Tonys 2026: a quiet revolution in the new-play categories
Twelve months of off-Broadway transfers crowd the slate — and the musicals field is the deepest it has been in a decade.
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Sondheim's most-defended musical finally arrives in a production that doesn't need the apology track. Three notes and a caveat.
Casting: Jefferson Mays returns to a one-actor show — but not the one you think
The actor who built his career on roles in plural has signed on to a new chamber piece at the Booth — adapting a 19th-century memoir nobody has staged before.
Stages: which off-Broadway shows are actually moving uptown
Eight transfers are talked-about. Three are real. Here's how to tell the difference, by a producer who's been on both sides of the conversation.
History: the public-domain pipeline that quietly built ten of your favourite musicals
From *A Gentleman's Guide* to *Six* to the most recent Tony winner — copyright expiry has done more for the form than any producer this decade.
The Play
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
The 2014 Tony winner — Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak’s comic murder farce built on a 1907 public-domain novel, the same source the 1949 Ealing classic drew from. One actor plays the entire D’Ysquith family. Eight of them die.
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A poison’d, sneering, gleeful little show that wraps an Edwardian farce around the meanest book on Broadway.
— The New York Times, 2013