Theater awards
FILE - In this Sunday, June 9, 2019, file photo, Celia Keenan-Bolger accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play for "To Kill a Mockingbird" at the 73rd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, in New York. Fans of the Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” will get a treat when the show restarts on Broadway in fall 2021, as Jeff Daniels and Keenan-Bolger, two of the play's original stars, are returning. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Original stars joining Broadway's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

By Mark Kennedy Jun. 10, 2021 07:01 AM EDT

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Anthony Ramos in a scene from "In the Heights." (Warner Bros. via AP)
‘In the Heights’ lifts hopes for a Latino film breakthrough

By Sigal Ratner-Arias Jun. 09, 2021 09:35 AM EDT

This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Jimmy Smits in a scene from "In the Heights." (Macall Polay/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)
‘In the Heights’ lifts hopes for a Latino film breakthrough

By Sigal Ratner-Arias Jun. 09, 2021 09:30 AM EDT

FILE - Workers prepare for the 73rd annual Tony Awards in New York on June 9, 2019. Producers of the telecast announced Wednesday that the Tonys will be held Sept. 26 and will air on CBS as well as Paramount+. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
The long-delayed Tony Awards finally have a date — Sept. 26

By Mark Kennedy May. 26, 2021 12:01 PM EDT

A woman walks past the Walter Kerr Theatre, Thursday, May 6, 2021, in New York where Hadestown was showing before the coronavirus pandemic forced its closing a year ago. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that Broadway theaters can reopen Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
'Hadestown' jumps ahead of pack to welcome Broadway patrons

By Mark Kennedy May. 24, 2021 09:51 AM EDT

Broadway performer Max Kumangai holds a loaf of sourdough bread at his apartment in New York. The triple threat from the musical “Jagged Little Pill” has leaned into a fourth skill as the pandemic marches on: baking and selling his own sourdough. (Michael Lowney/Humpday Dough via AP)
Bread and Cameos — a year without income from Broadway stage

By Mark Kennedy Mar. 12, 2021 09:08 AM EST

Aaron Tveit, left, appears with Karen Olivo during a performance of "Moulin Rouge! The Musical," in New York. Tveit was the only actor nominated for a Tony in the category of best leading actor in a musical for his role. (Matthew Murphy/Boneau/Bryan-Brown via AP)
Tonywatch: Aaron Tveit rides a roller coaster of a year

By Mark Kennedy Mar. 04, 2021 11:17 AM EST

Elizabeth Stanley appears during a performance of "Jagged Little Pill" in New York. Stanley earned her first Tony Award nomination playing the mom of a Connecticut family spiraling out of control in the musical set to the music of Alanis Morissette's 1995 album of the same name.(Matthew Murphy/Vivacity Media Group via AP)
Tonywatch: Elizabeth Stanley seeks 'healing and connection'

By Mark Kennedy Mar. 03, 2021 11:11 AM EST

This 2018 image released by Jeremy Daniel shows Philip J. Smith at the 30th anniversary celebration for "The Phantom of the Opera," in New York. Smith, who rose from box office treasurer at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway to chairman and co-CEO of the theatrical giant Shubert Organization, has died from complications from COVID-19, according to his daughters. He was 89. (Jeremy Daniel via AP)
Philip J. Smith, who led Shubert Organization, dies at 89

By Mark Kennedy Jan. 15, 2021 02:43 PM EST

FILE - In this July 19, 2020, file photo, people gather at a makeshift memorial near the home of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in Atlanta. Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and spoke shortly before the group's leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to a vast sea of people. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020

By Bernard Mcghee Dec. 07, 2020 12:13 PM EST

This image released by playwright Natalie Margolin shows, top row from left, Francesca Carpanini, Olivia Puckett, Kathryn Gallagher, Ben Platt, second row from left, Ashley Park, Molly Gordon, Beanie Feldstein, Ayo Edebiri and bottom row from left, Catherine Cohen and Max Sheldon, in scene from the Zoom play “The Party Hop," a play specifically to be performed on Zoom. (Natalie Margolin via AP)
Theater uses its creativity to defy pandemic and stage shows

By Mark Kennedy Dec. 03, 2020 12:09 PM EST

This image released by playwright Natalie Margolin shows, top row from left, Francesca Carpanini, Olivia Puckett, Kathryn Gallagher, Ben Platt, second row from left, Ashley Park, Molly Gordon, Beanie Feldstein, Ayo Edebiri and bottom row from left, Catherine Cohen and Max Sheldon, in scene from the Zoom play “The Party Hop," a play specifically to be performed on Zoom. (Natalie Margolin via AP)
Theater uses its creativity to defy pandemic and stage shows

By Mark Kennedy Dec. 03, 2020 11:20 AM EST

FILE - Actor Jefferson Mays attends the premiere of the TNT mini-series "I Am the Night" in New York on Jan. 22, 2019. Mays, who won a Tony Award for playing 40 characters in “I Am My Own Wife” and was nominated for another for playing nine roles in “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” is readying a new one-man version of “A Christmas Carol” for the holidays, playing some 50 characters. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
A one-man 'A Christmas Carol' fills theater need in pandemic

By Mark Kennedy Oct. 27, 2020 01:55 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2019, file photo, actor Sir Ian McKellen poses for photographers at a photocall for the film "The Good Liar"at a central London hotel. McKellen and Andrew Scott were among acting winners as Britain’s Laurence Olivier Awards celebrated the best of the London stage in bittersweet fashion Sunday night, Oct. 25, 2020 - most U.K. theaters remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.(Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
Show goes on for Olivier Awards, even with UK theaters shut

By Jill Lawless Oct. 25, 2020 07:51 PM EDT

FILE - This JuNe 9, 2019 photo shows a view of the stage prior to the start of the 73rd annual Tony Awards in New York. Nominations for the American Theatre Wing’s 74th Annual Tony Awards will be announced on Thursday, Oct. 15. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
'Jagged Little Pill' leads Tony Awards nominations with 15

By Mark Kennedy Oct. 15, 2020 12:23 PM EDT

FILE - A view of the stage appears prior to the start of the 73rd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York on June 9, 2019. Tony Award Productions said Friday that the celebration of live theater will be digital but offered no date or streaming platform. Final eligibility determinations will be made by the Tony Awards Administration Committee “in the coming days.” Broadway theaters abruptly closed on March 12, knocking out all shows — including 16 that were still scheduled to open. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Tony Awards for shortened Broadway season will go digital

By Mark Kennedy Aug. 21, 2020 11:36 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2014, file photo, actor Nick Cordero attends the after-party for the opening night of "Bullets Over Broadway" in New York. Tony Award-nominated actor Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as “Waitress,” “A Bronx Tale” and “Bullets Over Broadway,” has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. He was 41. Cordero died Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)
The late Nick Cordero to have an album released in his honor

By The Associated Press Jul. 22, 2020 07:37 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 30, 2017, file photo, actor Nick Cordero, left, and Amanda Kloots attend the premiere of "Going in Style" in New York. Tony Award-nominated actor Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as “Waitress,” “A Bronx Tale” and “Bullets Over Broadway,” has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. He was 41. Cordero died Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Broadway veteran Nick Cordero dies from virus complications

By Mark Kennedy Jul. 05, 2020 09:29 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2015 file photo, an Oscar statue appears outside the Dolby Theatre for the 87th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. The Oscars are implementing some big changes, including having a set number of best picture nominees and to-be-determined representation and inclusion standards for eligibility. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says Friday that there will be 10 best picture nominees beginning with the 94th Academy Awards in 2022. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)
Academy delays 2021 Oscars ceremony because of coronavirus

By Lindsey Bahr Jun. 15, 2020 02:31 PM EDT

FILE -This June 12, 2011 file photo shows Larry Kramer, left, and Daryl Roth embracing after they won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play for "The Normal Heart" during the 65th annual Tony Awards in New York. Kramer, the playwright whose angry voice and pen raised theatergoers’ consciousness about AIDS and roused thousands to militant protests in the early years of the epidemic, died Wednesday, May 27, 2020 in Manhattan of pneumonia. He was 84. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, File)
Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dies at 84

By Mark Kennedy May. 27, 2020 01:14 PM EDT