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Carrie Coon couldn’t tease much about The Gilded Age Season 3, but she had one particular group of people to thank for keeping the show going.

During an interview for The White Lotus Season 3 premiere, Coon thanked “the gays” for their support in renewing the Julian Fellowes-created drama.

“The gays saved it,” Coon joked with Entertainment Tonight. “Thank you, right now, you saved it. We would not have a season three without you.”

The Gilded Age was renewed for a third season days after Season 2 concluded in December 2023, following solid ratings for the period drama. According to HBO, total premiere-night viewing for the season grew for six consecutive weeks, culminating in a series high for the Season 2 finale.

The third season of the drama is currently filming. The cast additions include Bill Camp as Jp Morgan, Merritt Wever as Monica O’Brien, Leslie Uggams as Mrs. Ernestine Brown, Lisagay Hamilton as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,...

Warning! This article contains Spoilers for Severance season 2, episode 1Severance season 2 is everything I expected it would be and more. Before getting into the episode, it's important to note that season 1 was released back in 2022. Due to the 2023 Hollywood strikes, work on the show was delayed, and we're only now getting season 2. I've had an issue with this era of streaming shows where projects debut to massive success and then disappear for a couple of years or more before returning. This can lead to interest waning, especially for shows just starting. Luckily, Severance allows us to adjust to its in-universe changes.

Severance is a psychological thriller series featuring Adam Scott as Mark Scout, an employee at Lumon Industries who undergoes a "severance" procedure to separate his work and personal memories. However, as work and life personas mysteriously begin to collide, it quickly becomes clear that not all is as it seems.

This article contains mention of suicide.

Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) is one of the most important characters in Severance. In addition to Arquette, the cast of Severance includes Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, and Christopher Walken, all of whom return for the long-awaited season 2. When season 1 was released in 2022, the Apple TV+ show received critical acclaim, and it is still regarded as one of the best series on the streaming platform.

Severance revolves around a reality where employees at Lumon Industries can undergo a procedure known as severance. This procedure causes severed employees to only remember their work lives when they are at work and to only remember their outside lives when they are not at work. The work self is known as an Innie, while the outside self is known as an Outie. After a nearly three-year hiatus following the cliffhanger of the Severance season 1 ending,...

The Gilded Age is gearing up for its third season, and HBO has announced the addition of six more to its cast. According to Deadline, Dylan Baker, Kate Baldwin, Michael Cumpsty, John Ellison Conlee, Bobby Steggert, and Hannah Shealy are joining the series. This is in addition to the previously announced season three additions of Phylicia Rashad, Jordan Donica, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Victoria Clark.

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The Gilded Age season 3 is on the way, and the continuing popularity of the historical drama makes it a surefire hit. Debuting on its original network of NBC in 2022, The Gilded Age is written and created by Julian Fellowes, known for the hit series Downton Abbey. With a cast that includes multiple theater veterans and classically trained actors, The Gilded Age brings the nuance of Fellowess other shows to Americas industrial boom in the late 1800s specifically to the New York industrialists and socialites that thrived (and fell) during this unique point in history.

The series has been a critical darling throughout its first two seasons, and The Gilded Age season 2 actually surpassed its predecessor with a Rotten Tomatoes score of over 90%. As historical dramas continue to rise in popularity thanks to shows like Bridgerton, The Gilded Age has a chance to become the next must-see drama that draws its...

You might think that The Gilded Age, HBO's mannered period drama about feather-light conflict between members of the upper crust in 1880s New York City, doesn't have anything in common with Gen V, a spinoff of The Boys where college students get their heads lasered off by sociopathic superheroes. And you'd be right...except for one thing: both of them are greatly expanding their casts ahead of their new seasons: that's season 3 for The Gilded Age and season 2 for Gen V.

Let's start with The Gilded Age, which counts the likes of Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denee Benton, Taissa Farmiga, and Harry Richardson among its cast. Deadline reports on six new cast members coming aboard for season 3, some of them playing real-life figures from the time:

Dylan Baker (The Good Wife) is Dr. Logan, who treats super-fancy high society familiesKate Baldwin is Nancy Adams Bell, the older sister...

The Gilded Age Season 3 is currently in production in New York. Fans got their first glimpse of Season 3 footage in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it clip in an HBO teaser dropped on August 4, showing Bertha (Carrie Coon) and Marian (Louisa Jacobson) and more in the new episodes. And the series has slowly been announcing more new cast members as production presses on. Recent casting updates reveal that the women’s suffrage movement and Bertha’s family history will both be topics this season, and more historical figures are going to be depicted. One character description also hints that there will be scenes set in England for the very first time. Could that be because Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) marries the English Duke of Buckingham after all? The Good Wife‘s Dylan Baker, Broadway’s Kate Baldwin, Michael Cumpsty of Severance, John Ellison Conlee from Boardwalk Empire, Bobby Steggert from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,...

The Gilded Age season 3 has added multiple new cast members for the upcoming season. The costume drama delves into New York City's high society of the 1880s, where the Russell family experiences friction with the van Rhijn family. The HBO series kicked off in the beginning of 2022, and had a follow-up season last year. The Gilded Age season 3 is currently in development and is set for release sometime in 2025. The series features a leading cast including Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denee Benton, Taissa Farmiga, and Harry Richardson.

As per Deadline, The Gilded Age has now added six new cast members for season three. These cast members include Dylan Baker, Kate Baldwin, Michael Cumpsty, John Ellison Conlee, Bobby Steggert, and Hannah Shealy.

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Several newcomers will join the dramatic ensemble of HBO’s The Gilded Age once season 3 hits the small screen. The third season of Julian Fellowes’ period series is set in the late 1800s is currently in production.

Both Carrie Coon and Christine Baranski have received Emmy nominations for their performances in season 2, and the show was renewed shortly after the December finale launched.

Read on for everything we know about the development of season 3 of The Gilded Age.

When will Season 3 of The Gilded Age come out?

According to promotional footage for multiple Max series, the aim for season 3 of The Gilded Age is to be released sometime in 2025.

Is The Gilded Age Season 3 in production?

Yes, the next installment is underway, as Baranski hinted at in a recent interview with Deadline. The show shoots in Brooklyn.

Who is in the cast of The Gilded Age Season 3?

Leading ladies Baranski,...

This article contains spoilers for the "Barry" series finale.

Hollywood and the truth aren't on speaking terms; it's a business founded on make-believe, after all. That's why it's the perfect setting for "Barry." I've written before that the series questions whether people can truly change, and its answer is that most settle for just pretending to be somebody else. Reckoning with the truth can be hard, and the series' epilogue shows how yet another comforting lie won out over reality.

The last scene of the series is John Berkman (Jaeden Martell), the teenage son of Barry (Bill Hader) and Sally (Sarah Goldberg), watching "The Mask Collector" — a highly inaccurate, sensationalized version of his father's life and how it intertwined with the life of acting teacher Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler). "Barry" has always had a satirical outlook on the entertainment industry, and "The Mask Collector" — an overt critique of the true-crime...

The 2023 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced on January 11 in film and television, as voted on by members of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Who will prevail in the category of Best Drama Ensemble during Netflix’s YouTube ceremony on Sunday, February 26? This year’s five nominated television casts are: “Better Call Saul,” “The Crown,” “Ozark,” “Severance” and “The White Lotus: Sicily.”

Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 SAG Awards TV Predictions for Best Drama Ensemble, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our SAG Awards odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best prediction scores over the last two years, and the mass of Users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.

If you like a gripping drama, you will want to catch Tony nominee Michael Cumpsty Boardwalk Empire,' End of the Rainbow and Michael Crane in The Body of an American, now playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre, directed by Obie winner Jo Bonney Father Comes Home from the Wars..., Lost Girls and presented by Primary Stages and Rhoda R. Herrick, in association with Hartford Stage. Winner of the 2014 Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play and the Inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Award shared with Tony-winner All The Way. The Body of an American tells the true story of an extraordinary friendship as two men, a war photojournalist and playwright, journey from some of the most dangerous places on earth to the depths of the human soul. Winning rave reviews for its previous productions in London and elsewhere, The Body of an American by Guggenheim Fellow Dan O'Brien is...

PrimaryStagesandRhoda R. Herrick,in association with HartfordStage, presentThe Body of an American, aNew York premiereby Dan O'Brien The Voyage of the Carcass,Soho Playhouseand directed byJo BonneyFather Comes Home from the Wars, Lost Girls.The Body of an Americanwill feature Michael CraneGloria, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Tony Award nominee Michael Cumpsty Boardwalk Empire,Machinal,End of the Rainbow,42ndStreet. The company just met the press and you can check out a sneak peek from the special day below. Check abck later for complete coverage...

Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Elementary" episode 15 of season 3. The episode is entitled, "When Your Number's Up," and it turns out that we're going to see some very strange and interesting stuff take place when Holmes and Watson investigate a murderer that's been leaving cash on his victims, and more! In the new, 15th episode press release: Holmes and Watson are going to go inside the world of wrongful death compensation when a serial murderer leaves envelopes of cash on victims as a calling card. Press release number 2: Holmes and Watson will follow a blood trail into the world of wrongful death compensation when they investigate a series of murders in which the killer leaves envelopes of cash on the victims. Also, Holmes will make a generous gesture towards Watson as she suffers through the aftermath of a personal crisis. Alicia Witt guest stars as Dana Powell,...

Recently, CBS released the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "The Good Wife" episode 5 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "Shiny Objects," and it sounds like things will get very intense and dramatic as Alicia's firm gets attacked by a vicious hacker, threatening to wipe out all their client files, and more! In the new, 5th episode press release: Alicia and Dean are going to face off against Elsbeth Tascioni and Rayna Hecht in a sex discrimination suit. Press release number 2: When Alicia and Dean represent a fired female CEO in a sex discrimination suit against her company, they will face a tough defense team in familiar foes Elsbeth Tascioni and Rayna Hecht. In the meantime, a hacker is going to seize control and threatens to delete all of Florrick/Agos/Lockhart’s files, sending the firm into panic mode when he demands a ransom. Carrie Preston and...

These days, the number of indies premiering on a weekly basis can be both thrilling and intimidating. To help sift through the number of new releases (independent or otherwise), we've created the Weekly Film Guide. Below you'll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for today's fresh offerings.  Happy viewing! Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, June 6th. (Synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.) Anna Director: Jorge Dorado Cast: Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Brian Cox, Indira Varma, Noah Taylor Synopsis: "A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma." Theatrical Release: Los Angeles Burning Blue Director: D.M.W. Greer Cast: Trent Ford, Tammy Blanchard, Morgan Spector, Rob Mayes, William Lee Scott, Cotter Smith, Michael Cumpsty, Michael Sirow, Mark Doherty, Chris.

Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director will present Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall as 'Young Woman' in a new Broadway production of Machinal, by Sophie Treadwell, directed by Lyndsey Turner. The cast will include Suzanne Bertish as 'Mother', Michael Cumpsty as 'Husband',Morgan Spector as 'Lover' and Damian Baldet, Ashley Bell, Jeff Biehl, Arnie Burton, Ryan Dinning, Scott Drummond, Dion Graham, Edward James Hyland, Jason Loughlin, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Daniel Pearce, Henny Russell, Karen Walsh,Michael Warner.The cast met the press earlier today and you can check out a photo preview from the festivities below. Check back later for full coverage.

The debut Shaw play to inaugurate Project Shaw's new home will be Shaw's Don Juan in Hell today, October 28 at 7pm. Directed by David Staller, Don Juan in Hell stars Tony Award winner Richard Easton The Statue, Tony Award nominees Michael Cumpsty The Devil and Alison Fraser Dona Ana with Max Gordon Moore Don Juan. The evening is hosted by Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies. There will be special performances by Tony Award winner George S. Irving and Tony Award nominee Charlotte Rae, with Beth Ertz on the piano.

The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. Below you can check out photos of the cast in the BroadwayWorld.com series 'In The Spotlight' by acclaimed photographer Walter McBride...

The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was at the opening night party to chat with the cast and creative team. Click below to see what they had to say...

The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was on the red carpet to chat with the evening's guests and you can check out what they had to say below...

The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld wa sthere for the big opening and you can check out photos from theatre arrivals below...

The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld wa sthere for the big opening and you can check out photos from the after party celebration below...

The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld wa sthere for the big opening and you can check out photos from the curtain call below...

New York -- Lead casting has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of The Winslow Boy, the classic 1946 Terence Rattigan courtroom drama about the costs and rewards of family loyalty. Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees will head the cast. Photos: Tony Awards 2013: Red Carpet Arrivals Cumpsty is a Broadway veteran whose previous productions with Roundabout include Sunday in the Park with George and The Constant Wife. An Oscar nominee for Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money, Mastrantonio's Broadway credits include a Tony-nominated performance in Man of La Mancha. Nivola was last on

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'End of the Rainbow' opens March 20 and performances run through April 21, 2013. 'End of the Rainbow', written by Peter Quilter and directed by Terry Johnson, features Tracie Bennett reprising her Tony Award-nominated performance as Judy Garland, Michael Cumpsty also Tony Award-nominated for his role, Erik Heger and Miles Anderson. BroadwayWorld has a first look at highlights of the production below.

'End of the Rainbow' opens March 20 and performances run through April 21, 2013. 'End of the Rainbow', written by Peter Quilter and directed by Terry Johnson, features Tracie Bennett reprising her Tony Award-nominated performance as Judy Garland, Michael Cumpsty also Tony Award-nominated for his role, Erik Heger and Miles Anderson. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production photos below.

Title: Downtown Express Director: David Grubin Starring: Philippe Quint, Nellie McKay, Michael Cumpsty, Ashley Springer, Carolyn McCormick An old-fashioned, squarely sentimental immigrants’ tale that marries a familiar story of generational rebellion to the New York hipster fusion music scene, director David Grubin’s “Downtown Express” is a wide-eyed if not particularly adroit charmer. If its awkward cycling through various stodgy subplots and general lack of a more starkly defined contrast and stakes mark it as somewhat lazy and functional on a narrative level, its relative freshness of setting — as well as the fact that its music absolutely sings — makes the movie a marginal recommendation for those with an interest in musically-focused cinema. The [ Read More ]...

Christian Borle, an actor you may remember from that song-and-dance eBay commercial, won his first Tony Award Sunday night, for Best Featured Actor In A Play.

Borle, a stage and television actor known for his comedic chops, was recognized for his work as The Black Stache, Captain Hook's younger self, in the Peter Pan prequel, "Peter and the Starcatcher." His British accented performance beat out a roster of nominees who primarily hail from England, including Michael Cumpsty of the Judy Garland biodrama "End of the Rainbow," Tom Edden from "One Man, Two Guvnors" and Andrew Garfield from "Death Of A Salesman," as well as the lone other American, Jeremy Shamos of "Clybourne Park."

Borle kept his acceptance speech short and sweet, singling out only his co-star Kevin Del Aguila, who plays Smee, and the Tony Awards committee for making his mother very happy.

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The 2012 Tony Awards were full of surprises! With a near-sweep for the indie musical hit Once, a Tony for Smash star Christian Borle, and Alan Menken’s first Tony for Newsies, the Neil Patrick Harris-hosted affair also featured a special award for fan favorite Hugh Jackman. But the play was the thing Sunday night, with Clybourne Park taking the best play award and a variety of other entries in the medium like Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Peter and the Starcatcher honored across several categories. See the full winners list below (and don’t miss our...

On Broadway's night to show the world the magic that happens within a few Manhattan blocks, Irish pub music, Gershwin standards and American classics dominate.

Neil Patrick Harris hosts the 66th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 10, on CBS. Though details for the live show from Manhattan's Beacon Theatre were not set at this writing, expect traditional Irish music from "Once," with the most nominations, 11. And with 10 nods each, expect numbers from "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," starring Audra McDonald, and "Nice Work If You Can Get It," starring Matthew Broderick, also with a Gershwin score.

And if the audience is lucky, it will see a bunch of ragtag pirates dressed as mermaids in a number from "Peter and the Starcatcher." This delightful play, with nine nominations, details Captain Hook and Peter Pan's history. It would be an upset if Christian Borle (Tom on "Smash"), as an absolutely fabulous pirate prone to malapropisms,...

Now is the time for Newsies fans and theater geeks everywhere to seize the day! It’s Tony time! This Sunday, Neil Patrick Harris will be donning his tux once again to host the annual celebration of Broadway’s finest moments. And in a repeat from last year’s Nph-led event, expect another rash of jokes at the expense of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Fellow EW critic Melissa Rose Bernardo and I here offer our predictions in all the Tony categories (you’ll see our names after each of our picks). Disagree? Please let us know who you...

End of the Rainbow Belasco Theatre, NY

Dedicated fans of the great, late Judy Garland are likely to a feel a thrill at seeing their ill-fated idol briefly brought back to life in End of the Rainbow. Tracie Bennett blossoms as the Judy who is unknowingly living the last months of her life while Michael Cumpsty makes for a sympathetic complement to her floating flourish, but they are the only two flowers to hold their color in this otherwise wilting arrangement.

Bennett enters the stage as the undisputed Judy Garland, unconcerned with hitting the marks of an impersonation but rather focused on evading the jaws of addiction and self-destruction that will eventually consume her. She moves naturally, breathing Judy's breath, moving Judy's body, bouncing with the compulsive energy of a performer that finds it near impossible to allow herself to be "off."

What Ms. Bennett accomplishes is far...

Hit musical Once is leading the way at this year's Tony Awards after scooping 11 nominations.

The popular show has garnered nods across the board including the coveted Best Musical category at the 66th annual prizegiving, which honours the best on Broadway.

Once will go up against Leap of Faith, Newsies and Nice Work If You Can Get It for the top prize.

Meanwhile Clybourne Park, Other Desert Cities, Peter and the Starcatcher and Venus in Fur will all compete for the Best Play accolade.

Hollywood star Phillip Seymour Hoffman is nominated in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play category for his part in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and he'll go head-to-head with John Lithgow (The Columnist), Frank Langella (Man and Boy), James Earl Jones (Gore Vidal's The Best Man) and James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) for the honour.

Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon is up for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play title for her turn in Wit but she'll face stiff competition from Nina Arianda (Venus in Fur), Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow), Stockard Channing (Other Desert Cities) and Linda Lavin (The Lyons).

Also landing mentions were new Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield for his feature role in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and David Alan Grier for his part in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.

The winners will be unveiled at the prizegiving ceremony, hosted by funnyman Neil Patrick Harris, on 10 June at The Beacon Theatre in New York City.

The main list of nominees is as follows:

Best Play:

Clybourne Park

Other Desert Cities

Peter and the Starcatcher

Venus in Fur

Best Musical:

Leap of Faith

Newsies

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Once

Best Book of a Musical:

Lysistrata Jones - Douglas Carter Beane

Newsies - Harvey Fierstein

Nice Work if You Can Get It - Joe Dipietro

Once - Enda Walsh

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre:

Bonnie & Clyde - Frank Wildhorn and Don Black

Newsies - Alan Menken and Jack Feldman

One Man, Two Guvnors - Grant Olding

Peter and the Starcatcher - Wayne Barker and Rick Elice

Best Revival of a Play:

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Gore Vidal's The Best Man

Master Class

Wit

Best Revival of a Musical:

Evita

Follies

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Jesus Christ Superstar

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play:

James Corden - One Man, Two Guvnors

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

James Earl Jones - Gore Vidal's The Best Man

Frank Langella - Man and Boy

John Lithgow - The Columnist

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play:

Nina Arianda - Venus in Fur

Tracie Bennett - End of the Rainbow

Stockard Channing - Other Desert Cities

Linda Lavin - The Lyons

Cynthia Nixon - Wit

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical:

Danny Burstein - Follies

Jeremy Jordan - Newsies

Steve Kazee - Once

Norm Lewis - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Ron Raines - Follies

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical:

Jan Maxwell - Follies

Audra McDonald - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Cristin Milioti - Once

Kelli O'Hara - Nice Work If You Can Get It

Laura Osnes - Bonnie & Clyde

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play:

Christian Borle - Peter and the Starcatcher

Michael Cumpsty - End of the Rainbow

Tom Edden - One Man, Two Guvnors

Andrew Garfield - Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Jeremy Shamos - Clybourne Park

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play:

Linda Emond - Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Spencer Kayden - Don't Dress for Dinner

Celia Keenan-Bolger - Peter and the Starcatcher

Judith Light - Other Desert Cities

Condola Rashad - Stick Fly

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical:

Phillip Boykin - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Michael Cerveris - Evita

David Alan Grier -The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Michael McGrath - Nice Work If You Can Get It

Josh Young - Jesus Christ Superstar

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical:

Elizabeth A. Davis - Once

Jayne Houdyshell - Follies

Judy Kaye - Nice Work if You Can Get It

Jessie Mueller - On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Da'Vine Joy Randolph - Ghost the Musical

Best Direction of a Play:

One Man, Two Guvnors - Nicholas Hytner

Clybourne Park - Pam MacKinnon

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman - Mike Nichols

Peter and the Starcatcher - Roger Rees and Alex Timbers

Best Direction of a Musical:

Newsies - Jeff Calhoun

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Kathleen Marshall

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess - Diane Paulus

Once - John Tiffany

Best Choreography:

Evita - Rob Ashford

Newsies - Christopher Gattelli

Once - Steven Hoggett

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Kathleen Marshall

Best Orchestrations:

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess - William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Bill Elliott

Once - Martin Lowe

Newsies - Danny Troob.

Hit musical Once is leading the way at this year's Tony Awards after scooping 11 nominations.

The popular show has garnered nods across the board including the coveted Best Musical category at the 66th annual prizegiving, which honours the best on Broadway.

Once will go up against Leap of Faith, Newsies and Nice Work If You Can Get It for the top prize.

Meanwhile Clybourne Park, Other Desert Cities, Peter and the Starcatcher and Venus in Fur will all compete for the Best Play accolade.

Hollywood star Phillip Seymour Hoffman is nominated in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play category for his part in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and he'll go head-to-head with John Lithgow (The Columnist), Frank Langella (Man and Boy), James Earl Jones (Gore Vidal's The Best Man) and James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) for the honour.

Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon is up for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play title for her turn in Wit but she'll face stiff competition from Nina Arianda (Venus in Fur), Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow), Stockard Channing (Other Desert Cities) and Linda Lavin (The Lyons).

Also landing mentions were new Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield for his feature role in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and David Alan Grier for his part in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.

The winners will be unveiled at the prizegiving ceremony, hosted by funnyman Neil Patrick Harris, on 10 June at The Beacon Theatre in New York City.

The main list of nominees is as follows:

Best Play:

Clybourne Park

Other Desert Cities

Peter and the Starcatcher

Venus in Fur

Best Musical:

Leap of Faith

Newsies

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Once

Best Book of a Musical:

Lysistrata Jones - Douglas Carter Beane

Newsies - Harvey Fierstein

Nice Work if You Can Get It - Joe Dipietro

Once - Enda Walsh

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre:

Bonnie & Clyde - Frank Wildhorn and Don Black

Newsies - Alan Menken and Jack Feldman

One Man, Two Guvnors - Grant Olding

Peter and the Starcatcher - Wayne Barker and Rick Elice

Best Revival of a Play:

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Gore Vidal's The Best Man

Master Class

Wit

Best Revival of a Musical:

Evita

Follies

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Jesus Christ Superstar

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play:

James Corden - One Man, Two Guvnors

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

James Earl Jones - Gore Vidal's The Best Man

Frank Langella - Man and Boy

John Lithgow - The Columnist

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play:

Nina Arianda - Venus in Fur

Tracie Bennett - End of the Rainbow

Stockard Channing - Other Desert Cities

Linda Lavin - The Lyons

Cynthia Nixon - Wit

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical:

Danny Burstein - Follies

Jeremy Jordan - Newsies

Steve Kazee - Once

Norm Lewis - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Ron Raines - Follies

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical:

Jan Maxwell - Follies

Audra McDonald - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Cristin Milioti - Once

Kelli O'Hara - Nice Work If You Can Get It

Laura Osnes - Bonnie & Clyde

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play:

Christian Borle - Peter and the Starcatcher

Michael Cumpsty - End of the Rainbow

Tom Edden - One Man, Two Guvnors

Andrew Garfield - Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Jeremy Shamos - Clybourne Park

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play:

Linda Emond - Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Spencer Kayden - Don't Dress for Dinner

Celia Keenan-Bolger - Peter and the Starcatcher

Judith Light - Other Desert Cities

Condola Rashad - Stick Fly

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical:

Phillip Boykin - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Michael Cerveris - Evita

David Alan Grier -The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

Michael McGrath - Nice Work If You Can Get It

Josh Young - Jesus Christ Superstar

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical:

Elizabeth A. Davis - Once

Jayne Houdyshell - Follies

Judy Kaye - Nice Work if You Can Get It

Jessie Mueller - On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Da'Vine Joy Randolph - Ghost the Musical

Best Direction of a Play:

One Man, Two Guvnors - Nicholas Hytner

Clybourne Park - Pam MacKinnon

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman - Mike Nichols

Peter and the Starcatcher - Roger Rees and Alex Timbers

Best Direction of a Musical:

Newsies - Jeff Calhoun

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Kathleen Marshall

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess - Diane Paulus

Once - John Tiffany

Best Choreography:

Evita - Rob Ashford

Newsies - Christopher Gattelli

Once - Steven Hoggett

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Kathleen Marshall

Best Orchestrations:

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess - William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke

Nice Work If You Can Get It - Bill Elliott

Once - Martin Lowe

Newsies - Danny Troob.

The 2012 Tony Award nominations were announced this morning by Kristin Chenoweth and Jim Parsons, with the musicals leading the pack. "Once" -- adapted from the popular indie film -- came out on top with 11 nominations, The Gershwins' "Porgy and Bess" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It," both also musicals, trailed close behind with 10 a piece, and "Follies" and "Newsies" took a respectable eight each.

"Peter and the Starcatcher" picked up nine nominations, the most for a play, edging out this year's closest thing to a favorite, Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," which gained seven. Philip Seymour Hoffman predictably earned a nod for his turn as Willy Loman in "Salesman," alongside fellow big names James Earl Jones ("The Best Man") and John Lithgow ("The Columnist"). Ricky Martin's divisive portrayal of Che in "Evita" got no love. "Evita," however, did snatch three nods, including one for best revival of a musical.

-- Nominations for the 2012 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, announced Tuesday.

Best Play: "Clybourne Park," "Other Desert Cities," "Peter and the Starcatcher," "Venus in Fur."

Best Musical: "Leap of Faith," "Newsies," "Nice Work If You Can Get It," "Once."

Best Book of a Musical: "Lysistrata Jones," "Newsies," "Nice Work If You Can Get It," "Once."

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: "Bonnie & Clyde," "Newsies," "One Man, Two Guvnors," "Peter and the Starcatcher."

Best Revival of a Play: "Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman," "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," "Master Class," "Wit."

Best Revival of a Musical: "Evita," "Follies," "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," "Jesus Christ Superstar."

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: James Corden, "One Man, Two Guvnors"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman"; James Earl Jones, "Gore Vidal's The Best Man"; Frank Langella, "Man and Boy"; John Lithgow,...

Reuters ‘Once’ with Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti.

In a diverse theater season with no clear frontrunner, the Tony Award nominations announced Tuesday morning swept across the board, with nods to major star vehicles like “Death of a Salesman,” offbeat newcomers including the new musical “Once,” work by Broadway veterans such as “Nice Work If You Can Get It” and classic revivals with “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.”

As expected, “Death of a Salesman” scored big. The play with a...

Do you smell that? It’s Tony fever, and it starts right now! The theater awards season kicked off this morning when Kristin Chenoweth and Jim Parsons announced the nominations for this year’s Tony Awards, which will air on CBS on Sunday, June 10 on CBS (hosted by Neil Patrick Harris).

Among the most nominated titles this year was Once, which landed 11 nominations including nods for Best Musical and its two stars, Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti. Fan favorites Newsies and Follies got their due, and there was no dearth of big Hollywood names either, with the likes of Stockard Channing,...

It's December 1968 And Judy Garland is poised to make a triumphant comeback again. In a London hotel room with her young new fiance a perfectly cast Tom Pelphrey New York Times and trusted pianist a wonderful Michael Cumpsty New York Times at her side, Garland prepares to undertake a series of concerts at Londons famed Talk of the Town with her signature cocktail of talent, tenacity and razor-sharp wit, revealing the most brilliant star in her most demanding role her life. End Of The Rainbow is now playing - buy tickets today and save...

End Of The Rainbow made its Broadway premiere last night, April 2, at the Belasco Theatre. Two-time Oliver Award-winner Tracie Bennett shines in Peter Quilter's acclaimed play about the legendary Judy Garland, directed by the Tony Award winning Terry Johnson. Bennett is joined onstage by Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell. BroadwayWorld was on hand at the Plaza hotel to speak with Bennett and company at the celebratory after party and brings you full coverage below...

Martyrs are dying all over Broadway this season: We have at least two bleeding Jesi on deck (at last count), and now comes the Passion of Judy Garland, incarnated in all her latter-day volatility by Olivier-winner Tracie Bennett. Peter Quilter’s End of the Rainbow is a strange hybrid: an utterly conventional stage entertainment (i.e., the worshipful, wet-to-the-touch bio-rama wedged tight with informative wiki-asides) crowned with an obliterating performance that verges on performance art. We pick up Judy’s story in the last year of her life, in 1968, at a five-week cabaret engagement at London’s Talk of the Town nightclub. The action swivels from her increasingly erratic stage performances to the squalor and hysteria of her hotel suite, which she shares with her soon-to-be-fifth (and final) husband, the grimly closeted hipster opportunist Mickey Deans (Tom Pelphrey); a piano; and a piano player, Anthony (Michael Cumpsty), the compassionate composite...

End Of The Rainbow made its Broadway premiere last night, April 2, at the Belasco Theatre. Two-time Oliver Award-winner Tracie Bennett shines in Peter Quilter's acclaimed play about the legendary Judy Garland, directed by the Tony Award winning Terry Johnson. Bennett is joined onstage by Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell. BroadwayWorld.com was there as the premiere curtain came down and brings you photo coverage of the curtain call and encore performance below...

Masterworks Broadway has just announced the release of Tracie Bennett Sings Judy Songs from the Broadway Production of End of the Rainbow and Other Garland Classics available now. The new play with music features Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell, joining two-time Olivier Award-winner Tracie Bennett in Peter Quilters acclaimed show about the legendary Judy Garland. Directed by the Tony Award winning Terry Johnson, End of the Rainbow started performances on March 19, 2012 at Broadways Belasco Theatre, opening April 2.

Directed by the Tony Award winning Terry Johnson, End of the Rainbow will begin performances on Monday, March 19, 2012 at the Belasco Theatre, with an opening night now set for Monday, April 2. Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell will join two-time Oliver Award-winner Tracie Bennett in Peter Quilter's acclaimed play about the legendary Judy Garland. Production photos of the show have surfaced and BroadwayWorld brings you a look below...

Producers Lee Dean, Laurence Myers and Joey Parnes announced today that the complete cast of the Broadway premiere of End of the Rainbow, a new play with music, is in place. Michael Cumpsty, Tom Pelphrey and Jay Russell will join two-time Oliver Award-winner Tracie Bennett in Peter Quilter's acclaimed play about the legendary Judy Garland. Directed by the Tony Award winning Terry Johnson, End of the Rainbow will begin performances on Monday, March 19, 2012 at the Belasco Theatre, with an opening night now set for Monday, April 2.

Keep it classy with some Shakespeare, get your angst out at an Anti-Valentine's Day poetry reading, take a chocolate walking tour, and more! An Early V-Day Shakespearean Treat The Tribeca Barnes and Noble on Warren Street, "the bookseller's answer to the 92nd Street Y," is pairing up with the Public Theater for cool new events, and the first one is just in time for some sweet Shakespearean action. Shakespeare in the Park actors Michael Stuhlbarg (also in the Coens' A Serious Man, out on DVD this week) and Michael Cumpsty and others will be reciting the Bard's love poetry. If you get snowed in, you can watch the event on streaming video over at media.barnesandnoble.com, along with the Tribeca B and N's other events and videos. Where: Barnes and Noble Tribeca, 97 Warren Street When: Thursday, February 11, at 7 Pm Price: Free! An Anti-Valentine's Day Party Alternatively, you could spend...

Just came from the closing night performance of Twelfth Night in Central Park, produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre and it...was...fantastic. To bring together this wonderful cast of some of the great performers in the American theatre and watch them create one of the best shows I have seen in the Park in quite some time was a rare treat. Audra McDonald, Raul Esparza, Julie White, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Cumpsty, Hamish Linklater, David Pittu and Anne Hathaway were all remarkable. The entire cast, direction and production were remarkable. I left the theatre wondering, "Is there any piece Daniel Sullivan cannot direct?" To watch Anne Hathaway take her place alongside some of the greatest Broadway performers of her generation was something to see. Hathaway is not even 27 years old, yet seems to do nearly everything right, whether...

Blair Brown has had an illustrious career from the outset, working steadily on stage, screen, and television. She won a Tony Award in 2000 for her multilayered performance as the wife of physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and has been featured in 78 films and TV series. But she is most widely known as John Belushi's love interest in Continental Divide and the quirky title character in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, a dramedy that enjoyed a cult following from 1987 to 1991. Now tackling Nina Sharp—an ambivalent figure in Fox's Fringe -- a sci-fi thriller along the lines of The X-Files -- Brown is clearly enjoying herself. "She has the possibility of being anything," Brown says cryptically, not willing to discuss whether her onscreen alter ego, the executive director of Massive Dynamic, is good, evil, or both. "The challenge is that the writing is so dense and so good.