Pierce will face-off against both stars of Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” - Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins - as well as former “Will & Grace” star Sean Hayes from “Good Night, Oscar,” and Stephen McKinley Henderson, who earned his second nomination, having gotten one in 2019 for “Fences.” Wendell Pierce, who has won a Tony for producing “Clybourne Park,” earned his first nomination as an actor on Broadway for a blistering revival of “Death of a Salesman” and Jessica Chastain, an Oscar-winner for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” got her first Tony nomination for a stripped down version of “ A Doll’s House.” “Parade,” a doomed musical love story set against the real backdrop of a murder and lynching in Georgia in pre-World War I, earned six nods, including for Platt, hoping to win a second Tony after his triumph in 2017 with “Dear Evan Hansen,” and rising star and first-time nominee Micaela Diamond. And it’s just so beautiful to know that the work that we put in - that blood, that sweat and tears - are not in vain.” Audiences felt like it was something special. It was unfortunate that people don’t get a chance to experience it because we really felt like it was something special. “We only got a chance to do about like 60 performances and this cast and this creative team were like some of the most talented you’ve ever seen. “It is a little bittersweet,” Cooper said. He and his family were in the living room where as a 6-year-old, he put on his first plays. “Ain’t No Mo,’” which earned six nominations, begins with the United States government emailing every Black citizen with the offer of a free plane ticket to Africa, and each scene explores how various personalities respond to the offer.Ĭooper learned he’s been nominated twice - as best playwright and as lead actor - while visiting his childhood home in Texas. Cooper, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Between Riverside and Crazy” and “Cost of Living,” parallel stories of two caretakers and their respective patients. The rest of the category is made up of “Ain’t No Mo,’” the short-lived but critical applauded work by playwright and actor Jordan E. WATCH: Broadway honors its best at the 75th Tony Awards In the best new play category, nods were distributed to Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” which explores Jewish identity with an intergenerational story, and “Fat Ham,” James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” set at a Black family’s barbecue in the modern South. The critical musical darling “Kimberly Akimbo,” with Victoria Clark playing a teen who ages four times faster than the average human, rounds out the best musical category. Three shows tied with nine nominations each: “& Juliet,” which reimagines “Romeo and Juliet” and adds some of the biggest pop hits of the past few decades, “New York, New York,” which combined two generations of Broadway royalty in John Kander and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and “Shucked,” a surprise lightweight musical comedy studded with corn puns. “I think the pandemic put a lot of things in perspective, both in terms of improvements we needed to make in the community and also just the way that everybody’s feeling about the world and about being a human,” said Ben Platt, nominated for “Parade.” “The art people are making has a real urgency and a real purpose.” The message of self-acceptance and respect for all was echoed across Broadway, from a revival of “Parade” to a Black actor-led “Death of a Salesman” to the new play “Ain’t No Mo.’”? A look inside the acclaimed new theater production of ‘Life of Pi’.Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks explores the pandemic in ‘Plays for the Plague Year’.Playwright Tom Stoppard grapples with his hidden past in latest work.A Pulitzer Prize winner’s modern take on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’.Stars of ‘Death of a Salesman’ revival on how casting impacts story.Jessica Chastain takes on ‘A Doll’s House’ in new Broadway adaptation.
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