The 2017 Tony Awards, Part 1

My Little Tonys

Nordyke, Kimberly. [“'Star Trek' Star Claims Kevin Spacey Made a Pass at Him at Age 14; Spacey Apologizes, Comes Out as Gay.](www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/star-trek-star-claims-kevin-spacey-made-a-pass-at-him-at-age-14-1052828) The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2017.

Schulman, Michael. [“The 2017 Tony Nominations: War, Peace, and Bette Midler.”](www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-tony-nominations-war-peace-and-bette-midler) The New Yorker, 10 July 2017.

Paulson, Michael. [“Tony Voters Point to Tight Races and Sure Bets.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/theater/tony-voters-point-to-tight-races-and-sure-bets.html) The New York Times, 8 June 2017.

[“The Tonys 2017: Who Will Win (and Who Should).”](www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/theater/tony-award-nominations-ben-brantley-jesse-green.html) The New York Times, 11 May 2017.

Evans, Greg. [“Kevin Spacey Breaks Up Emmy's Long Romance With Tony.”](deadline.com/2018/07/emmy-award-kevin-spacey-tony-award-variety-special-live-1202425231/) Deadline, 12 July 2018.

Isherwood, Charles. [“The 71st Tony Awards Review: Charles Isherwood on Why the Awards Ceremony That Celebrates Great Theater Was So Off-Key.”](www.indiewire.com/2017/06/71-tony-awards-show-review-tonys-2017-1201840941/) IndieWire, 12 June 2017.

[“Review: Song-and-Dance Man Kevin Spacey's Tony Awards Was Sweet, Corny and Touching.”](www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-tony-awards-review-20170611-story.html) Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2017.

Paulson, Michael. [“2017 Tony Awards: 'Great Comet' Leads With 12 Nominations.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/theater/tony-awards-nominations.html) The New York Times, 2 May 2017.

Brantley, Ben, and Jesse Green. [“2017 Tony Awards: Our Theater Critics Debate the Nominations.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/theater/nominations-hello-dolly-dear-evan-hansen-tony-awards.html?module=inline) The New York Times, 2 May 2017.

Rooney, David. [“The 71st Annual Tony Awards: TV Review.”](www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/71st-annual-tony-awards-tv-review-1012314) The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2017.

Genzlinger, Neil. [“An Uneven Night for Kevin Spacey as Tonys Host.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/theater/tony-awards-review-recap-kevin-spacey.html?_r=0) The New York Times, 12 June 2017.

Littleton, Cynthia. [“TV Review: 71st Annual Tony Awards.”](variety.com/2017/legit/reviews/tony-awards-2017-review-kevin-spacey-1202462176/) Variety, 12 June 2017.

Soloski, Alexis. [“House of Bad Jokes: Kevin Spacey Wins the Tony Award for Worst Host.”](www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2017/jun/12/kevin-spacey-tony-awards-host-2017) The Guardian, 12 June 2017.

Green, Jesse. [“Listening to the Best (and Worst) of Broadway.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/theater/listening-to-the-best-and-worst-of-broadway.html) The New York Times, 12 July 2017.

Paulson, Michael, and Erik Piepenburg. [“'I'm in Love With Everybody': Tony Award Nominees React.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/theater/im-in-love-with-everybody-tony-award-nominees-react.html) The New York Times, 2 May 2017.

Smith, Emily. [“New York Times Critic Fired over Relationship with Scott Rudin.”](pagesix.com/2017/02/15/new-york-times-critic-fired-over-relationship-with-scott-rudin/) Page Six, 16 Feb. 2017.

Kachka, Boris. [“Why Was New York Times Theater Critic Charles Isherwood Fired?”](www.vulture.com/2017/02/why-was-times-theater-critic-charles-isherwood-fired.html) Vulture, 22 Feb. 2017.

Marks, Peter. [“'Dear Evan Hansen': Original Story, High Hopes for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.”](www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/benj-pasek-and-justin-paul-swing-for-the-fences-with-dear-evan-hansen/2015/07/09/50f59f48-219c-11e5-aeb9-a411a84c9d55_story.html?noredirect=on) The Washington Post, 10 July 2015.

Isherwood, Charles. [“Review: In 'Dear Evan Hansen,' Teenage Angst Grows Complicated.”](www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/theater/review-in-dear-evan-hansen-teenage-angst-grows-complicated.html) The New York Times, 3 Aug. 2015.

Isherwood, Charles. [“Review: 'Dear Evan Hansen' Puts a Twist on Teenage Angst.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/theater/review-dear-evan-hansen-puts-a-twist-on-teenage-angst.html) The New York Times, 2 May 2016.

Green, Jesse. [“Review: 'Dear Evan Hansen' Has a New Evan, and a New Balance.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/theater/dear-evan-hansen-cast-change-taylor-trensch-review.html) The New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018.

Als, Hilton. [“Pop Psychology Onstage in ‘Dear Evan Hansen.’”](www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/pop-psychology-onstage-in-dear-evan-hansen) The New Yorker, 9 July 2019.

Lovell, Joel. [“How a 23-Year-Old With Mild Anxiety and a Charmed Life Became the Lying, Sobbing, Lovesick Toast of Broadway.”] (www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/theater/how-ben-platt-beame-the-toast-of-broadway-dear-evan-hansen-tony-awards.html?module=inline) The New York Times, 10 May 2017.

Green, Jesse. [“Review: 'Dear Evan Hansen,' With a Real Teenage Evan.”](www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/theater/dear-evan-hansen-review.html) The New York Times, 23 May 2019.

Green, Jesse. [“Theater Review: Dear Evan Hansen Could Be the Next Fun Home.”](www.vulture.com/2016/05/theater-review-dear-evan-hansen.html) Vulture, 2 May 2016.

Green, Jesse. [“Theater Review: Dear Evan Hansen Moves Uptown, and Gains Something Indefinable.”](www.vulture.com/2016/12/theater-review-dear-evan-hansen-moves-uptown.html) Vulture, 5 Dec. 2016.

Zinoman, Jason. [“The Hero of the Likely Best Musical Tony Winner Is a Lying Creep Everybody Loves.”](slate.com/culture/2017/06/the-dissembling-liar-at-the-center-of-broadway-hit-dear-evan-hansen.html) Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017.

Gans, Andrew. [“A Novel Adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen Will Be Released in October.”](www.playbill.com/article/a-novel-adaptation-of-dear-evan-hansen-will-be-released-in-october) Playbill, 19 Mar. 2018.

Alter, Alexandra. [“'Dear Evan Hansen' Goes From Stage to Page.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/books/dear-evan-hansen-stage-to-book.html) The New York Times, 19 Mar. 2018.

Isherwood, Charles. [“In 'Dear Evan Hansen,' an Outsider Is Upended.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/theater/in-dear-evan-hansen-an-outsider-is-upended.html) The New York Times, 27 Apr. 2016.

Busch, Anita. [“Tony Award-Winning Musical 'Dear Evan Hansen' Will Be Universal Pictures, Marc Platt Film; 'Wonder's Stephen Chbosky May Direct.”](deadline.com/2018/11/dear-evan-hansen-film-tony-award-winning-musical-wonder-stephen-chbosky-marc-platt-1202222391/) Deadline, 30 Nov. 2018.

Emmrich, Stuart. [“Young Tony Nominee of 'Dear Evan Hansen' Gets Ready for His Big Day.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/fashion/dear-evan-hansen-mike-faist-tony-awards.html) The New York Times, 3 June 2017.

Isherwood, Charles. [“In 'Dear Evan Hansen,' an Outsider Is Upended.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/theater/in-dear-evan-hansen-an-outsider-is-upended.html) The New York Times, 27 Apr. 2016.

Paulson, Michael. [“What It's Like to Make It in Showbiz With Your Best Friend.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/theater/benj-pasek-justin-paul-dear-evan-hansen.html) The New York Times, 10 Nov. 2016.

Cohn, Gabe. [“Broadway's Next Evan Hansen? A 16-Year-Old High School Junior.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/theater/dear-evan-hansen-andrew-barth-feldman.html) The New York Times, 12 Nov. 2018.

Schulman, Michael. [“Stuck in Gander, Newfoundland.”](www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/stuck-in-gander-newfoundland) The New Yorker, 9 July 2019.

Brantley, Ben. [“Review: 'Come From Away,' a Canadian Embrace on a Grim Day.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/theater/come-from-away-review.html) The New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017.

Sankoff, Irene, and David Hein. [“Trapped in the Garden: Everything You Wanted to Know About Not Winning a Grammy.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/theater/come-from-away-sankoff-hein-grammy-awards.html) The New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018.

Paulson, Michael. [“A 9/11 Parable, Resurrected in Newfoundland.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/theater/come-from-away-in-newfoundland.html) The New York Times, 31 Oct. 2016.

Krueger, Alyson. [“They Just Want to Meet the Nice People.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/nyregion/they-just-want-to-meet-the-nice-people.html) The New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018.

[“COME FROM AWAY Becomes Longest Running Canadian Musical on Broadway!”](www.broadwayworld.com/article/COME-FROM-AWAY-Becomes-Longest-Running-Canadian-Musical-on-Broadway-20181021) BroadwayWorld.com, 21 Oct. 2018.

[“Review Roundup: COME FROM AWAY Lands on Broadway - All the Reviews!”](www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-COME-FROM-AWAY-Lands-on-Broadway-Updating-Live-20170312) BroadwayWorld.com, 12 Mar. 2017.

Paulson, Michael. [“A Broadway Musical Brings Out Canadian Soft Power.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/theater/a-broadway-musical-brings-out-canadian-soft-power.html) The New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017.

Smith, Craig S. [“Has a Canadian Slur Lost Its Sting?”](www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/canada/has-a-canadian-slur-lost-its-sting.html) The New York Times, 2 June 2017.

Paulson, Michael. [“A Pioneering Pilot, a Broadway Show and a Life-Changing Bond.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/theater/come-from-away-jenn-colella.html) The New York Times, 16 Apr. 2017.

Lewis, Jim. [“'Plane People' From 9/11 Return to Newfoundland to Give Thanks.”](www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/world/americas/12canada.html) The New York Times, 12 Sept. 2011.

Morrow, Martin. [“Q&A: Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Creators of the Toronto-Born Broadway Hit Come From Away.”](torontolife.com/culture/stage/qa-irene-sankoff-david-hein-creators-toronto-born-broadway-hit-come-away/) Toronto Life, 30 Mar. 2017.

Green, Jesse. [“Theater Review: Can You Make a Musical Out of Canadian Niceness?”](www.vulture.com/2017/03/theater-come-from-away-the-musical-of-canadian-niceness.html) Vulture, 12 Mar. 2017.

Billington, Michael. [“Come From Away Review – Relentless Niceness in Tale of Post-9/11 Canadian Kindness.”](www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/feb/18/come-from-away-review-phoenix-theatre-relentless-post-911-canadian-kindness) The Guardian, 18 Feb. 2019.

Armitstead, Claire. [“Come from Away Review – Surprisingly Uplifting 9/11 Musical.”](www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/apr/07/come-from-away-review-musical-9-11-phoenix) The Guardian, 7 Apr. 2019.

Croggon, Alison. [“Come From Away Review – a Feelgood 9/11 Musical? Believe the Hype.”](www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/jul/22/come-from-away-review-a-feelgood-911-musical-believe-the-hype) The Guardian, 22 July 2019.

Quinn, Dave. [“The Inspiring True 9/11 Kindness in Come from Away, the Broadway Hit Justin Trudeau and Ivanka Trump Saw Together.”](people.com/theater/the-true-story-behind-come-from-away/) PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2017.

[“Stop the World! Broadway's COME FROM AWAY to Be Adapted for the Big Screen!”](www.broadwayworld.com/article/Stop-the-World-Broadways-COME-FROM-AWAY-Being-Adapted-for-the-Big-Screen-20171115) BroadwayWorld.com, 15 Nov. 2017.

Wong, Curtis M.[ “How We Wrote It: Tony Nominees David Hein & Irene Sankoff on How a Pilot and 'A Chorus Line' Inspired 'Come From Away' Anthem.”](www.billboard.com/articles/news/broadway/7825474/tony-awards-david-hein-irene-sankoff-come-from-away-interview) Billboard, 11 June 2017.

LeDonne, Rob. [“'Come From Away' Cast Reflects on Surpassing 1,000 Performances.” ](www.billboard.com/articles/news/broadway/8528243/come-from-away-broadway-interview)Billboard, 6 Sept. 2019.

Windman, Matt. [“'Come From Away' Review: 9/11-Themed Musical Means Well but Lacks Depth.”](www.amny.com/entertainment/come-from-away-review-9-11-themed-musical-means-well-but-lacks-depth-1.13248489) AmNewYork, 12 Mar. 2017.

Mandell, Jonathan, et al. [“Come From Away.”](howlround.com/come-away) HowlRound Theatre Commons.

[“Broadway Backstory: Come From Away”](www.todaytix.com/broadway-backstory/episodes/come-from-away)