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Tony Awards Wrap Up Broadway's biggest night was a smashing success, with Hamilton winning an impressive (though not record-making, -breaking, or -tie-ing) 11 awards. Herein, some fun Tony extras Photos: red carpet arrivals Video: chatting on the red carpet   Full list of Tony winners In Memoriam Photos: backstage during the ceremony Videos: all the musical performances Videos: acceptance speeches for categories presented on air and categories presented before the broadcast    Videos: "Thank You" cam - winners give extra thanks after their wins Photo essay: the after parties   Casting News Ben Schwartz ( House of Lies , This is Where I Leave You ) has joined the cast of Blue Iguana , a dark comedy also starring Sam Rockwell ( Fool for Love ). Deadline has more. Additional casting has been announced for the Hollywood Bowl presentation of A Chorus Line . Joining the previously announced Robert Fairchild are Krysta Rodriguez ( First Date , Sp...

Casting News It's official: Oscar Isaac ( Inside Llewyn Davis , Ex Machina ) will return to the NY stage in a 2017 production of Hamlet . Isaac will, as was previously speculated , play the titular, indecisive Dane. The Theatre for a New Audience production will be directed by Tony winner Sam Gold ( Fun Home , John ), and run June 4-July 30, 2017. Opening night will be celebrated on June 22. Tickets are now on sale to subscribers; single tickets will go on sale in early 2017. Playbill has more. Broadway.com reports that Tony nominee Marc Kudisch ( Hand to God ) will join the company of Finding Neverland , beginning April 12. He'll step into the role of Charles Frohman/Captain Hook. Tony winner Heather Headley ( Aida ) will succeed Jennifer Hudson in the acclaimed revival of The Color Purple . Hudson's final performance will be May 8, and Headley's first performance will be May 10. Broadway.com has more. Casting for the Encores! production of Do I Hear a ...

Just a quick note to let you all know how much I enjoyed the film adaptation of the Jonathan Tropper  novel, This is Where I Leave You . (Tropper adapted his novel for the screen; the film is directed by Shawn Levy ). Bravo to casting director Cindy Tolan for assembling such a winning ensemble. Jane Fonda  ( The Newsroom ) is the Altman family matriarch, Hilary, and when her husband dies, she tells her children it was their father's dying wish to have his family sit shiva together. And so, the children gather. There's the eldest son, Paul, played by the terrific Corey Stoll  ( House of Cards ). His wife is Alice ( Kathryn Hahn ), who also happened to date one of Paul's younger brothers, Judd ( Jason Bateman ). Judd is going through his own tsuris , having just found out his wife had been cheating on him with his boss. Paul and Judd's sister is Wendy, and the typically acerbic Tina Fey  turns in a touching, sincere performance as the grieving sister whose...

New York City Ballet on Broadway The New York Times checks in with NYCB principal dancers Megan Fairchild , Robbie Fairchild and Tiler Peck , who are all starring in Broadway or Broadway-bound musicals this year. Megan will portray "Miss Turnstiles" in the revival of On the Town , now in previews. (The musical is based on Jerome Robbins's Fancy Free , which marked the choreographer's first collaboration with Leonard Bernstein.) Robbie is set for An American in Paris , a musical adaptation of the Gene Kelly movie, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon ( A Place for Us , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ). The musical will debut in Paris this winter and then take up residency at Broadway's Palace Theatre in the spring. (Previews begin March 13, 2015; opening night is April 12.) And Peck takes on the title role in Little Dancer , a new musical inspired by the works of Edgar Degas. Little Dancer , debuting this fall at the Kennedy Center (Oct...