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Pete Hempstead

New York

Deputy Executive Editor at TheaterMania.com

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  • 5 days ago | theatermania.com | David Gordon |Zachary Stewart |Pete Hempstead

    The winners of the 2025 Tony Awards will be revealed in a televised ceremony this Sunday, June 8. After offering their predictions in the acting and creative categories, our critics have some predictions about the four big show categories: Best Musical, Best Play, Best Revival of a Musical, and Best Revival of a Play.

  • 5 days ago | theatermania.com | David Gordon |Zachary Stewart |Pete Hempstead

    Special ReportsOur critics predict the winners of the 2025 Tony Awards in acting categories. The winners of the 2025 Tony Awards will be revealed in a televised ceremony on Sunday, June 8. Here’s who our critics think will win in the acting categories.

  • 6 days ago | theatermania.com | David Gordon |Zachary Stewart |Pete Hempstead

    The winners of the 2025 Tony Awards will be revealed in a televised ceremony on Sunday, June 8. Here are our critics’ predictions for Best Directors of a Musical and a Play, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Choreography. Best Direction of a MusicalSaheem Ali, Buena Vista Social ClubMichael Arden, Maybe Happy EndingDavid Cromer, Dead OutlawChristopher Gattelli, Death Becomes HerJamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.

  • 2 weeks ago | theatermania.com | Pete Hempstead

    Take some well-known songs by a beloved artist like Bobby Darin or Louis Armstrong, plunk them into a standard storyline of flashbacks and dance numbers, and you’ve got yourself the makings of a biomusical. Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor had the right instinct about Nat King Cole being a good subject for one: His songs are classics, he rubbed elbows with the greats, and he had a trail-blazing TV show whose run was cut short because of timid sponsors and flat-out racism.

  • 1 month ago | theatermania.com | Pete Hempstead

    In 1933 Judge John M. Woolsey made a ruling in a case that would expand the repertoire of words and ideas that writers could (legally) explore in their works. In United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce, Joyce’s 1922 novel was put on trial for obscenity, a charge that had previously made it ineligible for importation into the US.

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