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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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2 months ago | 
theatermania.com | David Gordon |Zachary Stewart
The filmed version of the hit Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along has been acquired for future distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.
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2 months ago | 
theatermania.com | David Gordon |Zachary Stewart
The filmed version of the hit Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along has been acquired for future distribution by Sony Pictures Classics. The musical will receive a theatrical, in-cinema release, but a timeline has not yet been announced.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
So many of us in the 21st century have become works of art, modifying our bodies to preserve youth well past a reasonable age, or to fabricate beauty that hitherto did not exist. In that regard, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel about a gorgeous man who maintains the appearance of untarnished youth as his soul decays, can be read as a prophecy.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
Has America, and the West in general, become that guy from your high school who peaked at 18 and now haunts a local bar, regaling all who will listen about his homecoming game glory? I wondered that as I watched The Trojans, playwright-composer Leegrid Stevens’s synth-pop musical adaptation of The Iliad, now playing at the cell.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
Broadway’s high price of admission is a perennial topic of conversation, but the discussion has been kicked into high gear by the recent arrival of three celebrity-driven productions: the revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross (starring Bill Burr, Bob Odenkirk, and newly minted Oscar winner Kieran Culkin), Good Night, and Good Luck (starring George Clooney), and Shakespeare’s Othello (starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal).
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
The bathroom is my mother’s sanctuary. She spends hours there peering into the mirror, applying creams, and swishing water around in the sink. This was obviously a challenge when I was growing up in a house with four people and just one john. But her behavior now seems positively reasonable to me after viewing Max Mondi’s Maybe Tomorrow, which is making its off-Broadway premiere with Abingdon Theatre Company at A.R.T./New York Theatres. The play is about Gail (Elizabeth A.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
theatermania.com | Zachary Stewart
The band takes the final bow in Buena Vista Social Club, the new musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway—and that’s as it should be. The music is so good, the performances so alive, and the band so sexy that I frequently found myself wondering: Couldn’t this just be a concert?
