With the 96th Academy Awards in the history books, it’s time to become obsessed over the 77th Tony Awards. Nominations are April 30th with the awards set to air on CBS on June 16 from Lincoln Center. Among the contenders for Tony nominations are many musicals based on movies including “Back to the Future,’ “The Notebook,” “Water for Elephants” and “The Outsiders”: high profile revivals such as Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” with Jeremy Strong; “Cabaret” with Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne and the Who’s “Tommy”; imports from London and transfers from off-Broadway.
Do you remember the Tony landscape 50 years ago? The 28th annual honors took place April 21, 1974, at the Shubert Theater and aired on ABC. And to say it was a star-studded affair is something of an understatement. Robert Preston, Peter Falk, Cicely Tyson, Florence Henderson hosted; presenters included Al Pacino –-let’s hope he had better...
Do you remember the Tony landscape 50 years ago? The 28th annual honors took place April 21, 1974, at the Shubert Theater and aired on ABC. And to say it was a star-studded affair is something of an understatement. Robert Preston, Peter Falk, Cicely Tyson, Florence Henderson hosted; presenters included Al Pacino –-let’s hope he had better...
- 3/14/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Last year “Succession” broke the record for the most acting nominations in a single year at the Emmys with 14, and it tied that tally in its final season in 2023. Like last year there are three women from the show in the Best Drama Guest Actress category, one of whom is a perennial favorite and a previous winner for the HBO satirical drama: Cherry Jones for her role as Nan Pierce.
See‘Succession’ is poised to complete its Golden Globes winning streak
Jones began her career as a founding member of the American Repertory Theater in 1980 and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, having performed in distinguished plays such as “Stepping Out,” “Our Country’s Good,” “Angels in America,” “A Moon for the Misbegotten,” and “The Glass Menagerie” and winning Tony Awards for Best Actress for “The Heiress” and “Doubt.” On screen, she has had an active...
See‘Succession’ is poised to complete its Golden Globes winning streak
Jones began her career as a founding member of the American Repertory Theater in 1980 and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, having performed in distinguished plays such as “Stepping Out,” “Our Country’s Good,” “Angels in America,” “A Moon for the Misbegotten,” and “The Glass Menagerie” and winning Tony Awards for Best Actress for “The Heiress” and “Doubt.” On screen, she has had an active...
- 12/24/2023
- by Christopher Tsang
- Gold Derby
Evan Peters and his “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” dad Richard Jenkins are the odds-on favorites to take home the Emmys for Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor and Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor, respectively. They’re already Emmy winners in the opposite categories, and if they prevail in September, they’ll join a small group of men who’ve won both limited/TV movie acting prizes.
Just six actors have swept both categories, which have undergone various name changes over the years. Laurence Olivier reigns supreme with five trophies total. He has four in lead for “The Moon and Sixpence” (1960), “Long Day’s Journey into Night” (1973), “Love Among the Ruins” (1975) and “King Lear” (1984), and one in supporting for “Brideshead Revisited” (1982).
Michael Moriarty has four, but they come with an asterisk. He owns lead and supporting statuettes for “Holocaust” (1978) and “James Dean” (2002), respectively, and won two Emmys...
Just six actors have swept both categories, which have undergone various name changes over the years. Laurence Olivier reigns supreme with five trophies total. He has four in lead for “The Moon and Sixpence” (1960), “Long Day’s Journey into Night” (1973), “Love Among the Ruins” (1975) and “King Lear” (1984), and one in supporting for “Brideshead Revisited” (1982).
Michael Moriarty has four, but they come with an asterisk. He owns lead and supporting statuettes for “Holocaust” (1978) and “James Dean” (2002), respectively, and won two Emmys...
- 3/31/2023
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Actor Gabriel Byrne will bring his solo show Walking with Ghosts to Broadway this Fall, with a limited engagement of the production, directed by Lonny Price, beginning performances on Oct. 18 at the Music Box Theatre.
The show officially opens on Thursday, Oct. 27 and runs for 75 performances only.
The production, adapted from Byrne’s memoir of the same name, was announced today by producers Anne Clarke, Mara Isaacs, and Neal Street.
“What an honor to be on Broadway again, especially in a glorious venue like the Music Box,” Byrne said in a statement. “It was a real joy to hear laughter in a theatre during the premiere run of Walking with Ghosts in Dublin. I’ve chosen to be honest and unflinching in the recounting of a life from working class Dublin to Hollywood. Although rooted in the local, I hope the play has a universal resonance.”
Byrne, a two-time Tony nominee,...
The show officially opens on Thursday, Oct. 27 and runs for 75 performances only.
The production, adapted from Byrne’s memoir of the same name, was announced today by producers Anne Clarke, Mara Isaacs, and Neal Street.
“What an honor to be on Broadway again, especially in a glorious venue like the Music Box,” Byrne said in a statement. “It was a real joy to hear laughter in a theatre during the premiere run of Walking with Ghosts in Dublin. I’ve chosen to be honest and unflinching in the recounting of a life from working class Dublin to Hollywood. Although rooted in the local, I hope the play has a universal resonance.”
Byrne, a two-time Tony nominee,...
- 8/30/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Chase Mishkin, the Broadway producer whose roster of productions scored two Tony Awards (for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and Memphis), died July 24 at her home in Manhattan. She was 85.
Her death was made public in a New York Times obituary today. Mishkin’s daughter Julie Kahle told the newspaper that her mother had dementia and had suffered two strokes.
Mishkin began her theater producing career just shy of her 60th birthday following the death of her husband, carpet manufacturer Ralph Mishkin. Her first production was a Los Angeles staging of Trish Vradenburg’s The Apple Doesn’t Fall…, a drama about Alzheimer’s that opened on Broadway in 1996 with Leonard Nimoy directing.
Though her first production was not a commercial success, closing the day after opening, Mishkin would return to Broadway more than 30 times, taking part in productions of, among others, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Moon for the Misbegotten,...
Her death was made public in a New York Times obituary today. Mishkin’s daughter Julie Kahle told the newspaper that her mother had dementia and had suffered two strokes.
Mishkin began her theater producing career just shy of her 60th birthday following the death of her husband, carpet manufacturer Ralph Mishkin. Her first production was a Los Angeles staging of Trish Vradenburg’s The Apple Doesn’t Fall…, a drama about Alzheimer’s that opened on Broadway in 1996 with Leonard Nimoy directing.
Though her first production was not a commercial success, closing the day after opening, Mishkin would return to Broadway more than 30 times, taking part in productions of, among others, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Moon for the Misbegotten,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Roy Dotrice was a British actor who was born in Guernsey on May 26, 1923. His career spanned 55 years during which time he worked on stage, in television, and in movies. He won a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway revival of ‘A Moon for the Misbegotten’. Most recently, he was best-known for playing Hallyne in ‘Game of Thrones’. He was married to Kay Newman with whom he had three daughters, including Karen Dotrice who appeared in ‘Mary Poppins as Jane Banks. Sadly, Roy Dotrice passed away on October 16, 2017, at the age of 94. In
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- 10/18/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Roy Dotrice, who played Leopold Mozart in Best Picture Oscar winner Amadeus and won a Tony Award for Best Actor in A Moon for the Misbegotten, died today in London. He was 94. His family confirmed the news in a statement. A chameleon-like character actor, Dotrice launched his 55-year career with roles in such TV dramas as Escape and Treasure Island in the late 1950s and in 1965 co-starred as King Edward IV in the BBC’s Royal Shakespeare Company miniseries The War of the Ro…...
- 10/16/2017
- Deadline
Roy Dotrice, a veteran British actor, died at his London home on Monday. He was 94.
Dotrice was known for his role as Leopold Mozart in the Oscar-winning film Amadeus and his many theater and TV roles.
He won many accolades throughout his lengthy career, including a Tony Award in 2000 for his role in the Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Dotrice is remembered for his role in the CBS TV series Beauty and the Beast and won a BAFTA best TV actor award in 1969 for his role in Misleading Cases.
He gained many new fans later in...
Dotrice was known for his role as Leopold Mozart in the Oscar-winning film Amadeus and his many theater and TV roles.
He won many accolades throughout his lengthy career, including a Tony Award in 2000 for his role in the Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten.
Dotrice is remembered for his role in the CBS TV series Beauty and the Beast and won a BAFTA best TV actor award in 1969 for his role in Misleading Cases.
He gained many new fans later in...
- 10/16/2017
- by the Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor Roy Dotrice, best known to American audiences for his brief but memorable appearance on Game of Thrones as Hallyne, died on Monday, The Guardian reports. He was 94.
Dotrice was an acclaimed stage actor, winning a Tony in 2000 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. He entered the Guinness Book of World Records for greatest number of solo performances by giving 1782 performances of the one-man show Brief Lives.
He's also a significant figure in the Game of Thrones universe... Read More >...
Dotrice was an acclaimed stage actor, winning a Tony in 2000 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. He entered the Guinness Book of World Records for greatest number of solo performances by giving 1782 performances of the one-man show Brief Lives.
He's also a significant figure in the Game of Thrones universe... Read More >...
- 10/16/2017
- by Liam Mathews
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Audra McDonald has a big year ahead of her After embarking on a concert tour this fall, the six-time Tony winner, who recenty wrapped filming for Disney's live action Beauty and the Beast, will be back on Broadway, starring alongside Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, Joshua Henry and Brandon Victor Dixon in Shuffle Along.Before all of that, McDonald will head to Provincetown, Ma to take part in the acclaimed Broadway Town Hall concert series, hosted by SiriusXM radio star Seth Rudetsky. For one show only on Monday, August 24 630 Pm, she will be joined onstage by her husband and fellow Broadway star Will Swenson, with whom she is currently starring in Williamstown Theatre Festival's A Moon For The Misbegotten.McDonald recently checked in with BroadwayWorld about Monday's concert, and updated us on all of her upcoming projects Check out the full interview below...
- 8/22/2015
- by Nicole Rosky
- BroadwayWorld.com
This week, we go around our Broadway World to feature stories in Boston, Long Island, St. Louisand more. Check out our top 10 stories around our Broadway World below, which include A Moon For The Misbegotten with Audra McDonald and Will Swenson in Boston, Bay Street's Grey Gardens starring Betty Buckley and Rachel York, and The Muny's Oklahoma, just to name a few.
- 8/14/2015
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
Teresa Wright and Matt Damon in 'The Rainmaker' Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn: Nasty Falling Out.") "I'd rather have luck than brains!" Teresa Wright was quoted as saying in the early 1950s. That's understandable, considering her post-Samuel Goldwyn choice of movie roles, some of which may have seemed promising on paper.[1] Wright was Marlon Brando's first Hollywood leading lady, but that didn't help her to bounce back following the very public spat with her former boss. After all, The Men was released before Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire turned Brando into a major international star. Chances are that good film offers were scarce. After Wright's brief 1950 comeback, for the third time in less than a decade she would be gone from the big screen for more than a year.
- 3/11/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The full moon shone over the ocean at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during its 50th Anniversary Gala July 11. It was a fitting coincidence, as actors Reed Birney and Sally Wingert performed a stirring reading of a play set right there in O’Neill’s New London, Conn., neighborhood: “A Moon for the Misbegotten.” “We knew that we had two really special actors who really wanted to do that scene, and we had a full moon outside,” said Gregg Wiggans, artistic associate for the National Playwright Conference and director of the gala’s entertainment. “It’s special to George C. White, that particular play. So it’s as much a gift for him as it was for everyone else.” It was 50 years ago that White discovered what some of the country’s best theater artists now refer to simply as “the O’Neill.” Passing by on a boat, White...
- 7/14/2014
- backstage.com
With the Tony Awards still eight months away, it may be foolish to declare a winner this early, but here’s my gutsy prediction: Cherry Jones is a lock to win Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Amanda Wingfield in a revival of Tennessee Williams’s "The Glass Menagerie." Here's why: 1. Duh…she’s Cherry Jones! Jones is royalty in the New York theater. She won this race for "The Heiress" (1995) and "Doubt" (2005) and contended in this category two other times losing in 1991 for "Our Country's Good" to Mercedes Ruehl ("Lost in Yonkers") and in 2000 for "A Moon for the Misbegotten" to Jennifer Ehle ("The Real Thing"). She has also proven herself in television and film, even winning an Emmy in 2009 for playing the supporting role of the President on season seven of "24." 2. She is performing a classic role ...
- 10/15/2013
- Gold Derby
BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our April 13th Sip round-up. Yesterday evening's photos featured Matilda's opening SIPs, as well as a warm welcome to the show from the casts of Pippin and West Side Story, and Kinky Boots' tribute to Motown, which opens tonight. Plus, check out shots from Mamma Mia, Lucky Guy, Cuba Gooding Jr. in The Trip To Bountiful, Cinderella, Book Of Mormon, Here Lies Love at the Public Theater, off-Broadway's Fking Up Everything and A Moon For The Misbegotten, Flashdance, Peter Pan, Jekyll amp Hyde, Jersey Boys, Wicked, Hair, Sense amp Sensibility in Denver and more...
- 4/14/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Village Voice Obie and the Lucille Lortel awards aren't the only theater prizes honoring the Off- and Off-Off-Broadway. The Off-Broadway Alliance announced its winners for top productions of the 2011-12 season on Tuesday.A complete list of nominees and winners is below. (Winners are marked by an asterisk.)Best New Musical "The Blue Flower""Once""Queen of the Mist"*"Silence! The Musical""Sistas: The Musical" Best New Play "4000 Miles""Milk Like Sugar""Sons of the Prophet"*"Tribes""Unnatural Acts"Best Musical Revival *"Carrie""Ionescopade""Rent"Best Play Revival "Beyond the Horizon""The Cherry Orchard"*"Cymbeline""The Lady From Dubuque""A Moon for the Misbegotten" Best Special Event "The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith""An Iliad""The Patsy"*"Traces""Voca People"Best Family Show "Alice in Wonderland""The Amazing Max and the Box of Interesting Things""The Berenstain Bears Live!""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe""The Ohmies"*"Stinkykids,...
- 5/22/2012
- by help@backstage.com ()
- backstage.com
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From an Irish Breakfast to Irish music, there are plenty of ways to spend St. Patrick’s Day. Speakeasy has put together an exhaustive, absolutely-definitive list of the Top Five. Here they are:
1. Eat an Irish Breakfast.
There’s “starch before you march” at Ulysses Folk House , 95 Pearl Street, or you can get Irish breakfast at Tir Na Nog on 5 Penn Plaza, bet. 33rd and 34th, or the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. Fitzpatrick’s Hotel on 687 Lexington (where...
From an Irish Breakfast to Irish music, there are plenty of ways to spend St. Patrick’s Day. Speakeasy has put together an exhaustive, absolutely-definitive list of the Top Five. Here they are:
1. Eat an Irish Breakfast.
There’s “starch before you march” at Ulysses Folk House , 95 Pearl Street, or you can get Irish breakfast at Tir Na Nog on 5 Penn Plaza, bet. 33rd and 34th, or the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. Fitzpatrick’s Hotel on 687 Lexington (where...
- 3/17/2012
- by Gwen Orel
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Actors Brian Dennehy and Gabriel Byrne will make an unprecedented appearance together to honor the memory of the only American playwright to ever win the Nobel Prize. The occasion is the presenting of the Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award to Dennehy by the non-profit group Irish American Writers & Artists, Inc. (Iaw&A). Among his many accomplishments, Dennehy won a Tony Award for his performance in O’Neill’s Long Days Journey into Night. Byrne, who has starred on Broadway in the O’Neill plays A Moon for the Misbegotten and A Touch of the Poet, will be a featured speaker at the event in honor of Dennehy. He will also pay tribute to the enduring legacy of O’Neill, whose plays are still staged in theaters around the globe and in many languages fifty-seven years after his death. The Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually by Iaw&A to a writer,...
- 8/4/2010
- IrishCentral
Long Wharf Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Ray Cullom, will present the beloved musical The Fantasticks, directed by Amanda Dehnert, from October 7 through November 1, 2009, on the Mainstage.
Press night is Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m. Curtain times are Tuesdays at 7 p.m., Wednesdays at 2 and 7 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3p.m. and 8p.m., and Sundays at 2p.m. and 7p.m. Tickets are $30-$70.
"I have loved The Fantasticks since I was a little kid," said Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein. "This will be so much fun for the entire family."
This hit musical with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, the longest running Off-Broadway musical in history, tells the story of Luisa and Matt, a pair entering the bloom of their youth. Their fathers, scheming to encourage their budding love, hire...
Press night is Wednesday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m. Curtain times are Tuesdays at 7 p.m., Wednesdays at 2 and 7 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3p.m. and 8p.m., and Sundays at 2p.m. and 7p.m. Tickets are $30-$70.
"I have loved The Fantasticks since I was a little kid," said Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein. "This will be so much fun for the entire family."
This hit musical with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, the longest running Off-Broadway musical in history, tells the story of Luisa and Matt, a pair entering the bloom of their youth. Their fathers, scheming to encourage their budding love, hire...
- 11/1/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Chicago—A full house greeted the 41st annual Joseph Jefferson Awards Oct. 19 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. The awards for excellence in Chicago-area Equity theater brought few surprises, but the expected winners were wildly popular in an evening dedicated to December's 50th anniversary of The Second City.Veteran diva E. Faye Butler took the Jeff Award for principal actress-musical for "Caroline, or Change" (Court Theatre) which also won production-musical, director-musical (Charles Newell) and music direction (Doug Peck). Principal actor-musical went to veteran Joseph Anthony Foronda as The Engineer in "Miss Saigon" (Drury Lane Oakbrook) which also won sound design. The Jeffs for musical supporting actress and actor went to first-time winners Summer Smart and Max Quinlan as the lovers in "The Light in the Piazza" (Marriott Theatre).Saidah Arrika Ekulora won principal actress-play for the world premiere of "Ruined" (Goodman Theatre), which also won production-play,...
- 10/20/2009
- backstage.com
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