History was made at Sunday night’s 76th Tony Awards with J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell together becoming the first nonbinary performers to walk away with acting prizes.
Hamilton star Denée Benton turned on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) during Sunday night’s 2023 Tony Awards, basking in a shower of enthusiastic applause as she smeared him as a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard.
Two gender “non-binary” Broadway performers — J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell — earned Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, with both being recognized in male “actor” categories even though neither identifies that way.
A Broadway performer who identifies as “non-binary” has rejected eligibility for the Tony Awards, saying traditional acting categories need to be reconsidered to become more “inclusive” of gender non-conforming actors.
Celebrities won’t have to wear masks when they attend the 75th annual Tony Awards in New York on Sunday, even as paying audiences at Broadway shows are still being forced to mask up through at least the end of June.
The producers of this year’s Tony Awards have warned potential slappers they will be booted from the show if they pull a Will Smith.
The bloom has really come off America’s wretched celebrity class when the Tony Awards can only attract 2.6 million viewers.
The critically acclaimed drama “Slave Play” will bring back performances for black-only audiences when it returns to Broadway for a limited engagement starting November, with producers saying the invitation-only performances will be limited to “Black-identifying” people.
The Trump-bashing Tony Awards — which hit a record low in ratings in 2019 — will become the first major awards show to move to streaming after finally setting a date for September 26, after being postponed due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Obviously, the Trump-bashing Tonys kept the promise to bash Trump, which only means the public has been forewarned to avoid tuning in next year.
Actor Bryan Cranston appeared to go after President Donald Trump during his acceptance speech at the Tony Award’s on Sunday, declaring that the media is not the “enemy of the people” as the president routinely says of the establishment press.
Empire actor Jussie Smollett will no longer co-star in the Broadway revival of the play “Take Me Out” amid lingering charges that the performer staged a hate crime against himself, according to a report.
Some of the biggest names in Hollywood gathered at the 72nd Tony Awards on Sunday night to join actor Robert De Niro in trashing President Donald Trump.
Actor Andrew Garfield dedicated his Tony Awards acceptance speech on Sunday to the LGBT community and took aim at the Supreme Court’s recent decision to side with a Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding.
While speaking onstage at the Tony Awards on Sunday night, actor Robert De Niro went after President Donald Trump, saying, “f*** Trump” multiple times.
“I’m going to say one thing: ‘F— Trump,’” De Niro said before presenting an award. “It’s no longer ‘down with Trump.’ It’s ‘f— Trump.’”
Broadway legend Patti LuPone says if President Donald Trump came to see her new musical, War Paint, she wouldn’t perform for the “motherf***er.”
Actress Sally Field proudly showed off a pin she wore to Sunday night’s Tony Awards in support of Planned Parenthood, explaining in a message on her Twitter account that she would not “stay silent while politicians attack our rights.”
Actor Kevin Spacey donned a gray wig to play Bill Clinton during his hosting gig at Sunday night’s Tony Awards and cracked a joke about Hillary Clinton’s email controversy in between award presentations.
The Broadway actors who spoke at the Tony awards show paid tribute to the victims of the attack, but a pre-recorded video aired Sunday night from President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama did not mention the attacks that occurred earlier in the day.
Members of gun control organization Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America demonstrated outside the Tony Awards at New York City’s Beacon Theatre Sunday night to demand stronger gun laws in the wake of the Orlando terror attack earlier in the day that claimed the lives of at least 50 people and injured 53 more.
The 70th annual Tony Awards struck a more subdued tone than usual as Broadway’s biggest stars paid tribute to the victims of Sunday morning’s deadly terror attack in Orlando that claimed the lives of at least 50 people.
The cast of the hit Broadway show Hamilton will not use prop muskets during their performance at the Tony Awards on Sunday night in the wake of Sunday morning’s terror attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that left 50 people dead and another 53 injured.
Sunday night featured the annual Tony Awards, celebrating the supposed best of Broadway. Experts predicted awful ratings; the ratings for the Tony Awards have dropped steadily over time, with only 7 million people watching last year. Last night, few were going to tune in, given that no blockbuster musical like The Producers or The Book of Mormon had a shot at the top award, and no major hosts outside Broadway took the stage (the hosts were Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming).
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein reportedly told the cast and crew of Finding Neverland in April the Broadway show’s failure to garner a single Tony Award nomination was personal. Sunday, Seinfeld creator Larry David joked it was because he is Jewish.
Sunday night’s Tony Awards marked the lowest-rated broadcast ever for Broadway’s big night.
