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To tune up for tonight’s broadcast of the #TonyAwards, we’ve curated a selection of pieces about nominated productions and the artists who created them. #NewYorkerArchive
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John Lahr profiles Sam Mendes, the film and stage director behind “The Lehman Trilogy,” nominated in eight categories.
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“Shange realized that she. . . . had something to say, not only about the fragility of her own existence but about the lives of the other colored girls she knew and loved and imagined.” Hilton Als explores the career of the playwright Ntozake Shange.
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.@vcunningham reviews “A Strange Loop,” the surreal Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Michael R. Jackson, which leads this year’s Tony contenders with 11 nods.
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.@Alex_Lily writes about a transporting revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company” (up for nine awards) and a new production of a show by David Lindsay-Abaire.
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In “All About the Hamiltons,” from 2015, @RebeccaMead_NYC profiles @Lin_Manuel as he prepares his most honored musical for its opening Off Broadway.
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