Latest Tony Award Stories
Go N'Syde, The Official Beverage of The Trip to Bountiful, Celebrates Star Cicely Tyson's Drama Desk Award Win With Exclusive Flavor Inspired by Her Character NEW YORK, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of Cicely Tyson winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play last night, entertainment and media entrepreneur KEVIN LILES today announced an extension of his business portfolio with new venture, Go N'Syde - the official beverage of four-time Tony Award...
Miss Zucckero, 14, is one of the youngest performers ever to have passed the strict auditions for the casting of her part in this Tony Award® Winning Musical. SEWICKLEY, Pa., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sewickley's own Gabriela Zucckero will be appearing in the upcoming Pittsburgh CLO production of the Tony Award®-winning musical "42nd Street". She is one of the youngest performers ever, at age 14, to have passed the strict auditions for the casting of her part. The production...
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Grammy® Award and Tony Award-Winner Heather Headley releases her latest CD, Only One In The World. The CD, which bows today, features new songs penned by Headley, R&B hits, familiar favorites and a cut from the upcoming production of The Bodyguard: A New Musical in which Headley makes her London West End debut this fall in Whitney Houston's role, Rachel Marron. Only One In The World is released by in:ciite Media, distributed by...
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexxus Salon Hair Care today announced a multi-year partnership with the Tony Awards as its Official and Exclusive Beauty Partner, making Nexxus the first beauty and hair care brand to partner with the Tony Awards. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120605/NY18752LOGO ) "The Tony Awards is a great opportunity to capture the essence of what Nexxus stands for - remarkable performance and captivating results - in a way...
NEW YORK, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- What's the next best thing to the bright lights of Broadway? It just might be the great blue sea. As the only cruise line to feature fully-licensed Broadway productions, Royal Caribbean International will partner with the Tony Awards to include a live broadcast from the middle of the Caribbean Sea, where the line's Oasis of the Seas' cast of Hairspray will perform a show-stopping number in the ship's Opal Theater as part of the Tony Awards...
NEW YORK, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MASTERWORKS BROADWAY proudly announces the signing of the New Broadway Cast Recording of Evita. The album will be recorded in April in anticipation of a June 19th 2012 release and is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Visit MasterworksBroadway.com for more information as it develops. Producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders present the first new production of the seven-time Tony Award-winning Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber...
LOS ANGELES, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Globe and Grammy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Queen Latifah has signed on to star in and executive produce the Lifetime Original Movie Event, Steel Magnolias, a television adaptation of the iconic play and 1989 film of the same name, reuniting her with her producing duo Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, from the Oscar and Golden Globe winning Chicago and Hairspray. (Zadan and Meron also produce Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva and...
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Click here for official event photo >Click here for red carpet photos on Getty Images >Click here for Prop. 8 Trial Fact Sheet >Tonight the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact launched the all-star Broadway premiere of "8" to a packed and enthusiastic audience. The play, which chronicles the historic trial in the federal legal challenge to California's Proposition 8, was written by AFER Founding Board Member and...
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the American Foundation for Equal Rights, in partnership with Broadway Impact, announce the complete cast and roles for the highly anticipated one-night only staged reading of "8," a new play chronicling the historic trial in the federal legal challenge to California's Proposition 8. The play is written by AFER Founding Board Member and Academy Award-winning writer Dustin Lance Black and will be directed by two-time Tony Award-winning actor and...
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), in partnership with Broadway Impact, announce additional casting and roles for the highly anticipated one-night only staged reading of "8," a new play chronicling the historic trial in the federal legal challenge to California's Proposition 8. The play is written by AFER Founding Board Member and Academy Award-winning writer Dustin Lance Black and will be directed by two-time Tony Award-winning...
