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VIOLET & ME Comes to Connecticut This Month by Stephi Wild - Apr 12, 2024 Locally-based Emmy-awarding winning artist Dorothy Lyman brings her heartfelt and honest solo play, Violent and Me: A Mama-logue, to Washington, CT as a special fundraiser for Connecticut Theatre Exchange (CTX). PETER PAN GOES WRONG Extends on Broadway Before Los Angeles Run by Stephi Wild - May 22, 2023 The producers of Broadway’s Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the international sensation from Mischief, have announced that the show has been extended for another two weeks through July 23 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre before heading to Los Angeles! Photos: First Look at PETER PAN GOES WRONG, Featuring Neil Patrick Harris by Show Highlights - Apr 19, 2023 Peter Pan Goes Wrong, the international sensation from Mischief, opens tonight, Wednesday, April 19th at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway for a limited engagement. Check out all new photos, featuring Neil Patrick Harris who appears in the show for a limited time! LEOPOLDSTADT Extends on Broadway Through July 2, 2023 by Stephi Wild - Dec 8, 2022 Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning Best New Play, directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Patrick Marber, will now play through July 2, 2023 at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street) on Broadway. Tom Stoppard's LEOPOLDSTADT Begins Broadway Rehearsals by Stephi Wild - Aug 8, 2022 Broadway rehearsals have begun for Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard's Olivier Award-winning Best New Play, directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Patrick Marber and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Roy Furman, and Lorne Michaels. Spacey's A Moon for the Misbegotten Hits Broadway in March
by BWW News Desk - Jan 12, 2007 Olivier Award winner Eve Best, Academy Award and Tony Award winner Kevin Spacey and Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney will reprise their acclaimed performances in The The Frederick Gunn School Theatre Program is pleased to present the powerful one-woman show, “Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender,” written and performed by Lisa Wolpe, on Thursday, October 20, from 8-9 p.m. in the Tisch Family Auditorium of the Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center on campus. Admission is free with general admission seating. No registration is required. Wolpe is an expert on gender-flipping Shakespeare as well as an actress, director, teacher, writer, traveler, and distinguished scholar. Her solo show explores her experiences as an activist for inclusion, diversity, equity, access, and promoting women’s rights and racial equality. It features stories about her family, focusing on her father, Hans Wolpe, a hero in World War II, as well as pieces of Shakespeare, including Shylock, Hamlet, Richard III, and more, elucidating life lessons learned through playing male characters in the Shakespeare Canon. Learn more Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing’s 76th Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards® were announced today by star of Funny Girl Lea Michele and 2022 Tony Award-winner Myles Frost. The nominees were selected by an independent committee of 40 theatre professionals appointed by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. The 2023 Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. (The list of nominations follows.) Marking 76 years of excellence on Broadway, The Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, will air LIVE on Sunday, June 11, 2023 from the historic United Palace in Washington Heights, in New York City from 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/5:00-8:00 PM, PT on the CBS Television Network, and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+. CBS and Pluto TV will present The Tony Awards: Act One, a pre-show of live, exclusive content leading into the 76th Annual Tony Awards. The celebration commences at 6:30-8:00 PM, ET/3:30-5:00 PM PT, on Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service (FAST). Viewers can access the show on their smart TV, streaming device, mobile app or online by going to Pluto TV and clicking on the “Pluto TV Celebrity” channel (no payment, registration or sign-in required). Legitimate theatrical productions opening in any of the 41 eligible Broadway theatres during the current season may be considered for Tony nominations. The 2022/2023 eligibility season began Thursday, May 5, 2022 and ended Thursday, April 27, 2023. The Tony Awards will be voted in 26 competitive categories by 769 designated Tony voters within the theatre community. As previously announced, the 2023 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre will be presented to Lisa Dawn Cave, Victoria Bailey and Robert Fried. The Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award will be presented to Jerry Mitchell. The 2022-2023 Tony Award Nominating Committee consists of: Warren Adams, Becky Ann Baker, Pun Bandhu, Brenda Braxton, Christopher Burney, Eisa Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday. Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below: OSCARS | EMMYS | GRAMMYS | TONYS UPDATED: June 8, 2023 Weekly Commentary: In the race for best play, Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” has a lot going for it. Many consider it the most accessible and moving play ever written by Stoppard, a playwright of rare stature who’s one of the few marquee-name writers that Broadway has. It’s a sweeping, bustling production with a large cast and an epic scope, and since it opened in October, it’s been enough of a box office draw (particularly in the fall, when the show regularly grossed more than $1 million a week) that it’s become one of the rare plays to run a lot longer than 16 weeks. It’s also already taken the top award at the Drama Desks, the Outer Critics and the Drama League. For a lot of voters, “Leopoldstadt” is the choice. But every play in this strong category has admirers, and one, in particular, has emerged as the nominee that might pull off an upset. That’s “Fat Ham,” James Ijames’ Pulitzer-winning riff on “Hamlet.” It’s a show that smartly weaves themes of queer identity an
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