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Tony noms announced

Tue, 5 May 2009 21:42:01 -0700

"Billy Elliot, the Musical" dominates the competition with 15 nominations.

L.A.'s 'Rock of Ages' rocks Tony nominations

Tue, 5 May 2009 07:28:04 -0700

The hair-metal jukebox musical did the hometown proud by receiving five nods.

Angela Lansbury will probably tie Tonys record

Tue, 5 May 2009 07:34:30 -0700

If she wins for best actress in play, she will be the biggest winner of acting laurels.

The complete list of Tony Award winners

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Musical

2008 Tonys: Oddly, the speeches were the best part

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Given the general unfamiliarity with the nominees, the producers went for splash Sunday.

The Tony Awards are unique among the big award shows in that you cannot experience the nominated works or artists in the convenience of your own home, or even your own town, unless you live in New York. Notwithstanding some 12 million Broadway tickets reportedly sold last year, the broadcast is for most an exercise in vicarious theatergoing or a kind of armchair tourism -- meant in part to inspire real theatergoing and real tourism. "Come to New York and see a Broadway show" is its annually recurring mantra.

Hip-hop hooray for 'In the Heights'

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

'August: Osage County,' 'South Pacific' win big.

NEW YORK -- In the tossup of this year's Tony Awards, a Latino story trumped an unusual African American coming-of-age tale Sunday as Tony voters gave their best new musical prize and three others to "In the Heights," about Caribbean immigrant families struggling to reach for the American dream in New York's Washington Heights barrio.

Highs, if not heights at the Tony Awards

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

A spirited race for best musical brings a season of progress -- and backward glances -- to a close. Is Broadway ready to move ahead daringly?

FIRST THE good news: Compared to our debt-roiled, war-mired nation, Broadway had a lot to celebrate this year. In addition to luminously acted new dramas and shimmeringly staged revivals, there was something approximating a genuine horse race for best musical -- a godsend for everyone who religiously sits through the normally suspense-bereft Tony telecast.

'In the Heights,' 'South Pacific' lead Tony nominations

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

"Heights" gets 13 nods, and "South Pacific" is nominated in 12 categories.

"In the Heights," a bold new musical about Latinos in upper Manhattan, captured an eye-popping 13 Tony nominations, and the critically praised revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" won 12 as the 62nd annual Tony Awards nominees were unveiled today.

Gearing up for the Tonys

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Stoppard rocks, Mamet skewers and Twain returns from the grave.

While Hollywood suffered through a three-month-long writers' strike that threatened to scuttle many an awardsfest, last fall's labor strife on Broadway lasted only 18 days before the stagehands and the producers agreed to a deal. Thus, the season was saved and 25 of the 35 scheduled shows have already opened. The rest will debut before the May 7 deadline for Tonys qualification.

Broadway serenades Hollywood

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

'Xanadu' is a movie-turned-musical that could score a few Broadway prizes this year.

Hollywood used to make Oscar-winning movies out of Tony Award-topping tuners like "My Fair Lady" and "The Sound of Music."