Bryan Cranston accepts the best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play for network onstage during the 2019 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on 9 June, 2019 in New York City. Read our privacy policy Hadestown triumphed during the 2019 Tony Awards, picking up the title of best musical among a long list of …
Theater Critic The 2019 Tony Award for best play has seemingly come down to a two-way race between the season’s biggest prizewinners: Jez Butterworth’s “The Ferryman” and Heidi Schreck’s “What the Constitution Means to Me.” Schreck’s drama won an Obie and was named best American play by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. Butterworth’s play won the Outer Critics Circle …
New York: Hadestown, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s Broadway debut, earned a leading 14 Tony Award nominations on 30 April, followed by the jukebox musical Ain’t Too Proud, built around songs by the Temptations, which received a dozen nominations. “The core of it is still, ‘How far will someone go to do what they love?’ So that freed us up to explore …
Theater Critic Long story short: It was a strange Broadway season — one in which old formulas proved unreliable and a few long-shot experiments yielded unexpected rewards. Not even Gayle King, who was hosting the announcement of the Tony nominations alongside actors Bebe Neuwirth and Brandon Victor Dixon, could stifle her surprise over two conspicuous absences in the best play …
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