Jun 7th, 2009 · The Tony Awards are tonight, and NPR entertainment editor Trey Graham will be watching. But he thinks it's too bad that there aren't any categories for the best backstage dramas. Until that day comes, here are three applause-worthy books about what goes on behind the scenes.
Jun 5th, 2009 · The Tony Awards cap a Broadway season of astonishing diversity and record-breaking box-office grosses. Jeff Lunden handicaps the major awards categories and recaps the year that was.
Jun 30th, 2008 · Young playwright Lin Manuel Miranda is taking Broadway by storm. Miranda's musical In The Heights, which won big at last week's Tony Awards, tells the immigrant story of New York's Washington Heights neighborhood. The multi-talented actor, composer and playwright speaks candidly about his art.
Jun 16th, 2008 · Broadway celebrated its best last night at the 62nd annual Tony Awards. The honor for Best Musical went to In the Heights, a celebration of life in a Latino neighborhood in Manhattan. But the most awards went to South Pacific, a revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.
Jun 13th, 2008 · The Tony Awards are coming up this Sunday night which always gets commentator and singer Marc Acito very excited because while he loves theater, he especially loves musicals. He thinks more people should break out into song in regular life. And he explains how you can spontaneously erupt into song in this essay.
Jun 10th, 2007 · Gerard Alessandrini is the creator of Forbidden Broadway, a show that spoofs hit Broadway shows. Alessandrini sees every show that opens, to mine its comic potential out of and create parodies. He offers his predictions for Sunday night's Tony Awards.
Nov 25th, 2006 · Legendary Broadway songwriter Betty Comden has died; she was 89. Comden collaborated with Adolph Green on some of the greatest stage and screen musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain." The pair, who won seven Tony Awards together, worked on the 1944 Broadway musical On the Town, which included the song "New York, New York."
Jun 11th, 2006 · At Sunday's Tony Awards, fans will focus on actors, writers, directors and designers. But hundreds of others, whose names are less prominently displayed on the playbill, are a crucial part of the Broadway scene.