Fifteen new musicals opened on Broadway this season, but you wouldn’t know that from the brutal 2024 Tony Award nominations announced on Tuesday. When the list was read aloud by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry, it was snub city. Barry Manilow’s “Harmony,” the Britney Spears popsical “Once Upon a One More Time,” Huey … 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 hot, new Broadway show “Stereophonic” is making a lot of noise. On Tuesday, April 30, the explosive behind the music ’70s rock drama nabbed a record 13 … Read more
The nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards, honoring the best of Broadway, were announced Tuesday morning. The 2023-2024 Broadway season was a highly competitive and unpredictable one. Fifteen new musicals opened during the past year, which is the widest field in at in at least three decades. There were also 10 new plays, five play … Read more
“No use permitting some prophet of doom to wipe every smile away!” sings Sally Bowles in the musical “Cabaret.” Well, I’m not here to erase every grin in Times Square, but I guarantee that a lot of folks on Broadway won’t be beaming come Tuesday morning. That’s when the 2024 Tony Award nominations will be … Read more
Theater review THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL Two hours and 30 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission. At the James Earl Jones Theatre, 138 West 48th Street. Here’s something I never imagined writing five years ago: In 2024, there are no musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber currently running on Broadway, but there are somehow two … Read more
Carlin Glynn, a Tony Award-winning actress and singer known for her role as Brenda Baker in the 1984 hit “Sixteen Candles” and the Broadway smash “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” died July 13, she was 83. Glynn died of complications from dementia and cancer, according to Deadline. Her daughter, director and actress Mary Stuart … 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. Hollywood is on Broadway — just not for much longer. The Tony-winning “The Sign In Sidney Brustein’s Window” starring “Star Wars’” Oscar Isaac and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s” Rachel … 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. Her-story is being made on Broadway. “SIX The Musical,” running at the Lena Horne Theatre, is as hot as ever. The upbeat 80-minute musical follows the lives of … Read more
Writers Guild of America members won’t picket the 2023 Tony Awards amid their ongoing strike seeking higher wages and better job protections, the labor union announced Monday night. In the same statement though, the union reiterated that it will not negotiate a waiver or interim deal to allow WGA screenwriters to write a script for … Read more
It will be at least “one day more” before the fate of the Tony Awards is officially known. An emergency meeting of the Tony Awards Management Committee took place Monday morning to decide what to do with the Broadway ceremony after the Writers Guild denied them a waiver last week. That quick refusal on Friday … Read more
The Writers Guild of America reportedly denied a request for a waiver to allow the 2023 Tony Awards to air as scheduled on June 11 amid the ongoing writers strike. The Hollywood Reporter reported Friday that the telecast of theater’s biggest night will not air on CBS and stream on Paramount+ as originally planned. The Post has contacted … Read more
To the tune of the famous “A Chorus Line” song: “Kiss To-ny goodbye!” Chances that the 2023 Tony Awards telecast will go on as planned a month from now are slipping away fast, multiple sources told The Post. The complexities of the writers’ strike, which is still in its early days, have made it virtually … 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. Nominations for the 76th annual Tony Awards have been announced, and Broadway’s corniest new musical picked up nine including Best Musical — tying “& Juliet” and “New York, … Read more
The 2023 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning. And the 76-year-old ceremony honoring Broadway is, like most of this season, looking smaller than usual. Ahead of the awards, held on June 11, the pre-show telecast has been banished by CBS to something called Pluto. The Tonys themselves are taking place about as far away … Read more
Broadway’s biggest night is ready to take center stage. The 76th annual Tony Awards are back and ready to show off the best and brightest talent singing and dancing on the Great White Way. This year’s show will take place on June 11, 2023, at the United Palace in New York City. The full list … 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. One of Broadway’s all-time greats may be coming to a stage near you. Patti LuPone, 73, has nine huge shows remaining on her ongoing ‘Don’t Monkey With Broadway … 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. Broadway’s torrid love affair with Stephen Sondheim marches on. Following revivals of “West Side Story,” “Into The Woods,” “Assassins,” “Company” and “Merrily We Roll Along,” his “Sweeney Todd: … Read more
Forty-two years after she first told the world “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” in her Tony-winning role as Effie White in “Dreamgirls,” Jennifer Holliday is still here, folks. But now her signature number has a completely different meaning for the 62-year-old diva, who has overcome weight struggles, career setbacks and a multiple … 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. Kristin Chenoweth is only 4’11”. What she lacks in height though, she certainly makes up for in stage presence. And now you can see Chenoweth’s stage presence on … Read more
Viola Davis cemented herself as a multihyphenate with her EGOT at the 2023 Grammy Awards. What is an EGOT winner, you ask? The prestigious title is bestowed upon performers who have won specific awards for dipping their toes into the four realms of Hollywood. These awards include the Emmys (television), Grammys (music), Oscars (film) and … Read more