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Why the Tony triumph of ‘A Strange Loop’ is momentous for Broadway

Michael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” received more Tony nominations than any other show in Broadway’s 2021-22 season, but Tony voters are a fickle lot. Recall what happened to Jeremy O. Harris’ “Slave Play” last year. Nominated for 12 awards, a record for a drama, the production went home empty-handed.

Los Angeles Times

Two shows dominated the Tony awards and proved Broadway’s debt to British taxpayers

Sam Mendes’s The Lehman Trilogy and Marianne Elliott’s Company took 10 prizes between them and demonstrated the power of UK subsidised theatre

The Guardian - UK

Tony Moments: A night for Broadway to reclaim its groove

Broadway has its groove back, said Tonys host Ariana DeBose at an exuberant ceremony seeking to illustrate just that sentiment

The Independent UK

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Tony Awards spreads the kudos — with love for the entire team

It took an entire village to bring a struggling Broadway back. Even the people checking the vax cards at the theater’s doors, as COVID-era patrons fretted over missing curtains that had struggled to rise at all.

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Kahleah Copper’s Chicago Sky survive Sabrina Ionescu’s triple-double in win over New York Liberty

NEW YORK — As with any Sunday afternoon here, there were a lot of star-studded matinees in town. But this time, one of the best was across the East River from Broadway.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Tony Awards has stars — and those usually far from spotlight

Darren Criss’ favorite night of the year has arrived

The Independent UK

Tony Awards to turn spotlight on Broadway as Times Square hums back to life

NEW YORK — This is how Broadway is supposed to be.

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How 'A Strange Loop' fits into Black theater legacies

The musical — which is up for 11 Tony Awards this Sunday — subverts and reimagines decades of Black theater and pop culture.

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Tony Awards 2022: Who will win, who should win?

The Tony Awards are coming. So who’s going to win?

Tribune News Service

‘Harry Potter’ Broadway show slammed over ‘Happy Pride’ tweet: ‘The epitome of cowardice masquerading as allyship’

NEW YORK — Producers of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” could probably use an invisibility cloak right now.

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Tony Awards performances to include ‘Six,’ ‘Company,’ ‘Music Man’

NEW YORK — The Tony Awards are rolling out the red carpet for Broadway’s biggest shows.

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‘A Strange Loop’ creator Michael R. Jackson on Tony Awards, his love for Liz Phair and his issue with Tyler Perry

NEW YORK — Tyler Perry and Liz Phair are two names you’d never expect to hear mentioned in a Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway show marketed as a “big, Black, queer-ass American musical.”

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Jennifer Hudson could become an EGOT at Sunday’s Tony Awards, thanks to ‘A Strange Loop’ producer Barbara Whitman

NEW YORK — Jennifer Hudson may become an EGOT on Sunday.

Tribune News Service

'Shine the light': Ariana DeBose talks hosting Tony Awards

Tony Award host and theater veteran Ariana DeBose says this year’s telecast will spread its arms wider to celebrate both Broadway’s stars and the unsung heroes like understudies and swings who kept shows open during the pandemic restart

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Los Angeles Times

How to watch the 2022 Tony Awards featuring Andrew Garfield, Lin-Manuel Miranda, more

The last two years on Broadway have been marked by suffering and triumph. Sickness, closures, cancellations, lost wages and lost livelihoods have given way to a fragile recovery fueled by a remarkable resilience of spirit — and the heroic efforts of understudies and swings who stepped in time and again…

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New wave of Black, gay narratives taking bigger role on NYC theater scene

NEW YORK — A new movement is taking center stage on and off Broadway — and just in time for Pride Month.

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He caught COVID 3 times. Then he delivered Uber Eats. So where did he end up? Broadway

DALLAS — Dallas actor Brian Gonzales has come down with COVID three different times. Unable to work, like thousands of actors across the country — indeed, around the world — he lived in his in-laws’ house in Garland and made deliveries for Uber Eats for more than a year.

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Myles Frost’s journey from ‘The Voice’ castoff to Broadway’s ‘MJ’ leads to Tony award nomination

NEW YORK — Singer and actor Myles Frost is a Tony Award nominee for his performance as superstar Michael Jackson in the Broadway musical “MJ,” but the path to fame was no moonwalk in the park.

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The Independent UK

Designer Scott Pask creates 'a beautiful mess' on Broadway

Set designer Scott Pask was asked to create a roomful of junk on Broadway and somehow he turned it into something sublime

AAP

Dorian Gray hit show takes on the world

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Eryn Jean Norvill's one-woman tour-de-force, opens in Melbourne before heading to Broadway and the West End.

The Independent UK

Book celebrates the 50th anniversary of musical 'Grease'

The story of how the musical “Grease” became a pop culture juggernaut is told in the new oral history book “Grease: Tell Me More, Tell Me More,” culled from stories submitted by some 100 cast and crew and edited by Moore, “Grease” veteran actor Adrienne Barbeau and producer Ken Waissman

The Independent UK

Q&A: Moisés Kaufman reflects on the roots of our divisions

Seven years ago, Moisés Kaufman was approached to direct the Broadway musical “Paradise Square” and, after reading it, he immediately said yes

Chicago Sun-Times

This week in history: Curtain rises on Oscar Brown Jr.’s first Broadway show in Chicago

Songwriter extraordinaire Oscar Brown Jr., who died this week on May 29, 2005, brought his first Broadway show – “Kicks & Co.” – to Chicago for its world premiere. Here’s how it went.

The Independent UK

'A Strange Loop' actor, creator on long journey to Tony noms

When Jaquel Spivey found out he was nominated for a Tony Award as lead actor in “A Strange Loop,” he was shocked

Tribune News Service

‘Almost Famous’ coming to Broadway in the fall

NEW YORK — Stillwater is taking on Broadway.

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