New York Post may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. The 2024-2025 Broadway season will officially come to a close tonight at the 2025 Tony Awards. This year, 21 plays and 21 musicals opened between April 29, 2024, and April 27, 2025, making them … Read more
It’s not easy being green. Of the nearly 1,000 celebrity caricatures on the walls of iconic theater-district institution Sardi’s, the one pilfered the most, oddly, is Kermit the Frog. “Kermit was stolen three times. And then we screwed him up to the wall,” Johnny Felidi, longtime maître d’ at the 100-year-old eatery, told The Post ahead … Read more
Here comes a tense Tony’s. Last year, many of the major winners were a cinch to predict. This time, well, the bars at Radio City Music Hall will be doing big business. Everybody’s freaking out. Producers have been like pollsters the past two weeks, interrogating the 840 Tony voters about who they’ve chosen. “Maybe Happy … Read more
There’s never a shortage of drama on Broadway. However, this Tony season has taken things to a whole new level. And with records for both ticket prices and box-office grosses having been broken this year, there’s more at stake than ever for Sunday’s ceremony, which will be held at Radio City and air live on … Read more
Usually, the week before the Tony Awards is a joyful time to celebrate the wonderful work of the Broadway season. Not this year! Two big shows were fuming Tuesday that they’re being left out of the Tony Awards broadcast on CBS Sunday night: “Boop! The Betty Boop Musical” and “Smash.” “Smash,” starring Robyn Hurder, was … Read more
NEW YORK — Three-time Tony Award-winner Charles Strouse, Broadway’s industrious, master melody-maker who composed the music for such classic musical theater hits as “Annie,” “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Applause,” died Thursday. He was 96. Strouse died at his home in New York City, his family said through the publicity agency The Press Room. In a … 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. Sarah Snook is stretching the definition of “one-woman show” on a nightly basis. The Emmy Award-winning “Succession” actress — who was just nominated … Read more
A lot of Hollywood’s A-list didn’t make the list for next month’s Tony Awards. Thursday’s nominations unceremoniously snubbed three Oscar winners: Denzel Washington (“Othello”), Kieran Culkin (“Glengarry Glen Ross”) and Robert Downey Jr. (“McNeal”). Washington’s co-star Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t make the cut either. Nor did Rachel Zegler for “Romeo + Juliet.” Denzel Washington didn’t make … 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. Your next month has officially been mapped out, theatergoers. The Tony Awards just announced their 2025 nominees — ahead of this year’s … Read more
Where art thou Tony nominations? Some of the biggest stars in Hollywood were snubbed when the 2025 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday. While George Clooney, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Snook, Sadie Sink and more were recognized for their Broadway performances, other actors like Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Kieran Culkin failed to make the nominations … Read more
It’s a big day for showbiz. The nominations for the 2025 Tony Awards, honoring the best of Broadway, were announced Thursday morning by past winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. Last year, the Tonys saw “The Outsiders” and “Stereophonic” take the top honors for Best Musical and Best Play, respectively. The acting wins included Paulson … Read more
The legendary voice actor behind one of the “Star Wars” franchise’s most chilling villains died just weeks before his 95th birthday. Clive Revill, known for playing the voice of Emperor Palpatine in “The Empire Strikes Back,” died on Mar. 11 at a care facility in Sherman Oaks, Calif. The two-time Tony nominee’s daughter, Kate Revill, … Read more
Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Bill Veloric, told The Associated Press in an email. A success … 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. “The Outsiders” technically starts before the show actually starts. When shuffling into the cozy 1,041-seat Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, it’s impossible to … Read more
All of Broadway’s marquees will dim to honor the life of Gavin Creel following an outcry by theater fans when only a partial dimming was proposed after the 48-year-old Tony Award-winner’s death last month. The Committee of Theatre Owners on Wednesday said all 41 Broadway theaters would dim their lights on separate nights for Creel, … Read more
This girl did not feel interrupted. The only female lead in Broadway’s “The Outsiders” said the show’s producer Angelina Jolie helped advocate for her and the other women in the cast. “I knew that if anything ever happened, like she had our back, especially the girlies,” said Emma Pittman, who plays Cherry Valance in the … Read more
“No more Carlyle! No more Carlyle!,” shouted Billy Porter. It’s not so often you witness a protest inside the ritzy Carlyle Hotel, but the “Kinky Boots” actor was furious. “Everybody leave right the f—k now!,” he said. The “Pose” star and a slew of others — including yours truly, Corey Cott (“The Heart of Rock … 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. The 2023-2024 Broadway season has officially come to a close now that the Tony Awards have been handed out — and 10 of the awarded shows are still … 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. “Merrily We Roll Along” was already a “surefire, genuine, walk-away blockbuster, lines down to Broadway, boffola, sensational, box office lalapalooza, gargantuan hit” and now it has the Tony … Read more
They weren’t outsiders on Sunday night. In a neck-and-neck race, the fantastic new musical “The Outsiders” ultimately took home the coveted Best Musical trophy at the Tony Awards, honoring the best of Broadway, at Lincoln Center. Most pundits (not me!) predicted Alicia Keys’ semi-autobiographical piece “Hell’s Kitchen,” which is also a fun night out, would … Read more