Only one real surprise tonight, as you can see from my Tony story -- Elton John snubbed again for his score for Billy Elliot. I'll admit it was perhaps the least distinctive element in the show, and I've never been...
Billy Elliot is definitely going to win a great many awards, though not quite sweep. (It lost the costume design prize to Shrek.) The most moving moment in the preliminary hour in which the design awards were handed out came...
We'll be here blogging about the Tony Awards as they are handed out tonight. Join us with your observations, beefs or WHAT-THE-HEYS....
Television star Neil Patrick Harris will host the Tony Awards, to be broadcast on CBS June 7. You might not identify the former Doogie Howser as a stage luminary, but he did star in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's...
A story in today's Variety reminds us how many big, big names got blanked in the Tony nominations that came out yesterday. In so doing, it reminds us just how star-studded the season just concluded was. A great many Oscar...
I wasn't at all surprised by the Tony Award nominations for the 2008-2009 Broadway season just announced in New York. Billy Elliott has seemed to me the obvious show to clean up at the awards this year, ever since I...
If anyone is planning a Broadway trip over the holidays, this is truly a chance to catch 'em before they close. According to a story that ran in the The Daily Telegraph today, 15 Broadway shows are about to be...
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