NEW YORK — Select nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards, announced Tuesday. Best Musical: “Hell’s Kitchen”: ”Illinoise”; “The Outsiders”; “Suffs”; “Water for Elephants” Best Play: “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”; “Mary Jane”; “Mother Play”; “Prayer for the French Republic”; “Stereophonic”; “Suffs”; “Water for Elephants” Best Revival of a Play: “Appropriate”; “An Enemy of the People”; “Purlie … Read more
NEW YORK — After a final, frantic push to open the last raft of Broadway shows before the eligibility window closed, the final list of almost 40 plays and musicals vying for Tony Award nominations this year are ready and hoping for their closeups. Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry will announce nominees for … Read more
LONDON — Sarah Jessica Parker, Andrew Scott and Sarah Snook are among the stars battling for accolades Sunday at the Olivier Awards recognizing work on the London stage. The Oliviers — Britain’s equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards — are celebrating a bumper year for new shows in the West End, which is finally bouncing back … Read more
NEW YORK — Playwright Christopher Durang, a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with “Miss Witherspoon,” has died. He was 75. Durang died Tuesday at his home in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, of complications from logopenic primary progressive … Read more
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — James Monroe Iglehart’s mom took him to see the animated Disney movie “Aladdin” as a high-school graduation gift in 1992. He fell in love with the Genie, naturally. Fast-forward more than two decades and Iglehart found himself playing the first Genie on Broadway, killing it, and on his … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Elton John has achieved EGOT status. The famed British singer-pianist secured an Emmy Award on Monday night for best variety special (live) for “Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium,” a three-hour concert documentary that streamed on Disney +. John said he was “incredibly humbled” for joining the elite group of EGOT … Read more
