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7 days ago
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2025 Tony Awards: ‘Buena Vista Social Club,' ‘Death Becomes Her,' ‘Maybe Happy Ending' Lead Nominations
Musicals Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending lead the 2025 Tony nominations with 10 nods each. All are nominated for best musical, a category that also includes Dead Outlaw and Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'The Traitors' Leads 2025 Critics Choice Real TV Awards Nominations Audra McDonald Reacts to Her Historic 11th Tony Nomination, Reflects on "Tornado" of a Role in 'Gypsy' 2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards Nominations Revealed A number of starry names received their first Tony nomination, including George Clooney, for his role in Good Night, and Good Luck; Nicole Scherzinger, for her role in Sunset Blvd.; Sarah Snook, for her role in The Picture of Dorian Gray; Bob Odenkirk, for his role in Glengarry Glen Ross; and Mia Farrow, for her role in The Roommate. Othello, one of the most expensive productions on Broadway, led by Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, was notably shut out of the nominations. 'It's a thrill to have five nominations for this play,' Clooney said of Good Night, and Good Luck's noms. 'For everyone involved, this has been an incredible experience. I couldn't be more proud or feel more lucky.' Said Farrow: 'Honestly, I didn't expect this! I burst into tears. I wish my mom were here — she would have been so proud of me. I'm so overwhelmed with gratitude to be among these nominees, as this is just the best community in the world. I'm still in the 'oh my god, oh my god, oh my god' mode!' Audra McDonald received her 11th Tony Award nomination for her role as Rose in Gypsy on Broadway, becoming the most Tony-nominated performer in history. She had previously held the record with Chita Rivera and Julie Harris, when all had 10 nominations. The best play category includes English, The Hills of California, John Proctor Is The Villain, Oh Mary! and Purpose. The 78th annual Tony Award nominations were announced May 1 by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. Special Tonys are also going to be awarded to the musicians who make up the band in Buena Vista Social Club and to the illusions and technical effects team at Stranger Things: The First Shadow. The Tony Awards ceremony is scheduled to take place June 8 at Radio City Music Hall, hosted by Cynthia Erivo. Harvey Fierstein is set to receive a lifetime achievement award, with actor Celia Keenan-Bolger receiving the 2025 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for advocacy work through the arts. The 2025 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre will be presented to Great Performances, Michael Price, New 42 and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. A full list of nominations follows. EnglishAuthor: Sanaz Toossi The Hills of CaliforniaAuthor: Jez Butterworth John Proctor Is the VillainAuthor: Kimberly Belflower Oh, Mary!Author: Cole Escola PurposeAuthor: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Buena Vista Social ClubDead OutlawDeath Becomes HerMaybe Happy EndingOperation Mincemeat: A New Musical Eureka DayAuthor: Jonathan Spector Romeo + Juliet Thornton Wilder's Our Town Yellow FaceAuthor: David Henry Hwang Floyd CollinsBook/Additional Lyrics: Tina Landau Music & Lyrics: Adam Guettel Gypsy Pirates! The Penzance Musical Sunset Blvd. Buena Vista Social Club, Marco RamirezDead Outlaw, Itamar MosesDeath Becomes Her, Marco PennetteMaybe Happy Ending, Will Aronson and Hue ParkOperation Mincemeat: A New Musical, David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts Dead OutlawMusic & Lyrics: David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna Death Becomes HerMusic & Lyrics: Julia Mattison and Noel Carey Maybe Happy EndingMusic: Will AronsonLyrics: Will Aronson and Hue Park Operation Mincemeat: A New MusicalMusic & Lyrics: David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts Real Women Have Curves: The MusicalMusic & Lyrics: Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez George Clooney, Good Night, and Good LuckCole Escola, Oh, Mary!Jon Michael Hill, PurposeDaniel Dae Kim, Yellow FaceHarry Lennix, PurposeLouis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow Laura Donnelly, The Hills of CaliforniaMia Farrow, The RoommateLaTanya Richardson Jackson, PurposeSadie Sink, John Proctor Is the VillainSarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray Darren Criss, Maybe Happy EndingAndrew Durand, Dead OutlawTom Francis, Sunset Groff, Just in TimeJames Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong MusicalJeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins Megan Hilty, Death Becomes HerAudra McDonald, GypsyJasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The MusicalNicole Scherzinger, Sunset Simard, Death Becomes Her Glenn Davis, PurposeGabriel Ebert, John Proctor is the VillainFrancis Jue, Yellow FaceBob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen RossConrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary! Tala Ashe, EnglishJessica Hecht, Eureka DayMarjan Neshat, EnglishFina Strazza, John Proctor Is the VillainKara Young, Purpose Brooks Ashmanskas, SMASHJeb Brown, Dead OutlawDanny Burstein, GypsyJak Malone, Operation Mincemeat: A New MusicalTaylor Trensch, Floyd Collins Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social ClubJulia Knitel, Dead OutlawGracie Lawrence, Just in TimeJustina Machado, Real Women Have Curves: The MusicalJoy Woods, Gypsy Marsha Ginsberg, EnglishRob Howell, The Hills of CaliforniaMarg Horwell and David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian GrayMiriam Buether and 59, Stranger Things: The First ShadowScott Pask, Good Night, and Good Luck Rachel Hauck, Swept AwayDane Laffrey and George Reeve, Maybe Happy EndingArnulfo Maldonado, Buena Vista Social ClubDerek McLane, Death Becomes HerDerek McLane, Just in Time Brenda Abbandandolo, Good Night, and Good LuckMarg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian GrayRob Howell, The Hills of CaliforniaHolly Pierson, Oh, Mary!Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Stranger Things: The First Shadow Dede Ayite, Buena Vista Social ClubGregg Barnes, BOOP! The MusicalClint Ramos, Maybe Happy EndingPaul Tazewell, Death Becomes HerCatherine Zuber, Just in Time Natasha Chivers, The Hills of CaliforniaJon Clark, Stranger Things: The First ShadowHeather Gilbert and David Bengali, Good Night, and Good LuckNatasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski, John Proctor is the VillainNick Schlieper, The Picture of Dorian Gray Jack Knowles, Sunset Micoleau, Buena Vista Social ClubScott Zielinski and Ruey Horng Sun, Floyd CollinsBen Stanton, Maybe Happy EndingJustin Townsend, Death Becomes Her Paul Arditti, Stranger Things: The First ShadowPalmer Hefferan, John Proctor Is the VillainDaniel Kluger, Good Night, and Good LuckNick Powell, The Hills of CaliforniaClemence Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray Jonathan Deans, Buena Vista Social ClubAdam Fisher, Sunset Hylenski, Just in TimePeter Hylenski, Maybe Happy EndingDan Moses Schreier, Floyd Collins Knud Adams, EnglishSam Mendes, The Hills of CaliforniaSam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the VillainKip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social ClubMichael Arden, Maybe Happy EndingDavid Cromer, Dead OutlawChristopher Gattelli, Death Becomes HerJamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd. Joshua Bergasse, SMASHCamille A. Brown, GypsyChristopher Gattelli, Death Becomes HerJerry Mitchell, BOOP! The MusicalPatricia Delgado and Justin Peck, Buena Vista Social Club Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Just in TimeWill Aronson, Maybe Happy EndingBruce Coughlin, Floyd CollinsMarco Paguia, Buena Vista Social ClubDavid Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunset Blvd. Best of The Hollywood Reporter From 'Lady in the Lake' to 'It Ends With Us': 29 New and Upcoming Book Adaptations in 2024 Meet the Superstars Who Glam Up Hollywood's A-List Rosie O'Donnell on Ellen, Madonna, Trump and 40 Years in the Queer Spotlight
Digital Trends
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
3 PBS shows you should watch in May 2025
Table of Contents Table of Contents Miss Austen (2025) Great Performances — Yellow Face (2025) Great Performances — Kiss Me, Kate (2025) It may seem like there's a shortage of original programming on PBS in May, but that's only because the supply of murder mystery shows from Europe has dried up for the month. There is still a new period drama, Miss Austen, as well as fresh installments of Great Performances, which brings Broadway and West End musicals to your home without costing you a thing. PBS is a public service, and you can watch it for free on your local channel or stream the shows online. There's still plenty of time to catch the other new shows on PBS in May. You can even go back and revisit the great PBS shows to watch in April as well. For now, here are our recommendations for the three PBS shows you should watch in April. Recommended Videos Are you looking for more shows to watch this month? If so, check out our guides on the best shows on Netflix, the best shows on Hulu, and the best shows on Disney+. Miss Austen (2025) You may assume that Jane Austen is the title character of Miss Austen, but she's not the only one. Cassandra Austen (Keeley Hawes) takes a central role in a story that explains why she destroyed her late sister's letter. This four-part series begins in 1830 when an older Cassandra engages in a little subterfuge in order to covertly find the letters her sister wrote, but it isn't immediately clear if destroying that correspondence is protecting Jane's legacy or her own. The only thing we do know is that Cassandra's life hasn't turned out the way she hoped. Through flashbacks, the show follows young Cassandra (Synnøve Karlsen) when she was very close to Jane and in love with a man named Tom Fowle (Calam Lynch). Both Jane and Cassandra are also convinced that the latter will marry Tom. Heartache lies ahead, and even Jane's bond with her sister may be tested. Watch Miss Austen on PBS. Great Performances — Yellow Face (2025) Lost star Daniel Dae Kim headlines this production of David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face and essentially plays Hwang himself in this farce that was loosely based on the writer's life. In the play, DHH openly criticized Miss Saigon for using non-Asian actors to play Asian roles. When producing his own play about the controversy, DHH makes the same mistake by casting a Caucasian actor in an Asian role. DHH is so worried about the apparent hypocrisy and the impact on his reputation that he convinces the actor to go along with it and pretend to be Asian. However, he's enraged when the actor embraces being Asian and starts to play the role in all aspects of his life. Watch Great Performances — Yellow Face on PBS on May 16. Great Performances — Kiss Me, Kate (2025) Kiss Me, Kate is a classic musical that takes place during the production of a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Stephanie J. Block is playing the lead actress, Lilli Vanessi, who is upset with her ex-lover and boyfriend, Fred Graham (Adrian Dunbar), who is also her co-star and director in the new play. Fred has eyes for Lili's younger co-star, but his ex accidentally intercepts flowers meant for his new crush and declares that she is still in love with Fred. That puts Fred in a very delicate position, and he'll be in even bigger trouble if Lilli finds out that the flowers were never meant for her. Somehow, amidst all of this relationship drama, they still have a musical they need to put on. Watch Great Performances — Kiss Me, Kate on PBS on May 30.
Forbes
22-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
PBS' ‘Broadway's Best' Lineup To Feature Four Full Productions
Next month PBS' Great Performances will offer four star-studded productions, one comedy and three musicals. Scene from Roundabout Theatre Company's production of "Yellow Face" The lineup begins with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, recorded during its West End transfer from London's Donmar Warehouse. Next up is Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang's Broadway comedy Yellow Face from Roundabout Theater Company, starring Daniel Dae Kim. The second musical is the Tony Award-winning Girl from the North Country, featuring 20 reimagined songs by Bob Dylan, while the last musical is Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, starring Tony Award winner Stephanie J. Block. 'Broadway's Best' from Great Performances will air Fridays at 9 p.m. ET from May 9 to 30 on PBS, on and the PBS App. The productions are part of the WNET Group's special Broadway and Beyond festival, celebrating theater productions and the people who bring them to life. PBS calls Next to Normal an 'intimate portrait of a modern family (exploring) illness, loss, grief and family, as a suburban wife and mother lives with bipolar disorder and is haunted by her past. This premieres May 9 at 9 p.m. ET. According to PBS, Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang's comedy, Yellow Face, from Roundabout Theatre Company, 'stars Daniel Dae Kim as an Asian American playwright who protests yellowface casting in the blockbuster musical 'Miss Saigon,' only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. The repercussions resonate in this farce about the complexities of race.' This premieres May 16 at 9 p.m. ET. PBS said Girl from the North Country takes place in 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota, where 'a group of wayward travelers' lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life and hope. . (It) features 20 reimagined, legendary Bob Dylan songs, including 'Forever Young,' 'All Along the Watchtower,' 'Hurricane' and 'Like A Rolling Stone.'' This premieres May 23 at 9 p.m. ET. Kiss Me, Kate stars Tony Award winner Stephanie J. Block in her West End debut as Lilli Vanessi in Cole Porter's legendary musical comedy. Filmed at the Barbican in summer 2024, it also features Adrian Dunbar as Fred Graham. This premieres May 30 at 9 p.m. ET. Playwright Hwang recently told that earlier versions of Yellow Face ran at New York's Public Theater and on Audible, before the latest version was offered by Roundabout Theater late last year. He said it is the first Broadway play 'centered on East Asian characters as Americans, rather than portraying us as foreigners. So I think it's really important now because of the spike in anti-Asian hate that happened during the pandemic. . .Asians do suffer from racial profiling.' For over 50 years PBS' Great Performances has showcased the best in all genres of the performing arts, featuring a diverse range of artists from around the world. It has won 67 Emmy Awards and six Peabody Awards. Produced by the WNET Group. it is available for streaming concurrent with broadcast on and the PBS App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO.
Los Angeles Times
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
PBS brings the arts to American living rooms; funding cuts could change that: L.A. arts and culture this week
A week ago, President Trump's Office of Communications issued a news release titled 'The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long.' The missive went on to criticize the use of taxpayer money to support National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, which, according to the Trump administration, 'spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news'.' It was soon reported that the administration had drafted a memo to Congress stating that it intended to end almost all federal funding for public media. The loss of funding for both organizations could very well cripple or eliminate local radio and television member stations, even if their parent companies survive. This would be an immense loss for the arts — and arts-loving TV viewers. 'PBS and our member stations are America's largest classroom, the nation's largest stage for the arts and a trusted window to the world. In addition, PBS's educational media helps prepare children for success in school and opens up the world to them in an age-appropriate way,' reads the 'About' page on the PBS website. And it's true. Some of PBS' most popular and enduring shows deal directly with the arts. Think 'Great Performances,' which has been around since the early 1970s and dubs itself as TV's longest-running performing arts anthology. For decades it has presented live shows from stages across the world, including opera, plays, ballets, musicals, classical music concerts and more in an easily digestible format for those unable to catch the shows in person. Then there's 'American Masters,' which — since 1986 — has detailed the life and times of some of the world's most noteworthy and accomplished artists and performers, including Charlie Chaplin, Andy Warhol, James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, Liza Minnelli, Art Spiegelman and George Plimpton. And let's not forget the wildly popular 'Antiques Roadshow,' which often unearths a dusty piece of art, craft or design and assigns it worth. While most of Trump's grievances with PBS — as outlined in his news release — center around the non-commercial broadcaster's airing of shows that deal with racial identity and LGBTQ+ issues, the scope of programming has broad-based appeal for anyone seeking to learn more about themselves and the world through the beautiful and challenging lens of arts and culture. If you're worried about losing public access to this kind of programming, you can always donate to your local station at You can also call your congressperson to urge them to vote against defunding PBS and NPR. The administration plans to send its memo to Congress on April 28, at which point a 45-day window opens for the House and Senate to cut off the money, or allow it to be restored. I'm arts and culture writer Jessica Gelt, thinking of all the times I watched PBS as a kid, and how the love and inclusiveness displayed in its children's programming helped shape me into a curious, empathetic adult. Ashley Lee and I are here with your weekly arts rundown. Evgeny Kissin'The Russian-born pianist … currently a British and Israeli citizen highly critical of the Russian government (which recently declared him a 'foreign agent'), and a composer and Yiddish poet as well as pianist, Kissin has become a kind of world citizen whose recitals have an intensity all their own,' says Times classical music critic Mark Swed. 'It's been a while since he's been back to L.A., but the Los Angeles Philharmonic presents his first recital in more than a decade for a program of Bach, Chopin and Shostakovich. With luck, Kissin can be enticed to read and play his own works as well.' Thursday, 8 p.m. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. 'The Winter's Tale'Skylight Theater presents an accessible, modern verse translation by director Tracy Young, adapted with Lisa Wolpe, of Shakespeare's drama about a tyrannical and paranoid ruler who plunges his kingdom into darkness, and a princess wielding extraordinary power who emerges to heal the land and its people. The 90-minute production, currently in previews, opens Thursday and runs through June 14. Skylight Theatre, 1816 1/2 N. Vermont Ave., Los Feliz. 'Scale Maps of the Ocean Floor'Timothy Hawkinson Gallery is showing a collection of works by linn meyers, Jenene Nagy and Marc Pally — all of which are labor-intensive abstractions that straddle the line between drawing and painting. (The exhibition's titular ocean floor is metaphorical.) The precise and pattern-centric exhibition, which opened last month, is on view through April 26. Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, 7424 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles. — Ashley Lee TUESDAYIn the Spirit A rare 35mm screening of the 1990 comedy; the only film directed by acting coach Sandra Seacat, it was co-written by Jeannie Berlin, who stars along with her mother Elaine May, Marlo Thomas and Peter Falk.7:30 p.m. Brain Dead Studios, 611 N. Fairfax Ave. WEDNESDAYThird Annual New Works Festival Five days of staged readings and discussions of plays by writers from across the April 27, Trinity Theatre, Mission Valley Mall, 1640 Camino Del Rio N., Suite 129, San Diego. Poetry in the Garden Camae Ayewa, with V.C.R on violin, is next up in this weekly series of live readings featuring poetry inspired by the Getty Research Institute exhibition 'What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999.'2 p.m. Getty Center, Central Garden, 1200 Getty Center Dr. The Violin Maker ICT artistic director caryn desai directs the American premiere of Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum and Ronda Spinak's new play based on the real-life story of Israeli Amnon Weinstein, who collected and restored ruined violins that survived the May 11. International City Theatre, 330 E. Seaside Way, Long Beach. THURSDAYThe Secret Comedy of Women Playhouse Productions present an immersive evening of skits and improv on all things female created by Barbara Gehring and Linda May 18. The Colony Theatre, 555 N. 3rd St., Burbank. TCM Classic Film Festival 'The Empire Strikes Back' on opening night, the world premiere of a restored version of 'The Wiz,' a 30th anniversary screening of 'Heat' and an original technicolor release print of 'Jaws' are among this year's marquee offerings, along with the usual 'meet and greets' with stars and panel discussions with experts, all rolling out in historic venues along Hollywood April 27. TCL Chinese Theatre and Chinese 6 multiplex; Egyptian Theatre; El Capitan Theatre; and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The artist Don Barchardy spent decades living with his partner, writer Christopher Isherwood, and it's the former's drawings of the latter as he was close to death that Times art critic Christopher Knight found particularly moving in a new retrospective, 'Don Bachardy: A Life in Portraits,' at the Huntington. The survey consists of just over 100 works on paper, including a portrait Bachardy made of Knight in 1983. Knight's experience sitting for the renowned artist, who is now 91 years old, proved illuminating for his understanding of the way Bachardy worked. 'The vulnerability was mutual, extending to both artist and sitter,' Knight writes in his glowing review of the show. Times classical music critic Mark Swed recently paid a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington to take in 'Moon,' a series of short dances choreographed by Mark Morris. The Kennedy Center-commissioned show was part of the center's 'Earth to Space: Arts Breaking the Sky' festival, with Morris' dances honoring the Kennedy-era space program that resulted in Neil Armstrong's famous 1969 moonwalk. Swed wandered the Kennedy Center campus before the show, finding the place — recently (and infamously) taken over by President Trump — oddly melancholic and deserted. Morris' show changed that feeling, however, and could light the way for the future of the now highly politicized national arts center, Swed writes in a column. The Geffen Playhouse announced its 2025-26 season — the second under its new artistic director, Tarell Alvin McCraney — and it's chock full of shows the theater spent time workshopping while his lauded inaugural season filled seats. 'It's an effort intended to cement the Geffen as a lab for artistic development and a platform for creative experimentation and development of new works,' writes Ashley Lee in an article about the new season. Read all about the upcoming shows here. A character diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer is at the center of playwright Keiko Green's world-premiere play, 'You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!', directed by Zi Alikhan and now playing at South Coast Repertory. Times theater critic Charles McNulty found himself agreeing with Green's suspicion that the end may well be nigh, but found the play slightly uneven. Nonetheless, 'its discursive heart is in the right place for these grievous times,' he writes. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion introduced by Supervisor Kathryn Barger and co-authored by Supervisor Hilda L. Solis that allocates $50,000 to shore up 'art-centered' fire recovery efforts in Altadena. 'The funding will support initiatives including conservation clinics, fire recovery preservation kits, and resources for artists and community members whose creative works and personal collections were damaged by the fire,' a news release about the initiative explains. The motion empowers the L.A. County Department of Arts and Culture to use community feedback to 'ensure Altadena's unique arts, culture, and identity are part of the rebuilding process.' If you enjoy shopping at Trader Joe's, chances are you've noticed the art on the walls. It's always unique, and often site-specific, and now there's a book about it. 'The Art of Trader Joe's: Discovering the Hidden Art Gems of America's Favorite Grocery Store,' written by Julie Averbach, examines the walls of more than 150 TJ's across the country, and is based on an art history thesis about the subject that Averbach penned while at Yale. In an email, Averbach wrote that some of her favorite art displays are in L.A. 'Did you know that [the] Trader Joe's store in Eagle Rock features a grocery-themed parody of 'The Starry Night' by Vincent van Gogh? Or that the artwork in Trader Joe's Hollywood & Vine store pays tribute to classic Hollywood cinema, from 'Singin' in the Rain' to Marilyn Monroe?' — Jessica Gelt The drive to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was all about the billboards. This year, artists booked coveted space with self-promotional ads that showed remarkable creativity and verve.
