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2/5 Based on the true story of a couple blighted by a painful diagnosis and the loss of their home, this drama ultimately becomes yet another pat story about how reconnecting with nature is good for the soul

Marianne Elliott directs this affecting drama, based on Raynor Winn’s memoir, which builds steadily as the couple journey towards redemption

NEW YORK — It's been a long time coming, but change has finally arrived on Broadway, where for the first time Willy Loman and his family are played by Black actors.

NEW YORK — Broadway will soon have a little less “Company.”

Michael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” received more Tony nominations than any other show in Broadway’s 2021-22 season, but Tony voters are a fickle lot. Recall what happened to Jeremy O. Harris’ “Slave Play” last year. Nominated for 12 awards, a record for a drama, the production went home empty-handed.

Sam Mendes’s The Lehman Trilogy and Marianne Elliott’s Company took 10 prizes between them and demonstrated the power of UK subsidised theatre

The Tony Awards were back for the first time since 2019

Surely many in the audience were thinking it, but “Company” director Marianne Elliott said it most directly at Sunday's Tony awards: In the devastating two years since the pandemic hit, it “felt at times that live theater was endangered.” As in, the industry might never recover. The exuberant ceremony Sunday…

Best leading actor in a play went to veteran actor Simon Russell Beale and the direction categories were dominated by Sam Mendes and Marianne Elliott