NEW YORK — Select nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards, announced Tuesday. Best Musical: “Hell’s Kitchen”: ”Illinoise”; “The Outsiders”; “Suffs”; “Water for Elephants” Best Play: “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”; “Mary Jane”; “Mother Play”; “Prayer for the French Republic”; “Stereophonic”; “Suffs”; “Water for Elephants” Best Revival of a Play: “Appropriate”; “An Enemy of the People”; “Purlie … Read more
NEW YORK — After a final, frantic push to open the last raft of Broadway shows before the eligibility window closed, the final list of almost 40 plays and musicals vying for Tony Award nominations this year are ready and hoping for their closeups. Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry will announce nominees for … Read more
LONDON — Sarah Jessica Parker, Andrew Scott and Sarah Snook are among the stars battling for accolades Sunday at the Olivier Awards recognizing work on the London stage. The Oliviers — Britain’s equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards — are celebrating a bumper year for new shows in the West End, which is finally bouncing back … Read more
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — James Monroe Iglehart’s mom took him to see the animated Disney movie “Aladdin” as a high-school graduation gift in 1992. He fell in love with the Genie, naturally. Fast-forward more than two decades and Iglehart found himself playing the first Genie on Broadway, killing it, and on his … Read more
NEW YORK — The romantic tearjerker “The Notebook” lands on Broadway in awkward musical theater form this spring having previously conquered books and movies. It is intent now on making a live audience openly weep by employing massive doses of schlocky sentimentality without the aid of Ryan Gosling. The bombastic musical that opened Thursday at … Read more
FILE – Kristin Chenoweth arrives at the AFI Awards Luncheon on Friday, March 11, 2022, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Chenoweth will star as socialite Jacqueline “Jackie” Siegel in the live adaptation of the 2012 documentary film “The Queen of Versailles.” The musical will make its world premiere at Boston’s Emerson … Read more
The first “Mean Girls,” that compulsively watchable high-school based social satire by Tina Fey, came out in 2004. The Broadway musical opened in 2018. Now it’s 2024, and we have a screen adaptation of the theater adaptation. How long will this reconfiguring go on? Is there a limit? Or … does the limit not exist? … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Coco Jones was so obsessed with fine tuning her skills as a singer that she tried to mimic Beyoncé’s Olympic-style training of singing while running on a treadmill. Jones didn’t own a treadmill, but her father and former NFL player, Mike Jones, had an elliptical machine she often used as an alternative. … Read more
