Tony Awards institutes unconscious bias training for voters
Starting this season, Tony Awards voters must complete unconscious bias training in order to vote in any categories.
The news, sent to voters Friday, requires...
‘Lackawanna Blues,’ ‘Trouble in Mind’ to be considered in Tonys revival category
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the first time Wednesday to determine eligibility for the 75th Annual Tony Awards.
While the date for the...
‘Moulin Rouge,’ ‘The Inheritance’ top Tony Awards list
"Moulin Rouge!" swept the Tony Awards Sunday night, bringing home 10 trophies.
The musical won awards for Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical and...
Tony Awards delivers surprises and calls for change on Broadway
The Tony Awards ceremony Sunday gave several long-awaited awards to members of the theater community, while delivering a few surprises in the major categories.
Notably,...
‘American Utopia,’ John Legend and ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ to perform on Tonys telecast
The Tony Awards special will feature performances by David Byrne and the cast of “American Utopia,” as well as by John Legend and the...
Tony Awards announces star lineup, canceled viewing party
Jake Gyllenhaal, Idina Menzel and Lin-Manuel Miranda will appear in a televised Broadway special this Sunday, as part of this year’s revamped Tony Awards...
Leslie Odom, Jr. and Audra McDonald to host Tony Awards broadcasts
CBS and The Tony Awards announced Monday that Leslie Odom, Jr. and Audra McDonald will serve as hosts for the two-part Tony Awards special...
Tony Awards to take place at the Winter Garden Theatre
The 2019-2020 Tony Awards will be held at the Winter Garden Theatre this September in front of an audience.
The Tony Awards will also host...
Tony Awards to honor press agent Irene Gandy, New Federal Theatre and more
The Tony Awards will present honorary awards to press agent Irene Gandy, stage manager Beverly Jenkins, Fred Gallo, president of PRG Scenic Technologies and...
Graciela Daniele to receive Tony Award for lifetime achievement
Director and Choreographer Graciela Daniele will receive the 2020 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
Daniele began her Broadway career in 1964...
Actor Julie Halston to receive 2020 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Actor Julie Halston will receive the 2020 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced Wednesday.
The Isabelle Stevenson Award is given to...
Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Freestyle Love Supreme and more awarded special Tony Awards
The Tony Awards Administration will present Special Tony Awards to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, "David Byrne’s American Utopia" and "Freestyle Love Supreme."
The Special Tony...
Tony Awards announce fall broadcast on Paramount+, Broadway special on CBS
The 2019-2020 Tony Awards will take place Sept. 26, 2021, in a two-part event airing across different CBS platforms.
A presentation of awards will air...
Tony Awards campaigns go digital during the Broadway shutdown
Amid a pandemic and a yearlong theatrical shutdown, Tony-nominated productions are taking their campaigns online.
Ahead of Tony Awards voting, which began Monday and ends...
Tony Awards voting to take place in March
Voting for the Tony Awards will take place starting March 1, Tony Awards organizers said Friday.
The voting period, for the shows that opened during...
Aaron Tveit on his unique Tony nomination and hopes for Broadway’s return
When the Tony Award nominations were announced in October, “Moulin Rouge!” actor Aaron Tveit’s name stood alone.
Tveit was the only actor nominated in the...
Date for Tony Awards ceremony remains uncertain
The date for the Tony Awards ceremony still remains unknown, as organizers plan for a digital ceremony during the industrywide shutdown.
Though the Tony Awards...
‘Moulin Rouge!’ producer Carmen Pavlovic on the Tonys and guiding a show through a...
"Moulin Rouge!" producer Carmen Pavlovic had intended to fly back home to Australia in late February and then return to New York City to...
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris on ‘Slave Play’s’ Tony nominations
On Thursday, "Slave Play" garnered 12 Tony Award nominations and became the most Tony-nominated play in history.
The play, which ran on Broadway in fall...
Tony nominees issue calls for political action, financial support for Broadway
The 2020 Tony nominations were announced amid a prolonged shutdown of the industry and weeks away from a contentious presidential election.
In turn, many of...
‘Jagged Little Pill,’ ‘Moulin Rouge!’ lead 2020 Tony nominations, ‘Slave Play’ makes history
"Jagged Little Pill" and "Moulin Rouge!" topped the 74th Annual Tony Awards nominations list Thursday.
"Jagged Little Pill" received 15 nominations and "Moulin Rouge!" received...
Broadway’s Tony Award nominations to be announced Oct. 15
The Tony Award nominations will be announced Oct. 15 at noon.
The nominations announcement will be hosted by Tony Award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart on...
Olivier Awards set date for digital ceremony
The Olivier Awards are moving forward with a digital ceremony on Oct. 25 after postponing their April awards show.
The ceremony will be broadcast on...
Tony Awards committee determines eligibility for final three shows of the season
The Tony Administration Committee met for the final time Thursday to discuss eligible productions for the virtual Tony Awards this fall.
There will be 18...
Tony Awards sets February eligibility cutoff date
The eligibility cutoff date for the upcoming Tony Awards is Feb. 19, 2020, Tony Award Productions confirmed Friday.
The eligibility date would mean that "West...
Tony Awards to be broadcast digitally this fall
The 74th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast digitally this fall.
Final eligibility determinations will be made by the Tony Awards Administration Committee in the...
Livestreaming events to celebrate the Tony Awards
Two digital events will honor the Tony Awards on June 7.
The first will air on streaming platform Broadway on Demand and TonyAwards.com, with support...
Tony Awards postponement is a first, historians say
The postponement of the 2020 Tony Awards is a first in the 73 years of the ceremony, according to theater historians.
This year's Tony Awards...
Tony Awards will be postponed to a later date due to coronavirus
The 74th Annual Tony Awards, originally scheduled for June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, will be postponed and scheduled to a later date,...
Tony Awards sets dates for 2020 events
The Tony Awards has announced the timeline of official events leading up to the ceremony on June 7.
After nominations are announced on April 28,...
Tony Awards Administration Committee makes second round of determinations
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the second time this season to discuss eligibility of 10 Broadway productions.
The productions discussed were “The Great...
Tony Awards Administration Committee makes first eligibility determinations
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met for the first time this season to decide on eligibility for six productions.
The committee discussed “Frankie and Johnny...
Tony Awards set ceremony and eligibility dates
The 74th Annual Tony Awards will be held at Radio City Music Hall on June 7, 2020.
The ceremony will be broadcast on CBS, as...
Tony Awards announces 2019-2020 nominating committee
The Tony Awards Administration Committee is already gearing up for next round.
The Tony Awards announced its nominating committee for the 2019-2020 Broadway season. The...
How a Tony Award translates on tour
Winning a Tony Award not only impacts a show’s Broadway box office, it can help boost its profile on the road.
While theaters across the...
Opinion: A bland Tony Awards telecast with moments of sincerity
Terrence McNally has a history of getting cut off by the Tonys telecast.
The first time was in 1995, when his drama “Love! Valour!...
‘Hadestown’ takes home eight Tony Awards
“Hadestown” took home the most Tony Awards Sunday, in a night that highlighted and challenged diversity and parity in the industry.
The musical, with...
2019 Tony Awards Press Room Live Blog
The 73rd annual Tony Awards take place Sunday night at 8 p.m. James Corden will host the show at Radio City Music Hall, where...
Tony honorees on the mishaps and triumphs of life in the theater community
After creating scenery for more than 350 theatrical productions, Joseph Blakely Forbes, founder of Scenic Art Studios, has developed an artistic attachment to the...
On with the show: Campaigning for a Tony once the curtain has dropped
Campaigning for a Tony Award already involves a nonstop schedule of events, photo opportunities and jostling to best position each show on television broadcasts,...
How Broadway producers and agencies prepared for Tony nominations day
Members of the Broadway industry had been preparing for April 30 for months.
That meant that when Tony nominations were announced at 8:30 a.m.,...
Opinion: The revolution that propelled this year’s Tony nominations
Take a close look at the Tony Awards nominations announced Tuesday morning and a couple of things come into focus. Foremost is that a...
For the Tony nominees, a moment of celebration and then back to work
As the Tony Award nominations were announced early Tuesday, many nominees took only a brief pause to receive the news before resuming a hectic...
‘Hadestown’ tops Tony nominations list
"Hadestown" topped the Tony nominations list Tuesday with 14 nominations.
"Ain't Too Proud" followed with 12 nominations and "Tootsie" received 11. There were 34 eligible...
Marin Mazzie, ‘King Kong’ creators, Jason Michael Webb to receive Special Tony Awards
The Tony Awards Administration Committee is giving out special Tony Awards this year to the late actor Marin Mazzie, to the creators of the...
Tony Awards announces four recipients of Tony Honors
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the four recipients of the 2019 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.
The honorary Tony Awards will...
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley to receive Regional Theatre Tony Award
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will receive the 2019 Regional Theatre Tony Award.
The Equity/LORT theater was founded in 1970 and produces eight shows annually, in addition...
Tony Awards committee makes final determinations ahead of nominations
The Tony Awards Administration Committee made its final eligibility determinations Friday ahead of next week’s nominations.
In the fourth and final meeting of the...
Judith Light to receive Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Judith Light will receive the 2019 Isabelle Stevenson Award from the Tony Awards committee.
The Isabelle Stevenson Award is given out by the Tony Awards...
Terrence McNally, Rosemary Harris, Harold Wheeler to receive Lifetime Achievement Tony Awards
Playwright Terrence McNally, actor Rosemary Harris and orchestrator and composer Harold Wheeler will be the recipients of this year's lifetime achievement awards from the Tony...
Tony Awards committee sets new rules for revivals
The Tony Awards Administration committee set new rules Thursday that could offer authors and composers of revivals a first or second chance at a...
Bebe Neuwirth and Brandon Victor Dixon to announce Tony nominations
Bebe Neuwirth and Brandon Victor Dixon will announce the 73rd Annual Tony Award Nominations on April 30.
The nominations will be aired live at 8:30...
James Corden will host the 2019 Tony Awards
James Corden will host the 2019 Tony Awards this June.
This is the second time Corden has hosted, after taking on the role in 2016...
Tony Awards committee makes determinations on ‘The Cher Show’ and more
Stephanie J. Block will be eligible in the Tony Awards category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her performance...
‘The Boys in the Band’ to be considered a revival for Tony Awards
“The Boys in the Band” will be considered a revival of a play for this year’s Tony Awards.
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met...
Tony Awards set broadcast date, eligibility cut-off
The 73rd Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast from Radio City Music Hall on June 9, 2019.
The eligibility cut-off for show's to be eligible...
Tony Awards to continue on CBS despite Les Moonves departure
The Tony Awards will continue airing on CBS for the next several years despite the departure of CBS chief executive Les Moonves, a major...
Tony Awards announces nominating committee for 2018-2019 season
The Tony Awards has announced its nominating committee for the 2018-2019 Broadway season.
The committee members, who serve a three year term, attend all Broadway...
Dramatists Guild calls out CBS for not airing playwrights during the Tonys
The Dramatists Guild penned an open letter to Les Moonves, chief executive of CBS, speaking out against the lack of representation of playwrights, composers...
Opinion: Raise a glass to the Tony voters
Some praise is due to the 850-plus Tony voters, a group more maligned than any industry group outside of the Golden Globes. They violate...
‘The Band’s Visit’ sweeps the 2018 Tony Awards
"The Band's Visit" swept the Tony Awards Sunday night, taking home the big prize for best musical, as well as best director, best score and...
2018 Tony Awards Press Room Live Blog
The 72nd annual Tony Awards take place Sunday night at 8 p.m. Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles will host the show at Radio City...
There’s the investment, then there’s the cost of the Tonys
Going to the Tony Awards could cost some attendees up to $4,000, and that’s not counting the hundreds of thousands of dollars it took...
Bruce Springsteen will perform at the Tony Awards
Bruce Springsteen will perform at the Tony Awards on Sunday, the show announced Wednesday.
In addition to performing, Springsteen will receive a special Tony Award...
With vocal rest and vitamins, Tony nominees near their end goal
After close to six weeks of working the Tony Awards circuit, nominees can see an end in sight.
At the Tony Honors party Monday...
Tony honorees shine a spotlight on behind-the-scenes crafts
A few behind-the-scenes members of the Broadway community took a brief pause from work Monday night to celebrate their Tony Honors.
At the Tony Awards Honors...
What it takes to put on the Tony Awards
After more than 15 years producing the Tony Awards, Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss have learned the tips and tricks of putting on the...
Parkland drama teacher to receive Tony Award for excellence in theater education
Melody Herzfeld, director of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Drama Department, will receive a Tony Award for Excellence in Theatre Education Award.
Herzfeld has been...
How ‘Mean Girls’ and more are leaning into video design
In “Mean Girls,” a large white wall can instantly transform from an African savanna to the hallway of a suburban American high school and...
Opinion: Make the Tony Awards more like the Grammys
All creative competitions are ridiculous, and in that respect, the Tony Awards are no different from the Oscars, the Grammys and the seasonal art...
Chita Rivera still eyes Broadway after decades in the business
Despite working more than 60 years on Broadway, Chita Rivera never thought she would receive a lifetime achievement Tony Award, much less one alongside...
Sound designers celebrate the return of their Tony Awards categories
The Tony Award categories for sound design are back with a boom.
Eleven sound designers of plays and musicals were nominated for Tony Awards this...
With Tony nominations in hand, producers decide next steps
Immediately following the Tony Award nominations, Broadway producers sprang into action.
With brief pauses for celebration Tuesday, producers and the marketing teams behind their...
‘SpongeBob’ and ‘Mean Girls’ top Tony nominations list
"SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Mean Girls" both topped the Tony nominations list announced Tuesday with 12 nominations each.
A three-way tie followed, with "Angels in America,'...
Tony Awards to feature interactive game for viewers
The Tony Awards is adding even more competition to the night — fantasy football-style Tony predictions.
Audience Rewards has teamed up with the Tony Awards...
Tony Awards committee makes final determinations on ‘Mean Girls,’ ‘Summer’
Each competitive category of the Tony Awards will include five nominees if there at least nine eligible candidates, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced...
Tony Awards announces three recipients of 2018 Tony Honors
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced a longtime theater photographer, a costume beader and a dry-cleaning business used by Broadway since 1908 as...
Nick Scandalios to receive Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Nick Scandalios, executive vice president of the Nederlander Organization, will receive this year's Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award.
The special Tony Award is given each year...
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Chita Rivera to receive 2018 special Tony Awards
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Chita Rivera will each receive a 2018 special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater.
The lifetime achievement award is given...
Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban to host the 2018 Tony Awards
Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban are hosting the 2018 Tony Awards, the pair announced in a video on Twitter Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/SaraBareilles/status/986618149897408513
Both actors made their Broadway...
‘1984’ will be eligible for all Tony Awards categories
“1984” will now be considered for all Tony Awards categories after a nominator recused himself from the committee, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced...
Leslie Odom Jr., Katharine McPhee to announce the Tony nominees
Leslie Odom Jr. and Katharine McPhee will announce the Tony nominees the morning of May 1.
The event, which takes place at The New York...
Actors’ Equity pushes for creation of Tony Award categories honoring ensembles
The Actors’ Equity Association is pushing to create two new Tony Award categories that honor equity choruses and ensembles in musicals or plays.
Actors’...
All ‘SpongeBob’ songwriters will be eligible for a Tony Award
The Tony Award for best original score could go to more than a dozen artists for the same musical.
In its second meeting, the Tony...
Keegan-Michael Key and Laura Benanti to be considered in featured actor category at Tonys
Keegan-Michael Key and Laura Benanti will be eligible for best performance by an actors/actress in a featured role for their roles in "Meteor Shower,"...
‘1984’ is not eligible for a Tony, committee says
In its first meeting of the season, The Tonys Committee decided that '1984' would not be eligible for a Tony Award.
'1984,' originally written by...