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Cole Escola poses with their award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for "Oh, Mary!" during The 78th Annual Tony Awards on June 08, 2025. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

Cole Escola was born for this

Broadway’s full of drama onstage and off. Now, one icon’s words have the whole industry choosing sides. (Cavan Images/Getty Images)

Broadway calls out Patti LuPone

Robert De Niro (Getty/Jorge Guerrero)

Robert De Niro at Tonys: "F**k Trump"

George C. Wolfe (Getty/Rob Kim)

The strange music of "The Iceman Cometh"

Danielle Brooks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lupita Nyong'o (Matthew Murphy/Atlantic Records/AP/Greg Allen)

It's not just "Hamilton"

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Stephen Trask (Bruce Glikas)

The making of a classic

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Associated Press

Associated Press

Chris Rock presenting the award for Best Musical at the Tony Awards on Sunday night.

In this theater publicity image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Andrew Rannells, center, performs with an ensemble cast in "The Book of Mormon" at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus) (AP)

Actress Scarlett Johansson accepts her award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play during the 61st annual Tony Awards in New York, Sunday, June 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (AP)

Natasha Vargas-Cooper

The cast of "Memphis," which received eight Tony Award nominations, performs during the 61st Tony Awards, Sunday, June 13, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (AP)

Robert Simonson

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