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Tony Honors For Excellence In Theatre
The Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre is a non-competitive award created by the American Theatre Wing in 1990. They are presented to institutions, individuals and/or organizations that have demonstrated extraordinary achievement in theatre, but are not eligible to compete in any of the established Tony Award categories. The Tony Honors "are announced in the autumn, and they are bestowed at a separate ceremony that affords recipients a special moment in the spotlight." As explained in ''Playbill'', "In 2003, a new tradition began for the Tony Honors, which were previously announced during the Tony Awards broadcast. Last year, however, the Honors were presented in the fall..." The first recipient was Alfred Drake, who was recognized for his lengthy career in musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatre, theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Theatre Wing
The American Theatre Wing (the Wing for short) is a New York City–based non-profit organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre", according to its mission statement. Originally known as the Stage Women's War Relief during World War I, it later became a part of the World War II Allied Relief Fund under its current name. The ATW created and sponsors the Tony Awards in theatrical arts. Background Stage Women's War Relief Stage Women's War Relief was founded in 1917 to organize charitable giving in support of the war effort. Its founders, led by playwright and director Rachel Crothers, included the actress and playwright Louise Closser Hale and actresses Dorothy Donnelly, Josephine Hull, Minnie Dupree, Elizabeth Tyree and Louise Drew. The organization established workrooms for sewing uniforms and other garments (with total output totaling 1,863,645 articles), set up clothing and food collection centers, sold Liberty bond, Liberty Bonds, and opened a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
50th Tony Awards
The 50th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Majestic Theatre on June 2, 1996. Nathan Lane was the host. Eligibility Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1995–1996 season before May 2, 1996 are eligible. ;Original plays *''The Apple Doesn’t Fall…'' *'' Buried Child'' *'' Getting Away with Murder'' *''Jack: A Night on the Town with John Barrymore'' *''Master Class'' *'' Moon Over Buffalo'' *'' Racing Demon'' *''Sacrilege'' *''Seven Guitars'' ;Original musicals *''Big'' *'' Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk'' *'' Chronicle of a Death Foretold'' *'' Rent'' *''State Fair'' *''Swinging on a Star'' *'' Victor/Victoria'' ;Play revivals *''Bus Stop'' *'' A Delicate Balance'' *'' The Father'' *'' Fool Moon'' *'' Garden District'' *''Holiday'' *''An Ideal Husband'' *'' Inherit the Wind'' *''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' *''The Night of the Iguana'' *''Paul Robeson'' *'' The Play's the Thing'' *'' The School for Scandal'' *''The Tempest'' ;Musical revivals *''Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
56th Tony Awards
The 56th Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 2, 2002 and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The event was co-hosted by Bernadette Peters and Gregory Hines. With her win as a producer of ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'', Whoopi Goldberg became the 10th person to become an EGOT winner. The ceremony The show opened with a tribute to Richard Rodgers, featuring a medley of his songs performed by Marvin Hamlisch, Harry Connick Jr., Michele Lee, Mos Def, Lea Salonga, Peter Gallagher, John Raitt, Bernadette Peters, Gregory Hines, and the company of ''Oklahoma!'' A Broadway/New York song medley was performed by Bernadette Peters and Gregory Hines."Year by Year 2002" tonyawards.com, accessed April 28, 2011 Presentations from no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre World
''Theatre World'' is an annual United States, American theatre pictorial and statistical print publication. It includes Broadway theatre, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional theater in the United States, regional theatre, national theatrical awards, and obituaries. ''Theatre World'' In 1944, three young men who loved theater, Daniel Blum, Norman McDonald, and John Willis, created ''Theatre World'', a magazine about the theater. ''Theatre World'' was first published in 1945. George Jean Nathan's annual ''Theatre Book Of The Year'' (Alfred A. Knopf) preceded and competed. ''Theatre World'' is an annual pictorial and statistical record of United States, American theatre, in print. It includes Broadway theatre, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional theater in the United States, regional theatre, as well as a complete national theatrical awards section and obituaries. It is a pictorial and statistical reference to each American theatrical season, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Dramatists
New Dramatists is an organization of playwrights founded in 1949 and located at 424 West 44th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen (Clinton) neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The members of New Dramatists participate in seven-year residencies to build up their playwriting skills and develop their careers. In addition to housing resident playwrights, New Dramatists also holds workshops for young authors. The organization hosts an annual luncheon at which actors and producers who have made contributions to American theatre are honored. Brian Stokes Mitchell, Glenn Close, and Meryl Streep are among past honorees. The New Dramatists have a library that is open to the public on weekdays. Building New Dramatists is located in a former church built in the 1880s in the Gothic Revival style. It was the location in turn of St. Matthew's German Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, the Lutheran Metropolitan Inner Mission Society, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second-largest public library in the United States behind the Library of Congress and the List of largest libraries, fifth-largest public library in the world. It is a private, non-governmental, independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing. The library has branches in the boroughs of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island and affiliations with academic and professional libraries in the New York metropolitan area. The city's other two boroughs, Brooklyn and Queens, are not served by the New York Public Library system, but rather by their respective borough library systems: the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Public Library. The branch libraries are open to the general public and consist of Lending library, circulating libraries. The New York Public Library also has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Corwin
Betty L. Corwin (November 19, 1920 – September 10, 2019) was an American theater archivist, known for her creation in 1970 of what would become the Theater on Film and Tape Archive of the New York Library for the Performing Arts. Corwin proposed the idea of the archive to the library, volunteering her services for the first four years. She would go on to direct the archive for 31 years, retiring from the position in 2000. Life and career Corwin was born as Betty Linkoff in New York City to James Linkoff, a bookmaker, and Mae (née Rosenberg) Linkoff, a homemaker, but grew up in Manhattan. While working as a script reader in a theatrical office, she met Henry Corwin, a dermatologist. She married him in 1943 and then moved with him first to Westport and then finally settling in Weston, Connecticut. While living in Weston, she established and managed a bookstore in Westport while volunteering at the psychiatric emergency department of Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
55th Tony Awards
The 55th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 3, 2001 and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television . The event was co-hosted by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. ''The Producers (musical), The Producers'', starring Lane and Broderick, won 12 awards (every award it was eligible to win), breaking the 37-year-old record set by ''Hello, Dolly! (musical), Hello, Dolly!'' to become the most awarded show in Tony Awards history. Mel Brooks's win made him the eighth person to become an EGOT. Eligibility Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2000–01 season before May 3, 2001 are eligible. ;Original plays *''The Dinner Party (play), The Dinner Party'' *''The Gathering'' *''George Gershwin Alone'' *''The Invention of Love'' *''Judgment at Nuremberg'' *''King Hedley II'' *''Proof (play), Proof'' *''Stones in His Pockets'' *''The Tale of the Allergist's Wife'' ;Original musicals *''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (musical) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encores!
Encores! is a Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, Tony-honored concert series dedicated to reviving United States, American Musical theatre, musicals, usually with their original orchestrations. Presented by New York City Center since 1994, Encores! has revived shows by Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, George Gershwin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, among many others. Encores! was the brainchild of Judith Daykin, who launched the series shortly after becoming Executive Director of City Center in 1992. Besides initiating Encores!, Daykin is credited for turning City Center from a rental hall into a presenting organization. The series has spawned nineteen cast album, cast recordings and numerous Broadway transfers, including Kander and Ebb's ''Chicago (musical), Chicago'', which is now the second List of the longest-running Broadway shows, longest-running musical in Broadway history. Videotapes of many Encores! productions are col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Heckart
Anna Eileen Heckart ( Herbert; March 29, 1919 – December 31, 2001) was an American stage and screen actress whose career spanned nearly 60 years. Early life Heckart was born Anna Eileen Herbert in Columbus, Ohio. Her mother Esther () wed Leo Herbert (not the child's father) at her own mother's insistence so her child would not be born with the stigma of illegitimacy. Eileen was soon after legally adopted by her maternal grandmother's wealthy second husband, J.W. Heckart, providing her with the surname by which she would be known throughout the remainder of her life. She had two stepsisters, Anne and Marilyn. She graduated from Ohio State University with a B.A. in drama. She additionally studied drama at HB Studio in New York City. Career Stage Heckart acted with the Blackfriars Guild and studied for four years at the American Theatre Wing. Heckart began her Broadway career as the assistant stage manager and an understudy for '' The Voice of the Turtle'' in 1943. Her many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
54th Tony Awards
The 54th Annual Tony Awards was an event held at Radio City Music Hall on June 4, 2000, and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS. It was hosted, for the third time since 1997, by Rosie O'Donnell, with special guest Nathan Lane. Eligibility Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1999–2000 season, before May 2, 2000, were eligible. ;Original plays *''Copenhagen'' *'' Dirty Blonde'' *'' The Green Bird'' *'' The Ride Down Mt. Morgan'' *''Rose'' *''Taller Than a Dwarf'' *'' True West'' *''Voices in the Dark'' *'' Waiting in the Wings'' *''Wrong Mountain'' ;Original musicals *''Aida'' *'' Contact'' *'' James Joyce's The Dead'' *''Kat and the Kings'' *'' Marie Christine'' *'' Putting It Together'' *'' Riverdance – On Broadway'' *''Saturday Night Fever'' *'' Swing!'' *'' The Wild Party'' ;Play revivals *'' Amadeus'' *'' Epic Proportions'' *''A Moon for the Misbegotten'' *'' The Price'' *'' The Rainmaker'' *'' The Real Thing'' *''Uncle Vanya'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
53rd Tony Awards
The 53rd Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Gershwin Theatre on June 6, 1999. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television.Lefkowitz, David and Simonson, Robert" 'Fosse', 'Annie', 'Salesman' & 'Side Man' Win Top Tonys" playbill.com, June 7, 1999 The show did not have a formal host. Eligibility Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1998–1999 season before April 30, 1999 are eligible. ;Original plays *''Amy's View'' *'' The Blue Room'' *'' Closer'' *'' Colin Quinn – An Irish Wake'' *''Getting and Spending'' *'' I'm Still Here... Damn It!'' *'' The Lonesome West'' *''More to Love'' *'' Not About Nightingales'' *'' Side Man'' *''Via Dolorosa'' *'' The Weir'' ;Original musicals *''Band in Berlin'' *'' The Civil War'' *''Footloose'' *'' Fosse'' *''The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm'' *'' It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues'' *'' Marlene'' *''Parade'' *''Swan Lake'' ;Play revivals *''Death of a Salesman'' *''Electra'' *'' Fool Moon'' *'' The Iceman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
