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Slave Play, Sea Wall/A Life, Grand Horizons, The Inheritance and The Sound Inside will compete in the Tony Awards’ Best Play category, with Moulin Rouge!, Jagged Little Pill and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical up for Best Musical.

In the Best Revival of a Play category, Betrayal will compete with Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and A Soldier’s Play.

See below for complete list of nominees.

The nominations for the 2020 Tony Awards are being announced virtually by actor James Monroe Iglehart. Deadline will keep you up to speed on the nominations as they happen.

Eighteen productions have been deemed eligible for Tony nominations this year, a fraction compared to last season’s 34, the slimmed-down roster due of course to Broadway’s Covid-19 pandemic shutdown.

When theaters went dark on March 12, the usual deluge of spring openings were postponed or canceled altogether. Three productions – the musicals Six,...

Exclusive: Iwan Rheon (Game Of Thrones) and Erin Richards (Gotham) are among the cast for feature thriller-horror Suppression from U.S. filmmaker J.Mackye Gruber (The Butterfly Effect).

Also starring are Stephanie Leonidas (Defiance), Lex Shrapnel (Medici) and Ella-Rae Smith (Into the Badlands). The project started shooting yesterday in North Wales, UK.

Suppression follows a grieving couple (Rheon and Leonidas) who are given an alternative treatment to suppress their violent urges.

Joseph Baker wrote the screenplay. Producers are Tom Large and Daniel Caltagirone of Snowdonia Studios with Georgia Gwynne Gruber and Andrew Baird of Gruber’s La-based Darklight Entertainment. Executive producers are Mark Culbert, Christopher J. Marino, Tony Livsek and Chris Moger.

The project is fully-financed by New York outfit Double M Ventures, with additional backing from Welsh private finance raised through Snowdonia Studios. National body Screen Wales has provided logistical support.

“I was instantly drawn to Suppression because everything about it is unexpected.

The hills will truly come alive with the sound of music this summer thanks to Broadway in the Mountains, a new summer theater intensive performance camp hosted at the Catskill Mountain Foundation. For kid actors ages 10–18, what better way to flex their thespian muscles than under the watch of some of today’s brightest Broadway stars? “School of Rock” frontman Alex Brightman is slated to be one of the professional mentors on hand for a one-day workshop. Broadway’s Liz Larson, now starring as Genie Klein in “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” will also host a workshop of her own, along with Juilliard’s Badiene Magaziner, voice coach Amelia DeMayo, and director-choreographer Janine Molinari. The new summer camp, presented by Broadway Youth Ensemble’s artistic director Joseph Baker and Leorah and Jordan Haberfield of A Time to Shine Cabaret, is divided into two weeks: “Cabaret” July 10–16 and “Triple Threat” July...

Due to have its world premiere as part of the SciFi London Festival later this week, the official poster and trailer for Tom Large and Joseph Baker's Beyond has arrived online.For a brief moment in history, the world stood still. All eyes and minds focused on the skies and the colossal, unidentified object that was discovered on a collision course with Earth. Now, shrouded in mystery, the vast alien spacecraft looms ominously in sight above Northern Europe bringing with it an uncertain future. Amidst the chaos of the ensuing global catastrophe one young couple, searching for their infant daughter, their lost relationship and the hope of salvation embark on a perilous journey across a beautiful but treacherous landscape. They are driven on by hope, confronting...

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The York Theatre Company continues the Winter 2014 Musicals in Mufti Series Celebrating Sheldon Harnick with Smiling, The Boy Fell Dead with Book by Ira Wallach, Music by David Baker, and Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The creative team includes director James Glossman with music direction by Joseph Baker, and casting by Geoff Josselson. The limited engagement will play 5 performances Only February 21-23, 2014 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's Entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue. BroadwayWorld was there for the opening and brings you photos from the festivities below...