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Broadway shows opening before April 30 during the 2008-2009 season are eligible for Tony Awards. There are 29 categories for the 63rd Annual Tony Award.

Yasmina Reza received her 2nd Tony Award in 2009 for Best Play with God of Carnage.

In the past few years, the Tony Awards, which honour the best of the Broadway season, have become fairly predictable.

The Drowsy Chaperone and The History Boys were the big winners at the 60th Annual Tony Awards held on Sunday, June 11th, 2006.

The Tony Awards were named in honor of Antoinette Perry, a leading lady in the theatrical community. The awards recognize outstanding achievements in theater.

As a neighborhood in Washington Heights prepares to celebrate the Fourth of July, a lottery win and various occurrences changes daily life.

From "Romeo and Juliet" to "The Tempest" thespians will enjoy another season of Tony-Award winning plays in this Northwest US annual Shakespeare festival.

A 1967 musical with a rock-hippie score has a message that translates to 2009, and sports a Broadway cast that can't be beat!

In the year when Willy Russell's musical Blood Brothers celebrates it's 20th anniversary on London's West end stage, impresario Bill Kenwright has taken the show on tour.

From the creation of the United States in 1776 to the tragic sinking of the ship Titanic, many histories have been set to music and staged on Broadway.

DreamWorks Animation is bringing Shrek the Musical to the Broadway Theater on December 14th. Jason Moore (Avenue Q) directs.

The co-hosts of The View discussed the Tony Awards, twitter, romantic date nights, and schools paying students for good grades before interviewing Francis Ford Coppola.

Tony Award winners Christopher Plummer and Anika Noni Rose will star in the 2008 Stratford Festival's Caesar and Cleopatra, a rarely performed piece by G.B. Shaw.

Des McAnuff has announced his resignation from the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, and rumours will be starting about what he will do next.

Aubrey Dan, who helped CanStage keep Urinetown alive back in 2004, is on his own now, and set to give the Mirvish empire a run for their money.

A theatergoer's guide to purchasing tickets for the best seats (at the best prices) to Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.

Contemporary American playwrights, including George Abbott, Edward Albee, and Christopher Durang, are still inspiring their audiences to dream, think, and feel.

Set in the Southern United States, one family struggles for solvency, as the purse strings of their shrinking sums remain controlled by the matriarchal Stella Gordon.

Four decades have gone by and Monty Python's Flying Circus has made an indelible mark on the television and cultural landscape of the world.

Contemporary American playwrights, including Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, and Doug Wright, are still inspiring their audiences to dream, think, and feel.

About to pack up the current Broadway revival of Sondheim and Styne's Gypsy, everything's still coming up roses for this winning production directed by Arthur Laurents.

The History Boys rocked Broadway this past season, playing to sold-out houses and critical acclaim.

Tinseltown’s brightest are flocking to Broadway, drawn by delightful theatre scripts and a chance to flex their acting chops.

Based on the film 8 1/2 by Federico Fellini, Nine has had a successful life on stage.

Spring Awakening is a musical with storylines profound enough to make Shakespeare wish he had written them. The lyrics and actors bring these stories to life.

Rob Marshall has created a glittering big screen adaptation of this Tony Award winning Broadway musical. But not many know that the show is based on a true story.

The red ribbon was developed by Visual AIDS in 1991, through The Ribbon Project. The red ribbon quickly became and international symbol for AIDS awareness.

Mel Brooks said once that it was “good to be the king”. Michael Siberry, currently headlining the National Tour of the Tony Award-Winning Musical Spamalot, has to agree.

The Tony Award Winning Musical, The Light In The Piazza, written by Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas, is coming to Toronto in the summer of 2007.

In July of 1967, the lights of London's West End were dimmed for one hour to mark the passing of one of England's most beautiful, talented and determined actresses.

Christopher Plummer, the Tony Award-winning actor, is set to tread the boards once again in the Broadway revival of Inherit The Wind.

The Stratford Festival of Canada, under the Artistic Direction of Richard Monette, is set to announce it's 2007 season, the last under Monette's leadership.

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, based in Chicago, Illinois, is starting their 2006-2007 season with a bang - Martin McDonagh's controversial dark play, The Pillowman.

Helen Hayes' extraordinary professional career that included stage, radio, movie, and television work spanned eighty years.

The Curve, Leicester's exciting modern theatre is the venue for the European Premiere of Light in the Piazza, which won 6 Tonys on Broadway as well as plaudits all round.

Seven New Productions highlight the 2007/08 season at the Metropolitan Opera. Opera Company continues to bring opera to the masses. Met increases opera transmissions.

Audrey Heburn proved timeless to audiences through her style, talent and persona despite her uniqueness.

Thelma Ritter was the wonderful character actress who held her own in scenes with lead actresses such as Bette Davis.

What's not to love about savvy New York scribe Doug Wright? Not many playwrights have the brass cojones to write about audience etiquette!

A special night for Toronto theatregoers as Drowsy Chaperone opens at the Elgin Theatre before its national tour of the U.S.

Frost/Nixon, based on the infamous interview between British reporter David Frost and President Richard Nixon, has its Canadian premiere in Vancouver in Sept. 2008.

The Tony Nominated Top Girls; August: Osage County, and the American premiere of Kicking a Dead Horse are must-see theatre for the adventurous mind.

The May 2008 opening of Jersey Boys at the Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas marks yet another success for this musical about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons.

Alicia Keys is working hard to get the role of Maddy, the title role in Disney's The Frog Princess. Can she do it? I also check out the other major contestants.

A look at how Sierra Boggess and cast converted Little Mermaid from film to stage, survived harsh criticism, then won five nominations and generated millions in income.

The show-stealer is a cow named Milky White, who has no lines. But even without a voice, Milky White, played by dancer David Leef, has a lot of personality.

Terrence McNally is known for Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime, The Full Monty, Frankie and Johnny, Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class but what's next?

Since 1960 playwright Alan Bennett has delighted audiences and actors from Monty Python alumni to Dame Maggie Smith and Sir Nigel Hawthorne.

The summer weather has arrived in Vancouver, and despite the warm temperatures outside, things are heating up in the theatres as the summer theatre season begins.

Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine - from Underappreciated Ugly Duckling to mid-aged Gaia-like Goddess: Retsina, Calamari, and Opa! Life does exist beyond Wall.