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Justin David Sullivan, a nonbinary performer who plays the character of May in the hit Broadway musical & Juliet, has withdrawn from Tony Award consideration due to the gendered nomination categories, and Tony administrators suggest they’re considering a rule change after the current season…

White Cherry Entertainment will serve as the production team for the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards through 2026, cementing a relationship with Tony Award Productions that goes back to 2003. The 76th Annual Tony Awards will air live from United Palace Theatre in New York City on Sunday, June 11…

Broadway’s oft-stated efforts to reach beyond traditional audiences and its own mid-town environs seems evident in the choice of location for the 2023 Tony Awards: Rather than the usual theater-district and Times Square haunts like Radio City Music Hall or one of the major Broadway venues, the Tonys will…

The 75th Annual Tony Awards signified a return to normalcy for the Broadway community by airing in the show’s traditional June berth for the first time in three years. The three-hour telecast, airing live on CBS coast-to-coast for the first time and streaming on Paramount+ and the CBS digital platforms, drew 3.86…

The late Bob Saget is remembered more for his television roles and stand-up comedy career than his two appearances on the Broadway stage, but friend and Full House co-star John Stamos thinks that’s no excuse for leaving the beloved comedian out of the Tony Awards In Memoriam segment Sunday. "Disappointed to hear that…

GLAAD, the leading LGBTQ media watchdog group, praised Broadway and last night’s Tony Awards for telling “stories about the lives of LGBTQ people…” "With A Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson puts Black, queer stories center stage and GLAAD was beyond proud to be an investor to help bring this incredible and…

Jennifer Hudson, one of the celebrity producers of Broadway’s A Strange Loop, achieved EGOT status tonight when that musical took the Tony Award for Best Musical. Hudson, who won the Academy Award in 2007 for her performance in Dreamgirls, is a double-Grammy winner and won a Daytime Emmy Award for Interactive…

The Lehman Trilogy, Company, A Strange Loop, MJ and Sweet Charity were among the big winners at tonight’s Tony Awards. And Sweet Charity wasn’t even staged this season. Credit Ariana DeBose for the blink-and-miss-it shout-out to the Bob Fosse classic — and for much else that went right with tonight’s fast-moving…

After A Strange Loop capped the Tony Awards by taking the Best Musical prize, playwright Michael R. Jackson offered his main takeaway from the show’s unlikely path to the top: “It’s OK to be weird.” Appearing in the press room with the show’s producer, Barbara Whitman, Jackson said he intended to take several steps to…

A Strange Loop was named Best Musical of the 2021-22 Broadway season, and in two of the bigger surprises of the night, Joaquina Kalukango of Paradise Square and newcomer Myles Frost of MJ took best acting honors. In the first big surprise of the night, Kalukango won the Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award for her…

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who won a Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Take Me Out, said the leaking of a naked photo of cast member Jesse Williams from a performance hasn’t made him less trustful of Broadway audiences. The cellphone video, shot from the audience and then posted on social media…

Dazzling in a bright white topcoat and pants, Tony Awards host Ariana DeBose trumpeted progress on Broadway in a high-energy opening number and monologue. See video of the musical portion above. The West Side Story Oscar winner rattled off a number of “firsts” for this year’s Tonys, which featured a field with a large…