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"Kinky Boots" won six Tony awards on Sunday including the top award of best musical and a prize for its composer, pop queen Cyndi Lauper, as Broadway presented its top honors.Lauper won best score for her first Broadway musical, "Kinky...
1) The Tonys returned stateside last night with the American-made “Kinky Boots” triumphing over the British import “Matilda” in the fierce competition to be named Best Musical. Even though the former was based on an English movie about a failing shoe...
Broadway is abuzz ahead of the 2013 Tony Awards, which will take place at June 9th at Radio City Music Hall. From "Kinky Boots" to "Matilda," in this edition of Play by Play, ARTINFO's Patrick Pacheco and contributor Frank DiLella give us a run-down of this...
If Broadway is, as someone once put it, “high school with money,” then the most popular kids on campus right now are Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein. They are the duo who came up with “Kinky Boots,” the Broadway hit that has been nominated for 13 Tony...
“I’m sorry but we’re going to have to ask you to leave,” was the first line that David Hyde Pierce ever uttered on a Broadway stage. It was thirty years ago in “Beyond Therapy,” a black comedy by Christopher Durang, in which he played the small role of...
In this episode of PLAY BY PLAY, Patrick Pacheco and Frank DiLella sit down with Broadway's Annaleigh Ashford to talk about her Tony-nominated performance in "Kinky Boots." Penned by Harvey Fierstein with a score by Cyndi Lauper, the musical about a drag...
Blouin ARTINFO's Patrick Pacheco and NY1 theater reporter Frank DiLella give us their take on how the spring season is progressing on Broadway.
LOS ANGELES — After years of being noticeably absent from the stage, Mary-Louise Parker is finally returning to Broadway.The Tony and Emmy award-winning actress will star in Sharr White’s “The Snow Geese,” which is set in upstate New York against...
British singer Sarah Brightman hopes to become the first professional artist to record a single in space.Brightman, who rose to fame starring in the original London and New York casts of "The Phantom of the Opera", plans to be the next paying...
Based on an obscure 1997 documentary of the same name, “Hands on a Hardbody” opened late last month at Broadway’s Brook Atkinson Theater. Pulitzer and Tony-Award winning playwright Doug Wright drew from his Texas roots when creating the book for this new...
