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  • Billy Porter wins best actor in a musical Tony

    06/09/13 11:31 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Porter, who plays a fierce drag queen in "Kinky Boots," has strutted off with the Tony Award for best actor in a musical. Porter, the 1992 winner of "Star Search," has amassed several Broadway credits, including "Miss Saigon," ''Grease" and "Smokey Joe's Cafe." This was...

  • Tracy Letts wins best actor in a play Tony Award

    06/09/13 11:31 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Tracy Letts, who won a Tony Award as a playwright, now has one as an actor. Letts takes home the trophy for best performance by an actor in a play for playing George, one-half of the bickering couple at the heart of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" He beat out...

  • 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' wins Tony

    06/09/13 10:31 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Christopher Durang's comical "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" has won the best play Tony Award. The play, which takes characters and themes from Anton Chekhov and sets them in present-day Pennsylvania, stars Sigourney Weaver, Kristine Nielsen and David Hyde Pierce. It...

  • Courtney B. Vance wins first Tony of the night

    06/09/13 09:31 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Courtney B. Vance has won the first Tony Award of the night, taking the trophy for best featured actor in a play after host Neil Patrick Harris opened the show with a high-octane song boasting this night would be bigger than ever. Vance, who was previously nominated for Tonys...

  • Bolshoi won't renew star dancer's contract

    06/09/13 07:10 PM

    MOSCOW (AP) -- The Bolshoi Theater won't renew the contract of Nikolai Tsiskaridze, a veteran principal dancer and teacher who for years has been in open conflict with managers at the celebrated Russian theater. The dispute intensified after the Bolshoi ballet's artistic director was attacked...

  • Trinity Rep named official state theater of RI

    06/08/13 12:15 PM

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island now has an official state theater. Trinity Repertory Company was named the state theater of Rhode Island in a joint resolution approved by the General Assembly this month. The resolution calls Trinity Rep a "theatrical treasure" and a "must-see...

  • Crystal bringing '700 Sundays' to Minneapolis

    06/08/13 06:15 AM

    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Actor-comedian Billy Crystal is bringing his Tony Award-winning autobiographical show "700 Sundays" to Minneapolis this fall. Crystal will perform his one-man show Oct. 22-26 at the historic State Theatre. The show is scheduled to run for six performances only. It's...

  • Who will win at the Tony Awards? AP predicts

    06/07/13 11:45 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The great comedian W.C. Fields is credited with the line, "Never work with children or animals." He would have had trouble on Broadway this season. There were kids at every turn — "Motown: The Musical," ''Kinky Boots," ''Annie," ''Matilda the Musical," ''A Christmas Story,...

  • 'The Bridges of Madison County' will hit Broadway

    06/06/13 09:15 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The novel "The Bridges of Madison County," which was made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, is heading to Broadway as a musical. Producers said Thursday that the show, with songs by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Marsha Norman, will debut at the...

  • Review: Susan Sontag is doubled in new play homage

    06/06/13 09:15 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — If you recall your youthful diaries or journals as being on the shallow side, you'll really cringe when comparing them to the ambitious eloquence to be found in essayist Susan Sontag's published journals. Sontag, who died in 2004, is considered one of the most influential...


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