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Tony S. at the Tonys

I would like to begin my highly influential tips for the winners of this season’s Tony Awards with heartfelt congratulations to Dolly Parton. Dolly has been nominated for Best Score of a Musical for...

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Tony Nominees Announced, Greeted With Apathy

This year’s Tony nominations were announced today and everyone paid attention, but only a little. Gawker notes that Scarlett Johansson is now a Tony nominee (for A View from the Bridge), but manages...

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It’s Tony Time!

On a Tuesday night last summer-July 14, Bastille Day-I saw my first play as The Observer‘s new theater reviewer. It was Vanities, an awful Off Broadway musical at the Second Stage, and the evening was...

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The Tony Nominations Snub Radcliffe! Other People Maybe Nominated

Where were you when you found out that Daniel Radcliffe had not received a Tony nomination? Surely not far into any of the articles about this morning’s nominee announcement (the actual nominees are...

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Survey Says: Our Drama Critic Tallies His and Other Critics’ Choices For the...

Rannells and Gad in The Book of Mormon. Photo via Joan Marcus. People are talking about the Tony Awards this year, and not just to complain. (Clarification: Those few people who might talk about the...

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Breakless at Tiffany’s: The Indefatigable Tony King Talks Yorkshire Pride,...

Tiffany with his Tony. “I’m always pleasantly surprised when anybody wants to see a production that I’ve directed,” said John Tiffany over the phone from Glasgow two days after the Tony Awards, erasing...

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Broadway’s Complaint: Theater’s Finest Share Stage Secrets and Gripes as Tony...

Cyndi Lauper and Joan Rivers. “I’m a believer that karma takes care of everything in the long run,” Gabriel Mann, who plays billionaire Nolan Ross on ABC’s prime-time soap opera Revenge, told...

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Tony and Matilda and Pippin and Spike: Who Deserves This Year’s Statues?

Bertie Carvel in ‘Matilda.’ (Photo by Joan Marcus) Here’s the bold—and only—prediction I’ll make about this year’s Tony Awards, to be presented at Radio City Music Hall a week from Sunday and broadcast...

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Set Theory: With Two Tony Noms, Architect and Designer David Rockwell’s...

(Emily Anne Epstein) Two huge egg-shaped seats greet you at the Union Square office of the Rockwell Group. Suspended by a rope from the ceiling, and made of paper, hand-dyed and stitched for a leathery...

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The Eight-Day Week: Tony Awards Edition

Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper. From Torch Song Trilogy to La Cage aux Folles, Broadway legend Harvey Fierstein has earned a legacy on the Great White Way. And now, his Kinky Boots has taken the...

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Broadway’s Night Out: After-Partying Till the Break of Dawn With All the Tony...

Patina Miller, Cicely Tyson, Billy Porter. Just like Cyndi Lauper, Shindigger has prepared since childhood for Broadway’s biggest night by practicing our acceptance speech “to the shower curtain.” Of...

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tvRoundup: ‘Dexter’, Benedict Cumberbatch and Snoop Dogg

- Michael C. Hall, a.k.a Dexter, agrees with pretty much everyone and their mother that the Dexter finale kind of, sort of really sucked. - Showrunner Steven Moffat told the Radio Times that he...

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Guest Editor Jefferson Mays Reveals His Survival Strategy During Tonys Week

Tony-winner Jefferson Mays Wednesday, June 4 Tompkins Square Dog Run. There are just a few more days of the exhilarating, mad time known as awards season. With a play, you’re expected to show up at a...

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The 68th Annual Tony Awards’ Best Dressed List

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway. I don’t know about all that, but they certainly were illuminating on the 68th Annual Tony Awards’ red carpet. While A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and...

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Tony Tipsiness

Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka (Photo: Jimi Celeste/PatrickMcMullan.com) “I’m not going to the Tonys this year,” sighed two-time Tony-winner Bebe Neuwirth at the opening premiere of Sir Kenneth...

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It’s ‘American in Paris’ vs. ‘Fun Home’ in Juicy Tony Contest That Snubs Stars

It's looking like, unlike prior seasons with musical shoe-ins such as Spring Awakening and The Book of Mormon, this year's Tonys will be more a real contest than coronation.

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The Tony Awards’ Tightest Races And Who We’re Betting On

This year's Tony Awards- New York's answer to the Oscars- has all the drama of a high-stakes horse race.

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The Best Actors of Broadway: Handicapping the Tony Awards

Here, a look at who's ahead, who can upset and who should just be happy to be there.

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At Tony Awards, Featured Actor Races Offer Many Surprises

The featured actors are often forgotten in pre-Tony conversation, but these four categories are often among the most entertaining and unpredictable races on Tony night.

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‘Fun Home,’‘Curious Incident,’‘King and I’ Triumph at Tony Awards

Hosted by Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth, the Tonys were light on vinegar and heavy on promotion.

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