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The performances have been set for the 70th annual Tony Awards on Sunday at the Beacon Theater, with all 10 musicals nominated in the Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical scheduled to perform during the CBS telecast hosted by James Corden. Yes that includes Hamilton, which goes into the night with a record 16 nom…

Cirque Du Soleil’s first made-for-Broadway venture, Paramour, launched the 2016-2017 season last week with a post-opening boost of $219K over Week 52 (notwithstanding a slew of downbeat reviews), ringing up $1.127M at the 1,896-seat Lyric Theatre box office. With the June 12 Tony Awards looming, the Street was up some…

On the subject of success, George C. Wolfe has always been ambivalent. Wary. ”When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving, so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it,” he told me. “I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out.” As it happens, he said that…

With one week left in the 2015-2016 Broadway season, the box office is telling a different story than the one on the marquees. Outside the theaters, there’s plenty of excitement as ticket buyers clamor for entry to the most ambitious range of shows in memory, offering the electricity of revolution (Hamilton, Shuffle Al…

A couple of unexpected plot turns have resulted in cast changes at Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, the George C. Wolfe show that picked up 10 Tony Awards nominations last week including Best Musical. The show also was named best new musical of the season by the New…

It was a slightly down week on Broadway, but you wouldn’t have known it at the musicals blessed with nominations by the Tony gods. With its record 16 noms, already sold-out Hamilton still managed to eke out a bump of $14K and change, taking in a bit over $1.83 million at the Nederlander organization’s Richard Rodgers…

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: The Tony Administration Committee declared Shuffle Along a new show, a decision I can't imagine anyone getting exercised over…

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle today named Stephen Karam’s The Humans as best play and Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed as best musical of the 2015-2016 season. The winners were chosen during the organization’s 81st annual meeting, with the awards to be bestowed…

Danielle Brooks has been crying all morning, she told me, a couple of hours after learning she’d been nominated for a Tony Award. “The other day at the stage door there was a young black girl who looked sorta like me, and she saw me and just started bawling her eyes out,” Brooks said over the phone. “She said, ‘Thank…

UPDATE, Writethru with more info, complete list of nominees: History filtered through the prisms of race and sex will dominate the race to the June 12 Tony Awards, as nominees for Broadway’s top prizes were announced this morning. Leading the pack are Hamilton, with a record-breaking 16 nominations, and Shuffle Along…

Nominations for the 70th annual Tony Awards are being announced this morning at the Paramount Hotel in New York during a live cut-in from CBS News’ CBS This Morning at about 8:30 AM ET. CBS will air the awards show June 12 from the Beacon Theatre with James Corden hosting. This morning’s noms will be unveiled by Nikki…

Patrons are finding the new Sara Bareilles musical Waitress tasty enough to recommend, and Broadway’s cloudy dramas saw some welcome sunshine during Week 49 of the 2015-2016 season. Both trends reinforce the one unchanging truth of the business, which is that enthusiastic word of mouth trumps your social media, your…