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Tony Awards

British playwright Tom Stoppard poses with the award for Best Play "Leopoldstadt" in the Radio Hotel press room during the 76th Tony Awards, in New York City on June 11, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
November 29, 2025, 10:25 pm
Legendary British-Jewish playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Czech-born writer best known for Oscar-winning ‘Shakespeare In Love’; his final stage play, Tony-winning ‘Leopoldstadt,’ explored his own family’s Holocaust persecution
By Agencies
Shaina Taub accepts the Best Original Score award for "Suffs" onstage during The 77th Annual Tony Awards at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, June 16, 2024 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions via JTA)
June 17, 2024, 5:10 pm
‘Suffs’ creator cites Jewish text Pirkei Avot in Tony Awards acceptance speech
Shaina Taub says Talmudic quote ‘You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it’ grounded her while she wrote her award-winning Broadway show
By PHILISSA CRAMER
The Benhamou family of Paris conducts a Passover Seder in a scene from Broadway's "Prayer for the French Republic," which was nominated for three 2024 Tony Awards. (Jeremy Daniel via JTA)
May 2, 2024, 10:23 am
Two shows on antisemitism sweep 2024 Tony nominations
Revival of ‘Cabaret,’ about Weimar-era Berlin club, gets 9 nominations, while ‘Prayer for the French Republic,’ a 3-hour drama on antisemitism in France in 2016, snags 3
By Lisa Keys
Sheldon Harnick accepts the special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the Theatre at the Tony Awards at the Beacon Theatre on June 12, 2016, in New York (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
June 23, 2023, 9:14 pm
Sheldon Harnick, award-winning lyricist of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies aged 99
Also penned the words for ‘Fiorello!’ and ‘The Apple Tree’; actor Jackie Hoffman: ‘Like all brilliant persnickety lyricists he was a pain in the tuchus’
By Mark Kennedy
Tom Stoppard, center, and members of the company of "Leopoldstadt" accept the award for best play at the 76th annual Tony Awards at the United Palace theater in New York on June 11, 2023. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
June 12, 2023, 8:48 am
‘Leopoldstadt’ and ‘Parade’ win Tony awards, bringing antisemitism center stage
Tom Stoppard’s work wins best play and 3 other awards; dramatization of the blood libel and lynching of Leo Frank wins best revival of a musical
By Andrew Lapin
Micaela Diamond (L) and Ben Platt during the opening night curtain call for 'Parade' at New York City Center, November 1, 2022. (Bruce Glikas/WireImage/GettyImages via JTA)
June 10, 2023, 12:49 pm
Broadway’s ‘Parade’ cast says Mourner’s Kaddish before performances
Star Micaela Diamond says before almost every show, they stand in a circle and say Jewish prayer for the dead
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Micaela Diamond and Ben Platt during the opening night curtain call for 'Parade' at New York City Center, November 1, 2022. (Bruce Glikas/WireImage/GettyImages via JTA)
May 3, 2023, 10:27 am
Flood of Tony nominations caps big year for Jewish Broadway
‘Parade’ and ‘Leopoldstadt’ each get nods in six categories, announced by Lea Michele, who has been the talk of the town since taking the lead of ‘Funny Girl’ revival
By Andrew Lapin
Billy Crystal performing a 'Yiddish scat' routine during the 75th annual Tony Awards, June 12, 2022. (Screenshot via JTA)
June 14, 2022, 8:36 am
Billy Crystal scats in ‘Yiddish’ at Tony Awards
Comedian-actor flavors live performance with Jewish humor, complete with ‘oy vey’ chant
By Andrew Lapin
Beanie Feldstein as 'Fanny Brice' during the opening night curtain call for the musical 'Funny Girl' on Broadway at The August Wilson Theatre in New York City, April 24, 2022. (Bruce Glikas/WireImage via JTA)
May 11, 2022, 8:08 am
‘Funny Girl’ snubbed in Tony nominations, other Jewish shows fare better
Beanie Feldstein’s musical revival of Barbra Streisand role gets only one mention; ‘Lehman’ stock rises with eight nominations and ‘Girl from the North Country’ gets seven
By Andrew Lapin
In this June 6, 2000 file photo, Roger Berlind, producer of "Kiss Me, Kate," accept the Tony award for Best Revival of a Musical at the 54th annual Tony Awards ceremonies at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)
December 27, 2020, 5:05 am
Tony-winning Broadway producer Roger Berlind dies at 90
Jewish Brooklyn-born producer worked on over 100 shows and boosted the success of actors Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons
By AP
Ben Platt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, May 1, 2017. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images For US Weekly/ JTA)
March 18, 2020, 10:42 am
Ben Platt thanks Foundation for Jewish Camp after confab nixed
Tony-winning Broadway star records video message saying camp ‘meant the world for me,’ after coronavirus forces cancellation
By Marcy Oster
Rachel Chavkin poses in the press room with the award for best direction of a musical for "Hadestown" at the 73rd annual Tony Awards on June 9, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
June 10, 2019, 11:12 am
Jewish stars and directors dominate key categories at 2019 Tony Awards
‘Hadestown’ wins best musical and ‘The Ferryman’ takes best play award, as do their Jewish directors, Rachel Chavkin — only the 4th woman to win in that category — and Sam Mendes
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Director Rachel Chavkin attends the “Hadestown” opening night at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City, April 17, 2019. (Jim Spellman/Getty Images)
May 1, 2019, 1:36 pm
Jews steal the show in the 2019 Tony nominations
Multiple nods for acting, composing and directing in theater’s most prestigious awards ceremony
By Emily Burack
This combination of file pictures created on June 12, 2018 shows US actor Robert De Niro (L) delivering a press conference on May 16, 2018 and US President Donald Trump following a signing ceremony during the US-North Korea summit in Singapore on June 12, 2018. (Jorge Guerrero and Saul Loeb/AFP)
June 13, 2018, 6:04 pm
Trump slams actor Robert De Niro as ‘a very low IQ individual’
President says Oscar winner may be ‘punch-drunk’ for launching expletives at him during award ceremony
By Agencies
Robert De Niro introduces a performance by Bruce Springsteen at the 72nd annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, June 10, 2018, in New York. (Michael Zorn/Invision/AP)
June 11, 2018, 10:22 am
Robert De Niro says ‘Fuck Trump’ at Tony Awards
Actor earns standing ovation after twice cursing out president during ceremony; comments censored in live broadcast
By AP and ToI Staff
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