” rating.

1. Danya Taymor, Best Director of a Musical for “The Outsiders.”

Most Broadway insiders were expecting Maria Friedman to roll away with the prize for “Merrily We Roll Along.” So it’s no wonder that the dazed Danya literally jumped out of her seat and jolted to the stage. The untamed Taymor did clearly write her speech in advance — but preparation is the hallmark of any good director. Shockmeter rating: 9.5.

See 2024 Tony Awards: Every winner (and nominee) in all 26 competitive categories

2. Kecia Lewis,...

The Tony Awards are being handed out Sunday night.

Ariana DeBose is hosting the live broadcast from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. The ceremony airs live from 8-11 p.m. Et/5-8 p.m. Pt on June 16 on CBS and streams on Paramount+ in the U.S. (See the red carpet photos.)

Among the noteworthy winners so far are Daniel Radcliffe and Jeremy Strong, who both took home their first Tonys, and Dede Ayite, who became the first Black woman to win a Tony for best costume design of a play.

Set to perform at the ceremony are the casts of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, Merrily We Roll Along, Stereophonic, Suffs, The Outsiders, The Who’s Tommy and Water for Elephants.

Presenters will include Utkarsh Ambudkar, Nate Burleson, Cynthia Erivo, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Josh Gad,...

The Outsiders and Stereophonic took home the top prizes of best musical and best play at the 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday.

The best musical race had been one of the closest categories heading into Sunday’s ceremony, with The Outsiders, a story about young boys growing up in a rough setting, based on S.E. Hinton’s best-selling novel, and Hell’s Kitchen, featuring a score by Alicia Keys, seen as the top contenders, amid other contenders including Water for Elephants, Illinoise and Suffs. The two battled for awards throughout the night, with The Outsiders picking up a key win for director Danya Taymor and Hell’s Kitchen earning first-time acting wins for Maleah Joi Moon and Kecia Lewis.

Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along took home the prize for best revival of a musical, while Branden Jacobs-Jenkins family drama Appropriate won the Tony Award for best revival of a play.

The No. 1 boy is on top once again.

Jeremy Strong took home his first Tony award Sunday night, winning the Best Actor in a Play Tony for his role as Doctor Thomas Stockmann in “An Enemy of the People.” The play — originally produced in the 1880s — centers on a whistleblower who discovers that there is poison in the town’s water supply. His brother (Michael Imperioli) and the town want him to be quiet lest he hurt the burgeoning local economy. Needless to say, there are plenty of current real-world parallels about truth tellers, science, and health vs economy issues.

“I want to thank the ushers and the front of house staff who see me walking in every day looking like I’ve just been run over by a truck, and see me walk out somehow looking even worse,” Strong joked in his acceptance speech. “Sam [Gold] and Amy [Herzog], you guys,...

Jeremy Strong won his first Tony Award on Sunday night.

The Succession star took home the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play for An Enemy of the People. He seemed visibly surprised when accepting the award onstage. He thanked the cast and creatives behind the production along with the people who work at the theater.

“I want to thank the ushers and the front-of-house staff,” he said, receiving loud applause, “who see me walking in every day looking like I’ve just been run over by a truck and, and see me walk out looking somehow even worse with like bits of pretzels … in my hair.”

Strong stars with Michael Imperioli in the revival of Henrik Ibsen’s play, portraying a small-town doctor who considers himself a proud, upstanding member of his close-knit community. When he discovers a catastrophe that risks the lives of everyone in town,...

The 77th Tony Awards took place on Sunday, June 16 in a two-part telecast staged at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Nominations were announced on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Of the 36 eligible productions from the 2023-2024 Broadway season, 28 reaped bids across 26 competitive categories.

15 of the 21 eligible musicals and musical revivals earned at least one nomination. Alicia Keys‘ “Hell’s Kitchen” leads all productions with 13 nominations. Its tally includes a nomination for the top honor of Best Musical and four bids for its performers. “The Outsiders,” a musical adaptation of the classic S. E. Hinton novel, is right behind with 12, including bids for Best Musical and for three of its actors. Other original shows that performed well with nominations include “Water for Elephants” with seven noms, “Suffs” with six, “Here Lies Love” and “Illinoise” with four, “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Lempicka” and “The Notebook” with three...

Tony Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday, April 30 by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry. While the nominations for the 77th annual Tony Awards were determined by approximately 60 theatre professionals, winners were decided by hundreds of members of the Broadway community.

A whopping 36 shows were eligible for consideration by the nominating committee. On the play side, there were 10 original works and five revivals in the running for nominations. Over on the musical side, 15 new tuners were in contention for bids as were six musical revivals. The cutoff date for eligibility was Thursday, April 25.

The Tony Awards are set for June 16 at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and will be hosted for the third year in a row by Oscar winner Ariana DeBose. The earlier “Tony Awards: Act One” ceremony will be hosted by Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar; Skylar Astin will host...

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Put on your dancing shoes — Broadway’s biggest night is upon us! The 77th annual Tony Awards are being held Sunday, June 16 at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. We’re outlining everything you need to know about the ceremony below, including how to watch it live online.

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Put on your dancing shoes — Broadway’s biggest night is upon us! The 77th annual Tony Awards are being held Sunday, June 16 at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. We’re outlining everything you need to know about the ceremony below, including how to watch it live online.

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The first Broadway revival of the late Stephen Sondheim’s infamous flop “Merrily We Roll Along” will win the most Tony Awards of any show at the upcoming 77th annual ceremony, according to our official odds in all 26 categories. The original production, which ran for only 16 official performances back in 1981, earned a single nomination for Sondheim’s score, but this time around it will claim six trophies including Best Musical Revival, three performance awards, Best Director and Best Orchestrations.

The blockbuster musical revival will best by two a duo of plays – David Adjmi’s “Stereophonic,” the zeitgeist-grabbing production about the tumultuous recording sessions of a band on the brink of superstardom, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ “Appropriate” – that will each win four trophies apiece. Shaina Taub’s suffragist musical “Suffs” is right behind with three victories. Nominations leader “Hell’s Kitchen” will score only two wins, while nominations runner-up “The Outsiders” will likely go home empty-handed.

With important discussions raised recently about whether (and which) new categories should be added to the Tony Awards competition — Hair, Wig & Makeup? Casting? Ensemble? Projections? — allow me an unimportant one: Best Coin Toss, because that’s what so many predictors will rely on for a season crammed with excellent nominees.

Sarah Paulson or Jessica Lange? Coin toss. Appropriate? Purlie Victorious? An Enemy of the People? Coin toss, coin toss, coin toss. Five cast members of Stereophonic? Get plenty of change.

But Tony predictions are as much a part of the annual Broadway tradition as red carpets and go-for-broke musical numbers. So with that in mind, I’ll get on with the coins, the hair-splitting and more than a few passionate opinions. Here is Deadline’s annual roster of predictions for the 2024 Tony Awards, airing this Sunday evening on CBS.

Best Play

Will win: Stereophonic

Should win: Stereophonic

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After an extraordinary season boasting 36 productions of musicals, plays, and revivals, Broadway will toast its nominees and crown new winners at the upcoming 77th annual Tony Awards. If predicting the winners seems overwhelming with so many terrific contenders to choose between – especially one of the most competitive Best Musical races in recent memory – check out our official odds below for all 26 categories with our projected winners highlighted in gold.

These official odds for the Tonys are derived from the predictions from our Experts who write about theatre year-round, our in-house team of Editors, the Top 24 Users who did the best predicting last year’s ceremony, the All-Star Top 24 who have the highest scores when you combine predictions from the last two years, and all our Users who make up the largest and often savviest bloc of predictors.

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When Tony voters looked at their ballots for best musical in 1960, they must have felt lightheaded. They were tasked with choosing a winner among the latest Rodgers and Hammerstein (The Sound of Music), a political drama that would go on to win the Pulitzer (Fiorello!), a new kind of psychological biography (Gypsy), and an uproarious fairy-tale comedy (Once Upon a Mattress). I’m not sure if any of the 2024 nominees for best musical will stand the test of time quite like that stunning lineup. But as was true 64 years ago, there are at least four celebrated contenders vying, all equally convincingly, for the top prize.

Part of what makes this season’s best musical category particularly tricky to predict is the volume of productions that aren’t on the ballot here: At various moments throughout the season, in which 15 new musicals opened (and six have already closed), it would have...

“I think ‘Stereophonic’ has taken off in a really once-in-a-lifetime way within the theatre community,” shares Sam Eckmann about the show he believes is the frontrunner for Best Play at the 2024 Tony Awards. He and I recently reconvened to discuss all 11 of the play categories ahead of the 77th annual ceremony on Sunday, June 16, and we didn’t need much time to debate the top category with David Adjmi’s “Stereophonic” so far out front to prevail. Watch our full Tony Awards predictions slugfest above.

We are feeling similarly confident about Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ “Appropriate” taking home the trophy for Best Play Revival. Sam points out that since this play has never been on Broadway before – it is considered a revival under the Tony Awards “classics” rule – the playwright will be on the ballot and eligible to win, which will help push the show over the finish line because “he’s a really admired writer.

Broadway is heading into its final pre-Tony weeks doing robust business, with box office for last week up 7% over the previous week, nine shows selling out (including the two most-nominated productions) and ticket-buyers for two nominated musicals shelling out more than an average $200 per seat.

In all, the 35 shows grossed a total $36,011,651 for the week ending June 9, a 16% increase over last season at this time. Total attendance was 291,082, a 4% increase over the previous week and up 14% year-to-year. About 89% of seats were filled.

Among the shows selling out were Stereophonic and Hell’s Kitchen, this year’s most-Tony-nominated productions. Best Play nominee Stereophonic grossed $872,337 and Best Musical nominee Hell’s Kitchen took in $1,638,208. Average ticket prices for each hovered around the $140 mark.

Two other sell-outs – Merrily We Roll Along and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club – had average ticket prices far above the $124 overall average.

Three months ago, members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion made national headlines when they interrupted the Broadway staging of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People to bring attention to the environmental movement.

Now, they’re getting an Enemy of their own, with a cast of actors including Bill Murray, Taylor Schilling, Kathryn Erbe and Zach Grenier as well as Nate Smith, one of the activists who interrupted the Jeremy Strong-Michael Imperioli Broadway staging on March 14.

Tomorrow evening – June 12, from 6-9 p.m. Et – Extinction Rebellion and Theater of War Productions will present scenes from the Ibsen classic with a cast that, in addition to Murray, Erbe, Schilling and Grenier will include actors Peter Francis James (Oz) and Jay O. Sanders (True Detective). Also taking part will be New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and former Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks. The scenes are adapted,...

The Broadway revival of An Enemy of the People, starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, has recouped its $5.5 million capitalization.

The milestone, announced by producers Seaview, Patrick Catullo and Brad Pitt’s Plan B, comes after only about four months on Broadway, with the play breaking the Circle in the Square’s box office record (of $917,008) 16 times. The production began previews at the Circle in the Square Theatre on Feb. 27 and is set to close June 23.

The production, which opened March 18, has maintained more than 100 percent capacity for the entirety of its run and has grossed more than $1 million most weeks. The average ticket price for the show has generally been around $150, which puts it somewhat on the higher end within the industry, but still well below average ticket prices commanded by shows such as Merrily We Roll Along, which announced the recoupment of its $12 million capitalization in March after about six months on Broadway.

An Enemy of The People, the Broadway revival starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, has recouped its $5.5 million capitalization, producers announced today.

Nominated for five Tony Awards, the production, adapted by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, began previews at Circle in the Square Theatre on February 27. The limited engagement closes June 23.

The production has broken the previous Circle in the Square box office record of $917,008, held by the 2014 production of The River starring Hugh Jackman, 16 times. Enemy routinely sells out and posts weekly grosses in excess of $1 million.

The Ibsen revival is nominated for 5 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Jeremy Strong), Best Scenic Design of a Play (dots), Best Costume Design of a Play (David Zinn), and Best Lighting Design of a Play (Isabella Byrd).

An Enemy of the People is produced by Seaview,...

Don’t expect to see Jeremy Strong at the next Roy family reunion.

The Golden Globe winner said any said any possibility of a Succession revival has been “happily put to rest” for him more than a year after the critically-acclaimed HBO series ended its four-season run.

“I’m sure there’s a desire for more [Succession]. I would really pass that buck to [creator] Jesse Armstrong,” he told People ahead of the 77th Tony Awards.

“But I think in terms of the role that I played, he came to his terminal point,” added Strong. “So for me, that’s something that is very happily put to rest.”

Strong won his first Emmy Award and Golden Globe for starring as Kendall Roy on Succession, which followed the grown Roy children as they fought for the keys to their father Logan Roy’s (Brian Cox) media empire,...

According to the combined predictions of Gold Derby users as of this writing, “Appropriate” is the frontrunner to win Best Play Revival at this year’s Tony Awards with 27/20 odds. In second place is “Purlie Victorious,” which has 43/20 odds. Our odds are also currently predicting both shows to win two acting awards. So could Best Play Revival be a closer race than people think? It’s worth noting that “Purlie’s” director is on a winning streak that we mustn’t ignore.

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Looking at our forecasts across all races, “Appropriate” is the frontrunner for Best Actress in a Play (Sarah Paulson), Best Featured Actor in a Play (Corey Stoll) and Best Scenic Design of a Play. “Purlie Victorious” is the frontrunner for Best Actor in a Play (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Best Featured Actress in a Play (Kara Young). The...