New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. “Schmigadoon!” the Apple TV show walked so “Schmigadoon!” the Broadway show could run. After being unceremoniously cancelled in January 2024 following its “Chicago”-themed second season, the musical hit the Great … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. “Death of a Salesman” is alive and well. On Sunday, June 7, Arthur Miller’s seminal 1949 stage play starring Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf and Christopher Abbott took home six Tony … Read more
“Schmigadoon” was all schmiles Sunday night. The Lorne Michaels-produced show, based on the canceled AppleTV+ series, won the all-important Tony Award for Best Musical at Radio City Music Hall. It badly needed it. Like most new musicals during this rough season, the comedy about a married couple who gets trapped inside an old-fashioned musical has … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. Broadway’s biggest night is here. The 79th annual Tony Awards, celebrating the best and brightest of Broadway, are tonight, June 7. 19 plays and 11 musicals opened between April 28, … Read more
There is one upside to this awfully iffy season on Broadway. And it’s that we get an especially cutthroat Tony Awards on Sunday night. Whereas last year “Maybe Happy Ending” and “Sunset Boulevard” were shoo-ins for their prizes, our current lack of obvious commercial hits or widespread consensus on shows’ artistic merit means there are … Read more
Their lives changed in a New York minute. The childhood friends from England who wrote “Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)” — which has been nominated for a staggering eight Tony Awards — never even lived in New York before writing the Broadway musical. Kit Buchan and Jim Barne had only visited the … Read more
The claws and fangs and Schmigs were out this week as the race to the Tony Awards heated up. That’s because the so called road voters were in town for the Spring Road Conference, the annual theater convention where Broadway shows hawk their wares to presenters from around in the country in hopes they book … Read more
One of the British stars of the Tony-nominated show “Giant” is battling antisemitism in art and in life — and he has a dire warning for New Yorkers. Elliot Levey plays Jewish publisher Tom Maschler opposite John Lithgow’s Roald Dahl in the critically acclaimed Broadway hit, a drama about the famous children’s author’s antisemitism. The … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. The countdown clock to the 2026 Tony Awards is officially ticking. Set to take place Sunday, June 7 with host P!nk, this year’s extravaganza will pay tribute to the best … Read more
It was a big morning for blood-sucking monsters. No, not the teen vampires from “The Lost Boys” — The Tony Awards nominating committee. Oh, what a pack of ruthless killers they are. Tuesday’s nominations for the best of the Broadway season made it plainly clear what the group of 55 voting theater professionals absolutely loathed. … Read more
So, the Tony Awards’ last best hope is . . . Pink? When the “Get The Party Started” singer was announced this month as the host of the CBS award show on June 7 that celebrates Broadway, not aughts pop hits, theater pros were gobsmacked. “Ridiculous!,” one texted me. “Honestly brilliant though,” dashed off another … Read more
Legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has died at 88. The five-time Tony winner, most famous for his groundbreaking 1966 play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” died “peacefully” at his home in Dorset, England, United Agents said in a statement. “He will be remembered for his works, for their brilliance and humanity, and for his wit, … Read more
Elizabeth Franz, the Tony Award-winning actress who played inn owner Mia in “Gilmore Girls,” has died. She was 84. Franz passed away Nov. 4 at her home in Woodbury, Connecticut, her husband, Christopher Pelham, confirmed to The New York Times over the weekend. Her cause of death was cancer and a severe reaction to her … Read more
Behind every musical is a hot mess. “Smash,” the Broadway play that opened at the Imperial Theatre on April 10, has abruptly announced its final show date after struggling at the box office and suffering a 2025 Tony Awards shutout. Executive producers Steven Spielberg, Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron made the closing announcement on Tuesday. … Read more
Keanu Reeves had a gleeful reaction to Jonathan Groff’s performance. The “Mindhunter” alum, 40, performed a medley from “Just in Time” while at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday at Radio City Music Hall and took his number to the next level when he decided to straddle the “John Wick” star, 60 mid-tune. The “Glee” star hopped off … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Cue the fireflies. After netting ten Tony nominations, “Maybe Happy Ending” walked away from this year’s awards ceremony with six trophies including … Read more
Oprah’s got jokes. Oprah Winfrey took the stage at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday and appeared to shade Patti LuPone for her drama with Audra McDonald. As she presented the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, the category in which McDonald, 54, was nominated, Winfrey, 71, told the audience, … Read more
“Maybe” schmaybe. Sunday night was a signed, sealed, delivered happy ending for “Maybe Happy Ending,” the stratospherically original South Korean gem about robots in love starring Darren Criss that deservedly won the Tony Award for Best Musical. What a stunning achievement for the little show that almost didn’t open. Gleeky Criss also earned his first Tony for … Read more
Nicole Scherzinger is the greatest star of all. The former Pussycat Dolls singer took home the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, beating record-breaking six-time winner Audra McDonald. Scherzinger, 46, stars as the faded silent film star Norma Desmond … Read more
It’s another success(ion) for Sarah Snook. The actress, 37, took home the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8. Snook took on all 26 roles in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the 1890 philosophical fiction and Gothic horror by Oscar Wilde. Sarah … Read more