Thornton Wilder News

It's been a busy week on (and off) Broadway! It's Tony Awards weekend! Catch up on all the latest from the week ending June 6, 2025 with videos from Heathers, Hadestown, and more!

The best of Broadway will take the stage at Radio City Music Hall for the 78th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo. Need a refresher on how to watch and when? We've got you covered!

Nominees for Best Play are: English (Sanaz Toossi), The Hills of California (Jez Butterworth), John Proctor is the Villain (Kimberly Belflower), Oh, Mary! (Cole Escola), and Purpose (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins). Nominees for Best Revival of a Play are: Eureka Day (Jonathan Spector), Romeo + Juliet, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and Yellow Face (David Henry Hwang). Watch in this video!

Cortland Repertory Theatre’s production of Hello, Dolly! is running now through June 13 at the Little York Pavilion. Check out all new photos here!

The best of Broadway took the stage at Radio City Music Hall for the 78th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo. See all of the 2025 Tony winners here.

Lyrics & Lyricists celebrate and examine Kander & Ebb's work with one final performance June 2 at 7 pm. This production deserves to move. Its talent is full of that quality the team wrote about as in their score for Chicago: CLASS!

Classic American theater composers like Leonard Bernstein, John Kander, and Stephen Sondheim have been good to Aimee Doherty – giving her a wide range of characters to play and songs to sing. She has returned the favor by giving standout performances in their musicals that have made her one of the leading lights on greater Boston’s stages.

Cortland Repertory Theatre will kick off its 54th annual summer season with its first-ever production of the beloved musical “Hello, Dolly!” Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Hello, Dolly!, featuring an all-star cast of Tony Award winners and nominees, will be the eleventh presentation in the Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series—for one night only. Learn how to attend!

Late in Julia Izumi's play, Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!), one of the characters asks, 'Is that what the whole yogurt thing is about because I'm not getting it?' It's one of several goofball/meta moments in this very theatrical play and marks the spot where Izumi acknowledges that her chosen title may not make sense. But the play itself very much makes sense.

The Public Theater’s Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham announced the line-up for The Public’s 2025-26 Season at their landmark Astor Place home. We have the full season details here!

Michael McKean, currently on Broadway in Glengarry Glen Ross, visited The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to discuss the hit revival of the David Mamet play. Watch the interview!

The producers of the new Broadway production of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize & New York Drama Critics' Circle-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross, have announced that the production has reached recoupment.

Cleveland Play House has announced the 2025-26 season that will take and transport audiences beyond pure entertainment with gripping stories, powerful performances, and unforgettable moments.

Three of this season’s plays and two of this season’s musicals are already getting revived for the second or third time this century! Twenty-five years into the 21st century and Broadway has already seen multiple revivals of Glengarry Glen Ross, Our Town, Romeo and Juliet, Gypsy, and Sunset Boulevard. 

Penn State will present the premiere production of the musical True Crime Frankenstein or the Modern, Modern Prometheus June 12-15 in the Penn State Downtown Theatre.

Theatre for a New Audience has announced that OBIE Award-winning director Arin Arbus will be its next Artistic Director when Founding Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz steps down on August 31, 2025.

The 78th Annual Tony Awards nominations were announced by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce and here they are... celebrating the best of the 2024-25 theatre season. Check out the full list of nominees here.

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OFC Creations Theatre has announced the casting of Elaine Hendrix in OFC’s production of “Hello, Dolly!” next season. See here for more information!