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The American Theatre Wing has announced the lineup for their 2025 Fall Gala Celebration, which will be held on the evening of Monday, September 8, 2025, at 6:30Pm, at Cipriani 42nd Street. Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters (Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends), Tony Award winner Lea Salonga (Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends), Tony Award nominee Sara Bareilles, Tony Award nominee Shoshana Bean (Hell’s Kitchen), Tony Award winner André De Shields, Krysta Rodriguez (Smash), Tony Award winner Francis Jue (Yellowface), Tony Award nominee Jennifer Simard (Death Becomes Her), and Tony Award winner Myles Frost (Mj) are among the performers set for The Gala’s concert program. Tony Award winner <a...

A 5, 6, 7, 8! The countdown continues for the highly anticipated, one-night-only special concert A Chorus Line Official 50th Anniversary Celebration, taking place on Sunday, July 27 at 7:30 pm Et at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre. The concert, benefitting Entertainment Community Fund programs serving dancers, will star original 1975 Broadway cast members Kelly Bishop, Wayne Cilento, Baayork Lee, Priscilla Lopez and Donna McKechnie, with special performances by Charlotte d'Amboise (Chicago), Jessica Lee Goldyn (Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Robyn Hurder (Smash), Francis Jue (Yellowface), Krysta Rodriguez (Smash), Jessica Vosk (Hell's Kitchen), Anthony Wayne (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Tony Yazbeck (Flying Over Sunset) and Leigh Zimmerman (Olivier Award Winner), Tommy Bracco (Newsies), <a...

The Actors’ Equity Foundation held its 2025 awards presentation on Monday, June 23, hosted by Tony Award-winner Bd Wong. Check out photos from the event. The evening included the following award presentations: The Richard Seff Award for veteran actors: Jessica Hecht and Francis Jue The Clarence Derwent Award for promising performers: Nicholas Barasch and Julia Lester The Joe A. Callaway Award for performances in a classical play: Steven Epp and Kimber Elayne Sprawl The Michael McCarty Recognition Award for Los Angeles-based Equity theatre actors: Jennifer Leigh Warren The Patrick Quinn Award for Distinguished Service to Actors and Stage Managers: Nancy Daly The Paul Robeson Award, the humanitarian award jointly administered by the Foundation and Actors’ Equity Association: Leslie Ishii Actors’ Equity Association’s Acca Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus: the chorus of Buena Vista Social Club The livestream recording is available to watch on YouTube. Photo Credit: Kathel Louis Griffin Julia...

Happy Pride Month! Today and every day, we celebrate the voices, stories, and brilliance of the Lgbtqia+ community — on stage and beyond. Watch a video of Michael Arden, Nick Jonas, Ephraim Sykes, George C. Wolfe, and Francis Jue discussing what Pride means to them. "Pride means, to me, visibility," Michael Arden shared. "It means being able to stand up and say, 'This is what I believe in and this is who I am.' It means supporting people around you and celebrating so that the people who have come before us will feel redeemed in the work they have done." "Pride is especially important this year because people are threatening to take it away," Francis Jue says. "People are threatening to...

Matthew Broderick and David Cross will star in Lucas Hnath’s new version of Molière’s Tartuffe in an Off Broadway production opening in late fall.

The New York Theatre Workshop production will also feature Obie Award winner Emily Davis (Is This A Room) as Mariane, RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca del Rio as Mme Pernelle, Tony Award nominee Amber Gray (Hadestown) as Elmire, Obie Award winner Ryan Haddad (Dark Disabled Stories) as Damis, Tony Award winner Francis Jue (Yellow Face) as Cleante, Tony Award winner Lisa Kron (Fun Home) as Dorine, and Emmy Award nominee Ike Ufomadu (Ziwe) as Valére.

The production will be directed by Sarah Benson (Teeth).

Hnath’s credits include A Doll’s House, Part 2, Hillary and Clinton and Dana H., which told a harrowing true story about the playwright’s mother.

The New York Theatre Workshop synopsis of the production describes the new version as...

A one-night-only special concert A Chorus Line Official 50th Anniversary Celebration will take place on Sunday, July 27 at 7:30 pm Et at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre. The concert, benefitting Entertainment Community Fund programs serving dancers, will star original 1975 Broadway cast members Kelly Bishop, Wayne Cilento, Baayork Lee, Priscilla Lopez and Donna McKechnie, with special performances by Charlotte d'Amboise (Chicago), Jessica Lee Goldyn (Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Robyn Hurder (Smash), Francis Jue (Yellowface), Krysta Rodriguez (Smash), Jessica Vosk (Hell's Kitchen), Anthony Wayne (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Tony Yazbeck (Flying Over Sunset) and Leigh Zimmerman (Olivier Award Winner)*. Additional casting will be announced at a later date. The evening will be directed...

Well, Broadway just threw one heck of a glitter bomb at the 2025 Tony Awards, and honestly, it was everything. It featured chaos, class, and delightfully extra moments. From robot love stories to boozy First Ladies, the night literally had more twists than a Sondheim score.

Though host Cynthia Erivo was a vision and a vocal powerhouse, legends like Keanu Reeves, Oprah, and even Charli D’Amelio just turned up to cheer on the most creatively bonkers Broadway season in years. Of course, the A-listers dazzled, but the real stars? Well, let’s say they were the wildly inventive shows that dared to be different.

Yep, we’re talking about Androids winning Best Musical, Mary Todd Lincoln reimagined as a cabaret queen, and surprise reunions that had theatre nerds in full meltdown mode. With 42 eligible shows, fierce competition, and standing ovations galore, this year’s Tonys wasn’t just a celebration, it was an actual Broadway-sized heart-hug.

Darren Criss and cast of “Maybe Happy Ending” perform at The 78Th Annual Tony Awards

The 2025 Tony Awards, which aired on CBS on June 8th, had the awards show’s best ratings since 2019. CBS reports the viewership was up a whopping 38% over 2024. In addition, the 78th Annual Tony Awards hosted by Cynthia Erivo drew in the largest streaming audience on Paramount+, increasing the streaming viewership by 208% over last year.

Maybe Happy Ending emerged the big winner, taking home the Best Musical, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Darren Criss), Best Direction of a Musical (Michael Arden), Best Book of a Musical (Will Aronson and Hue Park), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Dane Laffrey and George Reeve), and Best Original Score trophies. Buena Vista Social Club followed with four, and Stranger Things: The First Shadow and Sunset Blvd. picked up three each.

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Following Broadway’s 78th Annual Tony Awards, winners, nominees and guests all took to the social scene following a night of wins for Sarah Snook, Nicole Scherzinger, Cole Escola, Darren Criss, Francis Jue, Kara Young, Natalie Venetia Belcon and more.

Cynthia Erivo’s hosting began with an original song acknowledging all the nominees from George Clooney to Jonathan Groff. Other performances included the original company of Hamilton reuniting 10 years after the production made its debut — with Groff returning to the stage alongside castmates Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ariana DeBose, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr., and many more.

Scroll on to see what the talent at the 2025 Tonys did after the awards ceremony for a historic year on Broadway:...

On Sunday, the annual Tony Awards saw the best of Broadway commended for their skill at Radio City Music Hall.

Hosted by Cynthia Erivo, the 78th Tony Awards show was attended by numerous star celebrities on the screen, yet still firmly served as a platform to elevate the unsung musical cast and crew of live performances.

In addition to the many smooth quips Erivo delivered on stage, she also showcased her stellar vocals, singing her original number “Sometimes All You Need Is A Song.”

Notably, the 2025 awards show featured three historic wins for Asian American performers, who are regularly subject to stereotypes and prejudice in the business. The first Asian male to win a Tony was B.D. Wong for M. Butterfly, in 1988, and the first Asian woman was Lea Salonga for Miss Saigon in 1991.

Darren Criss won Best Actor in a Musical, making history as the first Asian American actor...

Of all the winners (and also-rans) in the 26 competitive categories at the 2025 Tony Awards, 25 results stand out in terms of historical context. So, what were this year’s most interesting facts, records, and milestones?

1. Cole Escola is the third nonbinary performer to win a Tony for acting, following historic victories by Alex Newell (Shucked) and J. Harrison Ghee (Some Like It Hot) in 2023. Escola is also the first individual to have won for starring in their own play since Harvey Fierstein (Sunday's Lifetime Achievement Award winner) for Torch Song Trilogy in 1983.

2. In 1973, Julie Harris won Best Actress in a Play for portraying Mary Todd Lincoln in James Prideaux's The Last of Mrs. Lincoln. This year, Escola won Best Actor in a Play for portraying Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary!

3. The productions that received multiple Tony nominations, but went home empty-handed, were Boop!, Dead Outlaw, English, Floyd Collins, Good Night,...

With a Wicked host at the helm — that would be Elphaba actress and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo — it’s no surprise the 78th annual Tony Awards had its fair share of magical moments.

The evening, celebrating the best and brightest of the 2024-25 Broadway season, aired live from Radio City Music Hall in New York and had no shortage of star power, thrilling performances, and a few surprises hiding in the wings. Read on for the highlights (and a few lowlights) from the 2025 Tonys telecast.

Best: Cynthia Erivo’s opening number

Some Tony Awards openers go full tilt — loads of dancers and props and shiny bells and whistles, but when you have Cynthia Erivo, what compares to that voice? After a set-up where she kindly declines advice for what she should do to open the show, and some affirmation from Oprah Winfrey herself that “the only thing you need to do is just be yourself,...

The 78th Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall got off to a rousing start, as Oprah Winfrey blessed host Cynthia Erivo with a finger hold before the “Wicked” star took center stage to sing the original “Sometimes All You Need is a Song.” With the support of a choir, Erivo tipped her hat to the nominated movie stars (lyric: “Half of Hollywood did a play”), supplied powerhouse vocals, and brought the number to crescendo by getting the audience involved, briefly handing off the mic to Kristin Chenoweth, Aaron Tveit, and Adam Lambert, among others.

It was, indeed, a union of Broadway and Hollywood throughout the evening. During her opening monologue, Erivo noted that it was the most lucrative year in Broadway history (with reported ticket sales of $1.89 billion), “providing we don’t run out of cast members from ‘Succession.’”

“Succession” star Sarah Snook was actually won the first Tony of the evening.

Zoey Deutch, Katie Holmes and Ephraim Sykes arrive separately for the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday (June 8) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

The trio of actors starred in the most recent production of Our Town, which closed back in January, and was nominated for Best Revival of a Play. Unfortunately for them, the play lost out to Eureka Day.

Check out the full list of 2025 Tony Awards winners!

Ahead of the awards show, Zoey had a little reunion with Bryan Cranston, who played her dad in the movie Why Him back in 2016.

During the Tonys, Katie took to the stage with Danielle Brooks to present the award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, which went to Francis Jue for Yellow Face.

Ephraim hit the stage for a performance as part of the original Hamilton cast’s 10th anniversary medley – Watch here!

Fyi: Zoey is wearing an...

Edge-of-seat drama. Stunning twists. Musical performances that brought down the house. The 2025 Tony Awards followed a script that any Broadway aficionado would appreciate.

While the crowd-pleasing Maybe Happy Ending dominated the night with six wins — including Best Musical, Best Musical Actor (Darren Criss), Best Musical Director, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Scenic Design for a Musical — there were some shocking moments.

In one of the night's most highly anticipated matchups, Nicole Scherzinger took home the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Sunset Boulevard, edging out Broadway’s most celebrated star, Audra McDonald. McDonald, earning her record-extending 11th nomination for her portrayal of Mama Rose in Gypsy, had been favored to win following her recent Drama Desk Award victory and surveys of Tony voters that showed her holding a narrow lead (likely due to the recent Patti LuPone controversy).

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Broadway’s best shows and actors were honored at the 2025 Tony Awards and we have the full list of winners!

Maybe Happy Ending was the big winner of the night at the Tonys on Sunday (June 8) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

The new musical won six awards, including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for lead star Darren Criss, marking his first Tony win and bringing him halfway to Egot.

Other big winners of the night included Buena Vista Social Club and Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

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Make sure to check out our Full coverage of the Tony Awards and all of the incredible performances from the show.

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Best Musical

Buena Vista Social Club

Dead Outlaw

Death Becomes Her

Maybe Happy Ending – Winner

Operation Mincemeat...

Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Francis Jue took home a Tony Award for 'Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play' for his outstanding work in Yellow Face. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, he checked in with BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge to share his initial reaction! Francis Jue earned Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards for the NYC debut of Yellow Face at The Public Theater. His Broadway credits include: Pacific Overtures, Thoroughly Modern Millie, M. Butterfly. Recent theatre credits include Cambodian Rock Band (Lortel Award), Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Once Upon a Mattress, Babbitt, Good Enemy, Soft Power (Outer Critics Circle Award), Wild Goose Dreams (Obie Award). Film/TV includes “Our Son,” “White Noise,” “Joyful...

The 2025 Tony Awards are being handed out Sunday night.

The first winners were announced during the Darren Criss- and Renée Elise Goldberry-hosted The Tony Awards: Act One preshow streaming on Paramount’s free streaming service Pluto TV from 3:40-5 p.m. Pt/6:40-8 p.m. Et. Criss is a first-time Tony nominee for his role in Maybe Happy Ending, and Goldsberry won a Tony for originating the role of Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, which will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a performance featuring members of the original Broadway cast on the 2025 awards show.

The main ceremony, hosted by Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner Cynthia Erivo, will run from 5-8 p.m. Pt/8-11 p.m. Et, live on CBS and Paramount+ with Showtime, from New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

Musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending went into Sunday night...

Sutton Foster, Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Idina Menzel, and (if I may invoke her name) Patti LuPone would have been a monster of an all-star Tony nomination lineup in any other season. But those past winners, each a major force in musical theater history, missed the ballot despite their (almost uniformly) strong showings on Broadway this year.

If it’s uncouth to define a season by who didn’t make the Tony cut, that group of also-rans is a sign of the riches on offer. And if this season was in part distinguished by the arrival of a cavalcade of Hollywood A-listers, the nominations also highlight how many Broadway mainstays have set up residence to deliver excellence year after year: Nominees Jonathan Groff, Danya Taymor, Kara Young, Justin Peck, and Dede Ayite all won Tonys last season.

So if not quite every gem of the season is in the mix this Sunday,...

The world will descend on New York on Sunday night, by way of the 78th Tony Awards. Shows set in the U.S., the U.K., Cuba, Italy, and Iran all make their way to the nominees circle. Not to mention a show from South Korea projected to win more Tonys than any other production, potentially the first one ever to premiere in Asia and win best musical.

And when I say “projected,” I mean that mathematically. Every year, I run a statistical model based on precursor awards, which categories a show is nominated in, blended critic predictions, and betting markets to project the odds that each nominee will emerge victorious in every category. After another wonderful year on Broadway, with 42 new shows opening and 29 of them receiving nominations, it’s time to get excited for the big night with a data-based forecast at who might triumph at Radio City...

In a recent viral video, a middle school bully is heard asking: “Where did that little ching chong go?”

The bully’s target is a five-year-old son of Chinese immigrants, seen and heard in the video trying to hide and asking to be saved.

Yes, kids can say nasty or mean things all the time, words and phrases they learn and pick up from somewhere, but this felt different. As I watched the video, I kept thinking, this kid is a mere “Yellowface” to the bully.

In Hollywood terms, Yellowface is to Asian people, particularly of East Asian descent, what Blackface is to Black people: an offensive practice of performance and mimicry. Examples abound, in varying degrees, from Jonathan Pryce, a white Welsh actor, wearing prosthetics to play a Eurasian character in the musical Miss Saigon, to the white British actor Tilda Swinton, who in the Marvel movie Doctor Strange...

Last week, PBS aired the official pro-shot of the 2024 Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face as part of the Broadway Great Performances line-up. Now, viewers can go behind the curtain of the Tony-nominated production in a new video with Daniel Dae Kim, Francis Jue, Leigh Silverman, playwright David Henry Hwang, and more. "This will be my ninth Broadway production," Hwang says of Yellow Face. "However, if you think of a show with Asians, chances are they are Asians playing foreigners. This is the first play that I've ever had on Broadway with Asian American characters. And that's incredibly important to me." The full lineup for Great Performances' new Broadway programming also includes Next to Normal, Girl From the...

The Actors’ Equity Foundation has revealed the recipients of its awards for performers for the 2024–2025 season. The Richard Seff Award for two veteran actors is awarded to Jessica Hecht (Suzanne in Eureka Day), and Francis Jue (Hyh and others in Yellow Face). The Seff Award has been presented annually since 2004 to character actors, 50 years old or older, who have been members of Actors’ Equity Association for 25 years or longer, for the best performance in a featured or unfeatured supporting role in a Broadway or off-Broadway production. Recent recipients include Kecia Lewis, Ciarán O'Reilly, Linda Lavin and Francis Guinan. The Clarence Derwent Award for the two most promising performances of the season...

Francis Jue has been the talk of the town in Asian American theater. Following his stunning performance as Henry Yuan Hwang — Chinese immigrant, banker, and father to the acclaimed playwright David Henry Hwang himself — Jue has been featured in the New York Times, scooped a Tony Award nomination, and has been well associated with the “Yellow Face” team of Daniel Dae Kim and David Henry Hwang himself. The San Francisco local will appear at this year’s CAAMFest in the recording of the Broadway play on May 11, 2025, which will later be screened nationwide on May 16, 9pm local, as a part of PBS’ “Great Performances” series.

Because of CAAMFest, we had the pleasure to speak to Jue — energetic, kind, and most of all, humble — about his involvement with the metaphysical play’s comedy of errors. Over the next half-hour or so, he grounded the conversation in crediting the community who brought him on stage,...

Cynthia Erivo hosts the 2025 Tony Awards (Photo Credit: CBS)

Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending lead the 2025 Tony Awards nominees, scoring 10 nominations each. Dead Outlaw, John Proctor is the Villain, Sunset Blvd, and The Hills of California earned seven nominations, followed by Floyd Collins, Just in Time, Purpose, and The Picture of Dorian Gray with six.

Among the stars earning Tony Award nominations are George Clooney, Mia Farrow, Jonathan Groff, Darren Criss, Bob Odenkirk, Sadie Sink, and Sarah Snook. And with her nomination for Gypsy, Audra McDonald is now the most Tony-nominated performer in Broadway history.

“I’m so grateful, and that’s overwhelming to think about. I’m so lucky. The one thing I always wanted to do growing up, one thing that gave me joy and kind of gave me purpose and made me feel most like myself was to perform theater,” said...

The 2025 Tony Awards nominations were announced on Thursday, May 1 by past Tony winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. Throughout the morning, various contenders from the acting, producing, directing, writing, and choreography categories have been reaching out to Gold Derby to celebrate their nominations. Scroll through our gallery below to see their Tony Awards reactions.

Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending topped the Tonys noms with 10 bids each. Close behind with seven apiece were Dead Outlaw, John Proctor Is the Villain, Sunset Boulevard, and The Hills of California.

Some of the acting nominees who sent out reactions include Natalie Venetia Belcon (Buena Vista Social Club), Kimberly Belflower (John Proctor Is the Villain), Jeb Brown (Dead Outlaw), George Clooney (Good Night and Good Luck), Glenn Davis (Purpose), Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw), Gabriel Ebert (John Proctor Is the Villain), Cole Escola, Mia Farrow (The Roommate), Tom Francis (Sunset Boulevard...

With today's announcement of the Tony Awards nominations, Daniel Dae Kim has made history as the first Aapi nominee in the Lead Actor in a Play category. Kim was recognized for his performance in the revival of Yellow Face, where he plays a satirical version of playwright David Henry Hwang. Kim's nomination is also part of a record-setting year for Asian representation at the Tonys.

Bd Wong was the first actor of Asian descent to score a Tony. Coincidentally, his 1988 win for Featured Actor in a Play came courtesy of another Hwang play, M. Butterfly. Since then, Iranian performer Arian Moayed has competed in the same category, with nominations for Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo (2011) and A Doll’s House (2023). Paul Chahidi was nominated in the same race in 2014 for Twelfth Night, then Michael Aronov won the featured prize in 2017 for Oslo.

Other past Asian nominees include Lea Salonga (Miss...

Musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending lead the 2025 Tony nominations with 10 nods each.

All are nominated for best musical, a category that also includes Dead Outlaw and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical.

A number of starry names received their first Tony nomination, including George Clooney, for his role in Good Night and Good Luck; Nicole Scherzinger, for her role in Sunset Blvd.; Sarah Snook, for her role in The Picture of Dorian Gray; Bob Odenkirk, for his role in Glengarry Glen Ross; and Mia Farrow, for her role in The Roommate. Othello, one of the most expensive productions on Broadway, led by Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, was notably shut out of the nominations.

Audra McDonald received her 11th Tony Award nomination for her role as Rose in Gypsy on Broadway, becoming the most Tony-nominated performer in history. She had previously held the record...

The nominations for the 2025 Tony Awards are finally here!

Each year, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre (aka the Tonys), celebrates the best on Broadway for the past season. There’s some big names on Broadway this year, so you’ll likely recognize a lot of these names, even if you haven’t been able to catch some of there performances!

Musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending got the most nominations this year with 10 each.

The show is set to take place on Sunday (June 8) with Wicked star Cynthia Erivo hosting. Ariana DeBose hosted for the past three years, but gave up duties this year. The show will air on CBS. Just Jared will be live updating throughout the entire event, so stick with us that night!

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Nominations for the 78th Tony Awards have been revealed — and several of your favorite TV stars are up for Broadway’s top honors.

Veterans among Thursday’s nominees include Glee grads Darren Criss and Jonathan Groff, Smash alumni Megan Hilty and Jeremy Jordan, Succession‘s Sarah Snook and Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink. Other faces from the small screen include Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Cole Escola (Difficult People), Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-0), Justina Machado (One Day at a Time) and Audra McDonald (The Good Fight), whose nod for the Gypsy revival was her 11th Tony nomination — the most for any Broadway performer.

A new musical and two original plays will lead the 2025 Tony Awards nominations, according to Gold Derby's official odds in 17 categories ahead of Thursday's announcement.

Death Becomes Her, a stage adaptation of the 1992 cult classic comedy film, will have the biggest tally of all shows with eight. It's expected haul follows its 12 nominations at the Outer Critics Circle last week, where it similarly bested all other shows. Two original musicals, Dead Outlaw and Maybe Happy Ending, will tie at six nominations apiece. Gypsy and Sunset Boulevard, which are our leading contenders for the Best Musical Revival prize, and British import Operation Mincemeat will also likely score well with nominators with five bids each.

Cole Escola's historical romp Oh, Mary! and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' fiery family drama Purpose will lead all plays and play revivals with five nominations each. This is Escola's Broadway debut as playwright and performer, while Jacobs-Jenkins...

The 2024-25 Broadway season, which kicked off last June with a revival of the play Home and concluded with the openings of musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves this past Sunday, featured 42 musicals, plays, and revivals. With six more productions than last season, Tony nominators will have no shortage of works to consider when they meet to vote, which will no doubt make predictions even more challenging than usual.

Before the Tony nominations are announced on Thursday, review our official odds below, which are derived from predictions by our experts, editors, and users, in 17 of the 26 categories. Agree or disagree with these odds? There's still time to make your predictions at Gold Derby.

Musicals

Best Musical

1. Maybe Happy Ending – 7/4

2. Dead Outlaw – 4/1

3. Death Becomes Her – 6/1

4. Operation Mincemeat – 13/2

5. Buena Vista Social Club – 9/1

Best Musical Revival

1. Gypsy – 2/1

2. Sunset Boulevard – 9/4

3. Floyd Collins – 9/2

4. Pirates! The Penzance Musical – 13/2

Best Actress (Musical)

1. Audra McDonald, Gypsy – 41/20

2. Nicole Scherzinger,...

Nominations for the 2025 Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced Friday by Oh, Mary! stars Cole Escola and Conrad Ricamora. Winners for these kudos, which honor Broadway and off-Broadway productions, will be announced on May 12.

The musical Death Becomes Her dominated the pack with 12 nominations, more than any other show, followed by Maybe Happy Ending with nine citations. Stranger Things: The First Shadow led in the play categories with seven bids, followed by The Hills of California with six.

While there are no Tony Awards nominators within the ranks of the Outer Critics Circle, the list of nominations nevertheless provides important insight into what performances are registering with the industry during awards season. A major difference is that the Outer Critics Circle employs gender-neutral categories but still capped at five slots. So, the actors named here have muscled their way past a large field of competitors in an impressive showing of awards strength.

The hit Broadway musical Death Becomes Her starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard leads the list of nominations for this year’s Outer Critics Circle Awards, the organization announced this morning.

The musical garnered 12 nominations, including Outstanding New Musical and nominations for Simard and featured performer Christopher Sieber. Coming in at #2 was the musical Maybe Happy Ending starring Darren Criss with nine nominations.

In the non-musical play categories, Stranger Things: The First Shadow snared the most nominations, with a total of seven, followed by The Hills of California with six.

The winners of the 75th Anniversary Outer Critics Circle Awards will be announced on Monday, May 12, 2025 followed by an awards ceremony held on Thursday, May 22, 2025.

Nominees for the annual John Gassner Award — for a new American play, preferably by a new playwright — are: Becoming Eve by Emil Weinstein; Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney and Grant Heslov; Pre-Existing...

“In 17 years, I think every single cell in your body has changed over at least once. I think that I changed more than the play did,” says Francis Jue in reference to the play Yellow Face. The actor first performed the role of Henry, a stage version of playwright David Henry Hwang’s father, off-Broadway in 2007. Nearly two decades later, Jue returned to the role in the Broadway revival to great acclaim. He recently joined Gold Derby to discuss the script’s continued relevance.

Henry is an immigrant from China and is obsessed with American ideals and culture. Yellow Face dives into the tricky world of identity politics and asks who has the right to the American dream. “When we first did it in 2007, people were wondering why he was still writing about identity? Weren't we past issues of racism? Obama was about to be president and isn't theater wonderful,...

The Center for Asian American Media (Caam) announces its slate of programs for CAAMFest 2025, taking place May 8-11 in San Francisco, with nearly 40 films from Asian America and beyond, as well as panel discussions and other events. This year’s programming provides a look at how the roots of Asian America have shaped this present moment, with themes including the 50th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and the creative and nurturing contributions of Asian American women.

“At a time when it feels particularly fraught to express stories from communities of color, Caam is doing what we’ve done for over 40 years—sharing films from Asian America to a wide array of audiences,” says Caam’s Director of Programs Don Young. “Watching these stories, in a theater full of friends and neighbors, is an opportunity to laugh and cry and ultimately to celebrate human experiences that transcend bounds.

Six new Broadway productions opened in March, inaugurating the spring season and foreshadowing the 12 additional openings to come before Tony Awards nominations are announced. See below for a breakdown of how our official odds have changed since our last predictions update on March 6, as Gold Derby users, editors, and experts have been updating their predictions based on performances and critics reviews.

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Purpose: Prior to opening, our users were only predicting a single nomination for this new American family drama for its Tony-winning featured actress Kara Young. Since the glowing critical response to playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' latest effort, it has surged with three additional expected bids for Best Play, featured actress Latanya Richardson Jackson, and director Phylicia Rashad. It certainly hasn’t hit its ceiling yet, either, as its lead actor Jon Michael Hill and featured actor Harry Lennix are both within striking distance in sixth place in their respective categories.

David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face debuted Off Broadway 17 years ago, spinning a farcical tale about a real-life Broadway controversy that had taken place some 17 years before that. How it manages to be relevant, insightful and very funny as it makes its Broadway debut tonight, all these years later, is anyone’s guess, but it does.

We can start by thanking Hwang’s terrific play – cut by a half-hour since its overlong Off Broadway version – and crackerjack direction by Leigh Silverman. Perhaps most of all, the production’s appeal rests with a cast led by an excellent Daniel Dae Kim, the Lost and Avatar: The Last Airbender star making a seamless transition to the Broadway stage.

The plot is, on its surface – but only on its surface – one big inside joke for Broadway aficionados. Inspired by real events – with liberty taken – Yellow Face recounts an event that found Hwang embroiled...

David Henry Hwang’s playfully subversive comedy Yellow Face received an Obie Award and was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize when it debuted off-Broadway at the Public Theater in 2007. Now it’s back—in a new Broadway revival directed by Leigh Silverman, the Tony-nominated director of Shaina Taub’s freewheeling musical Suffs. In what Hwang calls an “unreliable memoir,” the playwright—who won the Tony in 1988 for M. Butterfly—places a fictional version of himself, “Dhh,” at the center of the story.

The play takes audiences on a clever and humorous journey that blurs fact and fiction. It revisits historical events sparked by the 1990 controversy surrounding the yellow-face casting of a white actor, Jonathan Pryce, in the lead Eurasian role in the mega-musical Miss Saigon. The work also examines allegations made against his father, Henry Y. Hwang, and the increasing prejudice faced by Asian Americans in this country.

A new Broadway season has begun, and there are currently nine productions of plays set to open this fall. Could we see any of them contend at next year’s Tony Awards? Below, find the plot of each play as well as the awards histories of its author, cast and creative team, plus the opening and (where applicable) closing dates.

“The Roommate” (opens September 12; closes December 15)

In this new play by Jen Silverman, Sharon has never had a roommate before. But after her divorce she needs a housemate to pay the bills. That’s when Robyn arrives. The story follows an unexpected, life-changing friendship that’s both funny and deeply moving between two very different middle-aged women as they navigate the complexities of identity, morality and the dream of reinvention.

The production stars Golden Globe winner Mia Farrow and three-time Tony winner Patti LuPone. It is directed by three-time Tony winner Jack O’Brien.

New Amsterdam star Ryan Eggold and Tony Award-nominated Kevin Del Aguila will join the previously announced Daniel Dae Kim on Broadway this fall in David Henry Hwang’s much anticipated Yellow Face.

Eggold will be making his Broadway debut.

Complete casting for the production was announced today by the Roundabout Theatre Company, and also includes Francis Jue, Marinda Anderson, Greg Keller and Shannon Tyo.

Yellow Face, directed by Leigh Silverman, will begin previews on Friday, September 13, 2024, at Roundabout’s at Todd Haimes Theatre, with opening night on Friday, October 1, 2024, 227 West 42nd Street) on Broadway. The limited engagement runs through Sunday, November 24.

The synopsis: Inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.

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Winners of the 2022 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced in a ceremony on May 1, 2022, at NYU Skirball. New musicals “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Oratorio for Living Things” tied for the most wins, with three trophies each. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.

The cast of Ars Nova’s “Oratorio For Living Things” took home the inaugural award for Outstanding Ensemble, while the Broadway-bound “Kimberly Akimbo” nabbed the two individual musical acting categories, with Lead Performance going to Victoria Clark and Featured Performance going to Bonnie Milligan.

Special honorees this year included Deirdre O’Connell (“Dana H.”), who was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award by Heidi Schreck; and David Henry Hwang, who was inducted onto the famed Playwrights’ Sidewalk by Jeanine Tesori.

Find the nominees and recipients of the 2022 Lucille Lortal Awards below.

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The theater industry’s pandemic-shortened season seems to have opened up the Grammy playing field for cast albums, as only two of the six just-announced nominees for the 2021 awards represent the usually-dominant Broadway.

The two Broadway cast albums included in today’s nominations for Best Musical Theater Album are David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway and Jagged Little Pill, the musical consisting of Alanis Morissette songs. Two London cast albums were nominated, as were two from Off Broadway.

Last year, all five nominees in the category were Broadway productions (Hadestown won), while the year before Broadway accounted for four of the five nominees, with TV’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert filling out the category (Broadway’s The Band’s Visit won). Previous years show a similar pro-Broadway pattern.

A slew of highly anticipated 2020 Broadway musicals were...

The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards honoring the best in New York theater were announced Saturday night, with The Inheritance being named Outstanding Play and A Strange Loop taking the trophy for Outstanding Musical.

The remote ceremony was hosted by Frank Dilella. Normally, the awards are announced at a gathering of theater artists and critics in New York City. But this year, the gathering was replaced by a pre-recorded ceremony because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The awards show had initially been scheduled to air May 31, but was postponed due to the Black Lives Matter protests in New York City.

Tonight’s ceremony aired on NY1 and streamed on NY1.com and DramaDeskAwards.com. The Drama Desk Awards recipients were decided by theater critics, journalists, editors and publishers covering theater. Read the complete list of winners below.

65th Annual Drama Desk Award Winners:

Outstanding Play

Cambodian Rock Band, by Lauren Yee,...

“Musicals can be very tricky,” Jeanine Tesori explains. “Because when you deliver something and you put a beautiful string section underneath it, it sways you. It sways you because of the physics of music, and the overtone series and the ways that music is embedded inside the science of being alive.”

Tesori, the composer of the music within David Henry Hwang’s complex and fascinating new play, Soft Power, certainly understands how musicals can manipulate, persuade, and influence. She won a Tony for Best Original Score for Fun Home, along with Lisa Kron,...

Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me has received the 2019 Obie Award for Best New American Play. The Obies, announced at a ceremony tonight, recognize Off and Off Off Broadway productions (Schreck’s play was staged last fall at the New York Theatre Workshop Off Broadway prior to its move to Broadway).

A 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, What the Constitution Means to Me has been nominated for two Tony Awards for its Broadway staging at the Helen Hayes Theatre: Best Play, and, for playwright-performer Schreck, Best Leading Actress/Play.

Other winners at the 64th Annual Obie Awards, presented each year by The American Theatre Wing and The Village Voice, include Playwriting awards to Marcus Gardley, Madeleine George and Suzan-Lori Parks; Directing awards to Jo Bonney, Leigh Silverman, Stevie Walker Webb; and Performance awards to Mia Barron, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Cherise Boothe, Francis Jue, and Heather Alicia Simms.

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Conrad Ricamora didn’t set out to be an actor. Growing up, the “How to Get Away With Murder” star lived all over the world, from Iceland to Florida, due to his father’s job in the Air Force. Though he enjoyed singing and dancing when he was little, by the time he hit middle school, “I realized guys would be ridiculed if you did that, so I quickly stopped and started playing sports.”

It wasn’t until his junior year of college, where he was majoring in psychology, that he took an acting class. He chose to do a monologue from Lanford Wilson’s “Lemon Sky” about a boy meeting his estranged parent. The actor, who says “my father was born in the Philippines and my mother is white,” elaborates on how the play spoke to him. “My mom left when I was an infant and I didn’t...

Results for Actors’ Equity Association’s 2016 National Council election were announced May 19; 14 open seats across three regions and three categories (principal actor, chorus actor, and stage manager) were filled. Equity’s Eastern Region saw nine seats filled, three of which by returning incumbents: Nancy Slusser and Francis Jue in principal actor seats and the unopposed Jason A. Quinn in a stage manager seat. Four new principal actors were elected to the council—Jeff Blumenkrantz, Mary Gutzi, Camille Saviola, and Nick Wyman. Rashaan James II and Kirsten Wyatt joined as chorus actors. The Central and Western regions also saw new faces to the council with the addition of actor Kelley Faulkner to the Central Region’s principal actor category, the addition of John M. Galo in the Western Region’s stage manager category and the addition of Charlayne Woodard as Western Region principal councillor. Also in the Western Region, incumbent Kim...

The World of Extreme Happiness Directed by Eric Ting Written by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig Manhattan Theatre Club - NYC Center Stage February 3-March 29, 2015

A boy is a child. A girl is a thing. These words greet the birth of Sunny Li in The World of Extreme Happiness, the new play from award-winning Playwright-in-Residence at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig. Sunny’s arrival into the world in 1992 rural China puts her place in her father’s heart somewhere below the female racing pigeon about whom he rhapsodizes and dreams. Accordingly, it is not even clear at first that he is talking about a pigeon and not a woman, while the newborn girl is quickly, albeit temporarily, consigned to a slop bucket to die. When we next meet Sunny (Jennifer Lim), she is 18 and part of the janitorial staff in an urban factory with a PR problem due to employee suicides.

John Tartaglia, Stephanie D'Abruzzo and Carey Anderson all from Broadway's Avenue Q along with Gwen Hollander Little Women, Christine Toy Johnson Falsettoland, Francis Jue Thoroughly Modern Millie, Pacific Overtures, singersongwriter Phoebe Kreutz, Raymond J. Lee Anything Goes, Adam Levinskas, Jose Llana The 25Th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Rent, Orville Mendoza Peter And The Starcatcher, Olivia Oguma Mamma Mia and actress Lexi Windsor will all be on hand to perform and pay tribute to the beloved director and actor Alan Muraoka Sesame Street, Broadway's Miss Saigon, The King And I at an evening to benefit National Asian American Theatre Company Naatco tonight, September 10 at 416 W. 42 St.