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Stephen Karam’s one-act drama The Humans will conclude the New York leg of its remarkable journey on January 15, a week shy of its one-year anniversary on Broadway. Producers Scott Rudin and Barry Diller said Thursday that a national tour of the play, about a Thanksgiving dinner in New York’s Chinatown that…

Producer Joey Parnes today announced that Bright Star, the new musical from 2016 Tony Award nominees Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, will play its final Broadway performance on Sunday, June 26, after 30 previews and 109 regular performances. Parnes, with help from Martin and company, valiantly kept the $10.5 million…

UPDATE with quote from William Ivey Long, below. Film and theater costume designer William Ivey Long, a multiple Tony Award winner and chairman of Tony co-presenter the American Theatre Wing, designed a ribbon that was quickly mass produced and distributed to 1,000 people attending tonight’s Tony Awards. The ribbon is…

A group that advocates for greater gun safety will gather this evening outside the Beacon Theatre on New York’s Upper West Side, where the CBS broadcast of the Tony Awards begins at 8 PM, hoping to draw attention to the mass slaughter last night at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL. Volunteers with the New York…

UPDATE: Adds quote from Hamilton production and more information, below. As the producers and creatives behind tonight’s live CBS telecast of the Tony Awards met to strategize how the program would approach the news of the mass murders in at an Orlando, FL nightclub, the team behind Hamilton, the favorite to sweep the…

Responding to what is being called the worst mass slaughter in U.S. history, the shooting deaths last night of 50 patrons at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida frequented by members of the LGBTQ community, the producers of tonight’s Tony Awards telecast have issued the following statement: “Our hearts are heavy for the…

We have five senses but only rarely do we experience the gift of having them heightened to a point of ecstasy. A Broadway musical, with its controlled delirium of sight and sound, can do that. A Broadway musical enhanced by, say, a particularly skilled interpreter of American Sign Language, adds not just the…

Although she hardly needs the publicity to promote her upcoming concert tour, Barbra Streisand will make her first appearance on the Tony Awards since the Nixon administration. CBS said today the singer-actress is set to present a trophy during the 70th annual Tonys on June 12. The Tiffany network will air the…

Before he hit 25 Reed Birney was already a Broadway star in a hit show that wasn’t even a musical. In 1977 Albert Innaurato’s blue-collar Philly with a gay-twist comedy Gemini had moved uptown to the Little Theatre, where it settled into a long run on the strength of a crass and unavoidable TV spot (“I’ll just pick!”)…

When Hamilton ended its Public Theater run in the spring of 2015, there was a lot of pressure to open immediately on Broadway. After all, it was already a runaway hit, with several sold-out extensions downtown; why waste lucrative weeks? But author, composer, lyricist and star Lin-Manuel Miranda wanted to buy some…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: Well of course there is no Tony Award for Best Song, but there ought to be. We’re seeing a surge on Broadway of contemporary…

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a visual in HBO’s All The Way when the powerful Georgia Sen. Richard Russell registers the fact that his protégé Lyndon Johnson has sacrificed him, and Dixie, on the pyre of the Civil Rights movement. The camera moves from Johnson’s bespectacled, crinkle-eyed smirk to Russell’s once-implacable mask…