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This evening, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Band of the The Band's Visit took to their stage door for a celebratory concert following their first performance after taking home ten Tonys including Best Musical on Sunday night. Check out video of the performance here!

Smokey Joe's Cafe is grooving across the stage at The Ogunquit Playhouse (Bradford Kenney, Executive Artistic Director) through June 9 prior to the New York production. Performances at Stage 42 begin on Friday, July 6. Visit www.smokeyjoescafemusical.com for more information.

Tony Awards night has come and gone. The songs have all been sung, the dances danced, the trophies awarded, and the champagne popped to toast another tremendous Broadway season.

Pulitzer and Tony Award®-winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George comes to ZACH's Topfer Stage. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, Sunday in the Park with George plays from May 30-June 24, 2018 under the direction of Producing Artistic Director Dave Steakley with musical direction by Allen Robertson.

It has been reported that the acclaimed stage adaptation of the cult-hit musical film Newsies will make its return to the big screen this summer. Screenings are scheduled to take place July 26 and 28 at select cinemas. See details here!

On our final day of this year's 30 Days of Tony, let's take a quick flashback to last year's big winner, Dear Evan Hansen!

On Day 29 of 30 Days of Tony, we're flashing back to the original, Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Once on This Island!

Laura Linney makes her London Theatre debut in Pulitzer Prize-winning Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton, directed by Richard Eyre at the Bridge Theatre. 

The Bobby G Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in Colorado high-school musical theatre. The sixth annual awards took place on May 24, at the Buell Theatre. Take a look back at a recap of all the fun!

Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, is proud to present the world premiere musical, The Royal Family of Broadway. Check out the show's composer William Finn discussing his new work below!

This afternoon composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group production company and Shanghai Media Group Live announced a new partnership titled the 'Phantom China Project'.

According to Baz Bamigboye of The Daily Mail, the Tony Award-winning musical Come From Away will bring Gander to London in 2019, when the show opens up shop at the Phoenix Theatre with an all-British cast. 

'Love and Loss', a collection of the five, highest-rated on Amazon short stories from Hewes Pictures, will open theatrically in Somerville, MA, June 8-14th. Featuring Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, and Academy Award nominee Burt Young, these shorts are also currently available on Amazon.

Take a walk on the wild side! Dressed to impress, Todd Almond steps back into the title role of Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati's season closer Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Written by John Cameron Mitchell with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, this award-winning rock musical is an innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny story of a gender-crossed glam rocker determined to become a superstar. The regional revival of ETC's 2001 and 2003 hit production is a rocking ride, entertaining, touching, and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile. Playing June 5-July 1, 2018. Directed by D. Lynn Meyers. Presented by The Rosenthal Family Foundation and sponsored by LPK.

July 20, 1969... a man walks on the moon... and Diana, a Chicago housewife, walks out of her comfortable suburban life. Suddenly alone in a fast-changing world, she finds a series of unexpected encounters can turn one small step into a giant, life-changing leap. This intimate, hilarious and heart-breaking tour-de-force musical will leave you cheering for the resilience of the human spirit. Get a preview of the new musical below!

The new stars of Queer Eye on Netflix have yet to make a splash in the Big Apple, but five Broadway actors parody the roles of the "Fab Five" with their new project: 2018 Tony Award Nominee Grey Henson currently starring as Damian in Mean Girls on Broadway.

This summer The 5th Avenue Theatre is staging an exciting new production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Joshua Castille as Quasimodo. A Deaf actor, Castille is celebrated for his performances in Tribes at ACT Theatre in Seattle and in Spring Awakening with Deaf West on Broadway.

Today we're celebrating the groundbreaking original production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, which began its great work on Broadway on this day in 1993. 

On Day 27 of 30 Days of Tony, we're flashing back to the first Tony appearance by The Band's Visit composer (and nominee for Best Original Score) David Yazbeck with his revealing musical adaptation of The Full Monty!

On Day 26 of 30 Days of Tony, we flashback to the last (and Tony-winning!) revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical, Carousel, which is nominated yet again this year for Best Revival of a Musical.