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☆ ‘Prayer for the French Republic’ Transferring to Broadway
  + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Joshua Harmon’s “Prayer for the French Republic,” a play about a family grappling with contemporary and historical antisemitism in France, will transfer to Broadway this winter. The play will be produced by the nonprofit Manhattan Theater Club, which last year presented the play's first run Off Broadway. The production comes as concerns about antisemitism have been on the rise in the United States and beyond. “Prayer for the French Republic” will be Harmon’s second play on Broadway; his poignant singleness comedy, “Significant Other,” had a run in 2017 at the Booth Theater. But Harmon is probably best known for another comedy, “Bad Jews,” which was widely staged around the country.
Persons: Joshua Harmon’s, ”, David Cromer, Samuel J, Georgia —, Tony, Republic ”, Harmon Organizations: Broadway, Manhattan Theater Club, Friedman, Booth Locations: French Republic, France, United States, Georgia, Republic
☆ Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber to Lead Broadway ‘Doubt’ Revival
  + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber will star in a revival of “Doubt: A Parable” on Broadway this season. The play, by John Patrick Shanley, is about a nun who suspects a priest has sexually abused a student at a Catholic school. (All Broadway theaters are planning to dim the lights of their marquees for one minute at 6:45 p.m. tonight in Haimes’s memory.) Daly, who will play the nun who serves as the school principal, and Schreiber, who will play the parish priest, are both Tony winners. “Doubt” will be one of three plays staged by Roundabout on Broadway this season.
Persons: Tyne Daly, Liev Schreiber, John Patrick Shanley, Scott Ellis, Todd Haimes, Daly, Schreiber, Tony, “ Cagney, Lacey, ”, ” Schreiber, “ Ray Donovan, Glengarry Glen, Theresa Rebeck, Danny DeVito, Lucy, Kenny Leon, Williams Organizations: Broadway, Roundabout Theater Company, American Airlines Theater Locations: Glengarry Glen Ross
☆ Broadway Musicians Object to David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
But Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians says its contract with the Broadway League requires the use of 19 musicians for musicals at the Broadway Theater. (The number of musicians required under the contract varies based on theater size.) The union says it is seeking to preserve jobs for musicians and quality for theater lovers. “We’re not going to stand by and let this happen,” said Tino Gagliardi, the local’s president and executive director. The request is to be assessed by a panel that includes neutral observers as well as representatives of the Broadway League and the musicians’ union; it is not clear how long that process will take, and the ruling can be appealed to arbitration.
☆ Tony Awards Broadcast Can Proceed After Striking Writers’ Union Agrees
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Michael Paulson | John Koblin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
This year’s Tony Awards ceremony, which had been in doubt ever since Hollywood’s screenwriters went on strike earlier this month, will proceed as scheduled in an altered form after the writers’ union said Monday night that it would not picket the show. “As they have stood by us, we stand with our fellow workers on Broadway who are impacted by our strike,” the Writers Guild of America, which represents screenwriters, said in a statement late Monday. Several nominated shows have been operating at a loss, holding on in the hopes that a Tony win — or even exposure on the broadcast — could boost sales. The union made it clear that the broadcast, which is scheduled to air on CBS on June 11, would be different from past ceremonies. But the union did not detail what those differences would be, and the Tony Awards administrators did not have any immediate comment.
☆ Tony Awards Officials Ask Striking Writers to Reconsider Broadcast
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Broadway producers and industry leaders say that the annual awards show is a vital marketing tool for the industry, and particularly important to the financial health of new musicals. members are striking for better compensation and structural changes to the way writers relate to studios, streaming services and networks as the entertainment industry evolves. Conversations between theater industry leaders, union leaders, and CBS are ongoing. The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing, which jointly present the Tony Awards, are hoping to resolve the crisis soon. If a broadcast proves impossible, many industry leaders appear determined to hand out the prizes as scheduled, either at a nontelevised event or simply by announcing the winners.
☆ Striking Writers’ Union Denies Waiver, Imperiling Tony Awards Telecast
  + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Michael Paulson | John Koblin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The denial by the union, the Writers Guild of America, described by people who were granted anonymity to disclose confidential discussions, is imperiling one of Broadway’s biggest nights — a key marketing opportunity that is even more crucial in the fragile post-shutdown theater economy. Industry leaders say that without the ability to reach the broad audience that tunes into a Tony Awards broadcast, several of the newest musicals are likely to close. Broadway boosters are still hoping that over the weekend the writers’ guild might be persuaded to change its mind. Without a waiver from the writers’ guild, a live broadcast ceremony is essentially impossible because much of Broadway, including nominees and presenters, would refuse to cross a picket line. The management committee of the Tony Awards, which is the group charged with overseeing the broadcast, has scheduled an emergency meeting on Monday at which it will discuss how to proceed.
☆ 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The wordless preshow — a big Hollywood star silently spinning — was born of an impulse. An early readthrough in Chastain’s apartment planted the seed of the idea: She did the reading from her armchair, prompting a transfixed Lloyd to suggest she consider performing the play that way. “I wanted it to feel like I’ve been sitting there for years,” she said, “and haven’t fully woken up to the possibilities.”And why does she rotate? Lloyd said that concept was central to the show’s design. “It’s a very political play — that’s why it’s endured — but it’s also very psychological, about someone spiraling out of control,” he said.
☆ Tony Nominations 2023 Live Updates: How to Watch the Announcement
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
ETImage Ariana DeBose will return this year after hosting last year’s Tony Awards ceremony. Credit... Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesNominations for this year’s Tony Awards, which honor plays and musicals performed on Broadway, are being announced on Tuesday morning in New York. There are 26 competitive categories, and the Tonys hand out some noncompetitive awards as well. The Tony Awards ceremony, presented by the Broadway League and the American Theater Wing, will be on June 11. To be eligible for this year’s Tony Awards, shows must have opened between April 29, 2022, and April 27, 2023.
☆ As Broadway Rebounds, ‘Some Like It Hot’ Gets 13 Tony Nominations
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The nominations for “Ain’t No Mo’” were especially striking given that the show struggled to find an audience and closed early. “I’m just so elated, I can barely find the words,” said Cooper, who was nominated both as writer and actor. He is now 85 years old, and “Leopoldstadt” is his 19th production on Broadway. Stoppard said he was proud of the nomination, but sorry the play had come to seem so timely at a moment of rising concern about antisemitism. “Nobody wants society to be divided,” he said in an interview, “and I like to think ‘Leopoldstadt’ works against a sense of human beings dividing up and confronting each other.”
☆ ‘Harmony,’ a Manilow Musical Set Under Nazis, Is Broadway-Bound
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
“Harmony,” a musical about a German singing group upended by the rise of Nazism, will finally open on Broadway this fall with songs by Barry Manilow and his longtime collaborator, Bruce Sussman. The show, which Manilow and Sussman have been developing for more than 25 years, tells the true story of a sextet that ran afoul of the Nazi regime because the group featured both Jewish and non-Jewish members. The ensemble was called the Comedian Harmonists. “They represent everything I love — they’re a combination of The Manhattan Transfer and the Marx Brothers, with complicated harmonies — and funny as hell,” said Manilow, who wrote the show’s music. “When we dug into it, it just killed me: Why don’t we know about them?”Sussman, who wrote the book and lyrics, said the show was “about the quest for harmony in what turned out to be the most discordant chapter in human history.”
☆ Meet the 19-Year-Old ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Actor Who’s Charming Broadway
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
He has turned, often, to the show’s star, Victoria Clark, for guidance. She’s a 63-year-old Tony winner (for “The Light in the Piazza”), and he’s a 19-year-old novice, and in the show they both play high school students who are about 16 years old. “How to not stay up late and play video games. It definitely took a step up in maturity for me to be working in the professional world. I’m still figuring out a lot of things.”Tesori remembers a day when she ran into Cooley on his way to Trader Joe’s and he blurted out “Hey, how do you cook?”
☆ ‘The Shark Is Broken,’ a ‘Jaws’ Comedy, Plans Broadway Run
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
“The Shark Is Broken,” a comedy about the making of “Jaws” that stars the son of one of the film’s main actors, will open on Broadway this summer. The play is the brainchild of Ian Shaw, whose father, Robert Shaw, played Quint, the psychotic shark hunter, in the film. Its film set was plagued by problems, some exacerbated by Robert Shaw’s drinking, and the play depicts the fraught relationship between him and his co-stars, Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider. In the play, set in 1974, the three men are trapped together on a boat, managing bad weather, (fake) shark troubles and alcohol. The Broadway run is to begin previews on July 25 and to open on Aug. 10 at the Golden Theater.
☆ Todd Haimes, Who Rebuilt Roundabout Theater Company, Dies at 66
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Todd Haimes, who rescued New York’s Roundabout Theater Company from bankruptcy and built it into one of the largest nonprofit theaters in America, died on Wednesday at 66. His death, at Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in Manhattan, was caused by complications of osteosarcoma, according to a spokesman, Matt Polk. Mr. Haimes had lived with the cancer since 2002, when he was diagnosed with sarcoma of the jaw. As the artistic director and chief executive officer at Roundabout, Mr. Haimes had an extraordinarily long and effective tenure. He led the organization for four decades, turning the nonprofit company into a major player on Broadway, where it now runs three of the 41 theaters.
☆ Ariana DeBose to Return as Tony Awards Host This Year
  + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Ariana DeBose, whose exuberant embrace of song and dance enlivened last year’s Tony Awards, will return to host the annual ceremony this spring. Earlier this year, she sang the opening number at the BAFTA Awards, and a rapped section paying tribute to female movie stars was mocked and memed for a hot second. DeBose, who is 32, seems to have taken it in stride — in London earlier this month, she turned the kerfuffle into merch that raised money for charity, and last weekend she performed at Lincoln Center. This year’s awards ceremony will for the first time take place at the United Palace, a large theater in Washington Heights, in Upper Manhattan. The ceremony, which is presented by the Broadway League and the American Theater Wing, honors plays and musicals staged on Broadway; it is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, June 11, and to be broadcast on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.
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