The 2018 Tony Award nominees were announced this morning. Take a look at our breakdown of each category – where the nominees stand at the start of the campaign, and what the key takeaways are of this morning’s announcement.
Every year, we like to make sure that theater fans have a way to spend time with their loved ones without ignoring their first, true love, the theater. Here is our 2018 list of 14 theatrical twists to classic date-night activities. Have a Happy and Theatrical (but hopefully nothing too dramatic) Valentines Day!
We take a look at where people stand leading up to when nominations come out. Who is a shoo-in and who is a dark horse to hear their name on Nomination day? Read to find out.
What happened to The Great Comet and why did its investors know what expect a larger return? We use the financials of The Great Comet to dissect the investor/producer relationship and how to break down the basic financials of a Broadway show.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on the blog, but I have a good reason! We’ve been busy launching The OHenry Report with BroadwayWorld.com, a new theater podcast which gives you a one of a kind look inside the business of Broadway.
With the Tonys behind us, we take a look at this year’s top Tony Awards Experts.
We’ve spent the last six weeks tracking the 2017 Tony Awards race. Here are our predictions in each category.
The OHenry Productions Tony Awards Prediction machine goes head-to-head with Random.org in the 2017 Tony Awards
Our approach to predicting the Tony Award winners rests partly on statistical analysis, and partly on our own findings. Ahead of making our final predictions later this week, we publish the odds for each category as dictated by the data.
There are about 10 days until the Tony Awards Ceremony. We go over the categories which have nominees so far ahead that no one will be able to catch up.
“An Upset,” a one-act play by David Auburn first seen in New York in 2008, is being revived around the city timed to the Open, including three shows at 99 Bowery beginning Sept. 12.
“It’s always hard to put a finger on why something is suddenly in the zeitgeist,” said Ruhl, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony Award nominee. “I don’t know why it is happening with tennis in theater right now. But for me, while researching the Bush dynasty, I realized tennis is such a big part of their lives and a wonderful metaphor for family competition and sibling rivalry.”
In “Scenes From Court Life,” Greg Keller plays George W. Bush as a more shrewd politician than his brother Jeb but an inferior tennis player.
“Athletes are almost another species to playwrights,” Keller said. “The writer’s world is so subjective, but for athletes there is always a winner and a loser.”
Tennis holds undeniable appeal for the theater. For starters, it can encompass widely different settings, including the Bush family compound, the public courts of the Lower East Side and Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Tennis, Keller said, is also “one-on-one, but you are not physically touching each other like in boxing.”
He added, “You are in your own little world.”
Bragen has written other works about tennis, including a monologue called “Game, Set, Match.” He said the sport offered intimacy and isolation — great fodder for writers.
“There’s a kind of dance that I feel as a player, but you are alone in your own head at the same time you are connected to other person,” Bragen said.
Ruhl said she liked the combat mixed with decorum, “the formality within the structure of competition.”
Ryan Sweeney, who played Division I tennis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is producing and starring in “An Upset,” said, “Tennis is a lonely sport, and Auburn’s script touches on the players’ vulnerabilities.”
