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74th annual Tony Awards were handed out. During a live ceremony hosted by stage and screen legend Audra McDonald that streamed on Paramount+ starting at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m.

The 74th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Audra McDonald, will be livestreamed tonight at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, exclusively on Paramount+. The presentation will honor the outstanding shows, performances and artistry of the 2019-2020 Broadway season, which was brought to a halt in March 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Audra McDonald walks the red carpet with her husband, Will Swenson, at the 2020 Tony Awards on Sunday (September 26) at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.

The 2020 Tony Awards are happening tonight!

The 2021 Tony Awards are happening tonight!

Lights up on the Great White Way! After being put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tony Awards are back and bigger than ever.

NEW YORK -- The Oscars, Grammys, Emmys and Golden Globes have all held their ceremonies during the pandemic. Now it's time for the Tony Awards, celebrating an art form that really needs the boost — live theater.Sunday's show has been expanded from its typical three hours to four, with Audra McDonald handing out Tonys for the first two hours and Leslie Odom Jr.

The 74th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Audra McDonald, will be livestreamed Sunday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, exclusively on Paramount+. The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back!, hosted by Leslie Odom, Jr., airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.

Last week, the Kennedy Center marked its golden anniversary with a grand spectacle in the Concert Hall, a live event full of several thousand masked guests that also doubled as the center’s public reopening after 18 months of the pandemic.“The 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert,” directed and choreographed by Emmy-winner and Tony-nominee Joshua Bergasse, featured a parade of performing artists of the highest caliber that lasted for over two and a half hours.

74th annual Tony Awards are set to celebrate the work of 2019 and 2020 before the pandemic caused Broadway to go dark, and after over a year of time to prepare, this show is sure to be an unforgettable one. The four-hour event that is the 74th annual Tony Awards will be split into two parts.

NEW YORK -- Broadway is in need of a boost these days so it has smartly called on one of its most beloved, award-winning stage veterans for help — Audra McDonald.McDonald has been tapped to host the Tony Awards on Sunday, a telecast which theater producers hope can serve as a splashy advertisement that a post-pandemic Broadway is inching back to normalcy.“I was honored that they asked me, and I am so happy to be a part of bringing Broadway back online, as it were,” McDonald told The Associated

Broadway’s Back!, the live two-hour broadcast special immediately following this Sunday’s streaming-only Tony Awards ceremony, will include appearances by Kristin Chenoweth, André De Shields, Jake Gyllenhaal, Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, Lin-Manuel Miranda and more, CBS and The American Theatre Wing announced today.

Broadway was represented at the 2021 Met Gala!

The long-delayed Tony Awards have landed two impressive master of ceremonies: Tony- and Grammy-winning singer and actor Leslie Odom Jr will host a TV special, and the awards will be hosted by Tony-, Grammy- and Emmy Award-winning actor and singer Audra McDonald. Producers of the telecast announced on Monday that Odom will host the two-hour celebration of Broadway’s return on September 26, and McDonald will host the award ceremony.

th Annual Tony Awards, and the return to Broadway.”“The Tony Awards Present: Broadways Back!” will be produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and White Cherry Entertainment, the team behind the annual Tony Awards telecast. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are executive producers for White Cherry Entertainment.

Broadway’s big Tony Award night will be hosted by by award-winning singer/actress Audra McDonald and the equally lauded Leslie Odom Jr., with the former taking on hosting duties for the 74th annual Tony Awards and Odom hosting the two-hour “Return To Broadway” concert event immediately following the trophy show.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaLeslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald will split emceeing duties for the Tony Awards and the special celebration of all things Broadway that will accompany the annual handing out of statues.

Will Thorne Staff WriterWhen Audra McDonald was nine, she was offered to play “the little Black servant girl” in a production of William Gibson’s “The Miracle Worker.”McDonald desperately wanted the part, but her parents stepped in and refused.“The said no, it’s a demeaning role, you don’t have to do that, there are other roles you can do. You may not be happy with this now, but one day you’ll understand that you don’t have to perpetuate that stereotype.

A smarter person than I said that prestige music biopics are superhero movies for boomers, and it’s a fine point. Like the Marvel or DC franchises, they’re marketing a familiar brand to an enthusiastic audience, which eagerly laps up what is, in essence, the same movie countless times over, working from a tightly constructed and unwavering structure.

Jennifer Hudson made a regal arrival to the premiere of Respect, held at Regency Village Theatre on Sunday (August 8) in Los Angeles.

EXCLUSIVE: For the first time in 75 years, New York’s Theatre World Awards honoring debut performances will bypass its annual awards ceremony this year – a reflection of the city’s absence of live shows during the 15-month Covid shutdown – and instead present a one-night-only virtual event honoring Broadway’s best, including special honorees Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, and André De Shields.

“The Good Fight”  stars Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald were joined by series creators Robert and Michelle King for a virtual panel for the ATX Television Festival to discuss the upcoming fifth season of the spin-off of “The Good Wife”.

A new trailer has arrived for the upcoming fifth season of W Network’s “The Good Fight” , and fans of the hit legal series are in for a wild ride.

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Jennifer Hudson becomes the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, in the brand new trailer for Respect.

bringing Aretha Franklin to our screens this year. Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will play the iconic singer in “Respect,” and in a new trailer for the film, we see exactly why she was the perfect casting choice.The trailer opens on Aretha as a young girl singing with her mother — played by the incomparable Audra McDonald — at the piano.

We’ve had definitive biopics on legendary Black soul artists like James Brown (“Get On Up“), Miles Davis (“Miles Ahead“), Tina Turner (“What’s Love Got To Do With It“), and Ray Charles (“Ray“). And while she’s appeared in many films and there have been documentaries made about her, there’s never really been a definitive movie biopic about the Queen of Soul, at least one that’s stuck in the collective conscious.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIt was this week a year ago that Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep and Audra McDonald went viral with their boozy rendition of “Ladies Who Lunch” during a virtual birthday celebration for Stephen Sondheim that raised money for Artists Striving to End Poverty.“It was a sloppy, drunken mess done in our back offices,” Baranski cracks.

NEW YORK -- What's better than a powerful voice from the Black theater community singing about change? How about 13 such voices?Vanessa Williams, Billy Porter and Audra McDonald and other founding members of Black Theatre United have recorded the song and video “Stand for Change,” with all proceeds donated to social justice efforts.

Meryl Streep, Mary-Louise Parker, Audra McDonald, Kevin Klein, Carla Gugino and Keanu Reeves have signed on to perform in a new virtual play series this spring while Broadway is closed.