There were many winners at Sunday’s 71st Annual Tony Awards hosted by Kevin Spacey at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. “Dear Even Hanson” won best musical and many other productions and artists won awards for their outstanding performances. Source
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“Dear Evan Hansen” wins big at Tony Awards
Watch Ben Platt’s acceptance speech for best leading actor in a musical at the 2017 Tony Awards. Source
Frank Underwood crashes Tony Awards
A few of your favorite “House of Cards” characters took the stage at the 2017 Tony Awards in New York City. Source
Stephen Colbert slams Trump at Tony Awards
“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert cracked a joke at the President Trump’s expense at the 71st Annual Tony Awards. Source
50 years of Yale Repertory Theatre
“The Rep” – what insiders call the Yale Repertory Theatre – is a unique entity on the American theater scene, a place where graduate students at the Yale Drama School work side-by-side with experts in every aspect of theater. Now celebrating its 50th year, it has been the launching pad for many a fabled career, from Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver to playwright Christopher Durang. Rita Braver looks back at the company’s history with Streep, artistic director James Bundy, and actor James Earl Jones, who appeared with then-Yale grad student Courtney B. Vance in the Yale Rep-produced premiere of August Wilson’s “Fences” in 1985. Source
Wonder Woman: Victorious
The real superpower of the comic book heroine, who just turned 75, is the power to inspire. Faith Salie explores the history of Wonder Woman (now featured in the hit movie with Gal Gadot), and talks with Lynda Carter, made immortal by playing the Amazonian on TV in the 1970s, and author Jill Lepore (“The Secret History of Wonder Woman”). An earlier version of this story originally aired on March 26, 2017. Source
Broadway’s own street artist
Elise Engler has painted the streetscapes of Broadway – all 13 miles of it! “Sunday Morning” joins the artist as she goes about capturing the bright lights and façades of New York City’s most famous avenue. Source
Lorde on the creative process
In this web exclusive, 20-year-old New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Lorde talks with Anthony Mason about her creative process. Source
From the archives: Glass music
French master glass musician Jean-Claude Chapuis, who performs music specially written for instruments made from glass, continues a tradition championed by Ben Franklin, inventor of a mechanized glass armonica. David Turecamo reports. Originally broadcast January 15, 2006. Source
Victim in Roman Polanski sexual assault wants case dropped
Samantha Geimer delivered a passionate plea to drop the case that’s kept her in the headlines for the past 40 years, saying the trauma of media scrutiny has been more painful than the crime. Geimer was 13 when director Roman Polanski gave her champagne and a pill during a photoshoot and sexually assaulted her. Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful intercourse with a minor in 1977, but fled the country to avoid prison time. Danielle Nottingham has more. Source