Awards: critics picks "Hadestown" and "The Ferryman" took home the top prizes at last Sunday's Tony Awards; check out the full list of winners and my top takeaways about the telecast here; and last Tuesday, André De Shields, Ephraim Sykes, Sarah Stiles, and Marylouise Burke were honored with Actors Equity Foundation Awards
News: with the 2018-2019 Broadway season officially over, here's a look at the shows slated and rumored for the 2019-2020 Broadway season; "Gary: A Sequel to Titus Adronicus", long suffering at the box office, becomes the first post-Tony casualty, closing today, several weeks ahead of schedule; Dave Chapelle becomes the latest personality to book a summer residency at Broadway's Lunt Fontanne Theatre; Ed Harris will replace Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch in Broadway's smash hit, "To Kill a Mockingbird"; critic's pick "Ain't Too Proud" will launch a national tour in 2020, and a new tour of "Xanadu" starring drag queens Ginger Minj and Jinkx Monsoon will soon hit the road; Lin-Manuel Miranda will play Piraguero, the flavored ice salesman, in his forthcoming "In the Heights" film adaptation
Real Estate: check out the conversion plans for the long-vacant Times Square Theatre, the last of the historic theatres on 42nd Street to be re-purposed; my take: turning this theatre into retail space is a travesty we will long regret; and plans are underway for a new Broadway museum to open in Times Square in 2020
Development: a new musical using the songs of John Mellencamp is in development
Watch: all the musical performances from the Tony Awards, this bonus of Billy Porter singing "Everything's Coming Up Roses" during a commercial break; and this trailer for the forthcoming "Fiddler" documentary
Read: this Vogue preview piece about "Moulin Rouge! The Musical"
