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 …
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 …
